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DOUBLE BLIND (IRELAND)
SYNOPSIS: When an experimental drug trial goes horribly wrong, the surviving test subjects must fight off sleep, and each other, to stay alive.
RATINGS GUIDE: Language
DIRECTOR: Ian Hunt-Duffy
CAST: Millie Brady, Pollyanna McIntosh, Akshay Kumar, Diarmuid Noyes, Brenock O’Connor
GENRE: Horror
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
SCREENING DATE: Friday, Oct. 27th @ 8:00 PM
DIRECTOR’S BIO: Ian is an award-winning filmmaker from Ireland. His first love is genre cinema and he strives to make movies that will grip an audience and keep them guessing. Having graduated from The National Film School in Ireland Ian established Failsafe Films in Dublin, producing the IFTA Nominated and Academy Award longlisted ‘Love is a Sting’ in 2015, written by Academy Award winner Benjamin Cleary. Ian’s short film ‘Gridlock’- a whodunit thriller- won 60 awards at over 150 Film Festivals worldwide, including Best Director at the Savannah International Film Festival, Best International Short Film at DC Shorts, and a Young Director Award (YDA) at Cannes Lions.
In 2018, Ian took part in the prestigious Berlinale Talents in Germany as a director, being the only Irish filmmaker chosen amongst 250 candidates from 81 countries. Ian then successfully received funding from Screen Ireland for his short horror film ‘Low Tide’, and won the Discovery Award at the Dublin International Film Festival in 2019. In 2022, Ian directed his debut feature film, horror/thriller ‘Double Blind’ for Screen Ireland and Epic Pictures, premiering in 2023. In July, Ian was nominated for the Bingham Ray New Talent Award.
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