Eipic shoot continues in Woodford, Galway
30 July 2015
Filming continues on Magamedia's new teen comedy drama Eipic:
When
misunderstood Sully is blamed for a crime he didn’t commit he vows to leave his
town of DOBHAR, with all its grim begrudgery, far behind him. A mysterious
online friend, known only as REBELSOUND – who appears to Sully in their virtual
chat-room looking
remarkably like
Michael Collins – sends Sully a link to a music video competition the painfully
trendy music site SLUASAID is running. Could this be Sully’s ticket out of
here? So he assembles a band – MONA, BEA, OISIN and AODH. But in a modern
Ireland the adults of Dobhar have bigger worries than providing facilities for some
kids larking about on YouTube. I mean, surely it’s better to spend the money on
morale-boosting shrubbery for the town? Undeterred, the gang break into an
abandoned local Post Office, their base of operations and their one beacon of
hope as they start a musical revolution. This is the story of how Sully &
Co. rose up and did it for themselves!
EIPIC is a bold story about escape, empowerment and what
it means to be a teenage “hero” in contemporary Ireland set to an eclectic
modern soundtrack and all against the backdrop of the 1916 centenary
celebrations. It’s a creative show of defiance that blends inventive Irish
covers of popular songs and a teen drama imbued with a deep social-realism. In
a time where everyone is only a few hundred thousand clicks away from going
viral, a new breed of rural Irish exist in a heady mix of the real and the
virtual, the provincial and the global. EIPIC is a timely story about a gang of
teenagers who rise up against the oppression of the past and hopelessness with
creativity and optimism. This is a very literal teenage rebellion.
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