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18/05/2007

'Speed Dating' Wins Audience Award At The Indiapolis International Film Festival

The Irish film 'Speed Dating' has won the Audience Award at the Indianapolis International Film Festival.
From the first time Director Tony Herbert, Speed Dating is a romantic comedy which tells the story of James Van Der Bexton (Hugh O'Connor) as he approaches his 30th birthday.
"The audience award is always the director’s favourite as it is voted on by the people that really count," said Tony Herbert speaking at the awards ceremony.
In the past few weeks Speed Dating has also scooped the Audience Award at the European Independent Film Festival in Paris, and the Jury Award For Best Feature Film at the 8th Malibu International Film Festival
Directed by Tony Herbert and produced by John Conroy. Speed Dating stars Hugh O'Connor (Bloom, The Boy from Mercury, My Left Foot), Don Wycherley, David Hayman, Flora Montgomery, Nora Jane Noone, Charlotte Bradley, Liam Carney, Dawn Bradfield, Gerry O'Brien, and introducing Emma Choy.
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