Sonya Gildea Wins Inaugural Script Award at JDIFF
Sonya Gildea has been awarded the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (Ireland) ‘Write Here, Write Now’ screenwriting award for her script FAITH at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.
Emphasising the importance of the writer to the filmmaking process, the award acknowledges the creation of original and innovative scripts, through development funding of €7,500, together with industry promotion for the project.
Writer Rodney Lee also received an Honourable Mention for his script DO NOT PASS GO. Gildea previously received development assistance for FAITH from Bord Scannan na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board and Lee also has a number of projects in development with the IFB.
The Judging panel consisted of Lenny Abrahamson (Director), David Flynn (United Talent Agency), John Hurt (Actor), Trish Long - Chair (Walt Disney Motion Pictures, Ireland), Sue Bruce Smith (Film Four) and Irvine Welsh (Writer/Director)
Commenting on the script David Flynn, United Talent Agency said “This movie could have been set in Sao Paolo or Glasgow or East LA and that to me is what a great film does.”
Trish Long, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (Ireland) added “I was delighted at the variety and quality of the submitted scripts; we obviously have many stories to tell. I was also really pleased at how fresh not just the stories, but the voices telling those stories were.”
The IFB is the Industry Partner of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival