Failsafe Films

12/07/2024

🍿 NOW STREAMING 🍿

DOUBLE BLIND is now available to stream on in the UK and Ireland!

The perfect Friday night film!

12/04/2024

Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) Members! Please vote for Double Blind today in the Best Director, Best Script, and Best Supporting Actor categories! These are the only categories that members can vote on, so please support our film 🙏

Voting closes TODAY at 12 noon!

09/04/2024

Huge congratulations to director on his nomination for the RISING STAR AWARD ⭐

Thank you to and for this special recognition for Ian's work 🙏

08/04/2024

Final voting for the Awards is now open until this Friday! DOUBLE BLIND is nominated for 11 Awards including Best Director for , Best Script for and Best Supporting Actor for . Please vote! 🙏

14/03/2024

🏆 11 IFTA NOMINATIONS 🏆

Thank you so much to the for all the nominations for DOUBLE BLIND, including Best Film, we're absolutely delighted! 🙌 A huge congratulations to all the nominees!

07/03/2024

We're honoured and delighted to have in consideration for this year's Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) awards! This was a real labour of love from so many talented people, so we hope Academy members watch and enjoy the film! 🙏

29/02/2024

FINAL DAY! 📢

We've had a great run in Irish cinemas the whole month of February. Today is your LAST CHANCE to watch DOUBLE BLIND on the big screen as it was meant to be seen!

05/02/2024

🚨 THIS FRIDAY 🚨

DOUBLE BLIND opens in cinemas across Ireland and Northern Ireland from Friday!

19/01/2024

🍿 US Poster for 🍿

Coming to selected US theatres from February 9th!

22/12/2023

🎄 MERRY CHRISTMAS! 🎄

From everyone here at Failsafe Films we would like to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! This year brought the festival premiere of our feature film Double Blind and we can't wait to share it with you all in cinemas in early 2024! 🥳

08/11/2023

🏆 AWARDS 🏆

Delighted that Double Blind has now won 2 awards in American-- Best Cinematography at The Newport Beach Film Festival and Best Sound at FilmQuest! Congrats again to Narayan Van Maele, Brendan Rehill, and the entire camera and sound team on these well deserved wins!

18/09/2023

🇫🇷 FRENCH PREMIERE 🇫🇷

Delighted that Double Blind will screen at the Festival Européen du Film Fantastique de Strasbourg this weekend in the International Competition. This will also be our French Premiere, so we're excited for this one!

13/09/2023

🇺🇲 US PREMIERE 🇺🇲

USA! Double Blind will have its US Premiere at the 24th The Newport Beach Film Festival in California next month! A brilliant festival with wonderful audiences, we're really excited for this one. Congrats again to all our cast and crew!

22/12/2022

🎅 MERRY CHRISTMAS!🎅

From everyone here at Failsafe we would like to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thanks to all the amazing cast and crew we got to work with this year, on our films 'Bad Boy Buck' and Double Blind. Here's to an exciting 2023!

21/12/2022

We’re delighted to announce that our film will screen at next years !!! 🎉🎉🎉

19/09/2022

NEWS ⭐️

We’re delighted to announce that will have its international premiere at the ! Directed by produced by and starring the talented !!! More to follow

12/08/2022

📺 TONIGHT 📺

'Broken Law' will have its Irish TV Premiere tonight on RTÉ One just after midnight! Set your recorders or stay up late! 🍿

09/07/2022

🔥 TODAY! 🔥

Our new Screen Ireland Focus short BAD BOY BUCK have its World Premiere TODAY at 12pm at the Galway Film Fleadh! See you there!

01/07/2022

🔥 NEW WORK 🔥

Check out the trailer for our new Screen Ireland film BAD BOY BUCK, which will have it's World Premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh next weekend July 9th! Tickets on sale now at: https://www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/project/screen-ireland-world-irish-premier-shorts/

This is "Bad Boy Buck Trailer" by Strangelove on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

23/12/2021

🎄 MERRY CHRISTMAS! 🎄

From everyone at Failsafe and Strangelove we would like to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thanks to all the wonderful cast, crew and clients we got to work with this year. Here's to an exciting 2022! 🥳🥂

10/12/2021

Merry Christmas!

28/07/2021

Paul Butler Lennox has been a huge supporter and advocate of filmmakers in Ireland over the last decade, and is now trying to get his own short film off the ground. Show him a little love and donate whatever you can.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/clipped?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet+spider2v&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

My name is Paul Butler Lennox. I'm a Director, Actor, Producer and Voiceover artist from Dublin. I am Co-F… Paul Butler Lennox needs your support for CLIPPED.

29/06/2021

HUGE congratulations to Broken Law writer/director Paddy Slattery Paddy Slattery on his 'Rising Star' Nomination today by the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA)! Great to see Paddy getting recognised alongside some of the best new Irish talent in film! Roll on the Awards show at the weekend 👏

“Bridgerton” star Nicola Coughlan and “Behind Her Eyes” actor Eve Hewson are among five Irish nominees battling it out for the Irish Film & Television Academy’s (I…

21/06/2021

Gridlock is online NOW over at Short of the Week! Buckle up and enjoy the ride!

When a little girl goes missing from her car during a traffic jam, a father begins a desperate search to find her. Watch Ian Hunt-Duffy's Gridlock.

20/06/2021

🚨 TOMORROW 🚨

Our multi-award winning film Gridlock will premiere online tomorrow with Short of the Week. We've been all over the world with this film and can't wait to finally have it available online!

15/06/2021

🚨 IFTAS 🚨

Honoured and delighted to receive 5 Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) nominations for Broken Law! Best Film, Best Director, Best Script, Best Lead Actor and Best Supporting Actress! Huge congratulations to all our cast and crew!

26/05/2021

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

We are incredibly excited to announce that we have received Production Funding from Screen Ireland for our new feature film Double Blind! Produced by Simon Doyle, this will be the debut feature film of director Ian Hunt-Duffy, who is once again teaming up with writer Darach McGarrigle. We can't wait to get rolling! 🙌

25/05/2021

Some fantastic news for our film Broken Law. It's just been picked up for distribution in North America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and New Zealand! 👏 Thanks to our Sales agent at 101 Films International

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