IFTA announced the Nominees for the 2022 Awards this week, with a total of six for indie feature film WHO WE LOVE, including Best Script – Film for Graham Cantwell & Katie McNeice.

WHO WE LOVE | IFTA Nominations 2022

Best Film – Who We Love
Best Direction – Graham Cantwell
Best Script – Graham Cantwell & Katie McNeice
Best Supporting Actor – Dean Quinn
Best Supporting Actress – Amy-Joyce Hastings
Best Original Music – Joseph Conlon

Our rural drama LAMBING has just wrapped after a three-day shoot in Co. Kildare. Huge thanks from myself and Producer Mo O’Connell to all the cast and crew who made this shoot possible and who were wonderful to work with.

Thanks also to our funders at the Kildare ShortGrass Film Bursary and to the IMDb Script to Screen Award team for believing in this project and helping us bring it to life.

Hardback Films is delighted to announce that The Kerry International Film Festival presented Katie McNeice with the Inaugural Rising Talent Taking Flight Award, sponsored by Kerry Airport.

Festival Director Eibh Collins presented the award to McNeice for her work to date, including feature film WHO WE LOVE, co-written with Director Graham Cantwell, which headlined at this year’s festival.

In the 2020 edition of the Kerry International Film Festival McNeice’s LAMBING received the award for Best Short Screenplay, while in 2019 her debut film IN ORBIT screened as part of the Irish shorts.

WHO WE LOVE also received the award for Best Fiction Feature Film at the 2021 festival.