aemi Artist Support Sessions

aemi offers free one-to-one artist support sessions for Irish or Ireland-based film artists working with the moving image with a particular focus on filmmakers making work for cinema and festival exhibition.

How to avail of aemi’s artist support sessions

These informal hour-long sessions are offered on a rolling basis and are facilitated by aemi’s directors Alice Butler and Daniel Fitzpatrick. The sessions offer an opportunity to discuss your practice and any questions you might have relating to production, post-production, exhibition strategies, funding, and promotion. Artist support sessions can take place at any stage within the development of your own work or practice. These sessions are offered either in-person or online and are open to all Irish or Irish-based film artists.

The best way to avail of an advisory session with aemi is to sign up for our newsletter and follow us on instagram. Advisory session dates are announced monthly and filled on a first come first served basis.

Preparing for an artist support session

One of the first things to do when preparing for an artist support session with aemi is to look at our Toolkit for Film Artists

While aemi’s directors can look at a small amount of viewing material in advance of these sessions, as well as some material during the session itself, we generally find it best to leave as much time as possible for discussion so in preparing for your advisory session focus on what is most relevant. It can also be helpful to provide some written material about the work in advance such as practice description, artist bio, website info etc. Following the session artists may be asked to complete a short evaluation form so that we can monitor how helpful the sessions have been and to ensure they are as useful for artists as possible in the future.