Sri- Lankan-born Tamara Anghie is the producer of ‘New Boy’, the Irish short film directed by Steph Green that has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Live Action Short Film category.
The film focuses on the experience of Joseph, a nine-year-old African boy, in an Irish school and was based on a short story by famous Irish writer Roddy Doyle. The film has won a slew of international awards so far, including Best Narrative Short at the Tribeca Film Festival (USA), Best Short Film at the Rhode Island Film Festival (USA) and a Special Mention at the Generation Kplus Competition at the Berlin Film Festival in 2008.
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| A still from the film. Pic courtesy melbournefilmfestival.com |
Tamara Anghie is the daughter of Drs. Trevor and Ruth Anghie, formerly of ‘Greystones’, Diyatalawa. Educated in Australia where she completed a degree in Film and Media Studies in Melbourne, Tamara began a career in new media, working in Australia as a production assistant in one of the first multi-media and CD-rom productions.
Moving to the UK in 1994 Tamara freelanced for BBC, Channel 4 and MBC and then enjoyed a stint in the computer games field where she worked for Psygnosis/ Sony Entertainment Group producing PC and console games including ‘Wipeout 64”. She went on to become a producer the games channel for the interactive arm of telecommunications company ntl before returning to film.
Now based in Ireland where she works as a producer and production manager on documentaries and short films in the company Zanzibar/celtic mouse productions with Edwina Forkin and Jimmy Watson , she recently produced an award-winning 14- minute short film titled “A Dublin Story’ about Irish street children.
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| Tamara Anghie. Pic by gettyimages.com |
The Academy Award nomination is the most recent achievement for this dynamic film-maker. New Boy’s director Steph Green said "We are humbled by the Academy's recognition of our film and extremely grateful to Roddy Doyle for letting us use his short story to base our film on. An Academy Award nomination is the highlight for what has been a very successful year for our film."
Commenting on the nomination, Tamara said "We are indebted to everyone who was involved in making the film and it is a testimony to the quality of crew that we have here in Ireland that our short film has been recognised at the highest levels of the international film industry."
The Academy Awards will be announced on February 22 |
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