THE Kerry International Film Festival came to an end on Sunday night with their annual awards which were held online this year.
As well as presenting Jessie Buckley with the Maureen O’Hara award, there were a number of other awards up for grabs.
The full list of award winning films is:
BEST OF KERRY
Bó — Director & Producer, Mieke Vanmechelen
BEST OF KERRY
The West Kerry Cowboy — Director, Cian O’Connor, Producer, Peter Kilmartin
BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT
Leopard — Director, James Arden, Producers, James Arden & Poppy Ashton
BEST STUDENT SHORT
My Other Suit Is Human — Director, Andrew Paul Montague, Producer, Kira Fitzpatrick, The London Film School
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Yellow Dress — Composer, Natasa Paulberg, Director, Deborah Grimes, Producer, Maggie Ryan
BEST ANIMATION
Gon, The Little Fox — Director, Takeshi Yashiro, Producer, Masaaki Oikawa
– Special Mention for Alamid by Shayna Gail Velasquez
SCRIPT WRITING AWARD
Lambing — Screenplay by Katie McNeice
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
Violet Gibson, The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini — Directors, Barrie Dowdall & Kevin de la Isla O’Neill, Producers, Siobhán Lynam & Barrie Dowdall
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT:
How to Fall in a Love in a Pandemic — Director & Producer, Michael-David McKernan
BEST IRISH NARRATIVE SHORT
Rough — Directors, Declan Lawn & Adam Patterson, Producer, Louise Gallagher
BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE
Follow the Dead — Director & Producer, Adam William Cahill
TRUA AWARD 2020
This Land — Director Zithelo Bobby Mthombeni, Producers The Tenth Man, Eric Davidson, Ellen Bennett