1 Introduction

We are proud to present the Fís Éireann/Screen Irish screen production activity has more than -supported 2020 slate of productions. From doubled in the last decade. A great deal has also been comedy to drama to powerful documentaries, we achieved in terms of fostering more diversity within are delighted to support a wide, diverse and highly the industry, but there remains a lot more to do. anticipated slate of stories which we hope will Investment in creative talent remains our priority and captivate audiences in the year ahead. Following focus in everything we do across film, television and an extraordinary period for Irish talent which has animation. We are working closely with government seen Irish stories reach global audiences, gain and other industry partners to further develop our international critical acclaim and awards success, studio infrastructure. We are identifying new partners we will continue to build on these achievements in that will help to build audiences for Irish screen the coming decade. content, in more countries and on more screens.

With the broadened remit that Fís Éireann/Screen Through Screen Skills Ireland, our skills development Ireland now represents both on the big and small division, we are playing a strategic leadership role in screen, our slate showcases the breadth and the development of a diverse range of skills for the depth of quality work being brought to life by Irish screen industries in Ireland to meet the anticipated creative talent. From animation, TV drama and demand from the sector. documentaries to short and full-length feature films, there is a wide range of stories to appeal to The power of Irish stories on screen, both at and all audiences. around the world, should not be underestimated. The work produced by Irish creative talent in this country Globally, the screen industry is transforming provides a proven cultural, social and economic at an unprecedented rate and with it there has benefit. It speaks to the heart of our cultural identity, been a huge growth in streaming services and of who we are. The stories we tell will always shape content production. There is more demand than how the world sees Ireland and how we see ourselves. ever for quality content. The Irish creative screen industries are well placed to thrive as a result of the As we embark upon an exciting new decade, we look opportunities this transformation provides. Major forward to working with the Irish and international productions have been produced in Ireland with industry and all of our stakeholders to ensure it is our global players, local and international producers brightest yet. and distributors. In the current landscape, there are no limits to what Irish storytellers can achieve Dr. Annie Doona, Chair and continue to achieve on a global scale. Désirée Finnegan, Chief Executive 2 About Us Contents Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland is the national development Creative Co-Productions 44 Finky 88 organisation for the Irish film, television and animation My Salinger Year 46 Extra Ordinary 88 industry, investing in talent, creativity and enterprise. Wild Mountain Thyme 48 89

Screen Ireland’s mission is to support and promote Death of a Ladies’ Man 50 Breaking Out 89 Irish film, television and animation through fostering I Never Cry 52 Calm with Horses 90 Irish artistic vision and our diverse creative and The Other Lamb 54 Folkland 91 production talent. The agency also focuses on Shadows 56 — growing audiences for Irish screen content, and attracting filmmakers, international productions — Released in 2019 92 and investment into the country. TV Animation & Virtual Reality 58 The Favourite 94 Dorg Van Dango 60 The Hole in the Ground 95 Screen Ireland is committed to providing leadership, Fantasy Ireland 62 Extra Ordinary 96 direction and advocacy for the Irish screen industries, as well as investing in writers, directors and production The Christmas Letter 63 Papi Chulo 97 companies. The agency also manages Screen Skills Alva & The Trolls 64 The Last Right 97 Ireland, the national training and development resource, Ollie 65 GAZA 98 created specifically for the Irish screen sectors. Urban Tails 66 Dark Lies the Island 98 Irish Features 04 Glimpse 67 Float Like a Butterfly 99 Chief Executive Désirée Finnegan Deputy Chief Executive Teresa McGrane Herself 06 — The Man Who Wanted To Fly 99

Business Affairs Administration The Racer 08 Feature Documentaries 68 Metal Heart 100 — — Boys From County Hell 10 Songs For While I'm Away 70 The Camino Voyage 100 Financial Controller Celine Forde Executive Assistant Niamh O’Reilly Ooops! Back in The Deep End 12 The 8th 71 Never Grow Old 101 Business Affairs Manager Cian McElhone Beards 14 The Father of The Cyborgs 72 Vita & Virginia 101 Business Affairs Executive Aileen McCauley Training Business Affairs Coordinator Grace Gannon — Wildfire 16 The Alexander Complex 73 Best Before Death 102 Skills Development Manager Gareth Lee The Winter Lake 18 In Absentia 74 Land Without God 102 Production, Development & Distribution 20 Church of Damo 75 Cellar Door 103 — Skills Development Executives Deadly Cuts 22 The Flats 76 An Engineer Imagines 103 Project Managers Lesley McKimm, Celine Haddad, — Dearbhla Regan Creativity and Creative Collaboration The Movie 24 Atomic Hope 77 A Dog Called Money 104 Production & Distribution Manager Emma Scott Gráinne Bennett The Bright Side 26 The Making of MÁM 78 Keepers of the Flame 104 Development Executive Eimear Markey Film and TV Drama Production Fran Keaveney Foscadh 28 Pure Grit 79 Losing Alaska 105 Schemes & Applications Coordinator Jill McGregor Section 481 and Work Based Learning Emer MacAvin Mo Ghrá Buan 30 The Sheriff 80 Don't Go 105 Production & Development Coordinator TV Non Fiction Críona Sexton Jennifer Smyth Redemption of a Rogue 32 To the Moon 81 Shooting the Mafia 106 Business & Funding Schemes Coordinator Neil Murphy Broken Law 34 — Animals 106 Inward Production Finance Executive Susanne Cassells — Currently Selling 82 Dirty God 107 — Animation, VFX & Games Coordinator Sorcha Scully TV Drama 36 Sea Fever 84 Prisoners of the Moon 107 Inward Production Manager Steven Davenport Marketing, Communications and Policy Coordinator Inward Production Coordinator Lorraine Higgins Elizabeth Fraser Normal People 38 Rialto 84 The South Westerlies 40 The Castle 85 Marketing & Communications Production Catalogue Coordinated by Killian Dowling Darklands 41 The Last Right 85 — Bump 42 Here Are The Young Men 86 Marketing & Communications Manager Louise Ryan Board Members Marketing Executive Mags O’Sullivan — Dad 42 Sweetness in the Belly 86 Digital Marketing & Communications Dr Annie Doona (Chair), Kate McColgan, Larry Bass, Handy 43 Rose Plays Julie 87 Coordinator Sharon O’Hara Katie Holly, Mark Fenton, Rachel Lysaght, Marian Quinn Headcases 43 Arracht 87

