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06/08/2007

'Kings' Reigns At Directors Finders Series 2007

The Screen Directors Guild of Ireland, in association with the Directors Guild of America, has announced the winner of the Directors Finders Series 2007 as 'Kings' directed by Tom Collins.
Kings will be showcased in the state-of-the-art Director’s Guild of America Theatre, Sunset Boulevard, LA on 28 September to an audience of American distributors and agents, with a view to securing a US distribution deal.
This year, SDGI will launch Kings at a special Awards Ceremony hosted by internationally acclaimed director Jim Sheridan on 23 August in Dublin in the Clarence Hotel. This event is being filmed by TV3.
Guest speakers on the night will include director John Carney and John Fletcher, MD of Pathe UK, who will be taking part in a Q&A session on distribution/industry issues on the night.
The award is supported by Northern Ireland Screen, the Irish Film Board, The DGA, The Arts Council, Culture Ireland and Screen Training Ireland.
Kings was funded by Northern Ireland Screen and is the first feature film to be financed through the Irish Language Broadcast Fund, administered by Northern Ireland Screen.
Starring Colm Meaney, the film follows a group of young men who left the west of Ireland in the 1970s, bound for London, filled with ambition for a better life.
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