30/11/2016 - All-star cast includes Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving and Stephen Rea

Irish filmmaker Lance Daly has commenced an eight-week shoot at Connemara, Kildare and Wicklow locations in Ireland on Black 47 [+see also:
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Headlining the cast are Jim Broadbent, Oscar and Golden Globe acting honours winner for 2001’s Iris and BAFTA winner for Moulin Rouge! (2001) and recently seen in Brooklyn [+see also:
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Daly is one of Ireland’s most acclaimed directors. He debuted in 2001 with Last Days in Dublin and for his next film The Halo Effect (2004) he scored an IFTA script nomination. Kisses [+see also:
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Kisses producer Macdara Kelleher, co-founder of Fastnet Films with Daly and Morgan Bushe, is producing Black 47 alongside Tim O’Hair (A Hologram for the King [+see also:
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