The Ilen is a short film on the joy of working with wood, and documents the words and skills of Ireland’s few remaining traditional shipwrights, currently occupied in the rebuilding of Ireland’s sole surviving sail trading ketch Ilen.
The awarded comes with a prize of $10,000 from the World Wood Day 2015 through their ‘Wood & Humanity’ film competition. In the film, directed by Mia Mullarkey of Ishka Films, the 1926 trading ketch is featured as she draws near to a new operational life upon the sea.
This poignant but hopeful short documentary was made in conjunction with the Ilen School and Network for Wooden Boat Building in Hegarty’s Boat Yard, West Cork and the Ilen School, Limerick City.
