Michael Inside brings a first time prisoner's experience to the big screen

Sourcing his material from former prisoners, director Frank Berry wanted to get the experience of a first-time inmate on to the big screen, he tells Esther McCarthy

The Cork Film Festival screening of new Irish drama Micheal Inside is set to be a sort of homecoming for its cast and crew, who spent a number of weeks shooting in the city.

It may be set in Dublin, but the former Cork Prison proved a perfect location for the powerful drama, almost half of which was shot within its walls. The prison also recently doubled as Belfast’s H-block in the hit political thriller Maze, starring Tom Vaughan-Lawlor.