Learning on the job with the National Youth Film School in Kilkenny.
For the past five weeks, teenagers from around the country have been taking part in a summer school with a difference in Kilkenny. They are in the final stages of making a movie with the National Youth Film School. Previous productions have won a number of prestigious international awards.
Thirty students from across Ireland aged between 13 and 20 have been filming a chase scene as part of their feature length production 'Steal Away'.
It's a drama with comic overtones.
The summer film school which has been running since 1991 offers participants a five week schedule of training in all aspects of filmmaking. Actors Ryan Hitchcock and Rory Fleck-Byrne and director Katie Smith share their experiences of being on set.
Director of the National Youth Film School, Mike Lally, says that funding is one of the biggest challenges facing the school.
Young filmmakers from the course scooped a top award at the Moondance Festival in the US last year for their production 'The Children'. Supervisor for the shoot and graduate from the summer school, Mark Gillespie says that the experience gained is invaluable.
The final film 'Steal Away' will be premiered at the end of October with a screening at Kilkenny Castle.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 6 August 2003. The reporter is Anthony Murnane.
