PRODUCTION NOTES

WITHOUT NAME

Directed by Lorcan Finnegan

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TRT 93 MIN | ENGLISH | COLOUR

SYNOPSIS

Land surveyor Eric (Alan McKenna) travels to a remote and unnamed Irish woodland, to assess its suitability for a new development project. Here, he sets up temporary residence, in an old unused house, right in the midst of the forest. Eric learns about the man who once occupied the house and begins to discover that all is not what it would appear to be in the woods. The idyllic backdrop almost seems to speak back to him and an ominous lingering presence fills him with a sense of dread. Alone and alienated from urban existence, he becomes increasingly fascinated yet disturbed by his surroundings. Are there really external

and sinister elements at play here or is Eric becoming a prisoner of his own thoughts, in this place Without Name?

FESTIVALS

TIFF 2016 - Toronto International Film Festival (Vanguard Programme) World Premiere

SITGES 2016 - International Fantastic Film Festival (Noves Visions One) European Premiere

BFI LFF 2016 - London Film Festival (Cult Section) UK Premiere

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2016 ADIFF 2017 - AUDI Dublin Film Festival Irish Premiere

AWARDS

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2016 WINNER Best Director, Best Editor, Best Cinematography & Best Feature.

BACKGROUND ‘Without Name’ is the debut feature film of director Lorcan Finnegan and was developed with writer Garret Shanley and producer

Brunella Cocchiglia through the Irish Film Board, ‘Catalyst Project’ scheme which ran in 2014. The ethos of this competitive scheme is to give Irish emerging talent the opportunity to create a a fully funded feature film. The trio had in fact

met at the original Catalyst Project initiative launched in 2007 and have been collaborating since then on both feature and short

film projects, producing the IFTA (Irish Film & TV Awards) winning short ‘Foxes’ in 2012. Without Name was shot on location in Ireland.

PRODUCTION COMPANY

Lovely Productions

Lovely Productions was set up in 2004 by creative collaborators Lorcan Finnegan & Brunella Cocchiglia with a focus on creating

original content. Working in live action and animation, sometimes combining the two, they have produced and directed

numerous award winning short films, TV commercials and music videos. In 2015 they made their debut feature film WITHOUT

NAME with writer Garret Shanley. They are currently in development on several other feature films including sci-fi, horror

VIVARIUM and supernatural thriller, NOCEBO both also written by Garret Shanley.

Previous works of note include Foxes (2011) short film, winner of the 2012 IFTA for Best Short Film and Fear of Flying (2012), winner of The

Galway Film Fleadh 2012 Best Animation, Best Animation at LA Shorts and numerous other festival awards.

BIOGRAPHIES

Cast

Alan McKenna Eric

Alan has been acting in the TV and Film industry for over 20 years and has appeared in numerous productions, ranging from

BAFTA winning dramas to Hollywood movies. He has worked alongside such industry heavy weights as: Tom Wilkinson,

Julie Delpy, Heather Graham, Andy Serkis, Julie Walters, Andy Garcia and Kate Winslet. His most recent film credits include;

The Dark Channel, Macbeth and Without Name.

In 2013 Alan wrote, produced and played one of the leads in Pressure, a claustrophobic underwater thriller starring

Danny Huston and Matthew Goode. The film was released theatrically in 2015 by Fox Searchlight.

Niamh Algar Olivia

Niamh began acting at the Actors Studio in the Factory and was mentored by filmmakers Kirsten Sheridan, Lance Daly, John Carney and

Shimmy Marcus. She then went on to graduate from the Programme For Screen Acting, now currently known as Bow Street. Upon

leaving the programme Niamh was cast as the lead in From The Dark, which screened in competition at Fantastic Fest in Texas, the Stiges

Film Festival, and had its Irish premiere at the 2015 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. She was awarded the CINETalent award at

JDIFF for her performance in the film.

