2001 Jameson Award for Best Irish Short
Give Up Your Aul Sins
Director: Cathal Gaffney
Producer: Darragh O'Connell
Ireland

2001 Claire Lynch Award for Best First Short
by an Irish Director
Escape
Director: Steven Benedict
Producer: Steven Benedict
Ireland 2001

Best "Made in Cork" Short
Gangs Of Waterfall
Director: Ronan Phelan
Producer: Regina Griffin
Ireland

2001 Best International Short
Give Up Your Aul Sins
Director: Cathal Gaffney
Producer: Darragh O'Connell
Ireland

2001 Best Black and White Short
Sister LULU
Director: Phil John
Producer: Pauline Williams
Wales

2001 Audience Award for Best Irish Short
Zulu 9
Director: Alan Gilsenan
Producer: David McLoughlin
Ireland

2001 Audience Award for Best International Short
The Crow
Director: Frederic Pelle
Producers: Pascal Lahmani, Frederic Pelle
France

2001 Outlook Award for Best Short
In Search Of Mike
Director: Andrew Lancaster
Producer: Megan Harding
Australia

2001 Youth Jury Award for Best International Short
Too Dark For Night
Director: Claire Langan
Producer: Melanie Gore
Ireland

2001 Youth Jury Award for Best Irish Short (Shared)
Escape
Director: Steven Benedict
Producer: Steven Benedict
Ireland

The Riblok Foundation
Director: Christopher Roche
Producer: Mary Hogan
Ireland

2001 Festival Award for Best Short Film
Field
Director: Duane Hopkins
Producer: Samm Haillay
England

2001 Highlights

• Opening Gala: (Ireland) "Disco Pigs" adapted from the successful play by Enda Walsh. Directed by Kirsten Sheridan, the film stars Eileen Walsh and Cillian Murphy.
• Closing Gala: (Czech/ UK) Dark Blue World, directed by Jan Sverak
• Screening of "Bejing Bicycle" directed by Wang X Idoshuai and winner of Jury Grand Prix Award in Berlin. The film tells the story of a bicycle courier who is driven by ambition to own the silver mountain bike he uses for work
• Dublin director Cathal Gaffney's "Give up yer Aul Sins" wins the first Jameson Award for Best Irish Short. The film is based on Margaret Cunningham's original recordings of a Dublin school in the 1950s telling the story of John the Baptist