ILEN

The Ilen is a short film on the joy of working with wood, and documents the words and skills of Ireland's few remaining traditional shipwrights, currently occupied in the rebuilding this islands sole surviving sail trading ketch. The awarded comes with a prize of $10,000 from the World Wood Day 2015 through their ‘Wood & Humanity' film competition. In the film, directed by Mia Mullarkey of Ishka Films, the 1926 trading ketch is featured as she draws near to a new operational life upon the sea... Our approach to teaching and learning is to let it happen. We are confident that the elemental forces of materials and environment can nurture and release the deep buried treasure of people's inner selves... We are anyone who can handle a sail or a shipwright's maul, or who wishes to learn or would prefer to let others do so. We are a school and a network, based in Limerick with a national and international theatre of operations.

Also known as: Ilen Company, Ilen Company Ltd.

Registration numbers: 20042868 (W)

Primary location: Falkland