02 03 Irish Features Irish

Irish Features Herself —

On the surface, Sandra is a young mother struggling to provide her two young daughters with a warm, safe and happy home to grow up in. Beneath the surface, she has a steely determination to change their lives for the better, and when it becomes clear that there are no other options left, she decides to build it herself from scratch.

With very little income to speak of and no savings, Sandra must use all her ingenuity to make her ambitious friends support her and lend a helping hand. At the same time, she must escape the grip of her possessive ex-partner and keep him away from her and her girls. The lionhearted Sandra draws together a community of young daughters that help rebuild her own strength and sense of self.

Director Phyllida Lloyd Producers Rory Gilmartin, Ed Guiney, Sharon Horgan Screenplay Clare Dunne, Malcolm Campbell Photography Tom Comerford Editor Rebecca Lloyd Production Design Tamara Conboy Music Natalie Holt Main Cast Clare Dunne, Harriet Walter, Conleth Hill, Ian Lloyd Anderson, Ruby Rose O’Hara, Molly McCann Irish Location Running Time 92 minutes

Production Company Financiers Screen Ireland, Element Pictures British Film Institute, [email protected] BBC Films Sales Agent Cornerstone Films Delivery Date Early 2020

Official Selection 2020

06 07 The Racer —

Dom Chabol, a seasoned ‘super-domestique’ cyclist faces the end of his time with his team, the end of his career, and even the end of his life at the opening Irish stages of the notorious 1998 Tour de France, known as the ‘Tour du Dopage’. Hope comes in the form of dynamic young Irish medical student, Lynn Brennan - or does it?

Director Kieron J. Walsh Producers Katie Holly, Yvonne Donohoe Screenplay Ciaran Cassidy, Kieron J. Walsh Photography James Mather Editor Mathieu Depuydt Production Design Ray Ball Music Hannes De Maeyer Main Cast Louis Talpe, Matteo Simoni, Iain Glen, Tara Lee, Karel Roden, Ward Kerremans Irish Locations Dublin, Wicklow Running Time 90 minutes

Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Blinder Films BAI, RTÉ, Film Fund [email protected], Luxembourg, Eurimages, Calach Films, Caviar Films Screen Flanders, Inevitable Pictures Sales Agent Independent Film Sales Delivery Date Early 2020

Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2020

08 09 Boys From County Hell —

When a ragtag crew of construction workers led by a naïve young man and his overbearing father disturb the ancient burial site of a legendary Irish vampire believed to be the original inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, they discover that reality is more terrifying than fiction.

Director Chris Baugh Producers Mullin, Yvonne Donohoe Screenplay Chris Baugh, Brendan Mullin Photography Ryan Kernaghan Editor Brian Philip Davis Production Design John Leslie Music Steve Lynch Cast Jack Rowan, Nigel O’Neill, Louisa Harland, Michael Hough, , Fra Fee Running Time 89 minutes

Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Blinder Films Northern Ireland Screen, [email protected], Content, Egg Post Six Mile Hill Production Sales Agent Endeavor Content Delivery Date Early 2020

10 11 Ooops! Back in The Deep End —

Life on an Ark has many dangers: icebergs, unwelcome visitors, storms, woodworm — and a very fragile truce between carnivores and herbivores. All hopes are pinned on a dove dispatched into the wild in search of land.

Life gets a whole lot tougher when the kids, Finny and Leah, are washed overboard along with the last of the food. In a race against time, tide and a terrifying volcano, Finny must find friends, reunite family, save a colony from destruction and renegotiate a vegetarian peace deal. Oh, and has anyone seen the dove?

Directors Sean McCormack, Toby Genkel Producers Moe Honan, Emely Christians, Frédérique Vinel Screenplay Richie Conroy, Mark Hodkinson Main Cast Dermot Magennis, Tara Flynn, Alan Stanford Running Time 85 minutes

Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Moetion Films RTÉ, WRAP Fund, [email protected], BAI, Creative Europe, Ulysses Filmproduktion, Telepool, FFA, Filmfund Fabrique d’Images Hamburg, DFFF, Film Fund Luxembourg, Eurimages Sales Agent Global Screen, Eyescream Entertainment Delivery Date Mid 2020

12 13 Beards —

A coming-of-age comedy drama about two closeted teenagers, Eddie and Amber, who fake a relationship in order to stop all the speculation around them.

