Kerry filmmaker head over heels to be Oscar nominee

Head Over Heels is the name of the film that could bring her Oscar glory but it also describes how a young Co Kerry filmmaker feels about being nominated for the industry’s biggest awards.

“We’re over the moon,” said Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly of finding herself in contention for a statuette in the best animated short film category. “It’s amazing. It hasn’t really sunk in.”

Producer Fodhla, 26, from the village of Cromane near Killorglin, Co Kerry, shares the nomination with the film’s director, New York-based Tim Reckart, who was her classmate at the National School of Film and Television in England where Head Over Heels was made as a student project.