Fastnet Films

Address: 75 Lr. Camden Street, Dublin 2
Telephone: +353-1-478 9566
Fax: +353-1-478 9567
Website: http:// www.fastnetfilms.com/
Email: enquiries@fastnetfilms.com

Personnel:
Macdara Kelleher - Managing Director
Morgan Bushe - Head of Development
Brendan Phelan - Development Executive
Jenny Butterly - Production Assistant

Company Description:

Established film and television company Fastnet Films has produced and co-produced feature films, television drama series and documentaries with cumulative budgets of over $50million. Since 2000, Fastnet has produced over 200 programmes (160 hours) for Irish network television, including the acclaimed current affairs series Agenda, nominated for a Best Current Affairs Programme, IFTA 2003.
Fastnet has experience of international co-production in the areas of feature film, television drama and documentary. The company has worked with leading production companies, broadcasters and distributors in Europe, Canada, Australia and the USA.
The company was founded by former RTE Controller of Programmes, John Kelleher. In 2003 Macdara Kelleher was appointed Managing Director. Fastnet has recently been awarded slate funding by Media Plus and has a wide range of feature film projects in development.

Genre:
Feature film, TV drama, documentary.

Languages:
English, Irish, French, German, Italian

In Development:

"White Spirit"
An adventure drama that tells the story of Irish convict John Graham who escapes from a penal settlement at Moreton Bay, Australia, and flees into the bush. The Kabi, a tribe of Aborigines, accept him as one of their own. John learns their language and customs during his six years with the tribe.
Recaptured by the British and sentenced to death, he is offered a stay of execution if he can rescue Eliza Fraser, a Scottish woman who has survived a shipwreck only to be captured by the Kabi.
The script is by New Zealand screenwriters Lance and James Morcan. The film is being co-produced by David Redman of Instinct Entertainment and executive produced by Michael Gruskoff.

"The Day I Tried to Live"
An everyman office worker, Jack Fontaine, declares war on White Sun, his powerful corporate employers, when he discovers they have somehow tampered with his brain.
The Day I Tried to Live is a stylish paranoia thriller with a blistering pace and a wry sense of humour. Imagine The Bourne Identity meets I Heart Huckabees.

"Suckin'Diesel"
The much-anticipated third feature from writer/director Lance Daly. Suckin’ Diesel is a high-energy action/drama set in the gritty world of semi-pro stock car racing. A rehabilitated getaway driver struggles to come to terms with the death of his brother and his own shady past as he tries to build a new life for himself at the unpredictable Steeple Park race track...

"North Atlantic Drift"
A 4X1 hour televsion drama series, "North Atlantic Drift" tells the story of Danny Case, a burnt-out door to door salesman. After he is sent to a remote Irish island on a seemingly impossible sales assignement, Danny finds himself caught up in the deceit and iintrigue of a complex murder mystery.
Picture Twin Peaks meets Bad Day at Black Rock with a taste of The Prisoner, a redemptive personal quest set amongst a community of eccentric islanders - surreal, surprising, darkly comic and visually alluring.

"Braineaters"
A tongue-in-cheek horror movie set against a disturbing and surreal Irish backdrop. A weekend camping trip into the woods turns into a nightmare for a band of hapless school kids as they are set upon and savaged by a dark force that they come to know as the Braineaters.
The film is to be directed by Conor McMahon (Dead Meat).

"Noah's Arc"
A darkly comic tale similar in tone to Raising Arizona and Grosse Point Blank. The film takes a wry look at male obsession with physical beauty in women. As Noah descends into a world of jealousy and paranoia he discovers that hell hath no fury like a one-legged woman scorned.
The script is written by Award Winning filmmaker Ian Power.

"French Is For Farmers"
"French Is For Farmers", written by Marina Ni Dubhain, is a fish out of water romantic comedy set in the west of Ireland that centres around a French hippy and her overbearing mother who comes to visit.

"Littleswood"
Set in 1890, in the unwelcoming mining town of Littleswood, Montana, the story centres on John Casey, a drunkard sheriff, who is forced to protect his town from a marauding family of werewolves.
In the spirit of action/adventure classics, Indiana Jones and Back To The Future, the screenplay was penned by up-and-coming talent Gavin Cleland.

Previous Production:

"Tonight is Cancelled" 2006

An idealistic Irish theatre director travels to Kosovo to stage a play based on a documentary and involving a cast of hundreds.

"Blood and Ink" 2006
A 4 x 30 min documentary series for TG4 that investigates an aspect of our national literary heritage previously unexplored; examining the iconic fiction based around some of the nation’s most notorious murderers.

"An Teanga Runda (The Secret Language)" 2005

Baineann James agus a athair Michael feidhm as an nGaeilge mar theanga rúnda dá ngnó spi-aireachta. Ní féidir leo an rún a scéith le máthair James faoi cad tá ar bun acu. Ach i gceann tamaill beidh an scéal go léir amuigh, agus ní bheidh an saol mar an gcéanna riamh arís.

"Lord Haw-Haw: Portrait of a Fanatic" (a.k.a. Hitler's Irishman) 2004
Documentary for RTE, the Irish Film Board and the UK History Channel.

"The Halo Effect" 2003

Shot on 35mm, "The Halo Effect" was financed by The Irish Film Board, TV3 and Xtravision and the UK. The film stars Stephen Rea, and premiers as the closing film at the International Dublin Film Festival, February 2004.

"Last Days in Dublin" 2002
Feature film. Writer/Director Lance Daly. Fastnet Films and Fatface Films in association with Bord Scannán.

"Bang! You're Dead" 2002
True Lives documentary for RTE and The Irish Film Board. Producer: John Kelliher. Director: Martin Danneels.

"Agenda" 1999-2003
Fastnet Films is currently producing the fourth season of TV3's acclaimed weekly 1-hour current affairs programme, presented by David McWilliams.

"Exam Countdown" 2001
TV series presented by Ray D'Arcy.

"The Last Word" 1999
Feature film. Irish-French co-production filmed in Paris and West Cork. Fastnet Films and Cinétévé for TG4/France 2/Irish Film Board. (7 million viewers when screened by France 2).

"Joe Dowling at the Guthrie" 1997
True Lives documentary for RTE and PBS. Co-produced with River Road (USA).

For Sale:

"The Halo Effect" - Feature film - Fastnet Films
"Last Days in Dublin" - Feature film - Fastnet Films/Fatface Films
"Bang! You're Dead" - 1 hour documentary - Fastnet Films
"The Last Word" - Feature film for TV - Fastnet Films
"Joe Dowling at the Guthrie" - Network Ireland
"Agenda" - Current Affairs series - TV3 / Fastnet