Dublin-based “Irish Blood” producers Deadpan Pictures and Canadian shingle Shaftesbury Films are teaming up again on “The Roaring Banshees,” an adaptation of the hit play by John Morton and Peter McGann that follows an all-female band of Irish rebels who find themselves pursuing a life of crime in 1920s Chicago. The series is among the projects selected to take part in Rome’s MIA Market , which runs Oct. 6 – 10.

“The Roaring Banshees” begins in Ireland, in the aftermath of a failed assassination attempt on a powerful political kingpin by the secret rebel unit known as the Banshees. Forced to escape on an American-bound ship, the members are separated, only to reunite in Chicago in the frigid winter of 1923. Here, they plan to lie low and stay out of trouble until their former wart

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