24/09/2014 - Jerzy Skolimowski, Lenny Abrahamson to direct

Principal photography commences this week in Dublin on 11 Minutes [+see also:
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The film is produced by Ewa Piaskowska of Poland’s Skopia Film and co-produced by Andrew Lowe and Ed Guiney of Ireland’s Element Pictures, with backing from the Irish Film Board. Element Pictures Distribution will release the film in Ireland.

Element Pictures also announced that they have acquired film and television rights to Laird Hunt’s acclaimed novel Neverhome, with Lenny Abrahamson (Frank [+see also:
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Abrahamson said, “Laird has written a truly amazing novel and created in Ash a character so vivid and original. I could not be more excited about making this film.”

Abrahamson is now in pre-production on Room [+see also:
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