In 2015 Niamh worked on several Irish Film Board productions. She was cast as Clara the leading role in the IFB

Signature short drama January Hymn which premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh and ran in competition at the Leeds

International Film Festival. Niamh was cast as Olivia in Without Name a psychological supernatural drama directed by

award-winning director Lorcan Finnegan. This is Niamh’s second time cast in a leading role in a feature film. Niamh is

about to begin shooting The Drummer and The Goalkeeper directed by Nick Kelly and funded through the Irish Film

Board Catalyst scheme.

James Browne Gus

James began acting after graduating from University College Cork with a Bachelor of Arts in 2005.

He made his professional theatre debut in Meridian Theatre Company’s, Knock Three Times. He followed this up with a sell-out run in

Clinic Media’s, Night Swimming and numerous other stage performances culminated in a National Tour for Meantime Theatre Company’s

production of Christian O’Reilly’s, The Good Father. Browne returned with another critically acclaimed sell-out show for Conflicted

Theatre, 18 – 35. This was followed by Cleansed by Sarah Kane and a run on the National Theatre of Ireland’s Peacock Stage with William

Shakespeare’s, Richard II for Ouroboros Theatre Company.

Browne’s first feature film credit was in Strength and Honour. He then took time away from the stage to associate

produce and play the lead for Independent Feature Film, Tree Keeper. Screen credits also include numerous short

films and supporting roles in feature film, The Quiet Hour and television shows Vikings and A Dangerous Fortune.

Browne co-wrote, produced and played the lead for General Cinematic’s feature film, Storage. Lovely Productions

then cast James in the role of Gus in their feature film Without Name.

BIOGRAPHIES

Crew

Lorcan Finnegan Director

After completing a BA in graphic design in Dublin, Lorcan moved to London to work for Charlie Brooker’s (Black Mirror, Nathan Barley)

company Zeppotron as a motion designer, editor and later as a director. In 2004 Lorcan returned to Dublin to set up Lovely Productions.

Since then Lorcan has written and directed several award winning short films, TV commercials and music videos. WITHOUT NAME is his

first feature film. He is currently collaborating with writer Garret Shanley (Foxes/Without Name) on the sci-fi feature ‘VIVARIUM’,

dystopian ‘GOLIATH’ and supernatural thriller ‘NOCEBO’.

Garret Shanley Writer

Garret Shanley is a screenwriter from Dublin and holds a B.Des in filmmaking and an M.A. in Media Studies. In 2016,

his first feature script Without Name (dir. Lorcan Finnegan) world premiered at the Toronto International Film

Festival and continued on to Sitges and the London BFI Film Festivals. Garret has also written a number of short films, including the IFTA award winning Foxes (2012) also directed by Finnegan.

Garret’s work ranges from the supernatural to the satirical. He has written for a range of media and is interested in

exploring more. He is currently developing several feature films including Vivarium and Goliath.

Brunella Cocchiglia Producer

Coming from a background in graphic design, Brunella set up Lovely Productions with Lorcan Finnegan in 2004 and moved into

producing animation & live action short films and TV commercials. Her short film credits have won many awards, including Fear of

Flying, which received two IFTA nominations, Best Short at Galway Film Fleadh & LA Shorts, amongst many other international

awards. She also produced the live action supernatural drama Foxes, which won Best Short at IFTAs 2012 and has garnered much

international attention. In 2015 she successfully secured financing for Lovely Production’s first feature film, Without Name. She is

currently developing a slate of projects, including The Goliath, Nocebo (co-pro with Wigwam UK) and is exec. producing Vivarium

with Film4, the IFB and Fantastic Films.

Piers McGrail Cinematographer

Graduating from IADT eight years ago, Piers McGrail worked his way up from shorts and music videos and was

eventually thrown into the feature film deep-end with the BAFTA-winning ‘Kelly+Victor’ in 2011. He has continued

to be in demand ever since with 2015 proving his most fruitful year to date with three features hitting cinemas – ‘Let

Us Prey’, ‘The Canal’ and ‘Glassland’ – with the latter project earning him an IFTA nomination. He recently became a

member of the Irish Society of Cinematographers.

