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Irish language film in frame for Oscar An Irish language
film about the heartache of emigrants living in London has been selected
as Ireland’s entry for an Oscar.
Kings tells the story of a group of young men who left the west of Ireland
bound for the capital.
Derry writer and director Tom Collins said he was overwhelmed that the
Irish Film and Television Academy had selected it.
Kings, set in the mid-1970s, is being put forward for the Best Foreign
Language Film category at the 2008 Oscars.
It is the first time that an Irish language film has been submitted from
Ireland for this prestigious category.
A small independent jury which included director Neil Jordan, actor Daniel
Day-Lewis, actress Fionnula Flanagan, writer/director Terry George and
casting director Ros Hubbard made the decision.
The American Academy accepts one foreign language film from each
eligible country for consideration under this category and will announce
their final selection of five foreign language films next January.
The e2.2million film was shot in Belfast, London and Dublin last year.
It tells the story of a group of young men who left Ireland for Britain
filled with ambition for a better life in a place where they could be
kings.
Thirty years on they meet to mark the passing of the youngest of the group.
Kings is a story of a lost generation, rich in humanity and emotion and
with a heart-breaking resonance for emigrants everywhere.
The movie was adapted from Jimmy Murphy’s play Kings Of The Kilburn
High Road, which was a hit at the Tricycle Theatre six years ago. |
