Irish actor Ciarán Hinds has won the Best Actor award at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
Hinds won the award for his performance in the new Irish film 'The Eclipse'.
Directed by Conor McPherson and co-written by McPherson and Billy Roche, 'The Eclipse' is described as a supernatural love story which follows a widower who is haunted by nightmarish visions.
'The Eclipse', which was shot in Cobh, Co Cork in September and funded by RTÉ, Bord Scannán na hEireann and the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, will be screened on RTÉ One later in 2009.
At the Tribeca Film Festival American actress Zoe Kazan won the Best Actress award for her performance in 'The Exploding Girl'.
Asghar Farhadi's film 'About Elly (Darbareye Elly)' won the Best Narrative Feature award, while Marshall Curry's 'Racing Dreams' was named Best Documentary Feature.
