Screen Ireland is delighted to congratulate the 2020 IFTA nominees across feature film, TV drama and shorts
Posted: 14th July 2020
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland is delighted to congratulate the host of Irish screen talent nominated for the 2020 Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) Awards, announced this morning. The nominees across 25 creative, craft and technical categories have been shortlisted by Irish Academy members, alongside a specialist Jury panel of industry experts from around the world.
Screen Ireland is proud to note that 30 Screen Ireland-supported projects are represented across the nominations, from previous years' hits like Lance Daly's Black ’47 and upcoming releases for 2020, like Tom Sullivan’s Arracht, leading the announcements with 11 nominations. The critically acclaimed Irish-language famine drama is supported by TG4 and Screen Ireland’s Cine4 funding scheme, with Tom Sullivan writing and directing, starring Dónall Ó’Héalaí, and produced by Cúán Mac Conghail for Macalla Teoranta.
With a Best Film award created for both 2019 and 2020, other successful Screen Ireland-supported films are represented strongly across both categories: from Float Like a Butterfly, Carmel Winters coming-of-age drama set in a traveller community in 1960s Ireland, along with Paddy Breathnach’s emotive, critically-acclaimed Rosie, Lee Cronin’s Irish horror The Hole in the Ground, Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman’s hilarious, warm-hearted supernatural comedy, Extra Ordinary, and Nick Rowland’s dark thriller Calm With Horses.
The wider category nominations reflect an unprecedented period of success for Irish creative talent working at home and abroad, with internationally renowned talent showcased in acting categories, as well as in craft and technical, from cinematography to editing to VFX.
New and emerging talent is also celebrated in the short film categories, with Jack Reynor's Bainne, Claire Byrne's Sister This, Iseult Howlett's The Grass Ceiling, Paul Webster's The Vasectomy Doctor, Cara Holmes' Welcome to a Bright White Limbo, Sean Mullen and Meelis Aruleppand's The Overcoat, and Carol Freeman's The Bird and the Whale among the nominees funded under Screen Ireland's short film funding schemes.
For a full list of IFTA nominations, visit the IFTA website here.