Laois film finding worldwide audience streaming on Apple TV
Abbeyleix filmmaker Jeremy Curl’s new film ‘The Highest Brasil’ is now available to stream
A film made in Laois has been snapped up by a Hollywood distributer and is now streaming worldwide.
Abbeyleix filmmaker Jeremy Curl’s new film ‘The Highest Brasil’ is now available to stream on Apple TV and Prime Video and will introduce a global audience to landmark places from around the county.
The movie features scenes filmed around Laois including Morrissey’s pub in Abbeyleix with many locals being cast as extras and speaking roles.
The Highest Brasil, which was nominated for a Jury Award at the Austin Film Festival, saw audiences queue around the block in Texas to catch a screening of the Irish film at the event.
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Dubbed an ‘absurdist dark comedy’, The Highest Brasil was filmed at locations in Abbeyleix and Rathdowney and features extras from the locality.
Director and Abbeyleix resident Jeremy Curl said the film is probably the first Irish feature film to show real unsimulated sex.
“I run a small production company in Laois and as this is our first feature film, we are thrilled that it has been acquired by a major US distributor and is slated for release later this summer. We filmed most of the movie in Laois and with almost no budget, so with a worldwide streaming release we are excited that the film will be seen by audiences around the world,” he said.
So what’s it about? According to the synopsis, “sea monsters, self help and sexual utopia. With his marriage crumbling, Seamus, a struggling fisherman, is unexpectedly offered the delicious pleasures of an unusual new life. But to turn his desperation into hope, he will need to put his trust in a group of misfits whose project becomes more and more deranged. This absurdist dark comedy asks if there really is more out there for each of us or is this it?”
Jeremy believes Laois is an ideal place to film and he is delighted the county will feature on the silver screen worldwide.
Pictured above: A still from the film. Credit Brendan Films
Before film, Jeremy undertook expeditions without motorised transport to document extremely remote, little-known tribal areas of Africa. He has walked across the Sahara twice, and exhibited his expedition photographs widely, including alongside Nelson Mandela. In 2013 he was presented with an award for achievement in desert exploration by the crown prince of Dubai.
The Highest Brasil is his first feature film.
Watch a trailer for the film HERE.