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The Eclipse Which Screened in Competition at Tribeca Film Festival Winning Best Actor for Ciaran Hinds Bord Scannán na hÉireann / Irish Film Board, RTÉ and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with Windmill Lane Pictures present A Treasure Entertainment Production The Flag 85 mins. • 2016 • Ireland PRODUCTION CO. PUBLICITY CONTACT Treasure Entertainment Nell Roddy The Copper House Element Pictures Distribution St Kevin’s Cottages 21 Mespil Road Dublin 8 Dublin 4 Phone: +353 1 4758820 Phone: +353 1 6185032 Email: [email protected] / [email protected] Email: [email protected] The FLag Directed by Declan Recks Screenplay by Eugene O’Brien Produced by Rebecca O’Flanagan, Robert Walpole Director of Photography Cathal Watters Film Editor Dermot Diskin Production Designer Mark Kelly Costume Designer Allison Byrne Hair & Make-up Designer Louise Myler Casting Director Colin Jones Music by Stephen McKeon Principal Cast Harry Hambridge Pat Shortt Mouse Morrissey Moe Dunford Liz Simone Kirby Charlie Ruth Bradley Blacksod Brian Gleeson Hammer Peter Campion 2 Tagline We are the soldiers of destiny… Seriously. Short Synopsis / Logline Harry Hambridge is a down-on-his-luck paddy living in London. In one day he loses his job, father and beloved pet hamster, Mouse. On returning home to bury his father, he finds a statement from his Grandfather, claiming that it was he who raised the flag over the GPO during the 1916 Rising, which now hangs upside- down in an army barracks in England. Too long used to the mockery of his life, he sets out with his motley crew to find that fecking flag and maybe his passion for life along the way. Long Synopsis: Harry Hambridge lives the drink sodden lonely life of a ‘past it’ paddy on the building sites of London. Within 24 hours his hamster dies, he loses his job and then is summoned back to Ireland for the funeral of his father who he hasn’t seen in thirty years. At home he is reunited with his old friend, an ex jockey, Mouse. Together they discover an extraordinary testimony from his grandfather claiming that he flew an Irish flag on top of the GPO during the 1916 rising. The British then took the same flag as a regimental trophy back to a barracks in England. The locals do not even consider this claim, preferring instead to believe that the grandfather was under the bed in 1916 and only ever went into the GPO to post a letter. In fact, the Hambridge family was always suspected of colluding with the British! Harry is persuaded by Mouse to go on a mission to find the flag and therefore prove his grandfather was a hero and clear the family name. Lied to by the British home office, a plot forms in Harry’s head to break into the army barracks and steal back the flag. A gang is formed, including ex work mates Hammer and Blacksod, a dogging enthusiast, Cockney republican The Don and his woman Sally who Harry falls for. This motley crew concoct a plan which involves using a bread van and a truck, and dressing up as British soldiers with dodgey accents, they somehow get in and out of the barracks with the flag before it all turns into a high speed chase across England. Harry manages to get the flag back home in time for the 1916 commemorations, giving a heartfelt speech on the real meaning of what the flag stands for. 3 Origins of The Flag In 2014, producer Rob Walpole came across a statement his Grandfather had made to the Military History Bureau corncerning the raising of the flag over the GPO during the 1916 Rising. In the statement, Walpole’s Grandfather claimed to have raised the flag of The Republic over the GPO. Several other Irish combatants have also claimed to have done this and it occurred to Walpole that this could be an interesting basis for a different take on the 2016 Centenary. Working with writer Eugene O’Brien they developed the script fo r The Flag and attached Pat Shortt and Moe Dunford to star early in the process. Treasure had worked before with director Declan Recks on the The Running Mate; and given Declan and Eugene’s long-standing working relationship, he was the perfect fit. The Flag is an action comedy film, which attempts to look at the 2016 commemorations from a different angle and it was inspired by the below statement made by 1916 veteran Robert Henry Walpole. 