In 1981 David Kinsella won the Northern Ireland Press Photographer of the year, at the age of 16. In 1991 he moved to Norway. During his career he has won a total of 58 major awards for his documentary work in both photo and film, including 4 times Press Photographer of the year in Norway and 3 times Press Photographer of the year in Ireland. In 2006 David Kinsella directed, filmed and edited his first film Love Letters from a children’s prison. The film was nominated by the American Film Institute for Best feature length film documentary of 2006. Love letters from a children’s prison was also the most successful Norwegian documentary in 2006. In 2008 David Kinsella’s A Beautiful Tragedy was nominated for the prestigious Norwegian Amanda award for best documentary.( Amanda is the Norwegian Oscar for film ) In 2009 David Kinsella was again nominated for a Amanda for best documentary for his Killing Girls. 2009 David Kinsella won the prestigious Jury award at the 2009 Aljazeera International documentary Film Festival in Doha Qatar and both the European Grand Prix for best documentary in the Golden Chest festival in Bulgaria, and the overall Grand Prix award at the Egyptian Film Institutes 13th Ismalia International festival for documentaries and short films.
To this date David Kinsella’s project pilots have over 4.1 million subscribers in Youtube and David Kinsella.com, with an average of 2000 views each day.
The latest film Killing girls had over 900 pages of comments before the film was finished. Recently David Kinsella has been invited by the cultural department of North Korea to discuss the production of a feature length.
2011 CRONOGRAF Int. Doc Film Festival. Chisinau Moldova. “Killing Girls” nominated for best International documentary film
2010 12th Madurai Film Festival, India. A Beautiful Tragedy nominated for best film.
2010 Film & TV-festivalen ”NORTHERN CHARACTER” Murmansk, Russia 16.-18.
"TO BUILD A MEMORY UPON ONESELF" First Prize
2010. Film & TV-festivalen ”NORTHERN CHARACTER” Murmansk, Russia 16.-18. SPECIAL PRIZE For best Editing. "TO BUILD A MEMORY UPON ONESELF"
2010 Nordox Nordic Documentary Festival Beijing, China. Killing Girls nominated best film.
2010 Saratov Sufferings Saratov, Russia. Killing Girls awarded the Saratov state award.
2010 Prvi Kadar Int. fest for documentary films Sarajevo, Killing Girls nominated for best film
2010 VDFF International Doc fest. Vilnius Lithuania. Killing Girls nominated for best film
2010 Saratov Sufferings Saratov, Russia. Killing Girls nominated for best film
2010 Rwanda International film festival A Beautiful Tragedy nominated for best film.
2010 Taiwan International Children's Film Festival, special screening of A Beautiful Tragedy
2010 57h Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival. Killing Girls nominated for the Golden Medal of Belgrade.
2010 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece. Special screening of Killing girls
2009 Golden Chest Int film fest. Bulgaria.Killing Girls wins the European Grand Prix for best documentary.
2009 13th Ismailia International Fest. Egyp Film Institute,A Beautiful Tragedy wins the Grand Prix best overall film in all catagories.
2009 37th Festival der Nationen Ebensee, Austria. A Beautiful Tragedy wins the Silber award for best long childrens Int. documentary-
2009 4th annual Lola Kenya Children’s Screen audiovisual Int Film Festival A Beautiful Tragedy, Best documentary and wins the overall 2nd prize the ”Mboni silver award” for best childrens film.
2009 CRONOGRAF Int. Doc Film Festival. Chisinau Moldova. “A Beautiful Tragedy” nominated for best International documentary film
2009 EBS Int. Doc.Festival Seoul. South Korea “A Beautiful Tragedy” nominated for best Art documentary film
2009 ARTDOCFEST International Festival for creative Documentary Films, Moscow , Russia “Killing Girls” nominated for best documentary film
2009 13th Ismailia International Festival for Documentary & Short Films, Ciaro Egypt “A Beautiful Tragedy” nominated for best documentary film
2009 Foyle Int. Film festival Derry Ireland. Killing Girls nominated for best documentary
2009 The Norwegian film festival. Amanda nomination for Killing Girls best documentary.
2009 4th annual Lola Kenya Children’s Screen audiovisual Int Film Festival A Beautiful Tragedy nominated for best documentary film
2009 Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival Killing Girls nominated for the Peoples award for best International documentary.
2009 Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival A Beautiful Tragedy special selection.
2009 Galway Fleadh International festival. Killing Girls nominated for best international documentary.
2009 Festivals or festivals St Petersburg Russia. A Beautiful Tragedy and Killing Girls nominated for best international documentaries.
2009 The Norwegian short/documentary Film Festival Grimstad Norway. Killing Girls nominated for best Norwegian documentary.
2009 Aljazeera International documentary Film Festival.Doha Qatar.
A Beautiful Tragedy Jury award for best International documentary.
2009 56th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival . A Beautiful Tragedy " THE GOLDEN MEDAL OF BELGRADE" best international documentary.
2009 Aljazeera International documentary Film Festival.Doha Qatar.
A Beautiful Tragedy nominated for best International documentary.
