Michael Inside

Ireland, 2017

Director and writer: Frank Berry; cinematography: Tom Comerford; editing: Colin Campbell; music: Daragh O’Toole; production design: Emma Lowney; producers: Donna Eperon, Tristan Orpen Lynch, Aoife O’Sullivan; production company: Subotica. Irish location: Dublin, Cork

Running time: 96’

Cast: Dafhyd Flynn, Lalor Roddy, Moe Dunford, Hazel Doupe

Best Irish Film – Galway Film Fleadh 2017

 

SYNOPSIS

Michael McCrea is an impressionable 18-year-old living with his grandfather Francis in a Dublin housing estate. His life is derailed when he is caught holding a bag of drugs for a friend’s older brother and sentenced to three months in prison.

 

DIRECTOR

Frank Berry is an Irish filmmaker working in both drama and documentary. His career began with ten years of community film-making and television, and this work led to three award-winning and critically-acclaimed feature films: Ballymun Lullaby (2011), I Used to Live Here (2014, presented at IFF.9) and Michael Inside (2017), winner of the Galway Film Fleadh and IFTA for best film.

 

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