Les Arcs European Film Festival Honours ‘Room’ with Audience Award
Congratulations to Room on winning the Audience Award at the Les Arcs European Film Festival over the weekend.
This continues an impressive run for the Lenny Abrahamson-directed feature, which has won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival and which received three nominations at the upcoming Golden Globe Awards.
Told through the eyes of five-year-old-Jack (Jacob Tremblay), ROOM is a thrilling and emotional tale that celebrates the resilience and power of the human spirit. To Jack, Room is the world…. It’s where he was born, it’s where he and his Ma (Brie Larson) eat and sleep and play and learn. But while it’s home to Jack, to Ma it’s a prison. Through her fierce love for her son, Ma has managed to create a childhood for him in their ten-by-ten-foot space. But as Jack’s curiosity is building alongside Ma’s own desperation – she knows that Room cannot contain either indefinitely.
The Les Arcs European Film Festival takes place in the French Alps. In 2014 Ireland was the country of focus at the festival, with a host of Irish films screening.
Element Pictures’ Ed Guiney produced Room with David Gross. Executive producers are Andrew Lowe for Element Pictures and Jeff Arkuss and Jesse Shapira for No Trace Camping. Emma Donoghue, Rose Garnett (Film 4), Tessa Ross (Film 4), and David Kosse (Film 4) also serve as executive producers. Room is an Element Pictures and No Trace Camping production, in association with Film4, Telefilm Canada, and Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board. A24 distribute Room in the US, and Elevation Pictures is distributing the film in Canada. UTA handled the domestic sale of Room and FilmNation Entertainment handled international sales.
Room will be released in Irish cinemas on January 15th.