Irish entries took 10 prizes at the Celtic Film and Television Festival, held in Cardiff this year. At last Saturday night's closing ceremony, Robert Quinn's documentary Cinegael Paradiso (pictured), received the top prize, the Spirit of the Festival award, while the Jury Award went to Omagh.

Ian Power took the Best Short Drama award for The Wonderful Story of Kelvin Kind. Imagining Ulysses was named Best Documentary Feature, while Marooned won for Best Sports Profile, The Pool in Which the Poet Dips (RTÉ Lyric FM) was voted Best Radio Documentary, and Radio na Gaeltachta was named Radio Station of the Year. Productions from the National Film School in Dún Laoghaire took three of the festival's four awards for student films: Conor Mulhern's The Big Girl (fiction award), Denise Nestor's The Faeries (interactive media) and Ken Wardrop's Ouch! (factual).

Meanwhile, Wardrop's documentary, Useless Dog, is the only Irish production selected for competition at the prestigious Oberhausen International Short Film Festival in Germany next month.