BAFTA winning Will Gilbey’s survivalist thriller Jericho Ridge will have its European Premier at the 35th Galway Film Fleadh this Friday.
The film will be screened in the in the PÁLÁS Cinema at 10:30pm. Jericho Ridge is the film acting debut for Eastenders Star Zack Morris, who will be attending the premiere on Friday.
Jericho Ridge is an action-packed thriller, set in a remote mountain town in North Washington state which has been ravaged by unemployment and drug addiction.
The survival thriller follows a small-town Deputy Sheriff Tabitha ‘Tabby’ Temple played by Nikki Amuka-Bird (The Outfit, Old, Luther) who is called back from injury leave to cover the dispatch radio for the night.
Alone in the station, Tabby witnesses a deadly gunfight break out between The Sheriff, the Chief Deputy and attackers via the police dash cams. A suspicious locksmith appears at the front door and is not who he says he is.
Tabby’s nightmare begins as the Sheriff’s Office is besieged by murderous attackers. Tabby repels the initial attacks, locks the doors and calls for backup…. but the closest State Police units are thirty minutes away.
Things become more complicated when her teenage son, Monty shows up to finish an argument which leaves Tabby to defend herself and her son. Isolated and outgunned, mother and son will have to do whatever it takes to survive.
Monty is played by Eastenders star Zack Morris who played Keegan Butcher-Baker in the hit soap opera which is widely watched in Ireland. This is Zack Morris’s first entry to movie acting following his term with the long-running BBC drama.
“Jericho Ridge is a claustrophobic, action-packed thriller with a strong, three-dimensional female protagonist,” says Writer and Director Will Gilbey.
Thematically it’s a highly emotional story about parenthood, trust, isolation and our inability to communicate with the people we love the most. I’ve always loved contained thrillers.”
“It’s brilliant to premier at the 35th Galway Film Fleadh and for Jericho Ridge to be part of such a diverse and brilliant film programme amongst 6 European Premiers, 21 World Premiers, and 60 Irish Premiers!”
In Galway for the premier will be Writer and Director Will Gilbey, Producers, Alex Tate, Harvey Ascott and Mark O’Sullivan and Director of Photography Ruairi O’Brien ISC BSC.
They will be joined by Zack Morris making his film acting debut following his success in Eastenders along with actors, Aidan Kelly, Zachary Hart, Solly McLeod, and Christopher Reilly.
The Jericho Ridge premier at the 35th Galway Film Fleadh at the PÁLÁS Cinema will be followed by an audience-led Questions and Answers session which will feature all of the above.
