Newgrange Pictures

Address: 49-50 Berystede, Leeson Park, Dublin 6
Telephone: +353 1 498 8028
Fax: +353 1 496 6128
Website: http:// www.newgrangepictures.com
Email: info@newgrangepictures.com

Personnel:
Jackie Larkin - Producer and CEO
Lelsey McKimm - Producer and MD
Paul Higgins - Chair
Domhnal Slattery - Financier
Stuart Switzer - Producer
Linda Cullen - Producer
Aislinn Ní Chuinneagáin - Development/Production Executive

Company Description:

Newgrange Pictures was established in Dublin, Ireland, in April 2005 bringing together a unique form of proven experience in production, finance & distribution. In September 2007 Newgrange Pictures released its 1st feature film, KINGS, an bilingual film featuring Colm Meany, directed by Tom Collins and Produced by Jackie Larkin. KINGS is also the offical Irish selection for the for Best Foreign Language Oscar.

Happy Ever Afters will be Newgrnage Pictures next feature, a romantic comedy written and directed by Stephen Burke and produced by Lesley McKimm. Happy Ever Afters will begin shooting early 2008.

Genre:
Film/ TV Drama

Languages:
English

In Development:

'STELLA DAYS'
-A small town cinema in rural Ireland becomes the setting for a dramatic struggle between a man and his conscience, faith and passion, Rome and Hollywood.

Genre - Drama
Writer - Antoine O'Flathartha
Director - Thaddeus O'Sullivan

Developed in association with the Irish Film Board

'TWO WRONGS'
-Two Wrongs is a dark tale that unravels over the course of a long winter night. As events spiral out of control, we witness what we believe to be a desire for justice. The reality is far more disturbing.

Genre - Thriller
Writers/Directors - Peter Murphy & Rachael Moriarty

Developed in association with the Irish Film Board

'KERRY BABIES'
- When a dead body of a new born baby is found, police arrest a young woman and charge her and her family with infanticide. Based on actual events and set in rural Ireland in the 1980's this is the true story of Joanne Hayes and the notorious 'Kerry Babies Case'

Genre - Factual Drama
Writer/Director - Gerry Stembridge

Developed in association with the Irish Film Board & Optimum Releasing

'A TIME FOR EVERYTHING'
- A story of two brothers, one a priest, the other a cop, who struggle in the mean streets of Limerick to exorcise their demons and lay their pasts to rest. They are good men deep down but they are complicated... and they are angry. what price will they pay for redemption?

Genre - Crime Thriller
Writer/Director - Kevin Liddy

Developed in association with the Irish Film Board

'66 THE YEAR OF THE DOG'
- The story is set around two real events, the robbery of the Jules Rimet (World Cup) Trophy in England, 1966 and it's subsequent recovery under a bush by a dog named Pickles! This film recreated the likely events in between.

Genre - Drama
Writer - John Murphy

Developed in association with the Irish Film Board

Pre Production:

'HAPPY EVER AFTERS' - Feature

Shooting Spring 2008

Maura and Freddie are getting married. Maura’s eight year old daughter, Molly, is happy, she has always wanted a dad. Maura is not looking forward to the wedding but Freddie thinks his life depends on it!
Only, Maura and Freddie aren’t getting married to each other, Maura has agreed to a fake wedding with Wilson, an African man who is trying to stay in Ireland. Maura has debts to pay and is trying to keep the roof over her and Molly’s heads. Freddie is marrying Sophie for the second time. Their first marriage was a disaster and ended in divorce, but Freddie has persuaded her to give it another go...

Two couples marry for the wrong reason and end up in the same hotel for their wedding receptions. Wrong place, right time...

Genre - Romantic Comedy
Writer/Director - Stephen Burke
Producer - Lesley McKimm

Previous Production:

'KINGS' - Feature

Theatrical Release - September 21st 2007

Kings focuses on group of Irish speaking men from Conamara. Who emigrated from Ireland to London, promising to return home rich and successful. They left Ireland in the early eighties when Ireland’s emigration figures were at a peak. The characters have all worked in the building game in England. Twenty-five years have past when Jackie, the youngest member of the gang, dies. The action takes place as the others come together to give him a traditional Irish send off before his body returns to Ireland for burial. His body was found on the railway, crushed by the passing train. Though the film it becomes obvious that some of the gang have survived better than others. It is when his friends are forced to confront the possibility that Jackie’s death was no accident but possibly suicide that they must face up to the bitter chill of truth.

Genre - Drama
Writer/Director - Tom Collins
Producer - Jackie Larkin

'The Family Tree' - Short Cut

As great oaks from small acorns grow so, in Ireland, dramatic myths spring forth from pub gossip. A short film that takes a comic look at some of that small town myth making

Genre - Comedy
Writers/Directors - Peter Murphy & Rachael Moriarty
Producer - Jackie Larkin
Starring - Eamonn Owens

'Last Night' - Short Cut

Last Night is a supernatural tale that unfolds in an Irish country manor. A couple's marriage falls apart under the canopy of a much darker secret

Genre - Thriller/Drama
Writer/Director - Conor Morrissey
Producer - Jackie larkin
Associate Producers - John Hurley & Jim Shortall
Starring - Liam Cunningham & Orla Brady