Strong totals for Phyllida Lloyd’s ‘Herself’, animation ‘Wolfwalkers’.
Coming-of-age drama Dating Amber, Element Pictures’ Herself, and Oscar nominee Wolfwalkers are among the best film contenders at this year’s Irish Film & Television Awards (IFTAs).
Element and BBC TV series Normal People leads the overall nominations, shortlisted in 15 categories.
Scroll down for the list of nominations
Nominations across 25 categories in film and TV drama have been announced, with the awards to take place virtually and be broadcast on Virgin Media One on Sunday, July 4.
Across all film categories including craft and technical, David Freyne’s Dating Amber, about two closeted teenagers in 1990s Ireland,...
Coming-of-age drama Dating Amber, Element Pictures’ Herself, and Oscar nominee Wolfwalkers are among the best film contenders at this year’s Irish Film & Television Awards (IFTAs).
Element and BBC TV series Normal People leads the overall nominations, shortlisted in 15 categories.
Scroll down for the list of nominations
Nominations across 25 categories in film and TV drama have been announced, with the awards to take place virtually and be broadcast on Virgin Media One on Sunday, July 4.
Across all film categories including craft and technical, David Freyne’s Dating Amber, about two closeted teenagers in 1990s Ireland,...
- 6/15/2021
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
This documentary about the celebrated folklorist also takes a leisurely look at the working methods of the artists he reveres
There’s an unmistakable slow-cinema vibe to this scrupulously observational documentary, which seems somehow to go on for weeks despite its 100-minute running time. The ostensible subject matter is American anthropologist Henry Glassie, who is college professor emeritus in folklore and ethnomusicology at Indiana University; but it isn’t really “about” him in any conventional sense. Instead, the documentary, directed by Irish film-maker Pat Collins, invites us to experience Glassie’s methods for ourselves, in extended sequences in which it simply watches artists at work, seemingly in real time as they sculpt religious icons, build giant coil pots, weave carpets. The accent is very much on “folk” creators – people with little formal art education, rooted in a community, and whose work is (largely) to serve a function, rather than purely aesthetic.
There’s an unmistakable slow-cinema vibe to this scrupulously observational documentary, which seems somehow to go on for weeks despite its 100-minute running time. The ostensible subject matter is American anthropologist Henry Glassie, who is college professor emeritus in folklore and ethnomusicology at Indiana University; but it isn’t really “about” him in any conventional sense. Instead, the documentary, directed by Irish film-maker Pat Collins, invites us to experience Glassie’s methods for ourselves, in extended sequences in which it simply watches artists at work, seemingly in real time as they sculpt religious icons, build giant coil pots, weave carpets. The accent is very much on “folk” creators – people with little formal art education, rooted in a community, and whose work is (largely) to serve a function, rather than purely aesthetic.
- 4/13/2021
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
The black comedy-musical will be released in Irish cinemas later this year.
Irish director Philip Doherty’s black comedy-musical Redemption Of A Rogue was a double award-winner in the online closing-night ceremony of the Galway Film Fleadh on Sunday July 12.
It won the prizes for best Irish first feature and best Irish film as the Fleadh wrapped following its transition online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Redemption Of A Rogue was also written by Doherty, an award-winning playwright. It is set in the northwestern county of Cavan and follows a man, played by Aaron Monaghan, as he returns to his...
Irish director Philip Doherty’s black comedy-musical Redemption Of A Rogue was a double award-winner in the online closing-night ceremony of the Galway Film Fleadh on Sunday July 12.
It won the prizes for best Irish first feature and best Irish film as the Fleadh wrapped following its transition online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Redemption Of A Rogue was also written by Doherty, an award-winning playwright. It is set in the northwestern county of Cavan and follows a man, played by Aaron Monaghan, as he returns to his...
- 7/13/2020
- by 1100995¦Esther McCarthy¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Programme director Will Fitzgerald reveals programme highlights.
Ireland’s Galway Film Fleadh is embracing the disruption of 2020 by aiming to reach as wide an audience as possible with a digital edition taking place online from July 7th – July 12th.
“Going digital was the best option for us,” explains programme director William Fitzgerald. “We didn’t feel doing a socially distant Fleadh would be in fitting with who we are as a festival. When people think of Galway and the Fleadh, they think of the social elements and the meetings.
“Postponement also didn’t seem like an option. Preserving the continuity...
Ireland’s Galway Film Fleadh is embracing the disruption of 2020 by aiming to reach as wide an audience as possible with a digital edition taking place online from July 7th – July 12th.
“Going digital was the best option for us,” explains programme director William Fitzgerald. “We didn’t feel doing a socially distant Fleadh would be in fitting with who we are as a festival. When people think of Galway and the Fleadh, they think of the social elements and the meetings.
“Postponement also didn’t seem like an option. Preserving the continuity...
- 6/26/2020
- by 1100995¦Esther McCarthy¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
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