2009 EURODOC Festival Oslo Norway. Special screening Killing Girls
2009 Guadaljara Int. Film Festival Mexico Special screening of A Beautiful Tragedy
2009 Free Word Foundation, special screening of. Killing Girls Oslo, Norway.
2009 The Norwegian Documentary Film Festival. Killing Girls
2009 Kosmorama International Documentary Film Festival Trondheim Norway. Killing Girls nominated for best International film.
2009 Norwegian Film week Guadalajara Mexico. Beautiful Tragedy nominated for best International documentary film.
2009 56th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival .Beautiful Tragedy nominated for best International film.
2009 World film Tartu Festival of visual culture Estonia. Beautiful Tragedy nominated for best International film.
2009 Bergamo Film Meeting Int. film festival Italy. Beautiful Tragedy nominated for best International film.
2008 1st International Festival of Television Programs and Films
"Northern Character " Murmansk, Russia. Special award in Directing Excellence, A Beautiful Tragedy
2008 Filmfest Eberswalde Germany A beautiful tragedy nominated for best International film.
2008. 50th Nordic Film Days Lübeck Germany. A beautiful tragedy nominated for best International film.
2008 Reykjavík International Film Festival A beautiful tragedy nominated for best International film.
2008 The Norwegian film festival. Amanda nomination for A beautiful tragedy for best documentary
2008 Golden Chest festival Bulgaria A beautiful tragedy nominated for best International film
2008 The North Cape Film Festival Norway. A beautiful tragedy nominated for best International film
2008 Norwegian State Film artist stipend
2008 Volda Documentary International festival. A beautiful tragedy nominated for best International film
2008 Grimstad short film festival.A beautiful tragedy nominated for best International film
2008 Galway Fleadh International festival. A beautiful tragedy nominated for best International film
2008 Kosmorama – Trondheim International Film Festival A beautiful tragedy nominated for best International film
2008 Tromsø International festival. A beautiful tragedy nominated for best International film
2006 Yara and Care International. National Stills Photo competition . David Kinsella 1st and 3rd Place
2006 Love letters, Nominated for the Norwegian State Human rights award for best Documentary
2006 Signis Unicef International Film festival ” Facing Children”. Romania. Love Letters ”Special award” for best International film.
2006. 48th Nordic Film Days Lübeck Germany. Love Letters nominated for best Doc.
2006 Signis Unicef International Film festival ” Facing Children”. Romania. Love Letters nominated for best International film.
2006 Calgary International film festival. Love letters nominated for best International film
2006, Filmtältet, Malmö Sweden. Love letters nominated for best documentary.
2006 Dokufest International film festival Kosovo. Love letters from a children's prison. Special merit award.
2006 Stranger than Fiction Documentary Film Festival, Irish film institute nominates Love Letters for best International documentary
Stranger than Fiction Documentary Film Festival and Market
2006 Buster Copenhagen International film festival. Love Letters from a Children’s Prison, nominated for best international film documentary.
2006 Dokufest Int, film festival Kosovo. Love letters nominated for best International documentary film
2006 Parnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival, Estonia. Love letters nominated for best film.
2006. Grimstad The Norwegian documentary film festival. Love letters. Special Merit award.
2006 Festival of festivals St Petersburg Russia, Love Letters from a Children’s Prison international competition.
2006 Silverdocs Official AFI selection, Love Letters from a Children’s Prison feature length film documentary competition.
2006 53rd Belgrade International film festival FIPRESCI Film critic award for best film for Love Letters from a Children’s Prison.
2006 Official competition selection Grimstad Short film festival Love Letters from a Children’s Prison
2006 “Time to Live” International film festival in St Petersburg Russia 1st place, Documentary of the year, Love letters from a Children's Prison
2006 Official competition selection ”Time to Live” International film festival St Petersburg, Russia.
2006 Official competition selection. Love Letters from a Children’s Prison. United Nations Geneva International Festival on Human Rights.
2006 Official competition selection. Love Letters from a Children’s Prison. Belgrade International Documentary and Short Film Festival
2006 Official competition selection Love Letters from a Children’s Prison, Gøteborg International Film Festival
2006 Special Merit award ” Films from the North” Tromsø International Film Festival
( Love Letters from a Children’s Prison, (Finished version )
2003 2nd Place for Best film at the European 1st Documentary 2003 France
( Love Letters from a Children’s Prison, (rough cut) )
2003 Public prize for Best film at the European 1st Documentary 2003 France
( Love Letters from a Children’s prison (rough cut))
2002 United Nations ”Norway” Exhibition New York.
2002 Helge Hummevol scholarship University Missouri USA
2000 1st Place Documentary Press photographer of the year Ireland
2000 1st Place in The Great Picture Contest, USA. (The world's largest photo contest.)
2000 Press Photographer of the year A-pressen, Norway.
1999 2nd Place in The Great Picture Contest, USA.
1999 Press Photographer of the year A-pressen, Norway.
1999 Norwegian Press photographer of the year 3rd Place Sports story.
1999 Eircell Press Photographer of the year 2nd place People picture
1998 Fuji European Press Picture of the year,
1998 Fuji Press Photographer of the year in Norway.
1998 2nd Place in The Great Picture Contest…
1998 Eircell Press Photographer of the year 1st Place Picture story.
1997 Eircell Press Photographer of the year 2nd Place Picture story.
1995 Press Photographer of the year A-pressen, Norway.See more
