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.’
