Gabriel Byrne to receive the Inaugural Gregory Peck Award at Dingle Film Festival
The Dingle Film Festival have announced Gabriel Byrne as the first recipient of the Gregory Peck Award for Excellence in the Art of Film.
The Dingle Film Festival have announced Gabriel Byrne as the first recipient of the Gregory Peck Award for Excellence in the Art of Film.
Gregory Peck once said the secret of film acting is complete candor with the audience, when you let them see the real you - and this perfectly captures the essence of Gabriel in his many roles and makes him an ideal choice for this new prestigious award said festival director Maurice Galway. Byrne, who is nominated for an Emmy Award for his role in HBO's In Treatment, will be in Dingle to receive the award during the festival, which runs from September 11 to September 14. It is an honour to accept the Gregory Peck Award in memory of a great actor whose work transcends time and continues to inspire said Gabriel Byrne.The award will be made in conjunction with Gregory Pecks family who are delighted that the
award is being presented in Dingle.
award is being presented in Dingle. "My fathers grandmother came from Dingle, his grand-uncle was the Hero, Thomas Ashe and any time he visited there, he always had a sense of coming home" says Pecks daughter Cecilia, "so the whole family is looking forward to attending the Dingle Film festival next month."
The festival has commissioned local artist John Holstead to design the award, which will be unveiled at the festivals opening reception in the Greenlane Gallery, Dingle on September 11th.
Kevin Moriarty, MD of Ardmore Studios, will present Gabriel Byrne with The Gregory Peck Award following a special screening of A Conversation with Gregory Peck on the Friday night of the festival in The Phoenix Cinema.
Its producer, Cecilia Peck and director Barbara Kopple will introduce the film to the audience.
Irish poet Medbh McGuckian has written a poem on Gregory Peck, which she will recite at the event.
Mr. Pecks wife, Veronique and son, Anthony will also be travelling from LA for this special occasion.
The festival will open with a screening of John Boynes best selling novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
Winner of the audience award at this years Sundance Film Festival, Ben Kingsleys new film The Wackness is sure to prove popular with the Dingle punters.
A huge hit with audiences at film festivals around the world and described by Rolling Stone Magazine as this years great rock movie, Anvil: The Story of Anvil documents the story of an ageing rock band, who refuse to give up on the dream of someday being big enough to play stadium rock.
Two time Oscar winner Barbara Kopple will present a masterclass on her documentary film Wild Man Blues. She will also present, along with co-director Cecilia Peck, the award winning film Shut Up & Sing .The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the two filmmakers.
Another Oscar winner and inventor of the Steadicam camera Garrett Brown will be on hand to talk about The Art of the Moving Camera while producer Ned Dowd Apocalypto, Last of the Mohicans wiill give a production masterclass on the classic American film noir State of Grace starring Sean Penn, Ed Harris and Gary Oldman. BAFTA and Grammy winning producer Anthony Wall will be bringing it all back to Dingle with two films on Bob Dylan Dylan in the Madhous and The Other Side of the Mirror, Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival 1963 -1965.A visual film progamme, curated by Maurice Galway for the Siamsa Gallery and Cork Film Centre will also be presended along with locally produced films, Beal Tuinne and Vinyl Frontier. To close the festival Cecilia Peck will introduce a special screening of her fathers definitive role as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird for which he was awarded the Academy Award Oscar for Best Actor. Tickets details are on our website or available at our office in The Garden Cafe in Dingle.
Visit: http://www.dinglefilmfestival.com/ for more details.
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