Cork International Film Festival (CIFF) has announced that the winner of the inaugural Best New Irish Feature award at the Festival is Paul Mercier’s Prospect House. 

Paul Mercier’s satirical script follows a group of protesters who film a period re-enactment in a dilapidated 18th century house in a last ditch effort to save it from demolition. 

The Jury comprised Academy Award®-winning film producer, education luminary and CIFF Patron, Lord David Puttnam; award-winning filmmaker Carmel Winters; and filmmaker / Head of Doc Station Berlinale, Zeynop Güzel. 

The Jury decision was announced in front of a sold-out auditorium in The Everyman for the Irish premiere of All Of Us Strangers on Sunday November 19^th.