Inis Mór, wins EUFCN Location Award
Inis Mór, the largest of Ireland’s Aran Islands, has won the EUFCN Location Award for the seventh edition. This award honours the location for its use in Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin, starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. The award was accepted by Screen Ireland’s Michael Byrne on Sunday 18 February at the EUFCN Location Award Ceremony during the 2024 European Film Market in Berlin.
“Screen Ireland is delighted to have Inis Mór recognised with the EUFCN Location Award for The Banshees of Inisherin,” said Steven Davenport, head of US production and partnerships. “This is the second time an Irish location has won this award, which really speaks to how much Ireland offers as a place for production: not just in terms of the country’s natural beauty – but our highly skilled crews and creative talent behind the camera.”
Filmed along the west coast of Ireland, the Golden Globe-winning The Banshees of Inisherin shows the dynamic of friends turned enemies, played by Farrell and Gleeson. Chosen from 24 submissions, evaluated by the EUFCN Location Award Jury, Inis Mór came out on top. Travel blogger and Filmtourismus’ Andrea David, journalist, moderator and film festival consultant Wendy Mitchell, sales director of Boutique Editions Jerry Odlin, location manager and 1st vice president of the LMGI Alison Taylor, and producer and Crew United Greece’s Venia Vergou sat on this year’s jury to assess the submissions. The winner was decided by public vote, with one lucky voter given the chance to travel to the winning location.
“A producer once told me this: there are two key elements at the start of a production of a film: locations and cast,” said EUFCN co-President Carlota Guerrero. “In the same way an actor is not just a pretty face, I believe that a location is not just a pretty landscape. The EUFCN Location Award nominees are a proof of that. The Location Award is a celebration of the complex process and the hard work behind the scouting and creative use of locations, the involvement of the film commissions together with local authorities and local communities, as well as the economic and social growth generated by filming in a territory. It ultimately is about what’s beyond locations.”
The other finalist for the EUFCN Location Award 2023 included Helsetkopen, Norway for Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One organised by Norwegian Film Commission, Hotel Parque do Rio, Portugal for Bad Living led by Portugal Film Commission, Jotunheimen, Norway for Troll Eastern Norway Film Commission, and Romsdalen Gondola, Norway for Succession (Season 4) orchestrated by Western Norway Film Commission.
Images courtesy of Beata Siewicz
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