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DISTRIBUTION Ireland

Mornings sees daylight in America

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Conor Horgan’s apocalyptic drama One Hundred Mornings [+see also:
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is going places in the US. After securing a distribution deal, the film won the Vortex Sci-fi and Fantasy Award at the recently concluded Rhode Island International Film Festival.

In July, the film was the recipient of the WorkBook Project Discovery and Distributor Award, which facilitates a week-long theatrical release of the film in Los Angeles, opening in the Downtown Independent Theater from September 16, as well as full social media, street team and media support.

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Earlier, the film has been a success on the festival circuit. It premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival where it received a Special Mention from the Grand Jury. In Ireland, it screened at the Galway Film Fleadh and the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. Cinematographer Suzie Lavelle won an IFTA for her work on the film.

Continuing its stellar festival run, the film was officially selected to screen at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival, the Indy Film Festival, Indianapolis, the New York City International Film Festival and the Revelations Film Festival in Perth. It is also set to screen at the Portland Maine International Film Festival and the San Francisco Irish Film Festival in the coming weeks.

One Hundred Mornings was produced by Katie Holly for Blinder Films through the Catalyst Project, a low-budget filmmaking scheme co-funded by the Irish Film Board, BAI, TV3, Filmbase and the Arts Council. Filmed over twenty days in County Wicklow, the film features Ciaran McMenamin (The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce), Alex Reid (The Descent [+see also:
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) Rory Keenan (Intermission) and Kelly Campbell (Bachelors Walk).

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