UIP award for Intermission Director
John Crowley, director of the acclaimed 'Intermission', will be among the recipients of UIP Directors' Awards at the Cork Film Festival this weekend.Crowley takes home €20,000 for being named Best Director of a Feature Film while Rory Bresnihan has won Best Animation Short for his film 'The Butterfly Collector', part of the Short Shorts scheme.
The winner in the Live Action Short category will be announced at the Festival and, like Bresnihan, will win €5,000.
The three directors will receive their awards at the Cork Opera House on Saturday prior to the 8.30pm gala screening of 'Love Actually'.
Established in 2000, the UIP Awards are aimed exclusively at Irish directors and are the largest of their kind in the country, with a prize fund totalling €30,000.