SUCCESS OF OMAGH FILM
Success of Omagh film
A HARROWING film dealing with the 1998 Omagh bomb has secured
distribution deals in a number of countries after picking up several awards, it emerged yesterday. Pete Travis's Omagh, starring Irish actor Gerard McSorley as campaigner Michael Gallagher, whose son Aidan was killed in the Real IRA attack, recently scooped awards at the Toronto and San Sebastian Film Festivals. The movie, which was screened on British and Irish television earlier this year, has secured cinema distribution deals in France, Italy, Canada, Argentina and Benelux countries. The film has also been screened at the Dinard Film Festival in northern France, will be shown at the Flanders Film Festival and has been selected for competition at the Stockholm Film Festival. Omagh recently won the coveted Toronto Film Festival Discovery Award.
A HARROWING film dealing with the 1998 Omagh bomb has secured
distribution deals in a number of countries after picking up several awards, it emerged yesterday. Pete Travis's Omagh, starring Irish actor Gerard McSorley as campaigner Michael Gallagher, whose son Aidan was killed in the Real IRA attack, recently scooped awards at the Toronto and San Sebastian Film Festivals. The movie, which was screened on British and Irish television earlier this year, has secured cinema distribution deals in France, Italy, Canada, Argentina and Benelux countries. The film has also been screened at the Dinard Film Festival in northern France, will be shown at the Flanders Film Festival and has been selected for competition at the Stockholm Film Festival. Omagh recently won the coveted Toronto Film Festival Discovery Award.
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Publisher: THE IRISH NEWS
Ref: IN/0710
Published Date: 02-Oct-04
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