Foyle Foils Foy

TToH had big hopes for Ciaran Foy's short horror The Faeries Of Blackheath Woods at the Foyle Film Festival but it was not to be. Foy's film was nominated for Best Short at the recent IFTA awards, picked up Best Irish Short at the Diversions Festival in Temple Bar, the Cork Film Festival, the Kerry International Festival and Best European Short at the Luxembourg Film Festival. It also scooped Best Horror at the Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival and ran away with the Brest European Short Film Festival. Foyle proved a bridge too far, however.

Other Irish entries did well, though: Steph Green's New Boy took best Irish short while Simon Fitzmaurice's Sundance entry The Sound Of People came 'Highly Recommended'; as was Matthew Talbot-Kelly's feature Blind Man's Eye. The same accolade was bestowed on Angus Hubbard's documentary The Silver Sufari and John Collins's Kings just missed out on the Stella Artois Best Feature Film.

We hope to have a Q&A with Ciaran pretty soon and hopefully he'll allow us post his short.