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I’ll jump back a week to the Oscars and how it was great to see an Irish Film pick up an Oscar. Playwright Martin McDonagh’s debut film “Six Shooter” picked up the Oscar for Best Live Action Short.

I saw Six Shooter a few months ago and was very impressed with it. The performances of Brenden Gleeson and Rúaidhí Conroy were top notch. Gleeson seems to be in just about every film these days and Conroy has grown up a good bit from his role as Tato in “In to the West”.

Six Shooter is an excellent black and bloody comedy about a sad train journey home through rural Ireland, an older man (Gleeson), whose wife has just died that morning, encounters an strange and possibly psychotic, young oddball (Conroy). His outlandish words and actions set in motion a chain of events that lead inexorably to the tale’s dark and dangerous conclusion.

The dialogue is truly excellent and flows superbly through the 27 minute short.

McDonagh’s first venture into film has picked up several festival awards and was nominated for a BAFTA following its first transmission on Channel 4.

SIX SHOOTER, was produced by Missing in Action Films, Funny Farm Film & Television and Fantastic Films and co-funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board and Film Four Lab. International sales are being handled by The Works.

This coupled with Ken Wardrops’ highly acclaimed and multi award winning shorts including his exceptional “Undressing My Mother” has shown the world what great short films Ireland can produce.

The bar has undoubtedly been set for the rest of us.

For anyone that would like to see Six Shooter you can view from the Channel 4 website

http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=154712