Tufty, the Teddy Bear horror film has won two awards at the Corona Fastnet Film Festival – Best Original Music and Best Direction.
Tufty, described as “Apocalypto with Teddy Bears”, stars Una Kavanagh and IFTA winning actor Brendan Conroy. It was written and directed by brothers Jason Butler and Brendan Butler and produced by Dave Leahy of Warrior Films, a graduate Media Cube Company.
Media Cube Manager Martin Hogan commented: “Congratulations to Dave Leahy on the ongoing success of Tufty. It was a definite contrast to traditional horror films and showed that the Filmbase/ RTÉ funded shorts scheme can yield good quality short films. I have no doubt that Warrior Films will continue to produce original quality films that have an edge such as The Pool, which gained good reviews at Tribeca.”
Tufty has been screened around Europe at various prestigious Festivals including the 43rd Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia on 11th October and in the 17th Dead by Dawn Festival, Scotland’s International Horror Film Festival on the 9th October. It has also been screened at Clermont-Ferrand 2010 and Curtocircuito 2010, Santiago De Compostela, Spain. Nationally it has been shown in competition at the Belfast Film Festival and Galway Film Fleadh.
For more details about previous and upcoming screenings check out the film’s website – www.tuftybear.com.
