Congratulations to The Young Offenders on 3 Los Angeles Comedy Festival Awards
Fresh from crossing €1.2 million at the Irish box office, Peter Foott’s The Young Offenders has continued its phenomenally successful year by winning three awards at the Los Angeles Comedy Festival including Best Feature Film, Best Feature Screenplay and Best Feature Direction.
The Los Angeles Comedy Festival is the largest comedy festival in the States, promoting and showcasing the best international comedy talents within the industry.
Since its premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh during the summer where it was awarded Best Irish Feature, The Young Offenders has broken box office records and the trio of wins at the Los Angeles Comedy Festival comes after it was awarded The Súil Eile Award at last week’s Irish Film Festival London.
Inspired by Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure of €440 million off the coast of Cork in 2007, The Young Offenders follows two Cork inner-city teenagers, Conor and Jock, as they embark on a 160km road trip on stolen bikes in the hopes of finding an unrecovered bale of cocaine.
The film was produced by Vico Films with funding from the Irish Film Board.