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Irish Wins at Grand OFF Awards
23 Nov 2009 :
The Door
Juanita Wilson has won the Best Director prize for ‘The Door’ and Connor Clements has won in the Scriptwriting category for his film ‘James’ at the 2009 Grand OFF, World OFF Awards that were held last weekend in Warsaw.

This year’s festival, the third of its kind, saw over 700 submissions and ran from the 19th to the 21st of November.

‘The Door’ introduces a world where a door is thought to be a universal symbol of life, of death, of entering the next life. The film’s main character Nikolai, played by Sigov, gives us what he sees as the facts, yet he himself is trying to make sense of them in his own mind. The story moves forwards and backwards in time, revealing the events retrospectively as the viewer bears witness to the universal tragedy of Chernobyl through the eyes of one man. It is produced by Louise Curran (co-producer, One Hundred Mornings) and James Flynn (Ondine) and the director of photography is Tim Fleming (Wide Open Spaces). The film has enjoyed much success having won the Best Short Film award at the 2009 IFTA awards ceremony, winning the Bilbao Film Festival, taking the top prize in the Best Short Film category at the Academy-affiliated Foyle Film Festival and the prestigious Clare Lynch Award at the Cork Film Festival. The film also screened at the Edinburgh and Munich film festivals and the Telluride Film Festival.

‘James’ explores how a young man grapples with the impulses and thoughts about being gay. The film won the Best Northern Irish Short at the Belfast Film Festival and was placed second in the Best First Irish Short at the Galway Film Fleadh. The film also won Best Short at the Gaze Dublin International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. At the Palm Springs Shortsfest, the film won the Jury Award for Best Student Short and was also placed second in the Best Student Cinematography category. The film was written, produced and directed by Connor Clements.



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