At first they love the reaction and begin to enjoy their peculiar arrangement. They become close friends and give each other a new-found confidence. Although their 'ideal' arrangement is soon threatened, dividing the two, and forcing Eddie further into the closet. Beards is an honest, heartfelt and hilarious look at growing up gay in 1990s Ireland. It's about first love, friendship and discovering who you are.

Director/Screenplay David Freyne Producers Rachael O’Kane, John Keville, Benoit Roland Photography Ruairí O’Brien Editor Joe Sawyer Production Design Emma Lowney Music Stephen Rennicks Main Cast Fionn O’Shea, Lola Petticrew, Sharon Horgan, Barry Ward Irish Locations Dublin, Kildare Running Time 90 minutes

Production Companies Financiers Atomic 80 Productions Screen Ireland, BAI [email protected], Sales Agent Wrong Men Altitude Films Sales Delivery Date Early 2020

14 15 Wildfire —

Born within a year of each other, Lauren and Kelly are ‘Irish twins’. You would never see one without the other — but over the years, the mystery of their mother’s death tears them apart.

Keen to escape their insular town, Kelly disappeared a year ago and Lauren’s life has been on hold since reporting her sister missing. When Kelly unexpectedly returns, Lauren must decide to confront their mother’s past with Kelly, or risk losing her for good.

Director/Screenplay Cathy Brady Producers David Collins, Charles Steel, Carlo Cresto-Dina Photography Crystel Fournier Editor Matteo Bini Production Design John Leslie Main Cast Nora-Jane Noone, Nika McGuigan Irish Locations Louth, Donegal Running Time 100 minutes

Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Samson Films BFI, Northern Ireland [email protected], Screen, Film4, Great Point Cowboy Films, Media, Wellcome Trust Tempesta Films Sales Agent Great Point Media Delivery Date Early 2020

16 17 The Winter Lake —

After making a grim discovery in a seasonal lake, a withdrawn teenage boy discovers the truth about his new neighbours: a father and daughter harbouring dark secrets.

Director Phil Sheerin Producers Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde Screenplay David Turpin Photography Ruairí O’Brien Editor John Walters Production Design Emma Lowney Music August Murphy-King Main Cast Anson Boon, Emma Mackey, Charlie Murphy, Michael McElhatton Irish Locations Sligo, Leitrim Running Time 92 minutes

Production Company Financiers Screen Ireland, Tailored Films Creative Europe, WRAP [email protected] Fund, BAI, Epic Pictures, Telefilm, Title Media, Creativity Capital, FilmOption Sales Agent Epic Pictures Delivery Date Early 2020

18 19 Wolfwalkers —

Robyn Goodfellowe has come from England with her father Bill, who has been tasked by the Lord Protector to wipe out the last wolf pack. She befriends Mebh MacTire, a native Irish girl, and one of a fading pagan tribe rumoured to have the gift to be able to transform into wolves by night.

When Robyn discovers Mebh’s secret, she is irrevocably drawn into the magical world of the Wolfwalkers.

Directors , Ross Stewart Producers , , Stephan Roelants Screenplay Will Collins Editors Darragh Byrne, Richard Cody, Darren Holmes Music Bruno Coulais, Kilá Main Cast Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker, Sean Bean, Simon McBurney, Tommy Tiernan, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Jon Kenny, John Morton, Nora Twomey, Oliver McGrath Running Time 100 minutes

Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, BAI, RTÉ, Haut et Court, [email protected], Virtu & Prestige Media, Melusine Luxembourg Film Fund, Novelle Aquitaine Fund, Canal+, OCS Delivery Date Mid 2020

20 21 Deadly Cuts —

A black comedy set in a working-class Dublin hair salon where the stylists become accidental vigilantes and community heroes as they take on the gang members and gentrifiers threatening their community.

Director/Screenplay Rachel Carey Producer Auveen Lush, Ciara Appelbe, Liz Gill Photography JJ Rolfe Production Design Tamara Conboy Main Cast Angeline Ball, Ericka Roe, Lauren Larkin, Shauna Higgins, Victoria SmurfitIrish Location Dublin Running Time 100 minutes

Production Company Financiers Screen Ireland, O’Sullivan Productions BAI, Virgin Media [email protected] Delivery Date Mid 2020

22 23 Puffin Rock The Movie —

Based on the award-winning TV series, a young puffin called Oona undertakes a challenging mission to protect the home she loves and ensure the survival of her puffin community.

As a huge storm approaches, the last Little Egg of the season disappears under mysterious circumstances. Oona has to race against the weather to find the egg and with her old and new friends, save the island of Puffin Rock as best they can.

Director Jeremy Purcell Producers Paul Young, Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey, John McDaid Creators Tomm Moore, Paul Young, Lily Bernard Screenplay Sara Daddy Editor Sophie Borlee Assistant Director Lorraine Lordan Art Directors Fran Bravo, Stefano Scapolan Music Einar Tönsberg Main Cast Chris O’Dowd, Beth McCafferty, Geraldine Cole, Jim Craig Running Time 75 minutes

Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Cartoon Saloon RTÉ, Northern Ireland Screen [email protected], Delivery Date Early 2021 Dog Ears, Chinese Nebula Pictures

24 25 The Bright Side —

World-weary stand-up Kate McLoughlin wants out. Her morbid prayers are answered in the form of a cancer diagnosis. For Kate, this is the perfect excuse. However, a last supper of dodgy shellfish and champagne puts paid to her overdose attempt and to placate her family she begrudgingly agrees to undergo treatment.

