Conor Horgan’s ‘One Hundred Mornings’ has won the inaugural WorkBook Project Discovery and Distribution Award which seeks to highlight an outstanding film that they feel has been overlooked in terms of US distribution.

The winning film will now receive a theatrical release at the Downtown Independent Theater in Los Angeles, CA complete with full social media, street team and PR support.

Set up by Lance Weiler the Workbook Project is an open creative network that provides insight into the process of funding, creating, distributing and sustaining creative projects. Judges for the prize included producers Ted Hope (The Ice Storm, Lovely & Amazing, The Savages) and Scott Macaulay (Gummo, Julien Donkey Boy, Raising Victor Vargas, also editor of Filmmaker magazine).

‘One Hundred Mornings’ was chosen from submissions from all over the world to rece

ive the award. Produced by Katie Holly for Bl!nder Films and written and directed by Conor Horgan, One Hundred Mornings is set in a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive the crisis. The film stars Ciaran McMenamin (The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce, Outcast), Alex Reid (The Descent), Rory Keenan (Zonad, The Guard) and Kelly Campbell (Bachelors Walk, Sensation).

‘One Hundred Mornings’ has previously picked up honors at Galway, Slamdance and the Irish Film & Television Awards (2010). The film continues its festival run next month with appearances at the Rhode Island International Film Festival in August and the San Francisco Irish Film Festival in September, among others.

‘One Hundred Mornings’ will begin its theatrical run in Los Angeles on September 16th 2010.