The nominations have been announced for this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards, with some of the island’s biggest names, hardest working pros and rising talents given nods for their work on screen over the last year. With nominations cross across 29 categories in film and tv, the IFTA winners will be revealed during the…
“There’s an irony in the best British film being Irish,” Kneecap director Rich Peppiatt said last night, after accepting the Best British Independent Film award at the BIFAs. Which, yeah. The Daily Mail have described the success story as only they can, “Anti-British Irish language movie funded by UK public money wins Best British Film…
There’s a bit of Kneecap fever across Irish film this summer as film fans get hyped for the release of the Belfast boys’ feature film. Ahead of the general release of KNEECAP on August 8th, the rap trio have programmed three films to screen at the Light House Cinema, an early-August insight into the cinematic…
Première domhanda Kneecap ag féile scannán Sundance. The boys from Belfast are heading to one of the world’s most famous film festivals. Rich Peppiatt’s Kneecap will have its world premiere at the renowned Sundance Film Festival in Utah next month where it will screen on the opening night on Thursday 18th January. Based on the origin…
Kneecap, a new film inspired by the birth of ground breaking Irish-language rap group, completed shooting this month. The raucous anti-establishment comedy features the eponymous trio, who play heightened versions of their own lives against the backdrop of post-Troubles Belfast. Described by the LA Times as “reminiscent of the early Eminem”, the band is gaining…
