16th Annual Waterford International Film Festival

The Waterford International Film Festival is Waterford’s premiere film festival that showcases the works of national & international filmmakers & artists. The festival was established by filmmaker Stephen Byrne in 2007 and he is the creative/festival director of the annual event.

In 2022 the festival will be celebrating its 16th Annual event! This year the festival will be a blend of Cinema & Online Screenings.

Cinema Screenings will take place in the Odeon Cinema in Waterford City.

It has always been our goal to promote and support established, debut, and student filmmakers, especially in the field of independent short films with our annual events and competitions. The festival welcomes all forms of short films: live-action, animation, documentaries and music videos. The festival has a passion to celebrate short films from around the world, bringing filmmakers together.

The Waterford Film Festival was the 1st festival in the Republic of Ireland to hold an annual short screenplay competition supporting and acknowledging the work of short screenplay writers.

The festival also runs a movie-themed Photography Competition to support and encourage new and emerging talent in the areas of photography and art.

Each year we produce a series of events that are creative, intriguing, fun, and entertaining. The festival hugely encourages networking. Social meetups and events are held for the audience to meet other filmmakers over the festival weekend. Filmmakers & Artists from across the globe have attended the festival and we always look forward to meeting and engaging with all filmmakers and our audience.

The festival strives to promote talent from all over the world and to bring a wide variety of projects for our audience of cinema lovers to enjoy.