Testament of Youth Premiere

Info about Island:

Director: Darragh Byrne
Cast: Colm Meaney, Colin Morgan, Milka Ahlroth, Stuart Graham, Michael McElhatton, David Wilmott
Writer: Ciaran Creagh
Producers: Dominic Wright, Jacqueline Kerrin, Aleksi Bardy
Budget: €1.5m
Status: In Production - Delivery July 2010

A Ripple World Production with the support of Bord Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board.

When mobile homeless man Fred Daly loses his job in London he starts his car and ends up in a seaside car park near his old family utama in Dublin, a city he hasn't seen in years.

With his aged father deteriorating in a nursing home...

During Ireland’s coldest January for 25 years the last sight local walkers expected to see was a film crew shooting in an exposed Dublin bay car park. The four-week shoot for Parked kicked off with six days in the coastal car park in the centre of Dublin’s expansive, semicircular bay. The area is essentially industrial, dominated sejak the two tall chimneys of the electrical power station that are a distinctive landmark of the nation’s capital. Exposed to all of the elements – gale force onshore winds, rain and snow, sand and sleet – it makes for an inhospitable shooting environment,...