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An Bronntanas has received 3 nominations for the IFTA awards. An Bronntanas has received 3 nominations for the IFTA awards for script and actors. Tom Collins/Eoin McNamee/Paul Walker are nominated for Best Drama Script, Michelle Beamish is nominated for Best Actress in a Lead Role and Charlotte Bradley for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. The film version of An Bronntanas has enjoyed great success in recent months at festivals both at home and abroad. To date screenings have taken place in Australia, Barbados, Washington, Chicago, Boston and Rome, with more to come in later months this year. The film recently received the Jury’s Special Award at the Boston Irish Film Festival as well as receiving three nominations in this year’s Gradaim Chumarsáide an Oireachtais, including a nomination for ‘Best Television Series’. Also nominated in the Actress in a Lead Role category is Maria Doyle Kennedy for her role as Mairéad in Corp + Anam; an acclaimed and award-winning gritty crime thriller that chronicles the difficult professional and intense personal life of a tenacious TV crime reporter. Blood Fruit has received a nomination in the George Morrison Feature Documentary category. This documentary tells the story of the Dunnes Store strike in 1984, when Mary Manning a 21 year old worker at Dunnes Stores in Henry Street, Dublin refused to register the sale of an Outspan grapefruit, an action which had worldwide repercussions. Song of the Sea/Amhrán na Mara commissioned by TG4 and BAI has been nominated in two categories; Best Film and Script Film- Will Collins. Full details of the TG4 shortlisted entries for IFTA 2015 are given below. The IFTA Awards are the most prestigious awards in Irish film and drama. Director General Pól Ó Gallchóir, congratulated the shortlisted TG4 productions and skills nominees for this year’s IFTA. “TG4 has received nominations and prizes at each IFTA since we came on air” he said. “Being nominated in the same categories that include some of the best quality English language TV content available anywhere, bears out the regular feedback we receive from viewers and critics who associate TG4 with distinctive quality and innovation”, he said. For further information, contact: Linda Ní Ghríofa 091505050
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Teistiméireacht eile do chaighdeán agus d’éagsúlacht TG4 cláir dá chuid a bheith ainmnithe ar ghearrliosta Ghradaim IFTA na bliana seo. Tá cláir de chuid an chainéil Gaeilge ainmnithe do 7 ngradam. Tá trí ainmniúchán faighte ag An Bronntanas do Ghradaim IFTA i dtaobh scripte agus aisteoirí. Ainmníodh Tom Collins/Eoin McNamee/Paul Walker don ghradam An Script Dráma is Fearr, tá Michelle Beamish ainmnithe don ghradam An Ban-Aisteoir is Fearr i bPríomhpháirt agus Charlotte Bradley ainmnithe don ghradam An Ban-Aisteoir is Fearr i bPáirt Taca. Tá ag éirí tharr barr freisin leis an scannán An Bronntanas ag féilte sa bhaile agus thar lear. Go dtí seo, taispeánadh an scannán san Astráil, i mBarbadós, i Washington, i mBostún agus sa Róimh agus tá sé le taispeáint fós in áiteanna eile amach anseo sa mbliain. Bhain an scannán an gradam Jury’s Special Award/Gradam Speisialta na Moltóirí amach ag Féile Scannán na hÉireann, Bostún chomh maith le trí ainmniúchán a fháil do Ghradaim Cumarsáide an Oireachtais i mbliana, ina measc ainmniúchán don ghradam ‘An tSraith Teilifíse is Fearr’. Ainmnithe freisin don ghradam ‘An Ban-Aisteoir is Fearr i bPríomhpháirt’ tá Maria Doyle Kennedy don pháirt a bhí aici i Corp + Anam; sraith coiriúlachta mór le rá a bhfuil gradaim buaite aici faoi shaol pearsanta agus gairmiúil tuairisceora coiriúlachta teilifíse. Tá ainmniúchán faighte ag Blood Fruit sa chatagóir Gnéchlár Faisnéise George Morrison. Scéal é seo faoi stailc Dunnes Stores in 1984 nuair a dhiúltaigh Mary Manning, oibrí de chuid Dunnes Stores ar Shráid Anraí, a bhí bliain is fiche ag an am, seadóg Outspan a dhíol – gníomh a raibh tionchar aige ar fud an domhain. Tá Song of the Sea/Amhrán na Mara arna choimisiúnú ag TG4 agus Údarás Craolacháin na hÉireann ainmnithe i dhá chatagóir; An Scannán is Fearr agus An Script Scannáin is Fearr – Will Collins. Tá sonraí beachta ar ainmniúcháin TG4 ar ghearrliosta ghradaim IFTA 2015 le fáil thíos. Is iad na Gradaim IFTA na gradaim is mó le rá sa tionscal scannán agus drámaíochta in Éirinn. Thréaslaigh Ard-Stiúrthóir TG4, Pól Ó Gallchóir leo sin ar fad a ainmníodh do ghradaim IFTA na bliana seo thar ceann TG4. “Tá ainmniúcháin faighte ag TG4 do Ghradaim IFTA gach bliain ó tháinig muid ar aer” a deir sé. “Léiriú ann féin ar chaighdeán uathúil agus nuálaíoch TG4 a bheith ainmnithe sna catagóirí céanna le roinnt den ábhar teilifíse Béarla chomh maith is atá le fáil” a deir sé. Breis eolais, ach teagmháil a dhéanamh le: Linda Ní Ghríofa, 091 505050