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Fastnet Films is the production company of producers Macdara Kelleher, Morgan Bushe and
director Lance Daly. The company produces and co-produces feature films, television drama
and documentaries for domestic and international release.
Fastnet's Kisses won best film at the Galway Film Festival 2008, two Irish Film Awards
including Best Director, and screened in official selection at Toronto, Telluride and Locarno.
The film was sold by Focus Features and became the highest grossing Irish film of 2008/9. It
was later nominated for Best Foreign Film for the Independent Spirit Awards 2011.
Other credits include Nothing Personal, which won five awards at the Locarno Film Festival,
five Dutch Golden Calf awards and was nominated for two European Film Awards in 2010;
and the feature documentary Colony which screened at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival, won
the First Appearance award at IDFA and was nominated Best Documentary at the 2010 Irish
Film Awards.
Fastnet's latest releases include The Runway, which won best film at the Galway Film
Festival and two Irish Film Awards in 2011, and was selected by the Directors Guild of
America for its annual Director’s Finder Series 2010; In Sunshine or in Shadow which
won the Best Sports Documentary Irish Film Award in 2011; Circus Fantasticus which
premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival and won nine Slovenian national film awards
including Best Picture and Best Director; Lotus Eaters which premiered at the Tribeca Film
Festival 2011 and The Other Side Of Sleep which received its premiere in the Quinzaine des
Réalisateurs at the Cannes Film Festival 2011.
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