More Good News!! Origin, has won Best Horror Short at this year's London
Independent Film Festival.

SYNOPSIS: Origin's a supernatural thriller about a woman who tries to keep
her family together when her son falls ill after he's bitten by a mysterious
creature in the woods. A kind of cross between Don't Look Now and Let The
Right One In. It stars Katy Carmichael & Lee Ross, and was shot on
super16mm.

You can view the trailer here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M0VLhy4o90

To request a screener or protected link of Origin, please contact
sylvia@network-irl-tv.com

We are delighted to announce that Even Gods  has just picked up the Jury
Special Recognition Award at the Aspen Shortsfest. They have also been
shortlisted for the 2012 Irish Screenwriters' Guild Award for short script.

SYNOPSIS: Wisecracking, large-hearted, Hughie has been living in a long-term
homeless shelter in Belfast for 6 years. He is well-liked in the hostel, the life and soul. But when his daughter contacts him out of the blue and wants to see him for the first time in thirteen years the boundaries of Hughie's solid life begin to blur and the wounds of the past come back into sharp, painful focus.

And when Hughie meets his granddaughter, who he never knew existed, he finds himself circling the contours of a life he thought lost, buried forever.

To request a screener or protected link of Even Gods, please contact
sylvia@network-irl-tv.com

After garnering success at its Dublin Film Festival premier Sé Merry Doyle's
documentary Jimmy Murakami - Non Alien has been screening at festivals
around the world, picking up "Directors Choice" award at Scaramento Film
Festival along the way.

We wish them every luck at their next stop the Disorient Film Festival in Oregon!

http://loopline.com/jimmy-murakami-non-alien-screens-in-orgegon-film-festiva

SYNOPSIS: A Documentary about acclaimed filmmaker Jimmy T.Murakami and his emotional return to Tule Lake concentration camp in America. 
 
To request a screener or protected link of Jimmy Murakami - Non Alien,
please contact sylvia@network-irl-tv.com

The Shore Wins!!

After four years, representing 8 Oscar nominated short films Network Ireland
Television is delighted to advise you that The Shore has won Best Live
Action Short at the 84th Academy Awards.

This is the first Oscar for two time nominee (Hotel Rwanda, In The Name of
The Father), Terry George who picked up the coveted award along with his
Producer daughter Oorlagh George.

M.D. Derry O'Brien was in LA cheering for both NITV Oscar nominated shorts,
The Shore and the wonderful Pentecost.
We would like to extend our Congratulations to everyone involved.

NITV celebrates another Oscar short nomination

For the fourth year running NITV are delighted to announce, that the Academy for Motion Pictures and Sciences have just confirmed that one of the short films in our catalogue has just been selected for an official Oscar nomination for next month’s Academy Awards ® presentation.. 

Versatile Irish Actor/Director Peter McDonald’s debut short film, Pentecost is selected in the last 5 titles in contention for Best Live Action Short. It is another success for the Irish Film Board funded Signatures Short Film scheme.

Peter McDonald is also a busy actor and is currently shooting the new Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids) drama series, Moone Boy in Ireland for SkyTV.

Pentecost has been very well received on the international film festival circuit, having been selected for the prestigious Tribeca, Edinburgh, IndieLisboa (Portugal) and Foyle festivals among others.

Commenting on the successful nomination of Pentecost, Derry O’Brien, M.D. of NITV said:

“In the football parlance of this short film, this is, indeed a great result. The international market place sees up to 6,000 short films each year embark on that glorious but highly elusive road to the Oscars. Producer Eimear O’Kane & Director Peter McDonald are to be congratulated on their great success, purely in getting Pentecost selected as one of the 5 short films nominated in this highly competitive category. We are already experiencing a very positive response from our international buyers to the press release which we issued to them immediately as the news was confirmed. We are confident that strong sales will result for their film in the coming months.

This is the fourth year in a row that we have represented short films in competition for an Oscar, and while we are both thrilled and humbled, we also believe that this consistency really consolidates NITV’s position as one of the major players in the international short film business. We are hopefully becoming the one-stop-shop for our overseas buyers, in terms of quality short films from filmmakers worldwide”

Watch Eimear O'Kane, Peter McDonald and Scott Graham chat with Ryan Tubridy on The Late Late Show about their exciting nomination this week.

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