Aontas, a new Irish language heist thriller from director Damian McCann (Doineann), has been selected for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival where it will make its world premiere.
Written by Sarah Gordon and Damian McCann, the film stars Carrie Crowley (An Cailín Ciúin, Smother), Bríd Brennan (Shadow Dancer, Doineann) and Eva-Jane Gaffney (Kin, Harry Wild).
Aontas will debut in Santa Barbara, California on February 12th.
Three unlikely thieves, led by a woman on the verge of a breakdown, rob a rural Irish Credit Union. Opening in the tragic aftermath of the heist-gone-wrong, Aontas unfolds backwards, chapter by chapter to unravel the events that led to this point. What starts as a poorly executed robbery becomes a portrait of a wilful woman trapped in her own past.
Produced by Órfhlaith Ní Chearnaigh (Aonaracht) and Christopher Myers (Doineann), written by Sarah Gordon and Damian McCann, this is the first feature from new bilingual company Púca Pictures.
Aontas was filmed in March 2024 in Glenarm, County Antrim and edited in Yellowmoon Postproduction, Holywood.
Aontas is funded by NI Screen’s Irish Language Broadcast Fund, BBC Gaeilge and TG4, with support from Yellowmoon.
An European premiere is due to be announced soon.
