A TV director from Donegal has won an IFTA awards for one of his documentaries, The Writing in the Sky.
He was named Best Director of Television at the ceremony in Dublin last night.
Garry Keane, (pictured in centre) a native of The Rock, Ballyshannon said he was “absolutely blown away” with winning the prize, Ireland’s oscars.
Garry is a graduate of DLIAD and has worked in television for the last twenty years, first as a lighting cameraman and for the last twelve years as a director of documentaries. He was nominated by IFTA for Best Director in 2009 for the documentary Brief Encounters of a Sporting Mind.
Garry was born and raised in Ballyshannon and educated at the De La Salle secondary school. He left Donegal in 1984 and went to UC Galway, then spent a year in New York but has always maintained his contact with home.