My Projects
This is my project page, setting out my main outputs since commencing on this film-making journey, less than one year ago.
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Nov 2023
Smartphone Filmmaking Course
This online and in person course was designed for emerging filmmakers interested in producing content on their phone and on low budget equipment. Filmmakers had to have an interest in writing, directing and producing (live action drama) short films/short form content.
Dec 2023 to Feb 2024
Ghost Boys
Ghost Boys tells the story of a remarkable 12-year old boy, Michael, using his love of football and dermination on the field but channelled into the memory of a happy experience, to extricate himself from has a life-threatening experience .
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Micheal is sent off to boarding school at the end of the summer after he finished primary school, but after he had scored the winning goal in a cup final in his hometown.
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He is homesick there, unhappy under a brutal and abusive corporal punishment regime. The boarding school is situated in a remote mountainous area on the shores of a lake, in which two boys drowned 150 years earlier, trying to evade the clutches of a menacing pursuer on horseback.
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Alerted to the danger he is in by the ghosts of the two boys, Micheál resolves to escape from the school.
Jan 24
The Art of Short Filmmaking with Orla Walsh
Organised by Creative Heartlands in the Leitrim Design House, Manorhamilton, this one day workshop focused on how to approach the making and distribution of a short film. It was delivered by experienced filmmaker Orla Walsh.
Jun to Jul 2024
The Mezuzah
Micheál is saved by a German U-Boat during World War 2 after his small fishing boat gets caught up in a storm in the North West Atlantic, off the coast of Donegal in Ireland. His rescue kicks off an inter-generational story connecting the US, Germany and Ireland to the present day and into the future. The story chronicles one man's determination to overcome the iron-fist authority of the Irish narrow-minded Church and its apologists - as well as wartime restrictions and closed borders - to help save one family from the Nazi terror. Leaning on his rural community's intrinsic goodness and their faith in the power of their ancient celtic saints, Michael's story contrasts the kindness of strangers with racism and migration. The Mezuzah also explores parallels between ancient people's reliance on religous symbols and future generations' reliance on Artificial Intelligence (AI).
