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'The Legend of Longwood' Now Filming in Dublin & Wicklow
06 Dec 2013 : By Kevin Cronin
Anabel Sweeney and Lisa Mulcahy on the set of 'The Legend of Longwood'.
Children’s fantasy adventure ‘The Legend of Longwood’ – about a young girl who moves from New York to a mythical village in Ireland – is currently filming in Dublin & Wicklow, and will be the first Irish film to be converted into 3D in post-production.

Produced by Michael Garland of Dublin-based Grand Pictures and directed by Lisa Mulcahy, the €5m feature film is an Irish-Dutch-German co-production with Holland Harbour and 3D Boutique.

Mr Garland told IFTN this week that principal photography will wrap on Friday 13th December and that the production has taken in such shooting locations as Howth Castle, Newtownmountkennedy and Powerscourt.

Joining newcomer Lucy Morton, who plays the lead role, is veteran actress Miriam Margolyes – best known to young audiences as Professor Sprout in the ‘Harry Potter’ films.

‘The Legend of Longwood has elements of fantasy in it but it’s very much rooted in the today,’ Mr Garland said. ‘It’s about a 12-year-old girl named Mickey Merill living in New York with her mother and brother, whose archaeologist father disappeared in Egypt four years previously.’

Horses feature prominently throughout, with the equine plot thread of a mystical curse in Ireland connected to horses in the fictional village of Longwood.

‘Our central character is mad about horses, but when a horse jumping incident goes wrong in New York, the family move to Ireland, where Mickey has to face the villain of the film, the Black Knight, in order to lift the Longwood curse.’

The last Irish family film which featured a mythical element related to horses, IFTN put to Mr Garland, was family classic ‘Into the West’ – a comparison which he warmly invited.

‘But the story actually originated in the Netherlands,’ Mr Garland explained. ‘It’s a universal children’s story with mystery, adventure, danger, peril and parents. The film is based on an original screenplay by Nadadja Kemper and Gwen Eckhaus, with Lisa Mulcahy rewriting it to fit the Irish setting.’

‘The Legend of Longwood’ will be completed in time for EFM, the European film Market, in Berlin in February 2014, with the aim of securing international distribution.

Further information on Grand Pictures can be found on their IFTN listings page here



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