Irish Film ‘Patrick’s Day’ is the big winner at Woodstock Film Festival
Congratulations to Irish film Patrick’s Day, which has won three awards at the 2014 Woodstock Film Festival, including Best Feature Narrative.
The film, directed by Terry McMahon, also walked away with the Best Cinematography award which was given to Michael Lavelle, as well as Best Editing of a Feature Narrative which was awarded to Emer Reynolds.
This marks the latest in a long series of successes for Patrick’s Day. It previously won two jury awards at the Hell’s Half Mile Film and Music Festival in Michigan in the categories of Best Actor, which was awarded to Moe Dunford, as well as Best Screenplay which went to McMahon.
It was the joint winner of the Best Irish Feature award at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh and has earned strong reviews, with Donald Clarke in the Irish Times describing it as an “interesting, original, ultimately moving take on mental illness” and former Health Board Chief Psychiatrist Ivor Browne stating “I feel it is vital that Patrick’s Day should be shown to as wide a public as possible.”
The film also screened in Los Angeles on October 10th after winning the highly-coveted Screen Directors Guild ‘Finders Series’ Award. It was shown to key distributors and film industry representatives in an effort to gain a US distribution deal.
Patrick’s Day is McMahon’s second feature film as director following Charlie Casanova. The film stars Moe Dunford as Patrick, a mentally ill young man who falls in love with a depressed flight attended (Catherine Walker) much to the disapproval of his mother (Kerry Fox).
The Woodstock Film Festival was launched in 2000 and screens high-quality independent films. Attendees at this year’s event included Darren Aronofsky, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Connolly, Seann William Scott and Courtney Cox.
Patrick’s Day will be distributed in Ireland by Wildcard Distribution and will be released in early 2015. Watch the trailer for Patrick’s Day on YouTube.