IFTA BEST FILM NOMINATIONS COMPLETE JOKE!

Once again the IFTAs have displayed a narrow outlook on Irish cinema. Not that anyone expects them to nominate every Irish film but having Perrier's bounty on the list is just wrong. Here's a movie that convinced people it would be great before it even got made. Then it turned out to be derivative and contrived rubbish before making less than $700 in America. Also one the list is Swansong a likeable but shockingly unoriginal movie about growing up in Sligo. Like Wild Decembers it couldn't get the era correct. Then there are three other movies which have yet to be released but no doubt are 'triumphs' of the Irish Film Industry. What a joke the IFTAs are. Of course a fee is needed to submit the films for consideration so smaller titles from last year probably didn't bother. Could they not have a system where the non-state funded titles could be considered free? How come the Meteors have packed it in for this year while and the even worse IFTAs are still going? Again, what a joke the IFTAs are.