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AUDIENCE VOTING RESULTS: First:
Butterflies and Bees (127 points) Based
on awarding 3 points for a first choice, 2 points for a second choice
and 1 point for a third choice. |
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Short
Title |
Director |
Length |
Synopsis |
Awards |
|
Give
up Yer Aul Sins |
Cathal
Gaffney |
5 |
Based
on the original recordings taken by Margaret Cuningham in Dublin schoolrooms
from the 1960’s, this film dramatises the event as a TV crew arrive
to record the children in Ms Cunningham’s classroom and we are treated
to the story of John the Baptist told as only children can. |
·
Cork – Best International
short – International Jury Award
·
Cork – Jameson Award
for Best Irish Short
·
Galway – Kodak Award
for Best Short animation
·
Galway – James Horgan
Award for Best short animation |
|
Escape |
Steven
Benedict |
26 |
A
deaf girl runs away from home on rollerblades.
The story is told entirely without dialogue. The soundtrack was designed specifically to convey the events
as our heroine experiences them. |
·
Cork – Clare Lynch
Award for best first short film by an Irish Director |
|
Zulu
9 |
Alan
Gilsenan |
11 |
Montford
is tired. Tired of driving, tired of life. It’s good to be back in Ireland…
sort of. You and the road become
one, it’s a Zen thing.. sort of. You
begin to see things, hear things. You begin to think that it’s all in
your head, like that book you were meant to write.
All in your head… even those noises in the back. |
·
Cork – Audience award
for best Irish short |
|
Chicken |
Barry
Dignam |
3 |
A
micro-drama about two teenagers who feel disconnected with their world,
so they go ditch-drinking together. Mick, the more mature, “leader”,
draws Kev into a series of “male bonding” rituals, but when they have
their desired effect neither boy can handle it. |
|
|
Le
Dog |
Damien
O’Connor |
9 |
“Le
Dog” is a comical look at the forbidden relationship between an old
man a stray dog. As the old
man’s love for the stray grows so too does his own dog’s jealousy. The old man decides to murder his own dog and move the stray into
the family home, he does so and the two live in harmony until the dead
dog’s body reappears… |
·
Galway – James Horgan
Award for Best short animation (2nd) |
|
Butterflies
and Bees |
Jenny
Roche |
12 |
Set
in rural Ireland in 1970. A
girl and boy play together on a sunny summers afternoon.
Flowers bloom, birds sing, bees buzz and a dog growls. This is
a tale of childhood and the eternal themes of class power and sexuality
and the perfection of a first holy communion dress. |
·
Galway – Tiernan
McBride Best Irish Short – 2nd
|
|
Gangs
of Waterfall |
Ronan
Phelan |
16 |
Set
in the town of Waterfall in 1955, the film revolves around the feud
between two groups of youths – a tough gang of hurlers called “The Demons”
and a newly formed rock and roll group, “The Freebirds”.
Who will emerge as the town’s number one gang? |
·
Cork – Best “Made
in Cork” short film |
|
Cake |
Brian
Lynch |
18 |
“Cake”
is a short film about a chance encounter on a train between a young
woman and a blind man. She wants to read her book, he wants to chat.
He tells her he’s going on holidays, he wonders where she’s going, he
says he knows every inch of this journey. She realises that he won’t
leave her alone. |
·
Cork – Clare Lynch
aware for best short film by an Irish director – special mention |
|
Too
Dark for Night |
Clare
Langan |
10 |
Darkness
frames this film and sand pervades its every frame. The opening sequence
plays the graininess of the medium against the graininess of sane, subject
and medium become one. The soundtrack,
which moulds the emotional shape of a film scene, is predominantly the
wind, the agent that also forms the shapeliness of the desert dunes.
Langan’s is a bleak vision tinged with moments of great beauty. |
·
Cork – Youth jury
award for best international short |
