Yesterday…

The Golden West at the 2024 Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) Awards ✨

Huge congratulations to all the winners!

Such an honour to be included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 for 2024 amongst some absolutely incredible company!!! 🤯🤯🤯

Full List: forbes.com/30-under-30/20…

Massive thanks to Forbes 🙌

We are absolutely delighted to share that THE GOLDEN WEST has been nominated for Best Live Action Short at this year’s Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) Awards 🇮🇪

Huge thank you to the Irish Academy and massive congratulations to our fellow nominees! ✨

See you in Dublin, April 20th!

Lads, I am dead smug with this prediction I sent to the group chat a few hours ago ahead of the finale…

#TheTraitorsUK

approx. seven mins of sunshine today at belfast castle 🏰🌞

Delighted for my good pal James - a brilliant actor and an even better man. This is so richly deserved for him and his family 🙌💚

I had the MBE himself call me on FaceTime last night to share the news…

So excited for the team behind An Irish Goodbye with their new short The Golden West which is a stunning piece of cinema. Voting opens today for the Oscars® 2024, best of luck Ross White and Tom Berkeley ✨

Overwhelmed by these lovely words about THE GOLDEN WEST ⛏️🫏

We are proud to say THE GOLDEN WEST has qualified for consideration at the 96th Academy Awards® in the category of Best Live Action Short Film!

#ForYourConsideration
#LiveActionShortFilm
#Oscars2024

Available now on the Academy Screening Room ⛏️⛰️

Over the moon that The Golden West has qualified for consideration at the 2024 OSCARS, BAFTAs & IFTAs 💚

#ForYourConsideration ⛏️

Another great addition to the #BMF23 lineup NEXT WEEK is filmmaker/director Ross White, who's film An Irish Goodbye of course won BAFTA Award for Best British Short Film, Academy Award for Best Short Film (Live Action).

Read more - belfastmediafestival.co.uk/schedules/film…

Absolutely blown away to have won both BEST OF FEST & BEST DRAMA at the BAFTA Qualifying AestheticaFilmFest #Aesthetica 🤯

Huge thanks to the festival team and jury for these honours 🙌

#TheGoldenWest 🫏⛏️🏔️

And a double whammy, too!

Thank you AestheticaFilmFest 🙏🙏🙏

Properly chuffed with this!! Huge thanks to the team & jury AestheticaFilmFest 🙌

The Golden West ⛏️🫏🏔️

Usually takes years for a film to become as beloved as An Cailín Ciúin / The Quiet Girl - an instant Irish all-timer, all down to the craft and care of Colm Bairéad & Cleona Ní Chrualaoi

Brilliant artists and even better folks - ya just love to see it 🙌💚

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What an honour it has been to screen at the Oscar® and BAFTA qualifying PÖFF Shorts #POFF27 in Tallinn, Estonia 🇪🇪

A wonderful festival featuring such a brilliant line up of shorts from all over the world. We’re chuffed to be among them!

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A delight to see The Golden West at Tallinn Black Nights FF last night

Oscar winners Tom Berkeley & Ross White strike gold again - as warring Irish sisters flee the Famine to seek their fortune

Fine performances from Eileen Walsh, Aoife Duffin & Fiona the Donkey

Thank you, The British Short Film Awards 💚🙌

The Golden West wins Best Short award at Raindance Film Festival

The latest short from Oscar-winning directing duo Tom Berkeley and Ross White has won the Best Short of the Festival award, an Oscar-qualifying award.

Read here: iftn.ie/news/?act1=rec…

Very much looking forward to this conversation at #BelfastMediaFestival between myself, Kathryn Ferguson Stacey & host Sara Gunn-Smith 🙌