Tearaways on timely mission

Will Collins’s script for Irish film My Brothers has three siblings seeking to replace their dying father’s broken watch, writes Pádraic Killeen

IT was like the fulfilment of a childhood dream come true for screenwriter Will Collins, whose debut film My Brothers opens nationwide this weekend

The film’s development has proved quite the romantic journey for the native of Castlemagner in North Cork. It began when Collins’s brief plot-outline won the Pitching Award at the Galway Film Fleadh back in 2007. It continued when the Irish Film Board then decided to help bring the project to fruition, coaxing British filmmaker Paul Fraser (writer of A Room for Romeo Brass, Somers Town) to come on board as director. Since its completion, the film has proven a hit at film festivals worldwide.