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'Colony' to be showcased at IDFA, Amsterdam

The ten-day festival in Amsterdam’s city centre, IDFA, held every year showcases more than 250 creative documentaries. The festival this year will run from the 19th to the 29th of November.

For the official competition in the ‘First Appearance’ section at this International Documentary Film Festival, Fastnet Films’ feature documentary ‘Colony’, the directorial debut of Ross McDonnell and Carter Gunn, produced by Morgan Bushe and Macdara Kelleher of Fastnet Films, has being selected.

Producer Morgan Bushe, who is obviously elated at this, says, “The IDFA is one of the most respected and well regarded documentary film festivals and we would have been honoured to just screen our film there, but to have also been selected for official competition, to be one of only fifteen other films picked from across the world, is very special. After having such a positive series of screenings at the Toronto Film Festival in September, we couldn’t have picked a better stage for our European premiere.”

The film, which the New York Times describes as a ‘satisfying addition to the blooming, buzzing field of social issue documentary’ and which Variety describes as the ‘most aesthetically beautiful documentary of the season, as well as one of the most urgent and intelligent’ was made through funding by the Irish Film Board.