First Cut! Youth Film Festival 2022 Award Winners

Wishing all our 2022 Award Winners another huge congratulations on their wins. The standard of films submitted for the 2022 festival was the highest yet, and selecting the awards with so many impressive films to choose from was a difficult task.
First Cut! Youth Film Festival Best Film Award 2022 | A SAD EXCUSE FOR A TEENAGE GIRL by Aoife Rees
First Cut! Youth Film Festival Best Director Award 2022 | AIRBAG by Dylan Shortt
First Cut! Youth Film Festival Youth Advisory Council Award 2022 | THE OUBLIETTE by Max Hendrickson. Special Mentions Languor by Lisa McDonald and Asset of Teeth by Róisín Leavy-Sahin.
First Cut! Youth Film Festival Spotlight Award 2022 | UNDERGROUND ÉIRE by Shane Joyce and Corinne Gibbons
First Cut! Youth Film Festival Cork International Film Festival Award 2022 | NETTLE BUSH by Francis O’Mahony
First Cut! Youth Film Festival Best Schools Film 2022 | VINDICTA by Presentation Brothers College Cork
First Cut! Youth Film Festival Best Animation Award 2022 | LANGUOR by Lisa Mcdonald
First Cut! Youth Film Festival Best Documentary Award 2022 | BEST FOOT FORWARD by Seán Hart
First Cut! Best International Film Award 2022 | HOW TO by Manos Ladas
First Cut! Youth Film Festival Best Music Video Award 2022 | 25 by Ryan McDonnell
First Cut! Youth Film Festival Best Cork Young Filmmakers Award 2022 | TALES OF THE WOODS by Macroom Summer Week
First Cut! Youth Film Festival Best Cork Young Filmmakers Schools Award 2022 | LITTER BUG by Hamilton High School, Bandon
First Cut! Youth Film Festival YMVC 2022 Award | Joint Winners: Darragh Scott and Emma Murphy with their video for God Knows (track currently unreleased), Eoin Byrne and Robert Bass with their video for Alex Tierney’s Settle For (watch here).
Athrú Amháin! One Change! Overall Winners | Pobalscoil Na Trionoide. Highly Commended School – Gaelscoil An Ghoirt Álainn, Mayfield. Highly Commended Youth Group – Club Óige, Moycullen. Highly Commended for Production – Rahul Kumar. Highly Commended for Creativity – Sadhbh Ní Chaoimh. Athrú Amháin! One Change! Films will be released on First Cut!’s social media in the next few weeks.
TikTok Filmmaking Competition Winners | McEgan College, Macroom. Runners Up Miriam Finn and Kate McEvoy, and Veronica Howells. TikTok Filmmaking Competition Films will be released on First Cut!’s social media in the next few weeks.
- First Cut! YMVC 2021 Award 2022 | Joint Winners: Darragh Scott and Emma Murphy and Special Guest Bob Gallagher.
- First Cut! YMVC 2021 Award 2022 | Joint Winners: Eoin Byrne and Robert Bass and Special Guest Bob Gallagher.
- First Cut! Best Schools Film 2022 | Vindicta by Presentation Brothers College, Cork
- First Cut! Best Cork Young Filmmakers Award 2022 | Litter Bug by Hamilton High School, Bandon
- TikTok Filmmaking Competition Winners | McEgan College, Macroom
- Athrú Amháin Overall Winners | Pobalscoil na Trionóide
- First Cut! Cork International Film Festival Award 2022 | Nettle Bush by Francis O’Mahony pictured with senior programmer Don O’Mahony.
- First Cut! Best Animation 2022 | Languor by Lisa McDonald
- First Cut! Best Music Video 2022 | 25 by Ryan McDonnell
- First Cut! Spotlight Award 2022 | Underground Eire by Shane Joyce and Corinne Gibbons
- First Cut! Best International Film 2022 | How To by Manos Ladas. (accepted by the Youth Advisory Council).
- First Cut! Youth Advisory Council Award 2022 | The Obliette by Max Hendrickson. Special Mentions Languor by Lisa McDonald and Asset of Teeth by Róisín Leavy-Sahin.
- First Cut! Best Film 2022 | A Sad Excuse for A Teenage Girl by Aoife Rees
- First Cut! Best Director 2022 | Dylan Shortt with Airbag. Pictured with Special Guest Yvonne McDevitt.