It was great to see the Oscar nominations for the 82nd Academy Award Nominees included some great
Irish talent including Cartoon Saloon’s ‘The Secret of Kells’ in the Best Animated Feature Film category,
Juanita Wilson and James Flynn’s ‘The Door’ in the Short Film (Live Action) group, Brown Bag Film’s
‘Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty’ in the category of Short Film (Animated), Richard Baneham for his
role as Animation Supervisor for ‘Avatar’ which received a Visual Effects nomination and finally Peter J
Devlin who was nominated in the category of Sound Mixing for ‘Star Trek’.
Brown Bag Film’s ‘Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty’ is a six-minute film directed by Nicky Phelan,
produced by Darragh O’Connell and written and performed by comedian Kathleen O’Rourke.
The film tells the story of a seemingly sweet old lady who terrifies her little granddaughter at bedtime
with her dark version of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale. The animation won an Animation IFTA in 2009.
