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Nick Kelly commences The Drummer and The Keeper

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- This will be the first film out of three commissioned by the Irish Film Board’s Catalyst Project

Nick Kelly commences The Drummer and The Keeper
Actor Dermot Murphy

Writer/director Nick Kelly’s The Drummer & The Keeper [+see also:
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commences a four-week shoot at locations in and around Dublin this week. The film recounts the comedic story of an unlikely friendship between a 25-year-old rock-and-roll drummer with bipolar disorder who revels in rejecting society’s rules and an institutionalised 17-year-old goalkeeper who suffers from Asperger Syndrome and yearns to fit in. The cast includes Dermot Murphy (Black Ice [+see also:
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interview: Kai Nordberg
interview: Petri Kotwica
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), Charlie Kelly (The Secret Scripture), Peter Coonan (The Guarantee), Aoibhinn McGinnity (Poison Pen) and Annie Ryan (Laws of Attraction), and introduces Jacob McCarthy.

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The film is Kelly’s debut. His short film Shoe was shortlisted for an Oscar. Kate McColgan (From the Dark) is producing for Calico Pictures, with support from the Irish Film Board

The Drummer & The Keeper is one of three features selected from among 88 applicants who have won the opportunity to produce fully funded features budgeted at €350,000 each under the latest iteration of the Irish Film Board’s Catalyst Project scheme. The other films are writer/director Aoife McArdle’s Kissing Candice [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Aoife McArdle
film profile
]
and Lorcan Finnegan’s Without Name [+see also:
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.

The first Catalyst Project initiative, launched in 2007, led to the production of the features Rewind [+see also:
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by PJ Dillon, One Hundred Mornings [+see also:
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by Conor Horgan and Eamon [+see also:
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by Margaret Corkery.

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