Graham Cantwell's IFTA-nominated LGBT drama LILY won the Youth Jury award at the Iris Prize Festival, a six-day celebration of LGBT film in Cardiff, Wales.
Lily (Clara Harte) is a girl with a secret, on the cusp of becoming a young woman. When a misunderstanding with the beautiful and popular Violet leads to a vicious attack, Lily is faced with the greatest challenge of her young life.
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Supernatural, stirring and the very sweetest seasonal scenes are coming to screens in the skies soon as the Aer Lingus TakeOff Foundation announces the winners of the inaugural Irish Filmmakers Competition.
The winning entrants, upcoming Irish filmmakers Jonathan Farrelly (Leap of Faith), Maria Elena Doyle (Goodbye Darling) and Brian Willis (The Lost Letter), will now have their short films shown on Aer Lingus in-flight entertainment on all transatlantic flights for the next 12 months. The incredible prize means that the winners will have an estimated 2.5million sets of eyes on their winning entries over the next 12 months, as their films clock-up 192,000 kilometres every day, crossing the Atlantic 32 times.
Rip to the Rescue!, a dark sci-fi comedy written by Cian McGarrigle (Burning Wishes, Red Rock, Nowhere Fast) and directed by Paudie Baggott, has just wrapped shooting in County Kildare.
The film is set in post-apocalyptic Ireland where a suave American jet pilot tries to rescue a beautiful young woman from her domineering mother. But he soon finds out that in the midlands, family can be deadly.
Principal photography wrapped on a new short film directed by and starring Brendan Gleeson.
Psychic which was written by Rory Gleeson, tells the story of a charismatic psychic (Brendan Gleeson) who is forced out of retirement by his two manipulative sons (Domhnall and Brian Gleeson) and taken on the road. The last obstacle to gaining a large cult following is a TV show host determined to bring them down.