Irish premiere for film starring Mayo comic
Ger Staunton (centre) stars in 'The Highest Brasil'.
A new film starring Mayo comedian Ger Staunton has its Irish premiere next month.
Castlebar comic Ger Staunton plays the lead role in .
With his marriage crumbling, Seamus, a struggling fisherman, is unexpectedly offered the delicious pleasures of an unusual new life. But to turn his desperation into hope, he will need to put his trust in a group of misfits whose project becomes more and more deranged.
This absurdist dark comedy asks if there really is more out there for each of us or 'Is This It?'
“It was fun. I had never really done something like that before. It was the first feature-length film that I was a part of,” Ger previously told the .
"A guy saw me online and thought my face would be suited to a depressed alcoholic fisherman! He brought me to Cork for a month. I didn’t know how I’d get on learning lines but it was mainly staring out to sea to be honest, which was grand. I could do that in any language,” he joked.
The film was nominated for the Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Austin Film Festival. It has been described as 'incredibly brilliant', 'a statement of doom' and 'reminiscent of the Coen Brothers'.
was written and directed by Jeremy Curl.
Before filming, Jeremy undertook expeditions without motorised transport to document extremely remote, little-known tribal areas of Africa. He has walked across the Sahara twice and exhibited his expedition photographs widely. In 2013, he was presented with an award for achievement in desert exploration by Crown Prince Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum of Dubai.
The Irish premiere of the film takes place at the Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin on Saturday, July 27. The l will be available to stream everywhere soon.