Armed with staggering levels of cynicism and a plethora of blackly comic jokes, Kate gets off to a bad start with the four other women she encounters on the chemo ward, whose unsolictited friendships are destined to blow open her shut-down heart.

Director Ruth Meehan Producer Tony Deegan Screenplay Jean Pasley, Ruth Meehan Photography JJ Rolfe Editor Colin Campbell Production Design Mark Kelly Music Stephen Rennicks Main Cast Gemma-Leah Devereux, Siobhan Cullen, Karen Egan, Barbara Brennan, Derbhle Crotty, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor Irish Locations Dublin, Wicklow Running Time 100 minutes

Production Company Financiers Screen Ireland, Playground Pictures BAI, RTÉ [email protected] Delivery Date Early 2020

26 27 Foscadh —

When his over-cosseting parents pass away, John Cunliffe, a gormless recluse, is suddenly propelled into manhood at the ripe old age of twenty-six. After inheriting mountain land that obstructs a lucrative wind-farm development, John is forced to navigate the choppy waters of courtship, trust and vengeance for the first time.

Lonnaithe i gConamara an lae inniu, insíonn Foscadh scéal John Cunliffe, aonaránach dúramánta a gcuirtear brú gan choinne air teacht in aois fir nuair a chailltear a mhuintir. Agus luach a chuid talún méadaithe go mór toisc é a bheith sa tslí ar fhorbairt fheirm muillte gaoithe, tagann cuairteoirí agus cúirtéirí chomh fada leis don chéad uair. Caithfidh se idirdhealú a dhéanamh eatarthu siúd atá le trust agus an dream atá ag cur súil thar a gcuid.

Directors/Stiúrthóir/Screenplay/Scáileán Seán Breathnach Producer/Léiritheoir Paddy Hayes Photography/Ceamara Colm Hogan Editor/Eagarthóir Conall de Cléir Production Design/Dearadh Léiriúcháin Margot Cullen Main Cast/ Príomh-aisteoirí Dónall Ó Héalaí, Fionnuala Flaherty, Cillian Ó Gairbhí Irish Location/Suíomhanna Éireannacha Galway Running Time/Fad 95 minutes

Production Company/ Financiers/Airgeadaithe Comhlachtaí Léiriúcháin Screen Ireland, TG4, BAI Magamedia Delivery Date/Dáta [email protected] Seachadta Early 2020

28 29 Mo Ghrá Buan —

Róise is still grieving for her husband, two years after his sudden death. When a stray dog appears on her doorstep it takes her a while to realise who the mysterious animal is — could it be her late husband Frank? Frank has returned to be with Róise, his true love, and to continue to coach the under-13 hurling team. While most people accept the new reality, some are unwilling to go along with the ‘delusion’ of Frank O’Meara’s reincarnation as a dog.

Tá Róise fós faoi bhrón ag bás tobann a fear chéile, Frank, dhá bhliain ó shin. Tagann madra mistéireach chuig a teach lá amháin, agus tar éis tamaill tugann sí faoi deara gurb é Frank atá tagtha ar ais chuici, ach i bhfoirm madra. D’fhill sé le bheith i gcomhluadar leis a ghrágeal, Róise; agus chun an fhoireann iománaíochta faoi 13 a thraenáil. Glacann formhór na ndaoine leis an madra seo agus leis an smaoineamh gur ‘Frank’ atá ann, ach tá roinnt daoine nach aontaíonn leo. Is scéal grá é ‘Mo Ghrá Buan’ atá suite i nGaeltacht na Rinne i gContae Phort Láirge.

Directors/Stiúrthóir/Screenplay/Scáileán Rachael Moriarty, Peter Murphy Producer/Léiritheoir Cúán Mac Conghail Photography/Ceamara Peter Robertson Editor/Eagarthóir Mary Crumlish Production Design/Dearadh Léiriúcháin Padraig O’Neill Music/Ceol Colm Mac Con Iomaire Main Cast/ Príomh-aisteoirí Bríd Ní Neachtain, Cillian Ó Gairbhí, Lorcan Cranitch, Ruadhán de Faoite Irish Location/Suíomhanna Éireannacha Waterford Running Time/Fad 90 minutes

Production Company/ Financiers/Airgeadaithe Comhlachtaí Léiriúcháin Screen Ireland, TG4, BAI Macalla Teoranta Delivery Date/Dáta [email protected] Seachadta Mid 2020

30 31 Redemption of a Rogue —

Carrying a doctor's bag containing a rope, Jimmy, the prodigal son, returns home to the austere beauty of Cavan to visit his ailing father and seek redemption before he intends to say goodbye to the world. As Jimmy’s father breathes his last, thunder rumbles and rain starts to pour. However, there is a condition in the will: his father cannot be buried on a wet day.

As the rain continues, Jimmy embarks on a sacrificial and outlandish journey to rid himself of his guilt and shame from the past, ultimately redeeming himself through love.

