Ordinary Love wins 2020 Best Film Award at IFTAs
Date Posted: October 19, 2020
Sunday night’s Virtual IFTA Awards was the first of its kind on Irish TV – A Star-studded affair with high-profile international guest presenters virtually presenting filmmakers across the island of Ireland for their extraordinary work in filmmaking. Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros d’Sa’s Ordinary Love won Best Film 2020, which was awarded by legendary Hollywood director Martin Scorsese. Ordinary Love’s David Wilmot also picked up the award for Best Supporting Actor.
Ordinary Love is the third feature from the directing duo following the critically acclaimed Good Vibrations (2012) and Cherrybomb (2009).
Filmed entirely on location in Northern Ireland with funding from Northern Ireland Screen, Academy Award nominees Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) and Liam Neeson (Schindler’s List) star as an everyday couple with an extraordinary love, who must find the humour and grace to face a year of adversity.
The feature film was written by award-winning playwright, Owen McCafferty. It is a Canderblinks Films and Out of Orbit production, produced by the BAFTA award-winner and BFI Vision Awardee, Brian J. Falconer for Out of Orbit, David Holmes for Canderblinks Films and Piers Tempest for Tempo Productions.
Ordinary Love was financed by the BFI, awarding National Lottery funding and Northern Ireland Screen in association with Head Gear Films, Metrol Technology and Kreo Films. Bankside Films is handling international sales.
Northern Ireland man John Leslie won the Best Production Design Award for his work on Never Grow Old and Fine Point Films’ feature documentary Gaza won the Best Editing Award.
Congratulations to all the winners!
