'Cinegael Paradiso’ wins top award at Celtic Film & Television Festival

The documentary feature ‘Cinegael Paradiso’, produced by Dublin based production company Distinguished Features and jointly financed by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/ the Irish Film Board and TG4, has won the top award at the Celtic Film and Television Festival held this year in Cardiff.
The film was written, narrated and directed by Robert Quinn and produced by David McLoughlin and Clare Scully. Of the 412 entered productions and 77 shortlisted submissions the film lead the award winners, winning the overall Spirit of the Festival award.
The film focuses on Cinegael, the independent cinema set up by film-maker Bob Quinn in Connemara in the mid1970’s in which his son, the director Robert Quinn, lived as a child, and explores the contribution the cinema made to the cultural life of the community but also to the Irish film industry itself, acting as a home for, and catalyst to, radical ideas and attitudes within the film industry at the time. The film also touches on the director’s memories as a child growing up in a cinema.
The film has already won the best documentary feature award at the 2004 Galway Film Fleadh and Boston Film Festival.
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