Carmel Winters

Carmel Winters
Winters at JDIFF 2011
Bornc. 1971
NationalityIrish
Alma materTrinity College Dublin

Carmel Winters (born c. 1971) is an Irish filmmaker and playwright. Her work includes Snap (2010), B for Baby (2011), Float Like a Butterfly (2018).

Biography

Carmel Winters is from Cork, where she was born into a large family. She had ten older brothers and sisters. She studied Drama and English at Trinity College Dublin.[1][2]

Winters has written and directed plays and screenplays. She has had films at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, the Toronto International Film Festival and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic. She has been commissioned to write for the Abbey Theatre and was appointed Film Artist in Residence at University College Cork in 2014–15.[3][4]

Winters lives in Ballydehob with her wife, Toma McCullim.[5][6]

Awards

  • Snap: Variety Critics Choice Award, ‘Best Irish Feature’ and ‘Best Director’ at the Dublin Critics’ Circle Awards, 2010.[1]
  • B for Baby: Irish Times Theatre Award for Best New Play, 2011.[1]
  • Float Like A Butterfly: Fipresci Prize for the Discovery Programme at the Toronto International Film Festival, 2018.[7]

Filmography

Plays

  • Best Man
  • The Remains of Maisie Duggan
  • Time's Up
  • Witness

References

  1. ^ a b c "Carmel Winters, filmmaker and playwright". Cork Independent. 15 May 2019. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  2. ^ The Sunday Times (12 January 2020). "Carmel Winters: the people in west Cork have a curiosity about anyone who is different". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  3. ^ "Boxing clever: Carmel Winters on Float Like A Butterfly". RTE.ie. 9 May 2019. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  4. ^ Chat, FNI Wrap (14 May 2019). "#58 - Carmel Winters - Director (Float Like a Butterfly)". HeadStuff. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  5. ^ "The woman behind the West Cork-shot award-winning film". irishexaminer.com. 9 November 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  6. ^ "Standing on ceremony". The Irish Times. 21 March 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  7. ^ Halpin, Hayley (9 March 2020). "Film about young female boxer in 1960s Ireland wins major Toronto award". TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 9 March 2020.


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