Jericho Ridge and Double Blind will both be shown as part of the Galway Film Fleadh.

 

Via RTÉ – an action-packed thriller with strong Irish links is set to have its European premiere at the 35th Galway Film Fleadh on Friday. Jericho Ridge is set in a remote mountain town in North Washington state, which has been ravaged by unemployment and drug addiction.

It follows small-town Deputy Sheriff Tabitha ‘Tabby’ Temple (Nikki Amuka Bird) who is called back from injury leave to cover the dispatch radio for the night. The station soon comes under attack, and Temple and her son Monty face a desperate fight for survival. Actor Zack Morris, who starred for five years as Keegan Butcher-Baker in Eastenders, plays Monty, in what is his first foray into film.

Irish talent is at the heart of this project, with one of the film’s producers, Mark O’Sullivan, hailing from Buncrana, Donegal. Director of Photography Ruairí O’Brien ISC BSC is from Dublin and is well known for his work on television dramas including Vigil, The Fall, and Line of Duty.

This is British screenwriter’s Will Gilbey first feature film as writer and director. The BAFTA-winning editor promises that this movie contains “no respite – just 80 mins of breathless, adrenaline-pumping cinema.” He also says that it is “a highly emotional story about parenthood, trust, isolation and our inability to communicate with the people we love the most.”

Director/Writer: Will Gilbey
Producers: Harvey Ascott, Alex Tate, Mark O’Sullivan
Cast: Nikki Amuka-Bird, Zack Morris, Philipp Christopher, Michael Socha, Chris Reilly, Solly McLeod, Simon Kunz, Trim Ademi, Zachary Hart, Aidan Kelly, Olivia Chenery
DOP: Ruairí O’Brien ISC BSC

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