- 5th Jul
- All Day Event
- Droichead Arts Centre
Introduction– A brief overview of the film. Include title, logline, genre, and theme of the project.
Synopsis (500 words)
Character breakdown
Conclusion
Previous Winners:
2023 Winner: Fionnual Gygax with “The Island”
Special Mention: Connor McCormick “Bunker Baby”
(Both films have completed production)
2022 Winner: Libby McCormack “The Parting”
(Currently in preproduction with Roisin Kearney attached to direct.)
Special Mention: Peter Allen “Last Christmas”
Writer/ director Audrey O’Reilly is equally at ease behind the camera as facing the blank page. Her short films have screened at numerous festivals, including in competition at Cannes, and she has won many awards including the Prix du Public at Clermont Ferrand with ‘In Loving Memory’ and ‘Best Film and Director at Fastnet Film Festival with her short ‘Wait’. ‘Teenage Cics’, her TV series airs frequently on TG4 while ‘Clare Sa Speir’, taught in Irish schools, is embedded in the Irish psyche! Audrey has worked as a writer for international companies such as Pandora, Gaumont Pictures and NBC Universal Studios and with directors such as Jim Sheridan and Billy August. In 2020, UGC Writers Campus at Series Mania chose her as one of 20 writers to watch. In 2021 she was one of four people chosen for RTE’S Multi-camera training for Directors course and since then has directed over seventeen episodes of RTE’s ‘Fair City’.
Rob and Ronan Burke have collaborated on many crazy ideas since childhood, their short film JELLYBABY was their first as co-directors and proved to be a great success. Screening at over 60 film festivals worldwide the film picked up numerous awards. They also received the IFTA for best short film for RUNNERS starring Aidan Gillen in 2010. More recently Ronan and Rob directed episodes of the Emmy Award winning first season of the NETFLIX series FREE REIN and many cornerstone episodes of the gritty police drama RED ROCK for Element Pictures. They also worked on season 2 and 3 of the global hit series FIND ME IN PARIS which was produced by Cottonwood Media for ZDF / Disney France and HULU. They directed the first season of HARRY WILD a murder mystery series starring Jane Seymour for Acorn/AMC. In 2014 they made their feature film debut with STANDBY a romantic comedy starring Brian Gleeson and Jessica Paré. They released a second feature in 2018, DAMO ANDIVOR: THE MOVIE.
