Michael Lennox enters A Patch of Fog
- Stephen Graham, Conleth Hill, Arsher Ali and Ian McElhinney star
Michael Lennox has commenced principal photography at Northern Ireland locations for his debut feature A Patch of Fog [+see also:
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The screenplay for A Patch of Fog, by Michael McCartney and John Cairns, was developed through Northern Ireland Screen’s New Talent Focus scheme. The film is a psychological thriller about a celebrated novelist and television personality who finds his reputation on the line and his life invaded by a lonely security guard when caught shoplifting. Stephen Graham (Get Santa), Conleth Hill (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen [+see also:
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Robert Jones (The Hooligan Factory), Wayne Marc Godfrey (The Anomaly [+see also:
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