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PRODUCTION Ireland

Blind Flight wraps

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- John Furse makes his feature debut with the story of the McCarthy/Keenan Beirut kidnapping starring Ian Hart and Linus Roache

The screen adaptation based on the 1980s Beirut kidnapping and subsequent five-year imprisonment of two Britons, Brian Keenan and WTN journalist John McCarthy, is now in the can. Blind Flight is based on Keenan’s best-selling book “An Evil Cradling" and was made on location in Northern Ireland, Glasgow and Tunisia.
First-time director John Furse describes the film as a “prison drama and a love story involving the search for personal freedom in extraordinary conditions” and it stars Ian Hart (Land And Freedom) and Linus Roache (Priest), the film was produced by Sally Hibbin’s Parallax Independent in association with Makar Productions, Samson Films, Network Movie and Partisan Films. The film was made with a £450,000 (Euros675,000) grant from the British Film Council’s New Cinema Fund and a further £29,250 (Euros43,875) from the Development Fund, Scottish Screen, the Glasgow Film Office, the Arts Council, the Irish Film Board, Matrix, ZDF and the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Blind Flight will be released in the UK in 2003 through Optimum Releasing and Moviehouse Entertainment are handling the international sales.

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