19 March 2024 The Irish Film & Television Network
     

Irish Film and Television Network

 »

Legal

 »

Legal News



Irish Screen America Announce Award Recipients & Short Film Selection for 2018 Festival
02 Oct 2018 :
Irish Screen America (ISA) has named the recipients of their Rising Star Awards, ahead of their annual festival. The Irish Screen America festival is a bi-coastal event, taking place in New York from 19th – 21st October and in Los Angeles from 26th – 28th October. The festival also announced actor/director Hugh O’Conor as the second ever recipient of the Jim Sheridan Award for Achievement in Irish Filmmaking.

Jim Sheridan is a patron of the festival and was one of the earliest directors to work with the young Hugh O’Conor as an actor. The two have enjoyed a long history, since O’Conor played the young Christy Brown in Sheridan’s Oscar® winning debut film, ‘My Left Foot’. O’Conor went on to star in many more films over the years, including Chocolat (2000), ‘Handsome Devil’ (2016) and ‘Mary Shelley’ (2017) and has broken out as a director in his own right, having directed many short films over the years. This year, O’Conor completed his first feature film as a director, a coming-of-age dramedy called ‘Metal Heart’, which will open the 2018 Irish Screen America festivities in Los Angeles, as a members-only gala screening.

Since its inception, Irish Screen America has grown in tandem with the Irish film industry and connected Irish films with audiences and distributors in the U.S., and promoted upcoming Irish talent within its North American creative network. Previous recipients of Irish Screen America’s Rising Star Award include actors Barry Keoghan (‘Dunkirk’) and Nika McGuigan (‘Can’t Cope Won’t Cope’) and directors Cathy Brady (‘Can’t Cope Won’t Cope’) and Tom Ryan (‘Twice Shy’) among others.

The recipients of this year’s Irish Screen America Rising Star Awards are:

Director Donal Ó Céilleachair, whose sea voyage documentary ‘The Camino Voyage’ opens the New York leg of the festival, and screenwriter Máire Campbell, whose Northern Irish family drama ‘Grace & Goliath’ will premiere in both New York and Los Angeles. Two of this year’s featured short filmmakers have also been awarded: director Vincent Lambe, whose true crime drama ‘Detainment’ has picked up awards in Poland and Denmark and actor/producer Natalie Britton, who produced two of the selected shorts, the dark comedies ‘Egg Day’ and ‘Sam Did It’.

Detainment plays as part of an Irish short film showcase. Other selected short films include ‘Take Me Swimming’ (Director Claire Dix), ‘My Future Self’ (Director Jake McKone), ‘Smoked Mackerel​ / Ronnachaí Buí’ (Director Ciarán Charles), ‘Wave’ (Directors Benjamin Cleary & TJ O'Grady-Peyton), ‘Troubles’ (Director Jonathan Harden) and ‘Sister’ (Director by Aoife Duffin).

‘Egg Day’ and ‘Sam Did It’ will screen as part of a short film programme showcasing films made by Irish filmmakers living in Los Angeles. Other selected films include: ‘Tae Talk’ (director Liam Alex Heffron), ‘No Irish Need Apply’ (director Bill Fitzpatrick), ‘The Beast’ (director Lorcan Fox), ‘Bless Me Father’ (director Paul Horan), ‘The Owl’ (director Neil Winterlich) and ‘Sucking Diesel’, the first episode in a new web series (director Maurice O’Connell). Filmmakers will be in attendance for a group Q+A after the screenings.

These mixed media collections of short filmmaking showcase the wealth of Irish talent working on both sides of the Atlantic. A highly anticipated part of ISA’s annual festival, they will screen in addition to the previously-announced feature film line-up, which includes ‘Metal Heart’, ‘The Camino Voyage’, ‘Grace & Goliath’ and coming-of-age prison drama, ‘Michael Inside’.

Irish Screen America is sponsored by Screen Ireland, the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Culture Ireland, Tourism Ireland, the Irish Film Institute and Aer Lingus. Irish Screen America: Los Angeles takes place in conjunction with Ireland Week.

Irish Screen America: New York takes place from Friday 19th - Sunday 21st October at NYU's Cantor Film Centre.

Irish Screen America: Los Angeles takes place from Friday 26th to Sunday 28th October at Loyola Marymount University.

Click here for more information about the festival and to purchase tickets.





FEATURES & INTERVIEWS
IFTA Awards 2024: IFTA nominations announced
Disco Pigs to Big Things: A Cillian Murphy Career Retrospective
Free Industry Newsletter
Subscribe to IFTN's industry newsletter - it's free and e-mailed directly to your inbox every week.
Click here to sign up.






 
 the Website  Directory List  Festivals  Who's Who  Locations  Filmography  News  Crew  Actors
 

Contact Us | Advertise | Copyright | Terms & Conditions | Security & Privacy | RSS Feed | Twitter

 

 

 
canli bahis siteleri rulet siteleri bahis siteleri yeni giris casino siteleri deneme bonusu veren siteler bahis siteleri free spin veren siteler deneme bonusu veren slot siteleri