Director/Screenplay Philip Doherty Producers Emma Foley, Tamryn Reinecke Photography Burschi Wojnar Editor Allyn Quigley Production Design Joseph Doherty Music Robbie Perry Main Cast Aaron Monaghan, Aisling O’Mara, Kieran Roche, Pat McCabe, Shane Connaughton Irish Location Cavan Running Time 90 minutes

Production Company Financier Screen Ireland Pale Rebel Productions Delivery Date Mid 2020 palerebelproductions@ gmail.com

The project was in receipt of Screen Ireland completion funding

32 33 Broken Law —

Dave Connolly is a respected member of the Garda Síochána, but following a botched robbery, his loyalty to the law is tested by his ex-convict brother Joe. Dave suddenly finds himself embroiled in a cover-up that somehow leads to a secret relationship with Amia, an unhappily married woman who also happens to be the victim of his brother’s crime.

Director/Screenplay Paddy Slattery Producers Simon James Doyle, Paddy Slattery Photography Narayan Van Maele Editor John Desay Production Design Tracey O’Hanlon Music Michael Fleming Main Cast Tristan Heanue, Graham Earley, John Connors, Gemma-Leah Devereux, Ryan Lincoln, Ally Ní Charáin, Gary Lydon Irish Location Dublin Running Time 90 minutes

Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, True Line Films Indiegogo [email protected], Delivery Date Early 2020 Failsafe Films [email protected]

Official Selection Manchester International Film Festival 2020

34 35 TV Drama TV TV Drama

36 37 Normal People —

At school, Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular, while she’s a loner. But when Connell collects his mother from her job at Marianne’s house, a strange, indelible connection grows — one they are determined to conceal. Later, while they’re both studying at the same university, they circle one another, straying toward other people but always magnetically drawn back together. As Marianne veers into self- destruction and Connell begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.

Directors , Hettie Macdonald Producer Catherine Magee Screenplay Sally Rooney, Alice Birch, Mark O’Rowe Photography Suzie Lavelle, Kate McCullough Editors Nathan Nugent, Stephen O’Connell Production Design Lucy van Lonkhuyzen Music Stephen Rennicks Main Cast Daisy Edgar-Jones, Paul Mescal, Sarah Greene Irish Locations Dublin, Sligo Running Time 12 x 30 minutes

Production Company Financiers Screen Ireland, Element Pictures BBC, , RTÉ [email protected] Sales Agent Endeavor Content Delivery Date Early 2020

38 39 The South Westerlies Darklands — — When a small Irish town is earmarked for Damien Dunne is a young man who an offshore wind farm, it’s not just the aspires to be a professional MMA fighter. spectacular scenery that is under pressure. Surrounded by a violent gang war between For Kate, whose job it is to deliver the two crews, The Hill Crew and The Keegans, project, her eco-battle with the locals is Damien wants to fight in the cage not on compounded by the arrival of a familiar the streets. However, brother Wesley’s surfer with an unmistakable resemblance involvement with The Hill Crew drags him to her son. into the world he is trying to avoid.

Directors Simon Gibney, Declan Recks Producers Ailish Directors Mark O’Connor, Conor McMahon Producer Kate McElmeel, Candida Julian-Jones Screenplay Catherine McColgan Screenplay Mark O’Connor, Adam Coates, Maher, Hugh Travers, Hilary Reynolds, Michelle Duffy John Moloney Photography Seamus Deasy Editors John Photography Mark McCauley, Dave Grennan Editor O’Connor, Paul Mullen, Mairéad McIvor Production Design Grainne Gavigan, Gareth Young Production Design Ray Ball Music Ray Harman Main Cast Dane Whyte O’Hara, Eleanor Wood Music Ray Harman Main Cast , Thommas Kane Byrne, Judith Roddy, Barbara Bergin, Jimmy Eileen Walsh, Ger Ryan, Steve Wall, Sam Barrett, Lily Smallhorne, Darren Healy, Mark O’Halloran Irish Location Nichols, Kevin J. Ryan, Patrick Bergin Irish Locations Wicklow Running Time: 6 x 60 minutes Wicklow, Running Time 6 x 60 minutes

Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Production Company Financiers Parallel Film Productions BAI, Fremantle, Virgin Media Deadpan Pictures Screen Ireland, RTÉ, Acorn [email protected], UK, Virgin Media Television [email protected] Media Enterprises, ZDF Stalker Films Ireland Enterprises, TV2 Norway Delivery Date Delivered Sales Agent Acorn Media International Delivery Date Early 2020

40 41 Bump Dad Handy Headcases — — — — When her straight-laced sister Liz asks A comedy about a middle-aged Dad, Stepsisters Row and Finn are thrust together Headcases Hair and Beauty is about to go her to be a surrogate mother, Ciara’s once Padraig, moving into his conservative son again after their Dad has a heart attack. through some changes. Long-time best aimless and madcap life begins to get more Donal’s one-bedroom flat after his wife They start their very own DIY business friends, Michelle and Cheryl, are ready than a little bumpy. Rosie has kicked him out. around Dublin to help with cash flow and to take their business to the next level by keep their Dad happy, but their very first purchasing the building. All they need is Director Imogen Murphy Producer Ruth Carter Screenplay Director Declan Recks Producer Ruth Carter Screenplay customer is far from smooth sailing. loan approval. Dale Longmore, John Quinn Photography Michael Lavelle Andrew Clifford Photography David Grennan Editor Editor Weronika Kaminska Production Design Michael Gareth Young Production Design Michael Moynihan Moynihan Main Cast Gemma-Leah Devereux, Charlene Main Cast Lorcan Cranitch, Matthew Malone, Genevieve Director Susan Jacobson Producers Lindsay Campbell, When the lending manager visits, can this McKenna, Keith McErlean, Aoife Duffin, Sean McGinleyIrish Hulme-Beaman, Tina Kellegher Irish Location Wicklow Rachel Lysaght, Farah Abushwesha Screenplay Maddie Rice, Northside Dublin salon hold it together Location Wicklow Running Time 26 minutes Running Time 26 minutes Kate Kennedy Photography Cathal Watters Editor John O’Connor Production Design Alanna Donnelly Music Scott through conflicting management styles, Maher Main Cast Kate Kennedy, Louisa Harland, Owen Roe, a mean green situation and an errant Production Company Financiers Production Company Financiers Eoin Duffy, Aoife Molony, Rynagh O'GradyIrish Location blow-dry — or will internal drama cut Blue Ink Films Screen Ireland, RTÉ Blue Ink Films Screen Ireland, RTÉ Dublin Running Time 22 minutes [email protected] Delivery Date Delivered [email protected] Delivery Date Delivered their ambitions short?

