Screenplays
You can find in this page a list of scripts or screenplays that I have written in the past while. Some of these have been now been made into films (see Shorts page).
Cowboy Boots
Its never too late to change career
A middle-aged burn't out business executive embarks on a new career in the music industry after discovering a childhood pair of cowboy boots hidden in his father's grave
Status :
Film Complete
Genre :
Comedy, Weird
Topics :
Family, Music, Corporate
There's life in an Irish grave
The Algorithm
If you corner him, he'll face you
A middle-aged bank manager in a rural town puts his PhD student daughter's AI skills to cause chaos in the lending system and to even a few scores with an old football rival.
Status :
Screenplay Complete
Genre :
Drama, Comedy
Topics :
Digitization, Work
If you corner him, he'll face you
The Mezuzah
A community and its leader draw on forces older than christianity and fascism to save a young woman
A fisherman and his community endeavor, with the help of their ancient Celtic saints, to save a German U-boat captain's Jewish daughter from the tyranny and inhumanity of the church and state in wartime Donegal.
Status :
Screenplay Complete
Genre :
Drama, War
Topics :
Community, Religion, Culture, Racism, War
Did German U-Boats hide in Ireland?
The Holy Dead of Derry
Small cultural connections can
An unlikely encounter between two woman in a graveyard in Derry, illustrates the negative impact of empire building on the lives of ordinary people, but also the redemptive power of shared cultural objects and idioms to overcome hate.
Status :
Screenplay in Draft
Genre :
Drama
Topics :
Colonialism, Culture, Racism
Cultural connections can save us from racism
Ghost Boys
One boy's escape from knowing what is wrong and sticking together
12-year old Michael, after suffering abuse at the hands of one of the teachers, escapes from his boarding school with the help of the "ghost boys". The ghost boys drowned in a nearby lake many years earlier while escaping a menacing pursuer
Status :
Film Complete
Genre :
Drama
Topics :
Abuse, Ghosts