8 CinÉireann / December 2017
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Irish short film Wave is again in contention for an Oscar®, after being selected as the Grand Prix Irish Short winner at the Cork Film Festival 2017 Awards Ceremony .
Benjamin Cleary and TJ O’Grady Peyton’s winning short is already on the longlist for the 90th Academy Awards® in the Live Action Short Film category thanks to its win at the Galway Film Fleadh in July and reinforces that placing with this win. The award was presented by RTÉ Supporting the Arts, principal media partner of the Cork Film Festival and given by Colm Crowley, RTÉ Cork.
Wave tells the story of Gasper Rubicon, who wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognisable language. Cleary’s 2015 short, Stutterer won the Oscar® for Best Live Action Short at the 88th Academy Awards®.
The winner of the Grand Prix International Short Award, Mahdi Fleifel’s A Drowning Man (Denmark, Greece, UK), will also automatically qualify for the Academy Awards® longlist.
Linda Curtin’s Everything Alive is in Movement, as the winner of the Best Cork Short, while Best Documentary Short went to Mia Mullarkey’s Mother & Baby, a documentary on survivors of the Tuam mother and baby home, which had its world premiere as part of the Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board World Premiere Shorts programme.
Untitled directed by Michael Glawogger and Monika Will, won the Gradam Na Féile Do Scannáin Faisnéise / Award for Cinematic Documentary. The Gradam Spiorad Na Féile / Spirit of The Festival Award went to Rima Das’Village Rockstars. An honourable mention went to Dafydd Flynn for his performance in Frank Berry’s Michael Inside, which won the Audience Award.
The Cork Film Festival Nomination for the 2018 European Short Film Awards was Sebastian Lang’s Container.
The Cork Film Festival Youth Jury Award went to Last Man in Aleppo, directed by Feras Fayyad.
The Cork Film Festival will return for its 63rd edition in November 2018.