Production Companies Financiers Underground Films, Screen Ireland, RTÉ Director Hugh O’Conor Producer Claire McCaughley [email protected] Delivery Date Delivered Screenplay Charleigh Bailey Photography Cathal [email protected], Watters Editor John O’Connor Production Design Mark Rocliffe Kelly Music John McPhillips Main Cast Seána Kerslake, Charleigh Bailey, Shaun Dunne, Sarah Morris, Shauna Higgins, Andrew Bennett, Hilda Fay, Ian Lloyd Anderson Irish Location Dublin Running Time 25 minutes

Production Company Financiers Treasure Entertainment Screen Ireland, RTÉ [email protected] Delivery Date Delivered

These four pilot projects were selected by RTÉ and Screen Ireland, through a joint scripted comedy initiative.

42 43 Co-Productions Creative Creative Co-Productions

44 45 My Salinger Year —

New York in the 1990s: after leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, Joanna gets hired as an assistant to Margaret, the stoic and old- fashioned literary agent of J. D. Salinger. Fluctuating between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood- panelled office — where dictaphones and typewriters still reign and agents doze off after three-martini lunches — and her nights in a sink-less Brooklyn apartment with her socialist boyfriend.

Joanna’s main task is processing Salinger’s voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agency’s impersonal standard letter and impulsively begins personalizing the responses. The results are both humorous and moving, as Joanna, while using the great writer’s voice, begins to discover her own.

Director/Screenplay Philippe Falardeau Producers Susan Mullen, Ruth Coady, Luc Dery, Kim McCraw Photography Sara Mishara Editor Mary Finlay Production Design Elise de Blois Music Martin Leon Main Cast Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, Brian F. O’ Byrne, Seána Kerslake, Douglas Booth

Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Parallel Films Telefilm Canada, Sodec, [email protected], Memento Films Microscope Sales Agent Memento Films Delivery Date Early 2020

Official Selection Berlinale 2020

46 47 Wild Mountain Thyme —

Anthony and Rosemary are star-crossed lovers whose families are caught up in a feud over a contested patch of land separating their two farms. When Anthony’s family patriarch threatens to leave the farm to an American cousin, conflicts arise, sparks fly and true love must win out.

Director/Screenplay Producers Martina Niland, Leslie Urdang, Alex Witchel, Anthony Bregman, Bradley Gallo, Michael Helfant Photography Stephen Goldblatt Editor Ian Blume Production Design Anna Rackard Music Robin Urdang Main Cast , Jamie Dornan, Christopher Walken, Jon Hamm, Dearbhla Molloy Irish Location Mayo Running Time 90 minutes

Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Port Pictures Aperture Media Partners, [email protected], , Mar-Key Pictures, Haywire, LCC, WRAP Fund , Amasia Sales Agent Hanway Films Entertainment Delivery Date Late 2020

48 49 Death of a Ladies’ Man —

Samuel O’Shea, a hard-drinking womaniser, has seen better days. His second marriage is ending, his first wife and grown children have turned against him, and he has begun seeing strange things. Looking for answers, Samuel discovers he has a terminal brain tumour, which may be causing these odd visions — or he may just be going crazy.

Samuel retreats to his family shack in remote Ireland, where he begins work on that great novel he always meant to write. Surprisingly, he falls in love — leading to an unforeseeable ending.

Director/Screenplay Matthew Bissonnette Producers Martina Niland, Corey Marr, Don Carmody, Marie-Claude Poulin Photography Jonathon CliffEditor Matthew Lyon Art Director Sylvain Gingras Music Stephen Rennicks Main Cast Gabriel Byrne, Jessica Paré, Brian Gleeson Irish Location Galway Running Time 97 minutes

Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Port Pictures WRAP Fund, Telefilm Canada, [email protected], SODEC, Canada Media Fund, Don Carmody Productions, Ontario Creates, The Harold Corey Marr Productions, Greenberg Fund, Monte MCP Productions Rosso Productions, CBC Films, Crave, Mongrel Media, Métropole Films Distribution Sales Agents Celluloid Dreams Delivery Date Early 2020

50 51 I Never Cry —

When Ola’s father dies on a building site in Ireland, she must travel there to bring his remains back to Poland. Having a complicated relationship with her father and resenting him for not being there for his family, his presence in recent years had been limited to sending regular paychecks.

