What a surprise, and an honour for “The Clouds are not Inaccessible” to win the Best Poetry Film Award at the 14th Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Competition in Cork Arts Theatre on Sunday November 1st! So happy to have won this beautiful award, custom made by glass-blower Michael Ray, for our short aerial dance film reclaiming Lucia Joyce’s voice – & her poetry!
Kudos to all my incredible collaborators on this film, Evanna Lynch (Lucia Joyce), Darina Gallagher (Mathilde), Olwen Fouéré (Voice of Lucia’s eternal soul), Megan Kennedy (Choreographer), Luca Truffarelli (Director of Photography), Ailbhe McDonagh (Composer), Aoife Carey (Editor), Claire Garvey (Costume), Jessica Leong (Aerial Consultant), Angelo Zabal (Assistant Director), Fintan Boden-Walsh (Assistant Camera), Mark Murphy (Sound Design) & Tommy Creagh (Co-producer). & to our funders/ supporters James Joyce Centre, TS Eliot Foundation, & Abhann Productions – Riverdance. Thanks to Festival Directors Paul Casey & Colm Scully for the selection, & for an inspiring day of poetry films from all over the world 
Happy Samhain!
Thanks to Catherine Ronan and Paul Scully for the photographs of this most unexpected moment!