{
  "id": 2124850,
  "title": "Edinburgh Film Festival: Kieron J. Walsh’s ‘Skintown’ Wins Sean Connery Prize For Feature Filmmaking",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/edinburgh-film-festival-kieron-j-walshs-skintown-wins-sean-connery",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-20T11:30:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/08/kieron-j-walsh-skintown-edinburgh-film-festival-1237046127/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Skintown, the latest feature by Kieron J.Walsh, has won the Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival. Walsh’s Skintown beat out nine other features in the EIFF competition. The prize comes with £50,000 to support future projects. Skintown follows best friends Vinny and Jonty who party, cut deals and […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}