Best cinematographer win for Mayo native

CASTLEBAR cinematographer Fintan Geraghty has won Best Cinematographer for Morgan Creative’s The Butterfly Love Song film at the Underground Cinema Festival in Dublin.

This was the film’s 20th festival outing and it has been screened in New York, Paris, Berlin, Belfast, Durban, Barcelona, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Scholl (Fastnet Film Festival), among others.

It will be released shortly for general viewing but in the meantime see more film information and the trailer can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WubRzSDkAg0.

The film also won Best Director, Best Editor and Best Production Design.

Fintan graduated from GMIT with a BA in Film and Documentary and has made rapid progress in his chosen profession. He was the Director of Photography for the feature Sooner or Later (on Amazon Prime) and the shorts Spoke, The Hit, A Better Option and Hazardous Materials as well as The Butterfly Love Song.

His theatre projects include McPherson's Port Authority for Decadent Theatre Company, Edson's Wit for Galway Youth Theatre and Scanlon’s The McGowan Trilogy.

As well as Geraghty’s obvious ties to Mayo, the script writer for The Butterfly Love Song, Seamus Scanlon, has a strong connection with Mayo and both worked on The Long Wet Grass film which is set in and was shot on location near Callow Lake.