Promoting original cinema

The Irish Film Board is helping writers and directors realise their vision, writes Don O’Mahony

NOT content to rest on their laurels, the filmmakers behind two of the most remarkable Irish films to emerge last year have been awarded production support for their next projects in the most recent round of Irish Film Board funding decisions.

Renowned for the documentaries What We Leave In Our Wake and the portrait of Iranian auteur filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, The Art of Living, Pat Collins’ fiction debut Silence, garnered much critical acclaim and was fêted abroad at events such as the London Film Festival.