Huge congratulations to all First Cut! 2023 award winners. The standard of films submitted for the festival keeps getting higher and higher, and selecting the awards with so many impressive films to choose from was a difficult task. But in the end these incredibly impressive films were decided on:

First Cut! Youth Film Festival Best Film 2023: Supernova (Niamh Collins)

First Cut! Youth Council Award 2023: I Like It Here (Tom Anson)

First Cut! Youth Film Festival Best Director 2023: Baths (Nell Hensey)

First Cut! Youth Film Festival Spotlight Award 2023: Don’t Look @ Me (Sean Kinsella)

First Cut! Youth Film Festival 2023 Cork International Film Festival Award: Finding Mothers (Barra Convery)

First Cut! Youth Film Festival Best Schools Film 2023: The Spirit of Living (Leah Nolan/ Loreto Secondary School, Fermoy)

First Cut! Youth Film Festival Best Irish Language Film 2023: Gan Tadhall (Muirinn Carty)

First Cut! Youth Film Festival Best Animation 2023: The Tell-Tale Heart (Max Hendrickson)

First Cut! Youth Film Festival Best Documentary 2023: When I Let Go (Kyra Owers)

First Cut Youth Film Festival Best International Film 2023: Daydream (Julian Hamman)

First Cut! Youth Film Festival Best Music Video 2023: Two Fools, One Lie (Rachel Griffin)

First Cut! Youth Film Festival Best YMVC – Youth Music Video Competition Award 2023: Ian Fallon (Nightmares – Paddy Hanna)

First Cut! Youth Film Festival Athrú Amháin Competition Winning Film 2023: Ár Plainéid (Felix Ó Hóiste Dochartaigh)

First Cut! Youth Film Festival 2023 Best Cork Young Filmmakers Schools Film: Sales Pitch (St Colman’s Community College, Mildeton)

First Cut! Youth Film Festival 2023 Best Cork Young Filmmakers Schools Film Audience Award: Finger Fight (Midleton CBS)