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Winners of 2014 Radharc Awards Announced
24 Oct 2014 : Seán Brosnan
The Radharc Awards for television documentary films in the tradition of Radharc were presented on Wednesday, 22nd October at a lunch in the Stillorgan Park Hotel Dublin. The guest of honour was the Primate of all Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin.

The Radharc Awards honour the memory of the late Fr Joe Dunn, co-founder of Radharc Films. They are presented to the producers of documentaries of outstanding quality, which address national or international topics of social justice, morality or faith. The documentary can be of any religious adherence, but it should portray positive human values in the course of its report.

The winner of the Radharc Trophy was Ms. Paula Keogh of Saoi Media for her production of ‘An Dubh ina Gheal’ (‘Assimilation’) first broadcast on December 2013 on TG4. In this film Louis de Paor weaves a social and personal history about the complex relationship between the indigenous Australians and Irish immigrants who went to live there.

The Highly Commended Award was presented to Ruan Magan of Create One Media for his documentary ‘Lifers’ which was broadcast on RTÉ 1 in January 2013. The film tells the story of veteran Irish missionaries who spend their lives helping others with a view to perhaps never coming home.

The Commended Award was presented to Gerry Gregg of Praxis Pictures for his film ‘Close to Evil’, first broadcast on RTÉ in September 2014. It tells the story of Holocaust victim Tomi Reichental who discovers that one of his jailers is still alive. He sets out to investigate her claim that she is innocent and finds some unexpected results in the course of his investigation.

The Radharc New Media Award for short documentaries was won by Niamh Heery of SwanSong Films for her film ‘Harmanli: Trapped on the Fringe of Freedom’ which first screened in the Lighthouse Cinema in June of this year. The film is about Syrian refugees living in a refugee camp in Bulgaria waiting endlessly for news of their refugee status in one of the poorest countries in the European Union.

In the course of his address to the guests at the event Archbishop Eamon Martin said: ‘What Radharc did so well was to present the beautiful, edifying and spiritually-inspiring lives of people of faith in many ways which reflected the beauty and goodness of God. I believe that today, when so many people are tempted to despair, we need to rediscover the Radharc vision and lift people up, giving them, as Saint Peter put it, ‘a reason for the hope that lies within us’. With so much conflict, hatred and division in the world, it would do all our hearts good to witness the commitment of people of faith to peace and justice, to love and understanding. The Radharc Trust encourages that work by presenting these Awards, preserving the Archive and making the films readily available to the public’.





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