Production Levels Remain High with Three New Projects Started
High levels of production activity continue as three new Irish projects The Race and Occi Versus the World and Miss Remarkable and Her Career go into production.
THE RACE, directed by award winning Andre Nebe (Sticky Fingers, Examen) has started five weeks of principal photography in Belfast and Monaghan. A coming of age story of a young girl's attempts to achieve her dreams of becoming a racing car driver, it stars Colm Meaney and Susan Lynch and introduces Niamh McGirr in the title role.
It is produced by Michael Garland for Grand Pictures and Martin Hagemann for Zero West, Berlin with funding from the IFB and Northern Ireland Screen. High Point International will be handling sales.
Production has also begun on Conor Mc Dermottroe's OCCI VERSUS THE WORLD. This drama depicts the early life of Austin ‘Occi' Byrne in Sligo during the 1970s and 1980s when he is brought back by his mother to her village in Ireland after she's failed to have an abortion in England. Produced by Edwina Forkin and Tom Maguire for Zanzibar Films with the German co-producer Florin Films with funding from the IFB, the film will shoot for six weeks on location in Sligo.
Irish based animation studio, A Man & Ink, have gone into production on their first co-production project, MISS REMARKABLE AND HER CAREER. Directed by Joanna Rubin Dranger, it is a dark comic tale about Miss Remarkable and her struggle with her own demons, crushing parental expectations and a career meltdown.
A Man & Ink, with the participation of the IFB, are co-producing with partners Lisbet Gabreilsson Film AB (Sweden) and Bullitt Film (Denmark).