{"id":112928,"date":"2020-05-08T17:19:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T16:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.tg4.ie\/?page_id=112928"},"modified":"2021-11-04T16:32:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T16:32:45","slug":"five-more-awards-for-irish-language-film-arracht-at-the-american-golden-picture-international-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dev.tg4.ie\/en\/information\/press\/press-releases\/2020-2\/five-more-awards-for-irish-language-film-arracht-at-the-american-golden-picture-international-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Five more awards for Irish Language Film Arracht at the American Golden Picture International Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HBUqJPP28Kk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1300\" height=\"1300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-112917\" src=\"https:\/\/tg4-docs.s3.amazonaws.com\/tg4-redesign-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Arracht_x5_Duais_1300x1300.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tg4-docs.s3.amazonaws.com\/tg4-redesign-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Arracht_x5_Duais_1300x1300.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/tg4-docs.s3.amazonaws.com\/tg4-redesign-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Arracht_x5_Duais_1300x1300-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/tg4-docs.s3.amazonaws.com\/tg4-redesign-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Arracht_x5_Duais_1300x1300-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/tg4-docs.s3.amazonaws.com\/tg4-redesign-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Arracht_x5_Duais_1300x1300-141x141.jpg 141w, https:\/\/tg4-docs.s3.amazonaws.com\/tg4-redesign-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Arracht_x5_Duais_1300x1300-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Arracht<\/strong>, an Irish language feature film created as part of the CINE4 initiative from TG4, Screen Ireland, and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI). Cine4 is a new inititative to develop original feature films in the Irish language. Arracht had its world premiere at the 23rd P\u00d6FF Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, in Estonia in November 2019,  its Irish premiere at the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival in February and its UK premiere at Glasgow Film Festival in March.<br \/>\nArracht was awarded Best Irish Film at the Virgin Media International Film Festival and picked up the Audience Award at the Glasgow Film Festival.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe film has been awarded a further five awards at the American Golden Picture International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best Feature Film<\/li>\n<li>Best Director &#8211; Tom Sullivan<\/li>\n<li>Best Cinematographer &#8211; Kate McCullough<\/li>\n<li>Best Child Actress &#8211; Saise N\u00ed Chuinn<\/li>\n<li>Best Lead Actor, Honourable Mention &#8211; D\u00f3nall \u00d3 H\u00e9ala\u00ed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nArracht is a feature film by Tom Sullivan,  Produced by C\u00fa\u00e1n Mac Conghail for Macalla Teo, and staring D\u00f3nal \u00d3 H\u00e9ala\u00ed.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nArracht is set in Ireland in 1845, and centres on Colm\u00e1n Sharkey, a fisherman, a father, a husband, who takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. Patsy, a former soldier arrives just ahead of \u2018the blight,\u2019 a crop disease that caused the Great Plague, killing and displacing millions of Irish people.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAlan Esslemont, Director General at TG4 says  <em>&#8220;TG4 congratulates Macalla and Arracht on yet another set of awards for this wonderful film from the Cine4 scheme.<br \/>\nBringing Irish language content to all screens has been at the heart of TG4\u2019s vision for audiences, and the Cine4 funding brings world class Irish language film to a global audience.  &#8216;Arracht&#8217; has been gaining critical acclaim since it premiered at the Tallinn Film Festival last November.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Arracht, an Irish language feature film created as part of the CINE4 initiative from TG4, Screen Ireland, and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI). Cine4 is a new inititative to develop original feature films in the Irish language. Arracht had its world premiere at the 23rd P\u00d6FF Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":876,"featured_media":0,"parent":111527,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-pr.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TG4 | Five more awards for Irish Language Film Arracht at the American Golden Picture International Film Festival | 2020 | Press Releases | Press | Irish Television Channel, S\u00fail Eile<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Further delight as &#039;Arracht&#039; receives a further five awards at the American Golden Picture International Film Festival\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" 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