The search for a distributor for a gritty coming-of-age independent film starring the Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint has stepped up apace.
Cherrybomb - which was mostly made at the Valley Lesiure Centre in Newtownabbey - near Belfast - is still looking for a distributor to get it to the big screen, despite it winning accolades at numerous movie festivals, including the Berlin Film Festival in February.
It also got another airing at the LA Irish Film Festival last month.
Rupert Grint and co-star Kimberley Nixon, (pictured) enjoy a series of steamy sex scenes in the movie and he is also seen taking drugs.
Now fans have started a petition calling on film distributors to take action.
More than 10,000 people have signed it so far, including 1,338 in the UK and 4,849 in the U.S.
The film also stars established actor James Nesbitt, as well as newcomers Kimberley Nixon and Robert Sheehan, and is a joint directional project from Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn.
Belfast-based Leyburn is a known designer and music video director and Barros D'Sa as a writer and development executive.
Cherrybomb marks the second film from Mark Huffam and Simon Bosanquet's Generator Entertainment.
They have partnered with Belfast-based Michael Casey's Green Park Films, who developed the project with Brian Kirk, and James Flynn's Dublin-based Octagon Films.
(BMcC/KMcA)
'Cherrybomb' Distributor Bid Intensifies
Date: 02/10/2009
