Juanita Wilson, writer and director of The Door, one of the most cracking of recent Irish shorts, has been chosen as the recipient of the 2009 Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Bursary.

Named for the late actress, so impressive in work by Mike Leigh and Lars von Trier, the award was set up to encourage new creative voices in European cinema. That bursary, which adds up to a tidy €8,000, will be presented to Juanita at the Sarajevo Film Festival in late August.