4 Biographies DECLAN RECKS, Director Declan is a graduate of Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design (Dublin), and UCLA Extension (Los Angeles), where he studied film and television. His early short films won several awards and played at numerous festivals worldwide. He founded Paradox Pictures with Producer Liam O’Neill in 1990. The company produced numerous short films, documentaries and several feature films including; SEPARATION ANXIETY (1996), PETES METEOR (1998) starring Mike Myers, Alfred Molina and Brenda Fricker, and HOW HARRY BECAME A TREE (2001) with Colm Meaney and Cillian Murphy. Declan left Paradox in 2003 to concentrate on his Directing career. His television work includes some of the top rated shows on Irish TV. ANY TIME NOW (BBC/RTE 2002), PURE MULE (RTE 2005), THE CLINIC (RTE 2004-2006), THE RUNNING MATE (TG4 2007). He has been nominated for an IFTA for Best Director on four occasions and won in 2005 for his direction of the critically acclaimed ratings hit PURE MULE. His film, EDEN, was the closing film at the 2008 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival and has since been shown at over 40 film festivals worldwide. It was selected to screen in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival where lead actress Eileen Walsh was awarded the Best Actress Award. In 2009 Declan directed PURE MULE – THE LAST WEEKEND, a two part special revisiting the characters from the original series five years on. The show was nominated for seven IFTA awards, including Best Director. Recent credits include two series of the IFTA nominated drama SCÚP written by Colin Bateman for BBC(NI)/TG4 and the final series of 6 DEGREES for BBC(NI). In 2015 he completed THE TRUTH COMMISSIONER based on David Parks' book of the same name. The film stars Roger Allam and Sean McGinley and is a co- production between Big Fish Films (UK) and Samson Films (IRL) it was released in early 2016. He recently completed THE FLAG starring Pat Shortt and Moe Dunford, written by Eugene O'Brien for Treasure Entertainment, it will be released in Irish Cinemas on Oct 14th. He is a member of the European Film Academy, Directors UK and is on the board of the Screen Directors Guild of Ireland (SDGI). EUGENE O’BRIEN, Writer Eugene wrote the play Eden, first performed in the Abbey theatre in 2001. It won the Stewart Parker award, the Rooney prize for literature and the Irish times/ESB award for best new play. It transferred to the west end and has been translated into Dutch, German, Romanian, Italian and Catalan. His second play ‘Savoy’ debuted in the peacock theatre in 2004. His latest play ‘Just here’ ran in bewleys cafe theatre last year. He has written three plays for RTE radio drama, The Nest, Sloth, and Numb( nominated for the writers guild Zebbie award). He also adapted Eden and Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown trilogy for BBC radio. He wrote the screenplay for Eden, directed by Declan Recks, which played at many festivals including New York’s Tribeca festival and secured an American release with Liberation films. His award winning television series Pure Mule ( Winner of five IFTA’s) aired in 2005 and the two part follow up, Pure Mule- The last weekend was screened in 2009. He also worked on the script for comedy feature The food guide to love and TV3’s Red rock. Just recently he wrote the comedy ‘The Flag’ for Treasure films which will be released in October. REBECCA O’FLANAGAN and ROBERT WALPOLE, Producers Rebecca and Rob jointly run Treasure Entertainment. Their most recent film productions include John Butler’s Handsome Devil which premiered at the Toronto International Film festival this year; Paddy Beathnach’s Viva; written by Mark O’Halloran the film premiered in Telluride in 2015 and has sold throughout the world and won numerous awards include the Dorian Award for Best Foreign Language Film. John Butler’s debut feature, hit comedy The Stag, also premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014 and had huge box-office success in Ireland and the UK, winning John the DGS Director’s Finders Series. Other credits include Vivienne DeCourcy’s directorial debut Dare to be Wild, Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburnn’s BAFTA nominated Good Vibrations, My Brothers, IFTA award-winning TV series Your Bad Self and The Eclipse which screened in competition at Tribeca Film Festival winning Best Actor for Ciaran Hinds. The Film also won Best European Film at The Sitges Film Festival (2009) and Best Film at the Irish Film and Television Academy Awards (2010). Other credits include the award wining television series The Running Mate and the films Shrooms, The Mighty Celt, Man About Dog, Saltwater and I Went Down, which was Treasure first feature film starring Brendan Gleeson and directed by Paddy Breathnach. Treasure Entertainment are currently producing comedy heist The Flag featuring Pat Shortt due for release on October 14th and Kev Cahill’s short film A Nation Holds its Breath with The Weinstein Company. 6 STEPHEN McKEON, Composer Stephen McKeon has been composing music for film and television for over 23 years. He has scored over 50 films and numerous international television drama series and documentaries including BLACK MIRROR, POIROT, PRIMEVAL and the ITV comedy series LOVE & MARRIAGE.
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