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EDA Awards night

The 2020 Emerging director awards night was held on the 4th of March and was, as usual, a brilliant evening. This year was a hugely successful year for the programme, with impressive standards in every category as well as an increase in entries of 30%.

ICAD and the EDA committee would like to thank everyone involved in making this programme possible. Below are the winners for the 2020 Emerging Directors Awards.

Spec Commercial

Dave Fox
Rapture
Winner

Padraig Conaty
Cavan Cola – Keep it for Yourself
Runner Up

Commercial

Ellius Grace
Lucozade ‘Energy of Movement’
Winner

Charity Film

Jamie Goldrick
Webwise #SaferFromHarm
Winner

Steve Kenny
JOE ‘If’
Runner Up

Animation

Holly Keating
‘CTRL + ALT + Z’
Winner

Cian Hogan
Liminal Animal
Runner Up

Student Film

Emma Smith
Starry Night
Winner

Peter Kilmartin
The Sunny Side Up
Runner Up

Olivia McLaughlin
The Dressmaker
Special Mention

Producers Award

Caoilinn Handley
Winner

EDA Cinematographers Award

Albert Hooi
Winner

Music Video

Hugh Mulhern
Kojaque & Luka Palm | Phoenix
Winner

Conor Donoghue
Wastefellow – Fizzy Lifting Drinks
Runner Up

Ignas Laugalis
Dusktime Beyond the Wash
Special Mention

Short Film

Vincent Lambe
Detainment
Winner

Nathan Fagan and Luke Daly
Flicker
Runner up

Shells
Ais Brady
Special Mention

The Screen Directors Guild of Ireland gave a one year membership to one of the 2020 emerging directors in the form of a special jury prize. The Jury deliberated and felt unanimously that this director deserved the award. The winner was Ellius Grace for ‘Energy of Movement.’