Element Pictures Distribution today announced that they have acquired UK and Ireland distribution rights to Lorcan Finnegan’s festival hit Without Name, which had its Irish premiere on February 18th, at the Audi Dublin International Film Festival.
The eco-horror had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and followed with sold out screenings at the BFI London Film Festival, SITGES International Fantastic Film Festival, and the inaugural Brooklyn Horror Film Festival where it scooped awards for Best Director, Best Editor, Best Cinematography and Best Feature. The Guardian have described Without Name as being “so trippy it makes Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England look like an afternoon at the tax office.”
Finnegan’s debut feature centres around land surveyor Eric (Alan McKenna) who travels to a remote and unnamed Irish woodland, to assess its suitability for a new development project. Here, he sets up temporary residence, in an old unused house, right in the midst of the forest. Eric learns about the man who once occupied the house and begins to discover that all is not what it would appear to be in the woods. The idyllic backdrop almost seems to speak back to him and an ominous lingering presence fills him with a sense of dread. Alone and alienated from urban existence, he becomes increasingly fascinated yet disturbed by his surroundings. Are there really external and sinister elements at play here or is Eric becoming a prisoner of his own thoughts, in this place Without Name?
Alan Mc Kenna in Without NameDirector Lorcan Finnegan, Producer Brunella Cocchiglia and Lead Actor Niamh Algar have all been nominated for ADIFF’s Discovery Award which will be announced at the end of the festival. Previous winners of this award include Ken Wardrop, Barry Keoghan and Aidan Gillen.
Finnegan, writer Garret Shanley (Foxes) and producer Brunella Cocchiglia developed Without Name with funding from the 2014 Irish Film Board ‘Catalyst Project’ scheme. Finnegan is currently collaborating with Shanley on the sci-fi nightmare Vivarium, dystopian tragedy Goliath, and supernatural thriller Nocebo.
Without Name will be released in Ireland in April.