Money is the only thing that connected him to Ola, with the promise to buy a car for her eighteenth birthday. Dealing with foreign bureaucracy and her father’s acquaintances in her own street-smart way, Ola learns her biggest dream wasn’t a car, but getting to know who her father really was.

Director/Screenplay Piotr Domalewski Producers Julie Ryan, Jan Kwiecin´s´ki Photography Piotr Sobocin´ski Jr Editor Agnieszka Glin´ska Production Design Katarzyna Filimoniuk, Edyta Fleszar Music Hania Rani Main Cast Zofia Stafiej, Kinga Preis, Cosmina Stratan, Shane Casey, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Nigel O’Neill, David Pearse, Dawid Tulej Irish Location Dublin Running Time 96 minutes

Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, MK1 Productions Tvp s.a, Warmia-Masuria [email protected], Film Fund, Mazovia Institute Akson Studio of Culture, Eurimages Polish Film Institute, TVP Delivery Date Early 2020

52 53 The Other Lamb —

Life in her cloistered, self-sufficient commune is the only life Selah has ever known. She has grown up cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune with a band of young women who are presided over by a man called Shepherd, a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a series of strange, bloody visions and disturbing revelations, Selah begins to question everything about her existence.

Director Malgorzata Szumowska Producers Aoife O’Sullivan, Tristan Orpen Lynch, David Lancaster, Stephanie Wilcox, Marie Gade Denessen Screenplay Catherine S. McMullen Photography Michal Englert Editor Jaroslaw Kamin´ski Production Design Ferdia Murphy Music Rafael Leloup, Pawel Mykietyn Main Cast Raffey Cassidy, Michiel Huisman, Denise Gough Irish Location Wicklow Running Time 96 minutes

Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Subotica Trust Nordisk, Rooks Nest [email protected], Entertainment Zentropa , Sales Agent TrustNordisk Rumble Films, Delivery Date Delivered Umedia

Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 BFI Film Festival 2019 San Sebastian International Film Festival 2019

Hitting a sweet spot between ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and cult horror — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter

54 55 Shadows —

A gripping psychological thriller following two teenagers on a journey of self-discovery as they dismantle the terrifying obstacles of the world they live in. Confined to an abandoned hotel with their slightly unhinged mother, the siblings live by night and hide from the mysterious dangers that haunt the daytime. When they start to question their reality, however, they learn that nothing is as it seems.

Director Carlo Lavagna Producers Jessie Fisk, Jane Doolan, Andrea Paris, Ines Vasiljevic, Daniele Gentili, Nathalie Biancheri Screenplay Fabio Mollo, Damiano Bruè, Vanessa Picciarelli, Tiziana Triana Photography James Mather Editor Davide Vizzini Production Design Joe Fallover Music Michele Braga Main Cast Saskia Reeves, Lola Petticrew, Mia Threapleton Irish Locations Dublin, Wicklow Running Time 90 minutes

Production Companies Financiers Feline Films Screen Ireland, Rai Cinema, [email protected] Vision Distribution Ascent Film Sales Agent Vision Distribution Delivery Date Early 2020

56 57

& Virtual Reality Virtual & TV Animation Animation TV

TV Animation & Virtual Reality Dorg Van Dango —

A comedy and adventure series that follows the adventures of Dorg, a boy who meets a group of escapees from the mysterious Area 52. Consisting of a cool unicorn, a curious alien, an eerie ghost, and an ancient witch, Dorg disguises the escapees as normal teenagers, and hides them in the basement of the local shopping mall.

With his new best friends now attempting to navigate life’s challenges, Dorg’s world becomes a whole lot more magical.

Directors Matt Ferguson, Fabian Erlinghäuser, Rob Boutilier Producers Paul Young, Gerry Shirren, Josh Scherba, Anne Loi, Kirsten Newlands, James Brown, Nuria González Blanco Screenplay Nick V. Murphy Editor Cian McGarrigle Music Leo Pearson Main Cast Chance Hurstfield, Deven Mack, Tabitha St. Germain, Andrew McNee, Kazumi Evans, Michael Dobson, Briana Buckmaster, Gracyn Shinyei Running Time 52 x 11 minutes

Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Cartoon Saloon, RTÉ, DHX Television, [email protected], Canadian Media Producers WildBrain Association, Canada Media Fund, Creative Europe Delivery Date Mid 2020

60 61 Fantasy Ireland The Christmas Letter — — Three flatmates living in Dublin are flung Eight-year-old Henry’s efforts to spread together to form ‘The Shamz’ — the new Christmas cheer bring much-needed joy unwitting saviours of Ireland sent to save into the life of a lonely old lady. us from ourselves, and more importantly, from a greedy priest hell-bent on setting Director/Screenplay Kealan O’Rourke Producers Brian us back fifty years. Willis, Stephen Smith Music Niall Byrne Main Cast Kate Winslet, Caitriona Balfe, Fiona Shaw, James Quinn Markey Running Time 26 minutes Director Trevor Courtney Producers Trevor Courtney, Paul Dowling Screenplay Ciaran Morrison, Mick O’Hara Music Paul Dowling Main Cast Mary-Kate Geraghty, Paschal Scott, Production Company Financiers Eoghan Doyle, Trevor Courtney Running Time 12 x 11 minutes Dream Logic Studios Screen Ireland, KIKA, [email protected], Lupus Film Delivery Date Delivered Production Company Financiers Igloo Animations Screen Ireland, BAI, RTÉ [email protected] Delivery Date Late 2020

