Shooting has wrapped on Pat Shortt's latest feature film The Belly Of The Whale, which will be released by Irish distribution outfit Wildcard Distribution in Irish cinemas later this year - Wildcard recently scored a major box-office hit with The Young Offenders.
Just wrapped on Belly of the Whale @AlanPhoto @MoeDunford @dinkyhanrahan pic.twitter.com/ZJIfmJWHbk
— Pat Shortt (@Pat_Shortt) December 2, 2016
Produced by prolific Dublin-based company Fastnet Films and directed by Fastnet co-founder Morgan Bushe, the black comedy follows two down-and-out drifters (Shortt and Lewis MacDougall, from A Monster Calls) star who attempt to alter their circumstances by teaming together to hold up a small town amusement arcade owned by a local politician (comic-turned-actor Michael Smiley). The film also stars Art Parkinson (Game Of Thrones), Peter Coonan (Love/Hate) and Lauren Kinsella (You’re Ugly Too).
Speaking about the shoot in North County Dublin, director Morgan Bushe said: “It was a real honour and privilege to work with such a talented cast and crew. My hope is to present a picture of an intimate Irish world that ultimately works to say something definitive about the greater sense of mankind. The game is money, but what's at stake is so much more."
Since his big-screen breakthrough a decade ago in Lenny Abrahamson's Garage, Shortt has mixed comedic roles (in the likes of Life's A Breeze and The Flag) with more dramatic turns in Calvary and, most recently, Gerard Barrett's acclaimed TV project Smalltown, while remaining one of Ireland's most popular live comedians - he's touring his new show, How's Things, nationwide through February.
Belly Of The Whale will be released in Irish cinemas later this year.
