13/09/2006

Irish filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson and scriptwriter Mark O’Halloran, the duo behind the acclaimed Adam & Paul, are back with a new project, Garage, currently shooting in Ireland for another week.

Man About Dog) plays Josie, a caretaker of a backwater petrol pump, in search of love, acceptance and the best place to display the motor oils. The film’s DoP is Peter Robertson (Inside I’m Dancing [+see also:
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Element Films – one of Ireland’s leading production outfits, who backed Abrahamson’s directorial debut Adam & Paul– are again teaming up with the director, and managed to get co-financing from Film Four, the Irish Film Board, RTE, the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) and the Irish tax incentive scheme Section 481.

Peter Carlton, senior Commissioning Executive at Film 4, said: ‘’At Film 4, we’re always looking for the fresh take, the unexpected angle, films which, if you like, look at our at contemporary world through cracked lenses. This script hits that exacts spot. Lenny and Mark are just the kind of visionary filmmaking talent we want to back. They’ve taken a genre we think we know and think may have had its day – the small-town drama – and used it to make something new, poignant and hilarious.”