Magic touch takes Grand Prix de Tres Court

The people’s choice

FOR all of us who enjoyed the fast moving reel that is Tres Court International Film Festival, this yearโ€™s prize winners are as follows. The Grand Prix goes to the UKโ€™s Max Blustin for โ€˜A Magicianโ€™: think back to where a man walks over to a young couple, and the girl is getting an earful from angry man. Then interloper gets to magic away with the girl who regards him charmingly.

Originality Award is Spainโ€™s Anadir Contacto and Poilus took the Animation Award. Thereโ€™s a prize from Canal+ Oeil de LInks for โ€˜Voltigeโ€™, the French animated comedy short that opened the festival in Limerick and everywhere else.

Tres Courtโ€™s jury give special mention to the Canadian thrill, โ€˜The Hallโ€™ by Guillaume Blanchet and the global public choice to which we all contributed is from Germany, โ€˜Our Wonderful Nature โ€“ The Common Chameleonโ€™ by Tomer Eshed.

Remember that Limerickโ€™s choice was โ€˜A Writer and Three Script Editors Walk into a Barโ€™, declared on June 10. The film maker was Matthew Saville, by way of Sydney.

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The Womenโ€™s Right Award is another Frenchie, Cรฉcile Ragotโ€™s โ€˜Not a pizza orderโ€™.

Interested parties for next yearโ€™s festival, always falling on a Friday early in June, will do well to book in advance at Belltableโ€™s venue manager, www.limetreetheatre.ie. Host Alliance Francaise Limerick knows how to pack out the joint.

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