Best Screenplay Award

I am so honoured that Perspective has picked up another screenplay award, “Best Short Screenplay” at the 17th Waterford International Film Festival. My thanks to the festival director Stephen Byrne and to the Jury. The Awards presentation took place at the House of Waterford Crystal Factory, where I received this stunning trophy and generous prizes.

Perspective was previously the winner of the Best Short Screenplay Award 2023 at the Catalyst International Film Festival, sponsored by the Writers Guild of Ireland and adjudicated by Frank Berry and Ursula Rani Sarma. The script was additionally a finalist for the Kerry International Film Festival Screenplay Award, and the Pune Short Film Festival Screenplay Award, as well as a winner in the screenplay category of the Hammond House International Literary Festival.

Perspective is a short film book-ended with two Halloween nights, one year apart. A young girl, Hazel, loses her eye in a firework attack. Instead of giving in to despair, her natural optimism and resilience allows her to reimagine herself, in the process inspiring the adults around her.

The project is currently in development with Danú Media (producers Nadine Flynn and Louise Richardson attached) to bring the project to screen.

‘THE SHORT FILM SHOW’ SEASON 2: INTERVIEW

Earlier this year in March, Amy-Joyce Hastings won the inaugural Award for Best Original Content on Sky Television’s International Short Film Awards for her short film Body of Christ. The entire first series of The Short Film Show is currently available on Amazon Prime. Here she gives a Winner’s Interview for The Short Film Show’s Second Season on the subject of short filmmaking.

 

Body of Christ was commissioned by the Galway Film Centre (UNESCO City of Film). The film took home the Award for Best One Minute Film at the 7th Underground Cinema Film Festival, won 2nd place at the 28th Galway Film Fleadh’s One Minute Film Festival, and was nominated for the Micro Cinema Award at the Blackbird Film Festival in New York.