AWARDS 2024

Sun 14 July | 18:00 | Town Hall Theatre

Feature Film Awards

  • Best Irish Film with Danú Media
  • Best Cinematography in an Irish Film with Teach Solais
  • Best Marketplace Project Award with Bankside Films
  • Audience Award
  • Best International Film
  • Best Irish First Feature with Element Pictures
  • The Pitching Award with Wild Atlantic Pictures
  • Bingham Ray New Talent Award with Magnolia Pictures
  • Generation Jury Award
  • Best International Documentary
  • Best Irish Feature Documentary
  • Peripheral Visions Award with Galway Cultural Company
  • World Cinema Competition
  • Best Irish Language Film
  • Best Independent Film
  • Galway Hooker Award

Oscar-Qualifying Short Film Awards

Since 2011, the Fleadh has been recognised as a qualifying festival for the Academy Awards Short Film Category. Recipients of the James Horgan Award for Best Animation, The Best Short Documentary Award and the Tiernan McBride Award for Best Short Drama will qualify for consideration.

  • James Horgan Award for Best Animation with Animation Ireland
  • Best Short Documentary Award with TG4
  • Tiernan McBride Award for Best Short Drama

Short Film Awards

  • James Flynn Award for Best First Short Drama
  • Best First Short Animation Award with Brown Bag Films
  • Best International Short Animation
  • Best International Short Documentary
  • Best International Short Fiction
  • Donal Gilligan Award for Best Cinematography in a Short Film with the Irish Society Cinematographers (ISC)

Awards for 2024 are as follows:

Galway Hooker Award

Brian Cox - For his contribution on the stage, the small screen and the big screen

Best International Short Animation

LIZZIE AND THE SEA
Director/Writer: Mariacarla Norall
Producers: Maria Carolina Terzi, Lorenza Stella, Carlo Stella.
Lead animators: Ivana Verze, Viola Cecere

Best International Short Fiction

THE MASTERPIECE
Director: Alex Lora
Producers: Josemaria Martinez, Álex Lora Cercos, Néstor López, Lluis Quilez,
Writers: Lluis Quilez, Alfonso Amador

Best International Short Documentary

FRIENDS ON THE OUTSIDE
Director/Writer: Annabel Moodie
Producer: Lea Luiz de Oliveira

Best First Short Animation Award with Brown Bag Films

HEADING HOME
Director/Producer/Writer: Holly Langan
Lead animator: Holly Langan

James Flynn Award for Best First Short Drama

WIFE OF THE FUTURE
Director/Writer: Rory Hanrahan
Producer: Louise Byrne

Donal Gilligan Award for Best Cinematography in a Short Film with the Irish Society Cinematographers (ISC)

ALL THAT’S CARRIED
Cinematographer: Albert Hooi
Director: Rosie Barrett Producers: Laura Rigney, Eimear Reilly
Writer: Eimear Reilly

Peripheral Visions Award with Galway Cultural Company (presented by Marilyn Gaughan)

POISON
Director: Désirée Nosbusch (Luxemburg, Netherlands, UK)
Producers: Alexandra Hoesdorff, Désirée Nosbusch, Petra Goedings, Maaike Benschop, Vivien Müller-Rommel
Writer: Lot Vekemans

Generation Jury Award

AMAL
Director: Jawad Rhalib (Belgium)
Producers: Geneviève Lemal, Ellen de Waele
Writers: Jawad Rhalib, David Lambert, Chloé Leonil

Best International Film

THE TEACHER
Director/Writer: Farah Nabulsi
Producer: Sawsan Asfari Himani

Best International Documentary

INTERCEPTED
Director/Writer: Oksana Karpovych (Canada, France, Ukraine)
Producers: Giacomo Nudi, Rocío B. Fuentes, Pauline Tran Van Lieu, Lucie Rego, Darya Bassel, Olha Beskhmelnytsina

 

Best Cinematography in an Irish Film with Teach Solais (presented by Cian de Buitléar)

ODDITY
Cinematographer: Colm Hogan

Best Marketplace Project Award with Bankside Films

Project Name: Fairies Don’t Exist
Name: Michael O’Neill & Jude Sharvin, Armchair & Rocket - Northern Ireland

Bingham Ray New Talent Award with Magnolia Pictures

EVA BIRTHISTLE for her directorial debut, Kathleen Is Here

Best Irish Language Feature Film

KNEECAP
Director/Writer: Rich Peppiatt
Producers: Trevor Birney, Jack Tarling, Patrick O’Neill

The Pitching Award with Wild Atlantic Pictures

Project Name: Dons Life Goes On
Name: Zoe Gibney

James Horgan Award for Best Animation with Animation Ireland (presented by Moe Honan)

TO BREAK A CIRCLE
Director: Kalia Firester
Producers: Tim Bryans,Andrea McQuade, Lee McQuade
Writers: Kalia Firester, Dara McWade
Lead animator: Cora McKenna

Best Independent Film Award

THE SONG CYCLE
Director/Writer/Producer: Nick Kelly

Best Short Documentary Award with TG4 (presented by Lís Ní Dhálaigh)

JOINT AWARD
WE BEG TO DIFFER
Director/Writer: Ruairi Bradley
Producers: Thomas Purdy, Ruairi Bradley
AND
AFTER THE BOMB
Director/Writer/Producer: Heather Brumley

Tiernan McBride Award for Best Short Drama

TURNAROUND
Director/Writer: Aisling Byrne
Producer: Killian Coyle

Best Irish Feature Documentary

HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR
Director: Ciaran Cassidy
Producers: Maria Horgan, Colum McKeown

Best Irish First Feature with Element Pictures (presented by Charlene Lydon)

FIDIL GHORM
Director: Anne McCabe
Producers: Pierce Boyce, Bríd Seoighe
Writer: Patricia Forde

Best Irish Film with Danu Media (presented by Louise Richardson)

KNEECAP
Director/Writer: Rich Peppiatt
Producers: Trevor Birney, Jack Tarling, Patrick O’Neill

Best Audience Award

KNEECAP
Director/Writer: Rich Peppiatt
Producers: Trevor Birney, Jack Tarling, Patrick O’Neill

World Cinema Competition

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