Directors Conor Horgan (About Beauty), Sé Merry Doyle (John Henry Foley - Sculptor of the Empire) and Fergus Daly (The Art of Living), have been announced as the recipients of the Arts Council’s Reel Art Awards.
The documentary scheme, Reel Art, is an Arts Council initiative which funds documentaries focusing on an artistic theme.
'The Beholder', to be directed by Conor Horgan and produced by Martha O'Neill of Wildfire Films, explores the world of contemporary Irish portrait artists.
Director Sé Merry Doyle and producers Martina Durac and Vanessa Gildea are behind the doc 'Flight to Freedom'’ – which follows Irish based animator Jimmy Murakami to the US prisoner of war camp where he spent his childhood. The film makers along with Murakami and DOP Paddy Jordan will travel to California at the start of May.
The third film is 'Outliving Dracula: Film Versions of Carmilla', directed by Fergus Daly and produced by Katherine Waugh. The film will explore the film adaptations of the vampire novel 'Carmilla' by 19th century Irish ghost story writer Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu.
