SCRATCH FILMS & LIAM MCGRATH – AWARDS |
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Blood of the Travellers |
Winner ‘Best Documentary’ Irish Film and Television Awards |
Olympian Francie Barrett uncovers new information about the origins of the Irish Travelling Community by tracing their DNA. | 2012 |
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| Prime Time Investigates - ‘Not seen Not heard  |
DV director - Winner ‘Best News and Current Affairs’ Irish Film and Television Awards |
Award-winning landmark documentary about the state’s abandonment of young people afflicted by mental ill-health. | 2008 |
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Naked Camera  |
Nominated ‘Best Entertainment Programme’
Celtic Media Awards |
Naked Camera is an award winning hidden camera comedy show that began airing on RTÉ in 2005. | 2008 |
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| Naked Camera |
Winner ‘Best Entertainment’
Irish Film and Television Awards |
Naked Camera is an award winning hidden camera comedy show that began airing on RTÉ in 2005. | 2007 |
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Mission Improbable |
Nominated Best Documentary
Radhairc Documentary Awards |
Mission Improbable is an observational documentary, filmed over several months, which seeks to get under the skin of several Mormon missionaries serving in Northern Ireland. | 2005 |
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| Prime Time Investigates- Intellectual Disability |
DV director- Winner ‘Best News and Current Affairs’ Irish Film and Television Awards |
A damning look at the states failure to care for many of the most needy in our society. | 2005 |
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Coach  |
Nominated Best Sporting Feature Irish Film and Television Awards |
A damning look at the states failure to care for many of the most needy in our society. | 2005 |
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Southpaw |
Winner of “Audience Award Best Film” New York Fim Fleadh, 1999. Nominated “Best World Cinema” Sundance Film Festival 1999. |
Heroic rise to fame of 19 year old traveller, Francis Barret, from an unofficial campsite ont he side of the road, to carrying the Irish Flag in the Atlanta Olympics. | 1999 |
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Boys for rent |
Winner of “Best Irish Short Film”, Cork International Film Festival, 1993 AIB Bank/Jesuit Award for “Best Social Documentary” 1993. |
Four men share their experiences of working as boy prostitutes in Dublin.
A Dun Laoighre College of Art & Design/RTE production. |
1993 |
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