Acclaimed Irish film, Song for a Raggy Boy, has picked up two major awards at festivals in the past week. The film scooped Best Director award at the Newport Beach Film Festival in LA and just a few days later went on to win top award of Best Film at the prestigious Salerno Film Festival in Italy on May 2nd.
Acclaimed Irish film, Song for a Raggy Boy, has picked up two major awards at festivals in the past week. The film scooped Best Director award at the Newport Beach Film Festival in LA and just a few days later went on to win top award of Best Film at the prestigious Salerno Film Festival in Italy on May 2nd.
The film, starring Aidan Quinn and directed by Aisling Walsh, won Best Director award at the Newport Beach Film Festival in LA last week and just a few days later on May 2nd scooped the top award of Best Film at the prestigious Salerno Film Festival in Italy.
The film is produced by Subotica Entertainment and was released in cinemas in Ireland in October 2003 with great box office success, since then this powerful film has been moving audiences worldwide. It has won the coveted award of Best Film at a total of seven festivals, as well as further international awards for the cast and crew at other festivals around the world. These latest wins bring the total number of International Awards won to twelve.
Song For A Raggy Boy, which was part-funded by The Irish Film Board, tells the powerful story of one man’s courage to stand up and fight the tough fascist regime in a boys’ Irish Reformatory School. Set in 1939, William Franklin (Quinn) returns from the bullet riddled streets of Madrid during the Spanish Civil War to the confining walls of a Catholic Reformatory School. Battling to come to terms with the demons of his past, amongst the cruellest of punishment, abuse and neglect, it shows how one man can make a difference.
Song for a Raggy Boy is currently on DVD and video release in Xtra-vision stores nationwide.
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