Dublin Film Critics’ Circle Awards
‘Snap’ awarded best film at Dublin Film Critics’ Circle Awards
Mary Hanafin T.D. Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport unveils details of the 2011 Outstanding Contribution to Industry Award at the IFTA press launch held earlier today in Dublin’s Mansion House.
‘Hunger’, the debut film from British artist Steve McQueen, has scooped two of the top prizes at the 9th Era New Horizons International Film Festival in Wroclow, Poland.
The short film Of Best Intentions, written and directed by Brian Durnin and produced by Paul Holmes for Red Rage Films in association with BSÉ/IFB and RTÉ, has been the recipient of an international award.
Cork writer/director Damian Mc Carthy has taken two awards for his short He Dies at the End.
Galway-based writer Shane Perez has won Best Screenplay (UK) at the London Independent Film Festival for his script Blood & Sand. Shane is currently an active member of the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild, Filmbase, and the Galway Film Centre as well as an ongoing participant in the ISPG’s Galway screenwriting workshop. For more about [...]
Irish actor Ciarán Hinds has won the Best Actor award for his performance in Conor McPherson’s new film The Eclipse.
The Dublin Film Critics Circle (DFCC) has named Steve McQueen’s study of Bobby Sands’ last days, Hunger, as the best Irish film of 2008, narrowly beating Lance Daly’s Dublin-based Kisses to the top spot. The other Irish film gaining recognition was Liam Nolan’s and Ross Whitaker’s study of St. Saviour’s Olympic Boxing Academy in north [...]
The Dublin Film Critics Circle (DFCC) has named Steve McQueen’s study of Bobby Sands’ last days, Hunger, as the best Irish film of 2008, narrowly beating Lance Daly’s Dublin-based Kisses to the top spot. The other Irish film gaining recognition was Liam Nolan’s and Ross Whitaker’s study of St. Saviour’s Olympic Boxing Academy in north [...]