2024 WINNERS

Best Short Film (IRL) – Cantana

(Dave Fox)

Best Short (INT) – Broken Hearts

(Julie Magnaudet) UK

Best Documentary – We Beg To Differ

(Ruari Bradley)

Best Actor – Lisa O’Connor

(Fleeting)

Best Animation – Les Betes

(Michael Granberry) USA

Best Feature – Lost Boys – Belfast’s Missing Children

(Des Michael Henderson)

Best Student Film – Baby Blues

(Sophie Lynch, Allanah McQuaid)

Human Rights & Social Justice Award – Iarsmaí

(Damian McCann)

Environmental Film – Love Photosynthesis

(Aliza Zolonz) Ukraine

Best Music Video – Colour Me Pink, Kel

Director: Anika O’Hagan Ploug

Best Film Poster – Best Before

(Lisa Service)

Northern Exposure Award (€500 Bursary) in association with
Donegal Film Office

KATE HAYLEY – SPLASH

Kate Hayley is an award winning writer/director from Co. Donegal. She was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Award to study in the U.S. where she completed an MFA in Film & TV at Savannah College of Art & Design. Her short film “A Death In The Family” won best Irish Short with us here at Disappear Here Film Festival in 2020, Best Cinematography at the WFT Short Film Showcase, and was selected to screen as part of the CIACLA Irish Short Reels Series in L.A.

We wish Kate well with this Bursary, and eagerly await her next film, Congratulations!

Disappear Here Film Festival Team