Kneecap was the major winner at the Galway Film Fleadh, taking home three top awards at the festival, which wrapped up on Sunday evening.
The film won Best Irish Film, Best Irish Language Film and also the Audience Award. Directed by Rich Peppiatt, Kneecap opens in Irish cinemas on August 8th.
The ceremony also saw Brian Cox presented with the prestigious Galway Hooker Award for “contribution on the stage, the small screen and the big screen”. Cox, the star of HBO’s award-winning Succession, also took part in a public interview on Sunday afternoon in association with IFTA.
The winner of Best Irish First Feature was Irish language family film Fidil Ghorm (Blue Fiddle), with the award presented to director Anne McCabe, screenwriter Patricia Forde and producers Pierce Boyce and Bríd Seoighe.
Housewife of the Year was the winner of Best Irish Feature Documentary. Directed by Ciaran Cassidy, and produced by Maria Horgan and Colum McKeown, the doc follows the lives – then and now - of several women who took part in the televised ‘Housewife of the Year’ pageant. Wildcard Distribution will release the film later in 2024.
The prestigious Bingham Ray New Talent Award was presented to Eva Birthistle, known as an award-winning actor, but making her feature directorial debut with Kathleen is Here, also due for release later this year from Break Out Pictures.
A full list of winners from the Galway Film Fleadh is below:
- Galway Hooker award: Brian Cox
- Best international short animation: Lizzie and the Sea
- Best international short fiction: The Masterpiece
- Best international short documentary: Friends on the Outside
- Best first short animation with Brown Bag Films: Heading Home
- James Flynn award for best first short drama: Wife of the Future
- Donal Gilligan award for best cinematography in a short film with the Irish Society of Cinematographers: All That’s Carried
- Peripheral Visions award with Galway Cultural Company: Poison
- Generation jury award: Amal
- Best international film: The Teacher
- Best international documentary: Intercepted
- Best cinematography in an Irish film with Teach Solais: Oddity: Colm Hogan
- Best marketplace project with Bankside Films: Fairies Don’t Exist
- Bingham Ray new talent award with Magnolia Pictures: Eva Birthistle
- Best Irish-language feature film: Kneecap
- Pitching award with Wild Atlantic Pictures: Don’s Life Goes On: Zoe Gibney
- James Horgan award for best animation with Animation Ireland: To Break a Circle
- Best independent film: The Song Cycle
- Best short documentary with TG4: Jointly won by We Beg to Differ and After the Bomb
- Tiernan McBride award for best short drama: Turnaround
- Best Irish feature documentary: Housewife of the Year
- Best Irish first feature with Element Pictures: Fidil Ghorm
- Best Irish film with Danu Media: Kneecap
- Audience award: Kneecap
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