Productions

Hit and Run - The Film - 2002

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In 2001, CoisCéim Dance Theatre ventured into the world of dance film and was the first dance company to receive funding from Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board for the film HIT AND RUN.

Co-produced by CoisCéim Dance Theatre and Rough Magic Films HIT AND RUN is a dark, edgy, dance film about the disintegration of a young urban gang whose lives are changed forever in one night. Their story is portrayed in a visually rich movement narrative that brings a new dimension to Irish Cinema.

The film centres on the story of one night in the life of eight characters who meet up in a large derelict building. It is large without apparent limits, a maze of corridors, stairs, halls, landings, machinery, cathedral-like vaults and dark pits like futuristic dungeons. An industrial forest of dead technology. But it is also in its own way, a magical place, a place of transformation and those who enter will not leave unchallenged or unchanged. In this story, only seven will leave …

HIT AND RUN premiered at the IFC as part of the first International Dance Festival held in May 2002. It has since been screened at many national and international film festivals including: Galway Film Fleadh; Cork Film Festival; Moving Pictures Festival, Toronto, Canada; Dance on Camera Festival, New York, USA; Calgary, Canada; Moving Picture Festival, Montreal; Celtic Film and Television Festival, Belfast; Worldfest, Houston, USA; Danec Camera West, Getty Museum, LA; Rose d'Or Montreux; International Television Festival Golden Prague; Banff 2003, Canada; and had its TV premier on RTE on 25 December 2002.

HIT AND RUN has won the following awards:

David Bolger was also nominated for a 9th International American Choreography Award in June 2003.

Running Time: 56 minutes