Besom Productions
Awards
The Far Side of Revenge
WINNER: Best Documentary, Foyle Film Festival, November 2012
NOMINATED: The Artraker Award 2014
Paradiso
WINNER: Best Documentary, The Slow Film Festival, Eger, Hungary, July 2009
WINNER: Best Documentary, Golbal Cinema Festival, Indore, India, October 2009
WINNER: Audience Award, Wurzburg Film Festival, Fe. Germany, January 2010
AUDIENCE VOTE: Joint Best Film at 'Documentary in Europe' September 2009 conference event (along with Oscar nominated 'Rabbit a la Berlin'
WINNER: Best Documentary, Dhaka International Film Festival, Bangladesh, January 2010
WINNER: Best Documentary, Arcipelago Rome Film Festival, Italy, July 2010
WINNER: Best Documentary, Padoa International River Film Festival, Italy, July 2010
WINNER: Audience Award, Chichester International Film Festival, England, September 2010
WINNER: Best Film in category 'Rapprochment of Cultures' (to mark UN International Year for the Rapprochment of Cultures) We The People Film Festival, London, November 2010
WINNER: Best Film (overall), We The People Film Festival, London, England, November 2010
WINNER: Audience Award, Milan Docucity Film Festival, Italy, May 2011
SPECIAL MENTION: Main Competition, Milan Docucity Film Festival, Italy, May 2011
WINNER: 'Bronze Bear, Audience Award', 39th Festival of Nations, Ebensee, Austria, June 2011
WINNER: Best Documentary, Ischia Film Festival, Naples, Italy, July 2011
WINNER: Best Director, Palermo Sole Luna Film Festival, Sicily, Italy, July 2011
WINNER: Best Documentary, 6th Lola Kenya Screen Film Festival, August 2011
WINNER: The Audience Award & Best International Documentary Award, 8th portel International Film Festival, Vicenza, Italy, February 2012
Waveriders
WINNER: Audience Award, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2008
WINNER: The George Morrison Feature Documentary Award, Irish Film & Television Awards 2009
WINNER: Best Documentary, Beloit International Film Festival 2009
WINNER: Best Sports Documentary, Celtic Media Festival, Caernarfon, 2009
WINNER: Outstanding Achievement in Action Sports Filmmaking, Newport Beach Film Festival, April 2009
WINNER: Silver Sierra Award, Yosemite Film Festival, September 2009
WINNER: Best Documentary, 37th Annual Surfer Poll Awards, Los Angeles, September 2009
SHORTLISTED: Grierson Awards 2008
NOMINATION: Best Sound, Irish Film & Television Awards 2009
NOMINATION: Heavy Water (Big Wave Gabe Davies) 37th Annual Surfer Poll Awards, Los Angeles, September 2009
Bloody Sunday - A Derry Diary (June 2010 Final Version)
NOMINATED: ABC News Video Source Award category for the International Documentary Association (IDA) USA Documentary Awards.
Bloody Sunday - A Derry Diary (January 2007 Original Verson)
NOMINATED: Best Documentary, Prix Europa 1997
NOMINATED: Best Documentary, Irish Film & Television Awards 1997
The Hunger Strike
WINNER: Best Documentary, Boston Irish Film Festival 2007
The Last Storyteller
SELECTED: 59th Venice Film Festival, August 2002
Fatal Extraction
SPECIAL MENTION: Festibal Mondial du Cinema de Courts Metrages, Huy, Belgium, 1998. Selected by BBC Bristol for transmission
Hush-A-Bye Baby
WINNER: Best Drama, Celtic Film Festival, Gweedore 1990
WINNER: Best Actress, Bronze Leopard (Emer McCourt), Locarno Interlational Film Festival, Switzerland 1990
WINNER: Official Irish Entry, Young European Film of the Year 1990
WINNER: Best Film, Orleans Film Festival, France 1991
WINNER: Best Actress (Emer McCourt), Pescara Film Festival, Italy 1992