Irish smash-hit comedy The Young Offenders has picked up three awards at the LA Comedy Festival, winning prizes for Best Feature Direction, Best Feature Screenplay and Best Feature Film.
Written and directed by first-time director Peter Foott, the film was inspired by Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure of €440 million off the coast of Cork in 2007 and follows two Cork inner-city teenagers, Conor and Jock, as they embark on a 160km road trip on stolen bikes in the hopes of finding an un-recovered bale of cocaine.
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Alex Murphy and Chris Walley talk to RTÉ Entertainment
Last week, lead actors and newcomers Alex Murphy and Chris Walley were presented with the Ros Hubbard Award for Acting at the Irish Film Festival London and the film also picking up the Súil Eile award.
The Young Offenders is now the highest grossing Irish-made film of 2016 and is the fastest Irish film to break the €1million mark at the Irish box office this year and is still in Irish cinemas two months after its initial release.
