Dingle International Film Festival

The Dingle International Film Festival (DIFF: Irish Gaelic: Féile Scannán Idirnáisiúnta an Daingin) was a film festival held annually in March that took place between 2007 and 2019 in Dingle, Ireland.

History

Established in 2007 by founder Maurice Galway an experimental filmmaker who also founded the Kerry International Film Festival in 1999. Notable guests have included inventor Garrett Brown, Gabriel Bryne, Laura Dern, Ned Dowd, Aidan Gillen, sound engineer Tom Johnson, Sarah Miles, Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan, Barbara Kopple, Maureen O Hara, Sir Alan Parker, Jack Reynor, Saoirse Ronan, Jim Sheridan, Scott Wilson .[1][2]

Festival closing

The festival closed its door for financial reasons in July 2019.[3] The Animation Dingle Film festival, that ran as an "offshoot", will continue.[4] The 2020 presentations, scheduled for March 20-21, 2020, was cancelled due to COVID-19 but winners were announced via a live-stream awards announcement presented by JAM Media.[5]

Awards

The Gregory Peck Award for Excellence in the Art of Film

The family of iconic Hollywood actor Gregory Peck presented a career achievement award at the festival until its closing in 2019. Peck's great grandmother Catherine Ashe hailed from Annascaul in the Dingle Peninsula.[6][7] Peck was a cousin to Thomas Ashe, founding member and battalion commander of the Irish Volunteers during the Easter Rising who later died in prison as the result of a hunger strike.[8]

Notable recipients at Dingle IFF are Gabriel Byrne, Jim Sheridan, Jean Jacques Beineix, Stephen Frears and Laura Dern. In 2014, the Peck family began presenting the award at the San Diego International Film Festival in the actor's native hometown. Other recipients include Alan Arkin, Patrick Stewart, Annette Bening, Keith Carradine and Lawrence Fishburne.[9][10]

Animation awards

In 2015, the festival held Ireland’s first ever animation awards ceremony in association with Animation Ireland. Recipients of the Murakami Award have included Jimmy T. Murakami, Richie Baneham, Tomm Moore and Don Bluth and Gary Goldman.[11]

Non-competition events

The Irish Film Board has hosted a selection of critically acclaimed Irish films.[12]

Classic films like Ryan's Daughter (1970) have opened the festival.[13]

Further reading
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References
  1. "About us | Dingle International Film Festival". web.archive.org. 2019-05-26. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  2. Murphy, Niall (2018-02-22). "#Festival: Irish Film at Dingle International Film Festival 2018". Scannain. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  3. McDermott, Stephen. "One of Ireland's best-known film festivals has been forced to close its doors over a lack of funding". TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  4. "Final curtain falls on under-funded Dingle International Film Festival". kerryman. 2019-06-22. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  5. Milligan, Mercedes (2020-03-24). "Animation Dingle Winners Announced in Streamed JAM Media Event". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  6. "The Gregory Peck Award: For Excellence in the Art of Film. | Dingle International Film Festival". Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  7. "American Cousin: Gregory Peck". web.archive.org. 2017-03-01. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  8. "Gregory Peck's family reconnect with Ireland". www.irishexaminer.com. 2019-06-25. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
  9. McNary, Dave (2014-09-10). "Alan Arkin, Michelle Monaghan Set for San Diego Film Festival Honors". Variety. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
  10. "San Diego Int'l Film Fest marks Gregory Peck centennial with cinema excellence award Sept. 29 in La Jolla - La Jolla Light". web.archive.org. 2016-09-29. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
  11. Milligan, Mercedes (2019-03-20). "Animation Dingle Welcomes Nora Twomey, Bonnie Arnold for Stellar 7th Edition". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  12. Murphy, Niall (2018-02-22). "#Festival: Irish Film at Dingle International Film Festival 2018". Scannain. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  13. "'Ryan's Daughter' returns to Kerry for the Dingle International Film Festival". www.irishexaminer.com. 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
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