THE GUARD selected to screen at the prestigious 61st International Berlin Film Festival
Following on from last month’s selection for its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, THE GUARD has now been selected to screen as part of the Panorma section of the 61st International Berlin Film Festival, which takes place from the 10th February 2011. The Berlinale is one of the most important dates on the international film industry’s calendar and enjoys one of the largest film festival audiences in the world.Directed by John Michael McDonagh, THE GUARD has a formidable cast, including Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges, Harry Potter, The General), Don Cheadle (Iron Man 2, Crash, Hotel Rwanda), Fionnuala Flanagan (Lost, Transamerica), Liam Cunningham (Hunger, The Wind that Shakes the Barley) and Mark Strong (Kick Ass, Sherlock Holmes).
THE GUARD is a thriller-comedy set on the west coast of Ireland where Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Gleeson) is a small-town cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humour, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought FBI agent Wendell Everett (Cheadle) to his door.
THE GUARD is an Irish/UK co-production, backed by the Irish Film Board as well as international financiers. It’s produced by Chris Clark and Flora Fernandez Marengo for Reprisal Films and Ed Guiney (Garage) and Andrew Lowe (The Wind that Shakes the Barley) for Element Pictures. Irish audiences will get an opportunity to see THE GUARD in cinemas when it goes on theatrical release later this year through Element Pictures Distribution.