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When Jaws first surfaced in cinemas, it didn’t just terrify audiences, it changed the face of film forever. The original summer blockbuster, Steven Spielberg’s shark tale embedded itself deep in the cultural imagination. To mark its 50th anniversary, Film Ireland’s Conor Bryce asks his fellow contributors to to wade back into the cinematic waters that first turned blood-red in 1975.

In this article, Assistant Editor Dev Murray sits down with filmmaker Denis McArdle, who penned short film Koji’s Courage which has just secured funding from the National Talent Academy for Animation. Fresh from winning Best Director at the Naas Film Festival for his latest short, The Light Within, Denis reflects on his career and estimates that the risks we face don’t diminish with experience.

Earlier this year at the Dublin International Film Festival, Antidote and Venom hosted a special event to celebrate their shared legacy. On February 25th at The Complex in Smithfield, they marked 20 years of co-existence as sister companies operating in the interconnected worlds of TV commercials and documentary filmmaking. In this report, Adam Matthews explores how these two worlds collide and complement each other.