One of the most promising young Irish directors is Paddy Breathnach, whose recent I Went Down was featured in last year's San Francisco International Film Festival. "I Went Down is an exuberant, blackly humorous road movie which follows the misadventures of two inept minor Dublin convicts who find within themselves the resources to prove their mettle under pressure. (T)he unfortunate Git Hynes...finds himself owing a debt to a Dublin gangster, Tom French; (he) sends Git down to Cork in search of a criminal associate, and arranges for him to be accompanied by the coifed Bunny Kelly (Brendan Gleeson (The General)) who reads cowboy novels along the way. The snowballing complications which ensue make for boisterous, sharply scripted, and expletive-littered comedy with a truly dark edge and unpredictable twists." (Michael Dwyer, Irish Times) Writer McPherson observes, "The generation before us, Jim Sheridan and Neil Jordan, grew up in a dark time in Ireland. I can understand how their films want to find something out about Irish history and work it out for themselves. We're a generation on, and we just want to go back to the more universal concerns that everybody has."