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Shrooms, backed by the Northern Ireland Film Commission and Irish Film Board, was filmed mainly in the Monaghan and Gosford Forests, Co Armagh.

The Northern Ireland Film Commission and the Irish Film Board have approved the Reid project.

The Northern Ireland Film Commission said tourism would win if Bollywood was wooed.

Unlike the Arts Council of England, which would huff and puff and blow itself inside out rather than admit to a system of film funding that's brought it and a large part of the British film industry into disrepute, the Northern Ireland Film Commission states quite unapologetically, in a letter I received before seeing Wild About Harry, that "it is more concerned with direct economic impact in Northern Ireland than it is with the box-office performance of films .

The film has been produced by Dublin-based Metropolitan Films with the backing of the Northern Ireland Film Commission.

Makers Samson Films had funding from the Irish Film Board and the Northern Ireland Film Commission for the film, which is directed by Dudi Appleton and written by Jim Keeble.

We only had a budget of pounds 22,000 which came from the Northern Ireland Film Commission, British Screen, Belfast City Council and UTV," Stephen said, "So everything had to be done pretty close to Belfast to save money.