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10TH SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION FESTIVAL
Stop Press! - Holy Cross has won the Jury's Grand Prix
for TV film at the 10th Shangai International Television Festival.
Holy Cross was nominated for a host of awards at the 10th Shanghai International
Television Festival. The drama was eligible for Best TV Film, Best Actor,
Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Technology and the
Jury's Grand Prix for Television Drama.
The
FIPA D'Ors
The drama Holy Cross, produced by BBC Northern Ireland in association
with RTE for BBC ONE, tells the story of two fictional families caught
up in the real events of 2001on the Ardoyne Road in Belfast, has won three
FIPA D'Ors at the Biarritz Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels.
In
the TV Single Film category, Holy Cross won three out of a possible five
awards for:
Best Drama; Best Actress in a Drama – jointly shared by Bronagh
Gallagher and Zara Turner and Northern Irish writer Terry Cafolla, won
in the Best Screenplay for Drama category.
Anna
Carragher, Controller, BBC Northern Ireland said:
“Holy Cross was a powerful and moving drama from BBC Northern Ireland,
a fictional story based on real events. These awards recognise and celebrate
the achievement of the production team and cast in bringing to life the
stories and emotions of ordinary families caught up in extraordinary circumstances
and I congratulate them all. I’m especially delighted that Terry
Cafolla has received this prestigious award for his first screen play.”
 Holy
Cross paints a picture of two ordinary families whose houses are back-to-back
but whose lives are led on either side of an insurmountable divide. Holy
Cross attempts to go behind the anger and the headlines of the dispute
concerning the rights of schoolgirls from the Catholic Ardoyne area of
north Belfast to walk a few hundred yards through the predominantly Protestant
area of Glenbryn to the Holy Cross primary school. The story is told through
the eyes of two young girls who, in any other town, could be good friends.
Because of the situation in Ardoyne and Glenbryn they don’t even
know each other’s names.
The
drama includes actual news footage from the time and shows the effects
of the violence on both families as tension builds over the summer, reaching
a crisis when the children go back to school.
The
FIPA is an international festival for television films. The FIPA is a
competitive festival which consists of six international sections, each
with their own international juries.
Holy
Cross was produced by Robert Cooper and Jonathan Curling (Grafters), directed
by Mark Brozel (Rap At The Door, Mange Tout) and written by the Northern
Irish newcomer Terry Cafolla. The executive producers are Robert Cooper
for BBC Northern Ireland and Mary Callery for RTE.
The Gold Plaque
Holy Cross won the Gold Plaque in the Feature Length Telefilm - Drama
category at the 40th Chicago International Television Competition in March.
Holy Cross was the second highest awarded film in its category ad the
work was singled out in a competition filled with hundreds of entrants
from around the world.
The Celtic Film and Television Festival
Holy Cross has won the Feature Drama category at the 25th Celtic Film
and Television Fesitval held in Dundee this year.
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