Grierson-nominated and five-time IFTA winner Emer Reynolds, an Irish documentarian and editor, is now working on her first feature-length fiction project, entitled Joyride and set to begin filming in County Kerry, home of some of Ireland’s most iconic locations. The news was first reported by Screen International.

Reynolds’ documentary directorial debut, Here Was Cuba (2013), was co-directed with John Murray and screened at many festivals worldwide, whilst her most recent solo-directed non-fiction effort, The Farthest [+lee también:
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In Joyride, British star and Oscar winner Olivia Colman (Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite [+lee también:
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Joyride is being produced by Aoife O’Sullivan and Tristan Orpen Lynch (who have both worked on productions such as Horizon Line [+lee también:
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