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Michael

Inside

The

Lodgers

Brian O'Malley's The Lodgers, which is written by David Turpin, is a ghost story of orphaned twins Rachel and Edward who share their crumbling stately home with unseen sinister forces – known as “The Lodgers”.

Bill Milner (X-Men: First Class) and Charlotte Vega (REC3) play the lead roles, supported by a strong cast that includes Patrick’s Day lead Moe Dunford, Game of Thrones actors David Bradley and Eugene Simon, Noble star Deirdre O’Kane, and Roísín Murphy (What Richard Did).

The Lodgers is being produced by Julianne Forde and Ruth Treacy for Tailored Films, with Patrick Ewald and Shaked Berenson of Epic Pictures Group as executive producers. The film received backing from Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board.

Frank Berry’s prison-drama Michael Inside, which stars Dafhyd Flynn, Lalor Roddy, and Moe Dunford, tells the story of Michael McCrea, an impressionable 18-year-old living with his grandfather Francis in a Dublin housing estate, who gets caught holding a bag of drugs for his friend’s older brother and is sentenced to three months in prison.

Michael Inside sees Berry once again working with Dafhyd Flynn, who gives a moving performance as Michael, after previously worked together on the critically acclaimed I Used To Live Here. The film was shot in the recently decommissioned Cork Prison and in Dublin. Berry and Donna Eperon produced for Write Direction Films, with Tristan Orpen Lynch and Aoife O’Sullivan executive producers for Subotica. The film was made with the support of the Irish Film Board.

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