Irish Film GARAGE Awarded Cannes Prize
The Irish film GARAGE has won a prize at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Following the positive response to its screening at the Directors Fortnight in the Cannes Film Festival, the Irish feature film, GARAGE has been awarded the CICAE ART AND ESSAI CINEMA PRIZE.Although non-competitive the Directors' Fortnight has four prizes for feature films The CICAE ART AND ESSAI CINEMA PRIZE is awarded by the CICAE Jury. CICAE is the International Confederation of Art House Cinemas and the jury is made up of representatives of its members.
GARAGE is the second film from director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Mark O’Halloran the team behind the award winning black comedy ADAM & PAUL. It stars Irish comedian Pat Shortt and features a cast which includes Anne-Marie Duff (SHAMELESS, THE MAGDALENE SISTERS) and newcomer Conor Ryan.
Regarded by his neighbours as a harmless misfit, Josie (Pat Shortt) has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of a crumbling petrol station on the outskirts of a small town in the mid-west of Ireland. He is limited, lonely, yet relentlessly optimistic and, in his own peculiar way, happy. GARAGE follows Josie’s hapless search for intimacy over the course of a summer which sees his life changed forever.
GARAGE is produced by Ed Guiney, executive produced by Andrew Lowe for Element Pictures and co-financed by Bord Scannán na hÉireann / the Irish Film Board, Film4, RTÉ and the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland.