Award-winning Kildare-produced movie coming to cinemas this month

Naas, Co Kildare production company Prelude Content are delighted to announce that feature film, Verdigris, co-produced with MnáMná Films, will have a limited Irish Theatrical release in April 2025.

This follows the film’s festival success, premiering at the 2023 Galway Film Fleadh, where it won the Best Independent Film award and screening at festivals in the US, Canada, Australia, Italy, Luxembourg, Germany, Corsica and the UK.

It won 12 festival awards and was nominated for 5 awards at the 2024 IFTAs.

Verdigris stars Geraldine McAlinden (The Last Rifleman), Maya O’Shea (Normal People), Killian Filan (Crash Scene Investigates) and Michael James Ford (Penny Dreadful). It was written and directed by renowned Irish film-maker Patricia Kelly, whose award-winning short films have screened worldwide at film festivals.

It was filmed in inner-city Dublin and in the seaside town Rush. Verdigris tells the story of two very different women, Marian and Jewel, who become unlikely friends on the streets of inner-city Dublin.

Recently retired, middle-class Marian (McAlinden) takes a job as a census enumerator, believing it will give her the independence she craves and a breakaway from her abusive and controlling husband Nigel (Ford). On her challenging inner-city route, she comes up against Jewel (O’Shea), a teenage girl living on her own and working as a prostitute.

The two eventually strike a deal – Marian won’t report Jewel to the authorities if Jewel helps Marian with the census. As they walk the Dublin streets, Jewel finds herself forming a real bond with this most unexpected friend. And Marian comes to admire Jewel’s independence and strength and realises that life away from her miserable marriage is not just a dream – it’s a real
possibility.

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Verdigris will screen from 18th April 2025 at the Lighthouse Cinema Dublin, the Eye Cinema Galway, and Omniplex cinemas in Mahonpoint Cork and Rathmines Dublin, and with further screenings to be announced.

Tickets for screenings at the Lighthouse Cinema are now available from https://www.lighthousecinema.ie/film/verdigris and for other cinemas will be available soon.

For more on Verdigris, visit https://www.preludecontent.com/verdigris.