Future Screen NI’s project showcase Future Tuesdays will host Belfast filmmaker Ara Devine’s Louth International Film Festival Winner of Best Short Fiction film, Turf. The film follows the story of a Derryman and a Syrian asylum seeker over the course of a day working on a bog with a complicated journey across the Irish border. Ara’s film was funded in part by Future Screen NI’s Future Creatives award. Join us on Tuesday as Ara will discuss his film with writer and director of cinematic VR, Dee Harvey.

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Ara Devine is an artist, filmmaker and PhD researcher at Belfast School of Art, Ulster University. He is a graduate of Fine Art Media and Visual Culture from the National College of Art and Design. In 2017 his film The Irish Question was shortlisted for the RDS Visual Art Awards. In October 21, Turf was awarded Louth International Film Festival Winner of Best Short Fiction.