Ciaran Foy’s award-winning short ‘The Faeries of Blackheath Woods’ has picked up another prize, this time for Best Horror at the Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival, which took place on the 2nd and 3rd November in Melbourne, Florida.
The four minute short tells the magical, dark story of a peculiar day when a curious girl Melissa was enchanted by some real faeries. Ignoring her mother, she followed them down into Blackheath Woods... and never came back.
Produced as part of the IFB’s Short Shorts scheme, the multi-award winning film was nominated for Best Short at the 4th Annual IFTA awards earlier this year and has picked up Best Irish Short at the recent Diversions Festival in Temple Bar, the Cork Film Festival 2006 and Kerry International Film Festival 2006. In October, the short won the 2007 Diversions Short Film Award.
Produced by Louise Cornally and Alan Maher with Once Off Films, ‘The Faeries of Blackheath Woods’, is Ciarán's first film since graduating from the National Film School of Ireland.
The festival also screened two Irish shorts as part of their ‘Comedy’ section – Simon Gibney’s ‘Mebollix’, which follows a young man’s post-op journey home after his wife insists he get a vasectomy, and Matthew Darragh’s ‘Pilgrim’, which explores the adventures of a stranger in an unknown land who braves many dangers as he tries to fulfil his function.
John Gleeson’s ‘Gafa’ also featured. The short follows the story of Úna, as she discovers that the guy she has been seeing is engaged to someone else.
