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Hot Spots: How Ireland’s Booming Screen Sector Shows No Signs Of Slowing Down And Why It’s “An Overnight Success, Thirty Years In The Making”
Ireland’s screen industry is having a moment. With the Cannes Film Festival well underway, there’s a notable strong Irish presence in this year’s line-up including Element Pictures’ three entrants – Competition title Kinds of Kindness from Yorgos Lanthimos, Rungano Nyoni’s sophomore feature On Becoming A Guinea Fowl and Ariane Labed’s directorial debut September Says (both in Un Certain Regard).
For Wild Atlantic Pictures CEO Macdara Kelleher, who has produced projects such as Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise, Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear and Russell Crowe starrer The Pope’s Exorcist, he says the current boom of Irish content is a direct result of sustained investment from the government. The psychological thriller, which is an Irish-Australian co-production, sees Cage star as a man who returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son but is humiliated by a group of powerful locals and drawn into a conflict that pushes him to breaking point. Kate Dolan recently directed hit television series Kin, starring Clare Dunne and Charlie Cox, and that crime show explored a fictional Dublin family embroiled in gangland war with an international cartel.
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