Teaching Comedy in Film Schools
The National Film School at IADT, Dun Laoghaire hosted a comedy conference in April 2023. The GEECT event was supported by CILECT, FilmEU and NAHEMI and brought together, experts in comedy writing and asked them to contemplate and advise on how to teach comedy in film schools across the world.
Comedy can provide an insight into the soul, it can speak truth to power or comfort us in our darkest moments. So why is teaching comedy in film schools not taken seriously? This conference found out why. Bringing together comedians, writers, researchers and academics specialising in or curious about comedy, new insights were gained into methodologies for teaching and filmmaking in the comedic form.
Conference report
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