One Hundred Mornings to have World Premiere At Prestigious Slamdance Film Festival
ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS directed by Conor Horgan is set to have its world premiere screening at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah later this month. It will be one of 10 feature films screened at the festival in the Narrative Feature Competition line-up out of over 5000 applicants. This is the first time an Irish film has been selected for the festival which takes pace 21st - 28th January.The Slamdance Film Festivals main focus is on films by first time directors with low budgets and its lineup of narrative and documentary films are programmed in the spirit of its motto ‘by filmmakers, for filmmakers'. Previous filmmakers to debut at the festival include Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight) and Greg Mottola (Superbad).
Starring Ciaran McMenamin, Alex Reid, Rory Keenan and Kelly Campbell, ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS is set in a world upended by a complete breakdown of society where two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive the crisis. As resources run low and external threats increase, they forge an uneasy alliance with their self-sufficient hippie neighbour. With no news from the outside world they can't know how long they must endure living in such close quarters, and with such limited supplies. Unspoken animosity fills the air, and a suspected affair is driving a wedge between them all. Poorly equipped to cope in a world without technology and saddled with completely conflicting worldviews, everything begins to disintegrate. Finally, each of them faces a critical decision they never thought they'd have to make.
Screened the Galway Film Fleadh last year, it was widely praised with film critic Donald Clarke naming it ‘The finest domestic feature I saw at the Galway Film Fleadh'. It has received rave reviews from the press with an Irish Times review describing it and ‘both harrowing and humorous' and ‘beautifully shot in muted, earthy colours' and Gaelmovies.com agrees saying "well written, stongly acted... the film doesn't just have some beautiful scenery, it's all beautifully shot".
ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS is writer/director Conor Horgan's first feature film, though he previously directed the award-winning short The Last Time, which screened at Cannes, Clermont-Ferrand, and Tampere and was the recipient of seven awards, including the UIP Director Award and Best Irish Short at The Cork Film Festival.
ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS was produced by Blinder Films under the Catalyst Project with funding from IFB, Filmbase, TV3 and BCI.