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Kerry International Film Festival presents awards

Oct 20, 2020 13:16 By radiokerrynews
Kerry International Film Festival presents awards
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Kerry International Film Festival has announced its award winners for this year. The festival had to move online this year due to COVID-19. All

Kerry International Film Festival has announced its award winners for this year.

The festival had to move online this year due to COVID-19.

All of the award-winning films are still available to rent until tomorrow afternoon (Wednesday 21st Oct) at kerryfilmfestival.com

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The full list of award winning films is:

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT

Leopard

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Director, James Arden

Producers, James Arden & Poppy Ashton

 

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BEST STUDENT SHORT

My Other Suit Is Human

Director, Andrew Paul Montague

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Producer, Kira Fitzpatrick

The London Film School

 

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BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

The Yellow Dress

Composer, Natasa Paulberg

Director, Deborah Grimes

Producer, Maggie Ryan

 

BEST OF KERRY

Director & Producer, Mieke Vanmechelen

 

BEST OF KERRY

The West Kerry Cowboy

Director, Cian O'Connor

Producer, Peter Kilmartin

 

BEST ANIMATION:

GON, THE LITTLE FOX

Director, Takeshi Yashiro.

Producer, Masaaki Oikawa

 

- Special Mention for Alamid by Shayna Gail Velasquez

Shayna Gail Velasquez is this year’s youngest KIFF filmmaker. Shayna Gail is a 16 year old high school student from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

 

SCRIPT WRITING AWARD

Lambing

Screenplay by Katie McNeice

 

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:

VIOLET GIBSON, The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

Directors, Barrie Dowdall & Kevin de la Isla O'Neill

Producers, Siobhán Lynam & Barrie Dowdall

 

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT:

How to Fall in a Love in a Pandemic.

Director & Producer, Michael-David McKernan

 

BEST IRISH NARRATIVE SHORT

Rough

Directors, Declan Lawn & Adam Patterson

Producer, Louise Gallagher

 

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE

Follow the Dead

Director & Producer, Adam William Cahill

 

KIFF's inaugural annual Trua Award - celebrating compassionate filmmaking that excites positive change.

TRUA AWARD 2020

Winner: THIS LAND
Director Zithelo Bobby Mthombeni
Producers The Tenth Man, Eric Davidson, Ellen Bennett

 

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