Irish films, stars, awards: Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2014 roundup
This year’s Jameson Dublin International Film Festival (JDIFF) was bookended by the Irish premieres of two great IFB-funded films: Calvary on opening night; The Stag as the closing gala. In between, an additional eight Irish features, seven Irish docs and eight Irish shorts were shown across the city.
Irish stars who hit the red carpet over the eleven days included Brendan and Domhnall Gleeson, Pat Shortt, Dylan Moran, Aiden Gillen, Killian Scott, Ronan Keating, Pollyanna McIntosh, Imelda May, Andrew Scott, Peter McDonald, Brenda Fricker, Hugh O’Conor, Brian Gleeson, Andrew Bennett and Michael Legge.
While final audience figures are still being tallied, we do know that they are up from last year – as was the number of films shown (over 130). Before each screening, cinemagoers got to see an extended version of the Irish Film Board’s 20th anniversary trailer, which features a selection of the films that we have supported over the past two decades. Watch it here.
Three IFB-funded films were Dublin Film Critics Circle jury award winners: Brendan Muldowney’s Love Eternal won Best Irish Feature, Pat Collins’s Living in a Coded Land took Best Irish Documentary, while the Michael Dwyer Discovery Award went to Donal Foreman for his directorial debut, Out of Here.
The winner of the Audience Award this year was Los Wild Ones, a documentary about the LA record label Wild Records.
The CineTALENT award was given to Donal Foreman, director of Out of Here. Read more.
Visit the JDIFF website.