Tony Cranstoun A.C.E. Editor

Tony is a multi-award winning editor. His editing work has received craft recognition from The British Academy of Film and Television

Arts (BAFTA), The American Cinema Editors (ACE) and The Royal Television Society (RTS). His television credits include Cracker, Queer As

Folk, The Royle Family, The Second Coming and Wallander. His cinema credits include Mr. Bean’s Holiday, The League Of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse, A Film With Me In It, I Give It A Year and Love Rosie.

Without Name is his fifteenth feature film and his first collaboration with director Lorcan Finnegan.

Neil O’Connor Composer

Neil began his career as a filmmaker (B.A in Film – National Film School, IADT) and in 2007, he received a score

commission to work with the RTE Symphony Orchestra. Since then, he completed a PhD in Music Composition at

Trinity College. He has scored a number of features, documentaries, animations, commercials, shorts films for the

Irish Film Board and Independent production houses, some of which have won international prizes and have

premiered at the Sundance, Berlin and Tribeca Film Festivals.

Working in a multitude of styles in genres, both orchestral and electronic, as a performer and composer, Neil has his

own studio for recording and mixing in 5.1.

Gavin O’Brien Composer

Gavin O’Brien has been composing music for film since 2005. His got his start with Stars, an experimental short

animation starring Domhnall Gleeson and Ruth Negga which won Best Animated Short at the Galway Film Fleadh.

Since then he has worked with such up-and-coming award-winning Irish directors as Mark Noonan (Getting Air) and

Lorcan Finnegan (Foxes, Without Name).

CREDITS

Directed by Lorcan Finnegan Written

by Garret Shanley Produced by

Brunella Cocchiglia

Executive Producer for Bord Scannan Na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board Rory Gilmartin

Cinematography by Piers McGrail

Edited by Tony Cranstoun A.C.E.

