Isolation wins Grand Prix at French horror festival

A feature film by Cork writer-director Billy O'Brien has scooped the prestigious Grand Prix at France's Gérardmer International Fantasy Film Festival.

Gérardmer is a competitive festival for fantasy, sci-fi and horror feature films as well as French shorts, comics and other art forms.

Isolation, which had its Irish premiere last year at the Cork Film Festival, is set on a remote Irish farm, where five people become unwilling participants in an experiment on cattle that goes nightmarishly wrong.

John Lynch, Essie Davis and relative newcomer Ruth Negga (seen most recently in Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto) star in this atmospheric and extremely tense film by Buttevant-born O'Brien.