Celebrating over twenty years in business, Vico has become one of Ireland’s leading and most dynamic film and television production companies. 2024 has been a bumper year for the Company thus far. Spring saw the release of Series 4 of Vico’s BBC Comedy series The Young Offenders (based on the Company’s 2016 smash-hit film), and this Autmun, the four-part psychological thriller Dead & Buried headlined Virgin Media TV & BBC NI’s Autumn drama programming. The series, starring Annabel Scholey (The Split) & Colin Morgan (Merlin), is written by Colin Bateman, and released internationally through All3Media.
Later this year, Vico’s latest feature film Spilt Milk will receive its world premiere. A
co-production with Ireland’s 925 Productions and Scottish outfit Randan, the film is supported by Screen Ireland, Coimisiún na Meån and RTÉ. Director Brian Durnin makes his feature film debut, with Cara Loftus also making her feature debut as screenwriter. Spilt Milk starts newcomers Cillan Sullivan & Naoise Kelly alongside Danielle Galligan (Shadow & Bone), Laurence O’Fuarain (The Witcher) and Pom Boyd (Frank of Ireland).
Previous projects include Animals, directed by Sophie Hyde, starring Holliday Grainger (The Borgias) and Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development), which premiered at Sundance in 2019. That same year, the Company shot Cold Courage, an 8x60’ international crime thriller series set in London based on the best-selling Nordic novels by Pekka Hiltunen. Commissioned by NENT (Viaplay) with intemational distribution through Lionsgate, the Series was released across Scandinavia, the UK (Britbox) and the US (AMC+) in 2020.
Vico’s recent Cannes Silver Lion-winning, RTS-nominated Every Five Miles pilot, commissioned by RTÉ, is currently being adapted into a TV drama series. The pilot is currently touring the international festival circuit, as is the company’s Screen Ireland commissioned short, Room Taken. which explores themes of homeless and isolation in the elderly community, through the shared experiences of a recent immigrant and a blind woman. Room Taken has been racking up multiple prestigious awards, which has qualified the Film for Oscar consideration at next year’s Academy Awards.
Vico Films has an active slate of feature film and TV projects in development and is a recipient of Screen Ireland’s recent Slate Development Scheme. Projects currently in development include No Man’s Land (writer Stuart Drennan), Sarajevo Calling (writer Jonathan Ellen), and Tongued (writer Cormac Mac Diarmada, with BAFTA winning director Fergal Costello). Vico Films is also in development with RTÉ on best-selling author Paul Howard’s hilarious auto-biographical comedy series The Brack.