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Update #28: Award Winning Director
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It was only with the money I received from kickstarter that I was able to enter the Mexico International Film Festival. So in effect, without Kickstarter, I would not have won this award! My sincerest thanks to everyone who supported this film!
Hopefully my next film, 'Derelict', will garner the same kind of success!
Update #27: New Beginnings.
Hi All,
Been a long while! Just to let you know that 140 recently won the Bronze Palm Award at the Mexico International Film Festival! Which was great news. Very excited about that.
Also what to let you know that I'm back up on Kickstarter with a new project, a feature film that I'm hoping to shoot in September of this year. Check it out here: http://kck.st/iLoYWC if you feel like contributing once again you know it will be appreciated!
Thanks all. Take care.
Best
Frank
Update #26: Seasons Greetings
Happy Christmas and seasons greetings to everyone who has helped this project in the last year! We wouldn't have been so successful without your part. Thank you.
Update #25: The Last of the packages
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Update #24: New Festival
I can finally announce, and I am very happy and proud to do so, that 140 has been Officially Selected as part of this year Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis.
I'm very excited about this. I think I've mentioned my relationship with Heartland before, but just in case you don't know - I won a Crystal Heart Award in 2006 for Emily's Song, Bill, For Short was an Official Selection in 2008 and of course, it's where I met Maryann, my wife. She was the film programmer in 2006, so if I hadn't been selected, won the award and gone, we never would have met, fell in love, got married and had Evelyn! So you can see why I have a strong connection and appreciation of the festival!
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Multi-award winning writer/director Frank Kelly was born, and lives, in Drogheda, County Louth in Ireland. He holds a Higher National Diploma in Animation Production from Ballyfermot College Dublin (Whose alumni include many Oscar winning filmmakers)
In 2005 he set up Pale Stone Productions Limited with Thomas Kennedy. Together they co-wrote and directed 'Emily's Song' in 2006. The film went on to screen at over 30 International Film Festivals, win the 2006 Crystal Heart Award, the Unicef UK Award and received a Special Mention at the prestigious Oberhausen Short Film Festival and has has been broadcast on national television, including RTE in Ireland and Channel 4 in the UK.
Frank wrote and directed the no-budget short documentary entitled 'Bill, For Short' in 2008. It was officially selected for the 2008 Heartland Film Festival and nominated for Best Documentary at the 2009 Heart of Gold Film Festival in Australia. It was also featured on RTE’s 'Nationwide' show that year and is distributed by Network Ireland Television.
'Slan agus Beannacht’ was shot in April of 2009, and again featured on Nationwide that same year. It was broadcast on RTE last year.
Frank’s latest film, '140', a feature length experimental documentary inspired by Twitter, had its World Premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival in California at the end of April 2010, and has screened at Hatch Fest, Downtown Film Fest Los Angeles and the Heartland Film Festival. It had it's European premiere at the Irish Film Institute in October of 2010 and has recently won the Bronze Palm Award from the Mexico International Film Festival.
Frank continues to work on several projects, with two new short film, 'Raise My Hands' currently touring festivals.
He has recently completed production on his first dramatic feature film, Derelict and is currently editing. As well as developing his next project.
