silent city

Hello again everyone!

For those of you that couldn't make it, the first ever Blaster awards were decided this weekend after screenings that took the audience's breath away!

First up, The Silver Blaster award was decided by our panel of judges, which was made up of film maker Maura McHugh, writer Mike Carey and superfan Dave Lally. After much deliberation, the Hungarian-made time travel story Elobb Utobb (Sooner Or Later) was chosen for this prestigious award.

The film is astounding in both its simplicity and complexity and truly deserves the award! The film was directed and written by Istvan Madarasz.

But there can only be one winner of the audience-chosen Golden Blaster award, and it certainly was a close one!

The visually stunning Irish film, The Silent City, has been chosen by a single vote to be this year's winner! Director Ruairí Robinson makes a very believable future war zone come to life with some of the best special effects we've ever seen!

Our audience prize was also given out to one lucky attendee, which was a voucher from the lovely people at The Secret Book & Record Store on Wexford St. in Dublin City Centre!

Congratulations are due to all of our award-winners, but every film was chosen by Mr. John Vaughan because it was a fantastically entertaining piece of sci-fi, fantasy or horror. They all deserve a huge round of applause or the nearest internet-based equivilent! :)

In a war-torn near-future, three soldiers fight to survive an enviroment that is out to kill them with booby traps, snipers and something very, very different.

The Silent City is a wonderful Irish film that captures the horrors of a post-war environment perfectly.

John Vaughan says, "Starring Cillian Murphy (of Batman Begins and Sunshine fame), Oscar-nominee Rurairi Robinson shows in this visually astonishing short that through the use of both digital FX and traditional film making that it is now possible for short film makers to acheive an epic breadth and scale in their productions, even when it's lacking in most features."