IFB in favour of Kings
by Annika Pham
In its latest funding decisions, the Irish Film Board (IFB) has just given support to Tommy Collins’ Kings the first Irish language feature film to be produced in Ireland.
Kings is a story about friendship and exile, in which a gang of boys leave the west of Ireland for London, struggling over the years to keep their friendship and their identities intact. Collins’ previous work was the award-winning low budget feature Dead Long Enough, which was recently screened at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. Kings will be produced by Newgrange Films.
Other feature film projects that received production funding from the IFB include Shrooms, a teen horror movie scripted by Pearse Elliott (The Mighty Celt) and directed by Paddy Breathnach (I Went Down), which is being produced by Treasure Entertainment and sold internationally by Capitol Films; John Boorman’s A Tiger’s Tale, which will be produced by the filmmaker’s company Merlin Films; and Once, directed by John Carney and produced by Samson Films (Asylum [+see also:
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