US distributor Sundance Selects has acquired Irish co-production ’11 Minutes’ from Hanway Films for North American distribution and plan to release the film theatrically in the spring.
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, produced by Ewa Piaskowska of Skopia Film and co-produced by Andrew Lowe and Ed Guiney of Element Pictures with backing by the Irish Film Board, the film stars Irish actor Richard Dormer in the lead and had a five day shoot in Dublin in September last year before moving on to Poland. The film follows the same 11 minutes in the lives of several different characters; young and old, prosperous and destitute. Element Pictures Distribution also previously handled Skolimowski’s film ‘Essential Killing’.
The film was released to Irish cinemas on December 4th.
To date, ’11 Minutes’ has premiered at the Venice Film Festival, The Toronto International Film Festival and the London Film Festival and also opened the Kinopolis Polish Film Festival in the IFI on Thursday December 3rd. The film recently picked up the Jaeger-LeCoultre award for Best Film at the Estoril Lisbon Film Festival and was Poland’s official entry to be considered for Best Foreign Language film at this year’s Oscars.
