For director Antonia Campbell-Hughes, finding the right location for High End was as important as casting the right actors. The team spent weeks scouting across rural Ireland before settling on a remote stretch of coastline in County Clare.
The sparse, windswept cliffs mirror the emotional isolation at the heart of the story — a choice that cinematographer Crystel Fournier embraced fully, often shooting in difficult natural light conditions to preserve the film's raw, unsettling atmosphere.
The weather refused to cooperate, and we stopped trying to make it. Once we let the landscape set the schedule, the film started to breathe on its own.
— Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Director
The production was shot with a deliberately compact team of under thirty people, with most of the crew living together in a converted farmhouse for the ten-week shoot.
High End is currently in post-production and is expected to premiere at a major international festival later this year.
