George Morrison Feature Documentary Award
Gabriel Byrne - Stories from Home is a revealing and evocative insight into Byrne's life and creative impulse. Blending home movie films, contemporary footage and extracts from some of his films, this is an intimate profile, emanating from the man himself and giving the viewer a rare insight into Byrne's private and public world. We observe him in New York city, in his home in Brooklyn; in Dublin, the city of his birth and in behind-the-scenes footage on the set of the HBO series 'In Treatment' which was shot in Los Angeles. However, it is the quiet ruminative moments where Byrne shines best, as he speaks with an unflinching honesty and intimacy about some the events that have shaped his life.