The Arts
Council is pleased to announce the successful recipients of the 2024 Reel Art
and Authored Works awards.
Yvonne
McDevitt is the
successful recipient of the Reel Art 2024 award for her film EVERYMOON IS ATROCIOUS. The
film is a visual travelogue through the poetry of Niall McDevitt (1967-2022) in
which a poet journeys to the end of the night, only to realise his life has
been a mirage.
Reel Art is
an Arts Council film scheme which supports film artists to make highly
creative, imaginative and experimental documentaries on an artistic theme for
cinema exhibition. EVERY MOON
IS ATROCIOUS will premiere at the Dublin International Film Festival in February
2026.
Claire Dix is the successful recipient of the Authored
Works 2024 award for her film INTO THIN AIR about women and visibility. A middle aged
actress disappears due to her perceived irrelevance. Her new condition allows
her to witness other women’s lives and the ability to travel back to when she
allowed herself to disappear.
Authored Works is an
Arts Council film scheme which provides film artists with the creative and
editorial freedom to make a feature-length
authored cultural film work for cinema exhibition. INTO THIN AIR will be premiered in partnership
with the IFI in 2026/27.
Yvonne McDevitt is a multi-award-winning Irish artist and filmmaker
working primarily in non-fiction and experimental cinema with an interest in
human history, interdisciplinary filmmaking and new technologies. She has
an extensive background in theatre.
Claire Dix is a filmmaker working in fiction, documentary
and arthouse film. All her work has received awards at home and abroad. Her
first feature, the Reel Art documentary Broken Song, was nominated
for an IFTA and won the Audience Award and Discovery Award at
DIFF. Sunlight, her first feature-length narrative film premiered at the
Glasgow Film Festival in 2023 and won Best Film at the Austin International
Film Festival. Tribute - The Teresa Deevy Story, a documentary
made with performance artist Amanda Coogan was broadcast on RTÉ in 2022.
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