{"id":26270,"date":"2015-10-12T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=26270"},"modified":"2015-10-21T10:02:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T10:02:14","slug":"irisprize2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/irisprize2015","title":{"rendered":"Iris Prize kicks off with rugby night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff hosted the world&#8217;s largest LGBT film festival last week. The Iris Prize, established in 2007, is a prize for short films by or directed towards an\u00a0LGBT audience, judged by a panel of film makers and artists.<\/p>\n<p>Opening the festival last Wednesday\u00a0was the topical Scrum, a film\u00a0about the 2014 gay rugby world cup.\u00a0It closed on Sunday with an awards ceremony, where Arkasha Stevenson won the main prize for her film &#8216;Vessels&#8217;. Attracting\u00a0filmmakers globally, the multiple day festival attracted many followers from outside the LGBT scene, 30% of crowds identifying as straight,\u00a0according to\u00a0festival director Berwyn Rowlands. \u201cPrimarily, we\u00a0are a short film prize that celebrates excellence in film making, and many film makers have shown up\u00a0and been really impressed\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff\u2019s Cineworld, alongside Chapter Arts Center and Park Inn, were used as venues for the festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[81,828,286,3117,810,9998,294],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Iris Prize kicks off with rugby night - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/irisprize2015\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Iris Prize kicks off with rugby night - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cardiff\u2019s Cineworld, alongside Chapter Arts Center and Park Inn, were used as venues for the festival.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/irisprize2015\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-10-12T11:45:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-10-21T10:02:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/\",\"name\":\"alt.cardiff\",\"description\":\"If it\\u2019s offbeat and in Cardiff then it\\u2019s online here.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/irisprize2015#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/irisprize2015\",\"name\":\"Iris Prize kicks off with rugby night - alt.cardiff\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2015-10-12T11:45:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-10-21T10:02:14+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#\/schema\/person\/04e2bbbd907bf3b156821ef604f84be3\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/irisprize2015\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#\/schema\/person\/04e2bbbd907bf3b156821ef604f84be3\",\"name\":\"Alexander Evans\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/95325032f2b27e060871e3dfb4c48129?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Alexander Evans\"},\"description\":\"Post graduate Magazine Journalism student at Cardiff University, originally from Fleet in Hampshire. 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