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Best Art Direction winner, Ellen McSweeney pictured at Fresh Film Ireland’s Young Film Maker of the Year 2024. Photo: Don Moloney
A KERRY student has won an award at the Ireland’s Young Filmmaker of the Year Awards.
Ellen McSweeney won the Best Art Direction award for her short, ‘Summer’. Ellen was one of seventeen award recipients at the 2024 IYFTYs, which were broadcast on RTÉ2 on this Monday evening.
Summer is described as “a meditation on the hazy summer season, the beauty, nostalgia and joy, but also the dread, the pressure and fear of the future. The summer can’t last forever after all.”
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Now in its 28th year, the IYFTY’s, part of the esteemed Fresh International Film Festival, continues to be a beacon for aspiring filmmakers worldwide.
You can watch Ellen’s film below…
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