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Wildcard Distribution to release ‘Get Up & Go’ to Irish cinemas on May 1st
08 Apr 2015 : Seán Brosnan
The poster for the film was designed by Annie Atkins who was part of the Oscar-winning production design team on ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
Wildcard Distribution has announced that the Peter Coonan/Killian Scott-starring ‘Get Up & Go’ will be released in Irish cinemas on Friday, 1st of May.

The official poster for the film, designed by Annie Atkins (part of the Oscar-winning production design team on Wes Anderson's ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’), was also revealed.

Along with Coonan (‘Love/Hate’, ‘The Guarantee’) and Scott (‘Love/Hate’, ‘Calvary’), ‘Get Up & Go’ stars Gemma-Leah Devereux (‘Stitches’, ‘Dartmoor Killing’), Sara Lloyd-Gregory (‘Doctors’), Emma Eliza-Regan (‘Love Eternal’, ‘Darkness On The Edge of Town’), and Sarah McCall (‘Wide Open Spaces’).

Written and directed by Brendan Grant, ‘Get Up & Go’ sees the ‘Love/Hate’ actors reunite for a slacker comedy which chronicles a hectic 24 hours in the life of would-be comedian Coilin (Scott) and frustrated musician Alex (Coonan). When Alex's girlfriend tells him she's pregnant, he refuses to allow her to derail his long-held plan to escape to London. Meanwhile the hapless Coilin is striking out on stage and off, as he attempts to get his faltering comedy career off the ground and win the heart of his dream girl. With time ticking down to Alex's departure, the mismatched pair will be forced to confront the reality of their childhood dreams of artistic greatness while their lifelong friendship is tested to the limit.

Speaking about the cinema release, director Brendan Grant said: ‘I'm delighted that cinema audiences across Ireland will get to enjoy the fruit of so many peoples' hard work and talent this May, particularly in the city that inspired ‘Get Up & Go’ and which is so central to the story. It was our aim to capture a particular moment in these characters' lives and with humour and honesty and we hope that people enjoy and respond to it as much as we enjoyed making it.’

Brendan Grant is a graduate of the National Film and Television School [UK], where his graduation film ‘London Fields Are Blue’ was critically acclaimed and screened at over twenty international festivals. He was awarded the Directors Guild of Great Britain Award for short fiction in 2005, the DAAD filmmaker's fellowship in Berlin and was a guest at the Cannes Cinefondation Residence in Paris.

‘Get Up & Go’ is a Fastnet Films (‘Kisses’, ‘Life's A Breeze’) production in association with Fragrant Films and Celofan Audiovisual with the participation of Bord Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board and The Film Agency for Wales.

Wildcard Distribution will be releasing ‘Get Up & Go’ in Irish cinemas on Friday May 1st.





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