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Frecheville, Stephen Rea, Freddie Fox, , Barry Keoghan, and Moe Dunford.
It is directed by Lance Daly (Life’s a Breeze, Kisses), winner of the Galway Film Fleadh’s Bingham Ray New Talent Award in 2013.
The film is based on a short called An Ranger, by PJ Dillon and Pierce Ryan. Black '47 is produced by Macdara Kelleher, co-founder of Dublin-based Fastnet Films with Lance Daly and Morgan Bushe.
Black '47 is financed by Primemeridian Entertainment, the Irish Film Board, the Luxembourg Film Fund, Wildcard Distribution, BAI, TV3, Eurimages, Umedia, Samsa Films and Fastnet Films.
Black '47 will world premiere at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival next month, before being released by Wildcard Distribution later this year.