Written & Directed by Ivan Kavanagh

Co-Production with the Irish Film Board, Film Agency for Wales 

Current Status: Completed, Official Selection Tribeca 2014. Released globally.

Starring: Rupert Evans, Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Steve Oram

Synopsis
The Canal is a tense psychological horror thriller. David and his wife move into a new home with their young son and all seems well, until David discovers she is having an affair. He follows her and sees not only evidence of this, but also of a gruesome presence in his home. This ‘presence’ then murders his wife and becomes an ever-stronger force in the house. Meanwhile David is the only suspect in his wife’s murder and he must prove his innocence by finding evidence of whatever it is that haunts the house, so he can keep his freedom, his son and his sanity.

About the Director
Ivan Kavanagh is an award-winning filmmaker, proving to be one of Ireland’s most versatile and creative writer/directors with a very distinctive voice. His feature ‘The Fading Light’ financed by the Irish Film Board, won ‘Best Irish Film’ and ‘Best Male Actor’ for Patrick O’Donnell at the Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards during the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2010. ‘Tin Can Man (Park Films) is a micro-budget feature written & directed by Ivan and won awards at Strasbourg Film Festival, Melbourne Underground Film Festival and Sydney Underground Film Festival.

‘Genuinely unsettling.’ The Guardian

‘A polished indie psycho-thriller full of macabre twists and nerve-snapping tension.’ The Hollywood Reporter

‘The pic’s early coyness offers little preparation for its twisted climax, in which this subterranean tunnel of death doubles as a perverse birth canal of sorts- an image that won’t die anytime soon in the minds of any who witness it.’ Variety

‘Evans is exceptional’ List Film