High Point Group Reaches New Heights With Irish And UK Expansion

After seventeen years in the film and television business, Carey Fitzgerald’s High Point Group is set to expand further as it opens a company in Ireland together with new London headquarters.
The Irish company will build on High Point’s strong ties in mainland Europe, as well as offering co-production services. 'Reading in the Dark' will be High Point Ireland’s first production, directed by acclaimed Irish filmmaker, Tom Collins. Based on the Booker short-listed bestseller by Seamus Deane, it is a poignant, moving and often funny coming-of-age story tracing a family’s tortured history.
Collins is a highly regarded figure in the Irish film and TV industry, whose credits include 'Teenage Kicks: The Story of the Undertones' and the recent completed 'Kings', starring Colm Meaney. Collins has also joined the board of High Point Productions, which just over a year after its inception, has been steadily building up its slate of projects for both theatrical and television.
Another exciting project in development is the high concept thriller series RISC, written by Tony McNabb. Set in Northern Ireland, the film revolves around a crack shot top security outfit made up of highly trained ex army mercenaries.
Managing Director, Carey Fitzgerald, has expressed her delight at the overall expansion: “2007 shows every indication that the High Point Group just goes from strength to strength. We are thrilled with our first Irish film project and delighted to cement our staying power across Europe with the opening of our new company in Ireland."
This Irish expansion follows hot on the heels of High Point Films’ investment in the Dublin-set thriller The Front Line, which traces the story of an African asylum seeker who is lured into the shocking depths of Dublin’s underworld.
(DS)