'The White Dress' Scoops Another award at the Belfast Film festival
The short film The White Dress, directed by Vanessa Gildea and funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/Irish Film Board (IFB) has scoped another award for The Jameson Best Short Film Award at the Belfast Film Festival on Sunday 1st April. won the Stella Artois Award for the Best Irish Short at the 19th Seagate Foyle Film Festival. Produced by David Lawless of Brazen Films, the piece tells the story of a little girl on her Holy Communion day. The film has already received a Special Recommendation in the Irish short film category at the Kerry Film Festival 2006 and won the Stella Artois Award for the Best Irish Short at the 19th Seagate Foyle Film Festival.The project was produced under the IFB backed scheme Short Shorts which encourages the making of ultra short Irish films and fosters new talent within the industry. The next series of Short Shorts will premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh in July 2007. 'The White Dress' won The Jameson Best Short Film Award at the Belfast Film Festival on Sunday 1st April.
The short screened recently at Cinequest in California and The Chicago Irish Film Festival and is due to screen shortly at the Dresden Film Festival and the Britspotting festival in Germany.