Ken Wardrop's IFTA winning feature ‘His & Hers’ has claimed the Best Non-fiction Foreign Jury Award at the Traverse City Film Festival in Michigan, which was hosted by founding member and Academy Award winner Michael Moore over the weekend.
‘His & Hers’ tells an intimate love story through the voices of 70 women, exploring a woman's relationship with the men in her life - father, boyfriend, husband, son. Following sequentially from little girl to old woman, each character is woven with the others into one perfectly crafted cinematic quilt.
The film is directed and edited by Ken Wardrop (The Herd) and produced by Andrew Freedman (Undressing my Mother). It was shot by Kate McCullough (Snap) and Michael Lavelle (Farewell Packets of Ten).
In addition to winning the George Morrison Award for Feature Documentary at the 2010 IFTAs, ‘His & Hers' has also picked up the Audience Award in the Dublin International Film Festival, the Feature Award in the Galway Film Fleadh, and the Cinematography Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The film received its Irish theatrical release in June and due to its positive Box Office performance it has been given an extended release.
The 2010 Traverse City Film Festival took place in Traverse City, Michigan from 27th July - 1st August. This year’s festival saw the screening of 142 projects including documentaries, fiction and non-fictions works and sold 105,000 tickets to said screenings.