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    CIFF Awards 2023


    Celebrating excellence in filmmaking and championing new and established voices.

    This year, we are delighted to announce our inaugural Best New Irish Feature Award, supported by the Irish Examiner. The award includes a cash prize of €3,000 and the jury is chaired by Oscar®-winning film producer, education luminary and CIFF Patron, Lord David Puttnam.

    Three of our Shorts awards – the Grand Prix Irish Short, the Grand Prix International Short and the Grand Prix Documentary Short – are Academy Award®-qualifying, ensuring that the winners in Cork will be automatically longlisted for the Oscars®.

    SHORTS AWARDS

    Winners to be announced on Thu 16 November

    GRAND PRIX IRISH SHORT

    Academy Award®-Qualifying Category

    Jurors: Kelly Campbell, Director & Grand Prix Irish Short winner 2021; Niels Putman, Chief Editor, Talking Shorts, Belgium; Tsanko Vasilev, Artistic Director, In The Palace International Short Film Festival, Bulgaria

    GRAND PRIX INTERNATIONAL SHORT

    Academy Award®-Qualifying Category

    Jurors: Denise O’Keeffe, Assistant Director, Valladolid International Film Festival; Johanna Prack programmer for Folkets Hus och Parker, Sweden; Ken Wardrop, Director, So This is Christmas

    GRAND PRIX DOCUMENTARY SHORT

    Academy Award®-Qualifying Category Jury as per Grand Prix International Short

    BEST DIRECTOR: IRISH SHORT BEST CORK SHORT AWARD

    Supported by Murphy’s

    SHORT FILM CANDIDATE FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2024

    Cork International Film Festival is the official Irish representative.

    FEATURES AWARDS

    BEST NEW IRISH FEATURE

    Proudly supported by the Irish Examiner

    Winner to be announced on Sun 19 November

    Jurors: Lord David Puttnam, film producer and CIFF Patron; Carmel Winters, filmmaker; Zeynep Güzel, filmmaker and Head of Doc Station Berlinale.

    GRADAM SPIORAD NA FÉILE

    (SPIRIT OF THE FESTIVAL AWARD)

    Winner to be announced on Sun 26 November

    Jurors: Graham Fulton, Conic Distribution UK; Katie Holly, Keeper Pictures, Ireland; Grégoire Graesslin, Kinology, France

    GRADAM NA FÉILE DO SCANNÁIN FAISNÉISE

    (AWARD FOR CINEMATIC DOCUMENTARY)

    Winner to be announced on Sun 26 November

    Jurors: Babette Dieu, Toolbox programmes – European Film Market (Germany) & Cannes Docs – Marché du Film (France); Victoria Leshchenko, Dok. Leipzig, Germany; Carmen Thompson, Red Sea International Film Festival & Sheffield Doc Festival

    CORK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL YOUTH JURY AWARD
    Winner to be announced on Sun 26 November Chosen by our youth jury comprising students from UCC, MTU and St. John’s Central College

    AUDIENCE AWARDS (FEATURES AND SHORTS) .

    Chosen by you, the audience, by voting online. All Festival features and shorts that have their Irish premiere in cinema are eligible for the awards. Winners to be announced on Mon 27 November

    PARALLAX EMERGING FILM ARTIST BURSARY 2024

    2024 recipient to be announced on Thu 16 November

    Jurors: Valerie Byrne, Director, National Sculpture Factory; Maximilian Le Cain, filmmaker & UCC Film Artist in Residence 2023; Anna Kopecká, Director of Programming, CIFF; Aoibhie McCarthy, Artistic Director, Sample-Studios

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