Irish producer Jeremiah Cullinane has won the EGG Digital Cinema Award, which is the new pitching prize created at the When East Meets West (WEMW) Pitching Forum in Trieste, Italy.
The EGG Digital Cinema Award comes with a prize consisting of a full Digital Cinema Package (DCP) to be offered by EGG, the Dublin-based production house whose past credits include films such as ‘Gold’, ‘Parked’ and ‘Broken Song’ and television shows such as ‘Red Rock’, ‘Damo and Ivor’ and ’50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy’.
The project Cullinane pitched - an Irish-Lithuanian feature documentary called ‘Butterfly City’, directed by Olga Cernovaite, was one of two Irish projects among the 22 presented projects, selected from over 280 submissions around Europe. Cullinane operates out of Planet Korda Pictures, an Irish-registered film production company based in Dublin and Paris – which he co-founded in 2005.
The other Irish project selected to be pitched at WEMV was ‘Sarajevo Calling’, a feature film pitched by producers Cormac Fox, Marcos Kantis and Vico Films.
Along with the UK and Canada, Ireland was one of the ‘focus’ countries at this year's WEMW Forum - coinciding with the Trieste International Film Festival – and was attended by an Irish delegation which included the Irish Ambassador in Rome and members of the Irish Film Board, Creative Europe Galway desk, and the Galway Film Fleadh.
