Apart from the conferences and seminars, there are several screenings of new productions. They centre around the famous Gold Torc award for the best production of the year. There are also awards for best screen production in a Celtic language as well as one for the best first time director. To cover the remaining presentations, several Bronze Torc awards are handed out to the best productions in each sub category of screen and radio. I picked up on the issue of Celtic languages and asked Sophie to elaborate.
Languages are an important part of the Festival.
A huge majority of the people here today are minority language producers and a third of the work has to be in one of those languages. The aim is to get as many people to participate as possible. I mentioned Galicia, northwest Spain, as a predominantly Celtic area. As far as Galicia is concerned, we would need to explore it further for next year's festival. My suggestion would be to discuss it with our chief executive in the near future.