Production Design by Jeannie O’Brien

Costume Designer Niamh Buckley

Music Composed by Neil O’Connor & Gavin O’Brien

Sound Design by Aza Hand Casting by

Thyrza Ging & Louise Kiely

CAST

Eric Alan McKenna

Olivia Niamh Algar

Gus James Browne

Margaret Olga Wehrly

Justin Brandon Maher

The Client Morgan C. Jones

Devoy Brendan Conroy

Publican Donncha Crowley

Silhouette Alan McNally

Eric’s Double Michael McLaughlin

Devoy’s Sister Helen Roche

Chaplin the dog Jaro

Pub Customers Paddy O’Dwyer, Pat Cullen, Angela Crockford

Peter Drennan, Paul Moorhouse, Kevin Mulvey

Julie Holmes and Garret Shanley

Search Party Dermot Joyce, Stephanie Kennedy, Mark Healy and John Perkins

Garda Paul Ward

Orderly John Paul Murphy

Patient Sylvia Callan

Radio Voices Bryan Quinn, Aoibhéann McCann,

Marie Ruane, Steven Courtney and Jennifer Butler

CREW

Production Manager Steven Davenport

1st Assistant Director

Jonathan Shaw

2nd Assistant Director Richard Cosgrove

3rd Assistant Director Robert Kiernan

Trainee Assistant Director Niall Brady

Production Co-ordinator Lyndzi Doyle

Production Assistants Max Carpio and Jason Cullen

Production Accountant Sue Henderson

Key Make Up Artist Nina Ayoub

Key Hair Stylist James Sinnott

Assistant Costume Designer Saileóg O’Halloran

Wardrobe Trainee Emily Vaughan

Wardrobe Assistants Laura Ann Moone and Miriam Donohue

Gaffer Darragh Scott

Best Boy Donal Lafferty

Additional Electrician Daniel Mulligan

Electrical Driver Derek Finn

Focus Pullers Christine Ayoub and Tommy Fitzgerald 2nd

Assistant Camera Richard Lacey

Data Wranglers Niall Cullinane and Zianna Pfeiffer

Steadicam Operator Fiachra Judge

Grip Paddy Treanor

Script Supervisor Fiona Graham

Camera Intern Alfie Hollingsworth

Location Managers Mick Swan and Lorcan Berney

Sound Recordist Graham Newcombe

Boom Operator Stef Jaconelli

Art Director Mick Minogue

Stand-by Props Barry Davenport and Damian Byrne

Prop Buyer Ciara O’Donovan

Technical Advisor Liam Bowens

Special Effects Team FX

Animal Handler Julie Holmes

Stunt Coordinator Giedrius ‘Gee’ Nagys

Assistant Stunt Coordinator Eimear O’Grady

DAILIES

Wardrobe Liadain Aiken and Annick Counihan

Makeup Assistant Julie Ann Ryan

Makeup Trainees Niamh O’Malley, Gillian Brown

and Maya Cullen Petrovic

3rd Assistant Director Declan Brophy

Notebook Design Fergal Brennan

Graphic Designer Mark Wickham

Electrographs Len Massey

Kerlian Images Ronan McMeel

Model Making Bobby McGlynn

Stills Photographer Ross McDonnell

Assistant Editor Tom Pierce

Action Vehicles Stephen Carroll

Transport Captain Paul Kelly

Drivers Kevin Mulvey, William Kelly

and Eamonn Lynam

Facilities Irish Film Facilities

Camera Equipment Vast Valley

Lighting Equipment Teach Solais

Catering Locater

Health & Safety Kevin Kearns

Visual Effects Adriaan Smuts, Grainne Freeman,

Emmet Griffin, Ronan McMeel, Kevin McGloughlin and Lorcan Finnegan

Electrographic Sequence Thorsten Fleisch

Accountants Brophy Gillespie

Philip Lee Solicitors Brian Gormley and Cian McElhone

Insurance MIB Insurance Services Ltd

Post Facilities Outer Limits

Colourist Gary Curran

Online Editor Cillian Duffy

Online Assistant Sam Noone

Post Production Supervisor Ciara Walsh

Mixed at EGG Post Production

Supervising Sound Editor Patrick Drummond

Sound Designer/Re-recording Mixer Aza Hand

Effects Editor Colm Mullally

Dialogue Editor Katie O’Mahony

Foley Artist Eoghan McDonnell

Foley Editor Colm Finnegan

BORD SCANNÁN NA hÉIREANN / IRISH FILM BOARD

Chief Executive James Hickey

Deputy CEO Teresa McGrane

Production & Development Executive Sarah Dillon

Legal & Business Affairs Executive Oisín O’Neill

Production & Distribution Manager Emma Scott

CATALYST PROJECT MENTORS

Script Dearbhla Regan

Production Design Derek Wallace

Production Management Donna Eperon

Filmed on location in Ireland.

Produced with the support of incentives for the Irish Film Industry provided by the Government of Ireland.

THANKS Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Wicklow Mountains National Parks and Wildlife Services,

Anne Fitzpatrick, Coilte, Eddie Fox, Sean Murphy & the patrons of Mick Murphy’s pub, The McKeogh Family, Peter Summers, Newcastle Hospital, Brendan Ahearne, Brittany Murphy,

Amy Rowan, Simon Redden, Glen Fox, Niall O’Connor, Mick Bane, Mick Fortune, Joan Rogers, James Mather, Peter Agnew, Muriel Belle, Larry Finnegan, Lucy Hughes, Paul Hughes, Emmet Murphy, Conor Finnegan, Anne

Finnegan,

Ben Conway, John O’Connell, David Kindlon, Orlagh Marmane, Rita Scott, William Morgan, Laura Douglas, Emer

Reynolds, Brendan Muldowney, Rodney Lee, Cathal Duggan, Jean Ni Bhaoill. The Skype name, associated trademarks, logos, the “S” logo and any other marks, are

trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. The characters and incidents portrayed and the names herein are ficticious, and any similarity to the name, character or

history of any actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and unitentional. This motion picture is protected under the laws of Ireland and other countries. Unauthoriesd

duplication, distribution or exhibition may result in civil liability and criminal prosecution.

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