Rachel Carey & Brendan Canty Win Best Director Categories at IFTA Awards 2026

The winners of the IFTA Awards 2026 were announced this weekend by the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA). The Awards ceremony took place at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre and was broadcast on RTE One on Saturday 21st February. Rachel Carey won Best Director – Drama for Obituary. Brendan Canty won Best Director – Film for…

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Brendan Canty

Brendan Canty’s feature Christy introduces us to seventeen-year-old Christy, who is at a crossroads. Thrown out of his suburban foster home, he has moved in temporarily with his estranged older brother, Shane, in Cork’s inner city. But Shane wants something better for Christy. After so many years apart, the brothers are forced to reconcile their…

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