Ivan Kavanagh
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Ivan Kavanagh is an Irish
filmmaker who has written, directed and edited five features and ten short films.
His second feature film "The Solution" toured the festival circuit worldwide and won Best Drama at the Portobello Film Festival 2007 in London. The Durban International Film Festival in South Africa called it “a gritty masterpiece”.
Ivan's third feature Tin Can Man won Boundary Breaking Best Feature at the Sydney Underground Film Festival 2007 and Best Actor for Patrick O'Donnell. It also won Best Foreign Film, Best Foreign Actor for Michael Parle and Best Foreign Director at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival 2008 and Best Cinematography at the Strasbourg International Film Festival 2008.
His latest feature film The Fading Light
produced by Park Films and financed by the Irish Film Board, recently won Best Irish Film and Best Male Actor for Patrick O'Donnell at the Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards during the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival
2010. Amongst many other festivals, it also played in the World Cinema section of the prestigious Pusan International Film Festival 2010, South Korea and at the Titanic Film Festival 2011, Hungary.
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
filmmaker who has written, directed and edited five features and ten short films.
His second feature film "The Solution" toured the festival circuit worldwide and won Best Drama at the Portobello Film Festival 2007 in London. The Durban International Film Festival in South Africa called it “a gritty masterpiece”.
Ivan's third feature Tin Can Man won Boundary Breaking Best Feature at the Sydney Underground Film Festival 2007 and Best Actor for Patrick O'Donnell. It also won Best Foreign Film, Best Foreign Actor for Michael Parle and Best Foreign Director at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival 2008 and Best Cinematography at the Strasbourg International Film Festival 2008.
His latest feature film The Fading Light
The Fading Light
The Fading Light directed by Ivan Kavanagh won Best Irish Film and Best Actor at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2010The cast includes Valene Kane, Emma Eliza Regan, Bibi Larrson and Patrick O’Donnell who won the Best Actor gong from the Dublin Film Critics Circle for his performance...
produced by Park Films and financed by the Irish Film Board, recently won Best Irish Film and Best Male Actor for Patrick O'Donnell at the Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards during the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival
Jameson Dublin International Film Festival
The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival is a film festival that is held annually in February over the course of ten days in Dublin, Republic of Ireland-History:The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival was established in 2003...
2010. Amongst many other festivals, it also played in the World Cinema section of the prestigious Pusan International Film Festival 2010, South Korea and at the Titanic Film Festival 2011, Hungary.
Filmography
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2009 | The Fading Light The Fading Light The Fading Light directed by Ivan Kavanagh won Best Irish Film and Best Actor at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2010The cast includes Valene Kane, Emma Eliza Regan, Bibi Larrson and Patrick O’Donnell who won the Best Actor gong from the Dublin Film Critics Circle for his performance... |
| 2008 | Our Wonderful Home |
| 2007 | Tin Can Man |
| 2007 | The Solution |
| 2002 | Bandage Man |