Steve McQueen’s award-winning directorial debut ‘Hunger’, shot on location in Northern Ireland, is set to open across Irish and UK cinemas on October 31st 2008.
The film, which this year scooped the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Sydney Film Prize at the Sydney Film Festival, is handled by Pathé Distribution.
‘Hunger’, co-written by Enda Walsh (Disco Pigs) and Turner prize-winning video artist Steve McQueen, portrays the final days in the life of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. The film explores what happens when the morality of people is tested to the limit and what happens when the body itself is used as a weapon for people not being heard.
Produced by Laura Hastings-Smith and Robin Gutch, ‘Hunger’ stars Michael Fassbender (300) as Bobby Sands with Liam Cunningham (Anner House, Showbands), Stuart Graham (The Clinic, Small Engine Repair), Liam McMahon (Northanger Abbey), Lalor Roddy (Middletown) and Brian Milligan.
‘Hunger’ is produced by London’s Blast! Films, with finance from Film 4, Northern Ireland Screen, the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) and the Wales Creative IP Fund.
