Award-winning Omagh film snaps up deals

A harrowing film dealing with the 1998 Omagh bomb has secured distribution deals in a number of countries after picking up several awards, it emerged today.

Pete Travis’s Omagh, starring Irish actor Gerard McSorley as campaigner Michael Gallagher whose son Aidan was killed in the Real IRA attack, recently scooped awards at the Toronto and San Sebastian Film Festivals.