62 63 Alva & The Trolls Ollie — — A fun, irreverent show for pre-schoolers In the middle of a busy city, there is a that sees our pint-sized heroine pitted peaceful place. It is a little park, closed off against seven duplicitous dunderheads, and forgotten in the concrete jungle. Here the Trolls of Gizmo, in a game where they you can find Ollie and his friends. A little owl, make up the rules as they go along. a stork, a young frog and five birds live there and together they have many adventures. Director Jenny O’Brien Producers Gary Timpson, Andrew Small stories about big issues like discovery, Kavanagh Screenplay Kristina Yee, Dave Ingham Music friendship, being alone, and the importance Richard Dickerson Art Director Graham Corcoran Art Designer Finbar Coyle Running Time 52 x 11 minutes of the little things in life. If you want to meet Ollie and his friends, you best come at

Production Company Financiers Screen Ireland, nightfall when everybody is asleep. Except Kavaleer Productions Kavaleer Productions, RTÉ, for Ollie and his friends who are still awake – [email protected] BAI, Sky Kids, Cloudco LLC, just long enough for a little adventure. YLE, /ATV Delivery Date Mid 2020 Director/Screenplay Anton Setola Producers Tamsin Lyons, Annemie Degryse, Jan De Clercq, Janne Hjeltnes, Eirik Smidesang Slåen Music Kjetil Schjander Luhr Main Cast Ingvild Haugstad, Tora Dietrichson Running Time 52 x 4 minutes

Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Ink and Light RTÉ, Ketnet, VAF Mediafund, [email protected], Screen Flanders Lunanime, Storyline Sales Agent Beta Films Delivery Date Delivered

64 65 Urban Tails Glimpse — — The ultimate music show starring Awesome An animated, interactive virtual reality Animals from your city. The Animal Music film set in the mind of a heartbroken Artists ooze attitude and present the viewers panda named Herbie. Herbie, an with a unique take on Urban Wildlife. illustrator, has recently broken up Through musical rhyme, children find out with his girlfriend. Through his art we what life is really like for the creatures living delve back through the memories of amongst us in our cities. his relationship from the heartbreaking end to the beautiful beginning. Director Aoífe Doyle Producer Niamh Herrity Screenplay/ Editors Aoífe Doyle, Leo Crowley Music Richard Dickerson, Directors/Screenplay Benjamin Cleary, Michael O’Connor Francisco Rios Main Cast Aoífe Doyle, Leo Crowley, Niamh Producers Lee Harris, Michael O’Connor Main Cast Taron Herrity, Karl Doyle, Holly Pereira, Lauren Higgs, Ophelia Egerton, Lucy Boynton Running Time 22 minutes McCabe, Jacqueline Leddy, Gary McCarthy, Aidan Lawlor, Raven AflaketeRunning Time 26 x 2 minutes Production Company Financiers Screen Ireland, Mr Kite British Film Institute, Epic Production Company Financiers [email protected] Games, HTC Vive Pink Kong Studios Screen Ireland, RTÉ, BAI Delivery Date Late 2020 [email protected] Delivery Date Early 2020

Official Selection Film Festival 2019

66 67 Documentaries Feature Feature Documentaries

68 69 Songs For While I’m Away The 8th — — Tracing the life of Phil Lynott, lead singer Embedding itself in the Together for Directors Aideen Kane, , Maeve O’Boyle of the legendary Irish rock group Thin Yes Campaign HQ, The 8th reveals how Producers Aideen Kane, Lucy Kennedy, Maeve O’Boyle, Alan Maher Photography Matt Leigh, Laura McGann, Lizzy, Songs For While I’m Away reveals Ireland overturned one of the world’s Michael O’Donovan, Aidan Maguire, Esme McNamee how a young black boy from working-class most restrictive laws on abortion. The film Editors Maeve O’Boyle, Jordan Montminy Music Sarah 1950s Dublin became Ireland’s greatest follows veteran campaigner Ailbhe Smyth Lynch Running Time 90 minutes rock star and created some of the world’s and nail-bar owner and self-described most iconic and extraordinary rock songs. glam-artist Andrea Horan as they Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Cowtown Pictures , Open Society navigate the complexities of convincing alan@cowtownpictures, Foundations, Ford A songwriter, poet and icon, Phil’s rise from a historically conservative electorate to Black Tabby Films Foundation, Archer Gray, humble beginnings to sell-out stadiums was vote for women’s reproductive autonomy. Sabrina Merage Foundation Delivery Date Delivered spectacular and unprecedented. Woven throughout the film are Director Emer Reynolds Producers Alan Maher, John perspectives and analysis from both sides Wallace, Peter Worsley Photography Kate McCullough of the issue. The vérité of the campaign Editor Tony Cranstoun Production Design Joe Fallover Music Ray Harman Running Time 90 minutes is framed by a vivid exploration of the political and cultural history that charts

Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, the transformation of a country. Marcie Films Universal Music, Eagle Rock [email protected], Entertainment Eagle Rock Entertainment Delivery Date Early 2020

70 71 The Father of The Cyborgs The Alexander Complex — — A famous neurologist Phil Kennedy made The words “tomb of Alexander” draw one global headlines in the late 1990s for of the world’s foremost archaeologists and implanting wire electrodes in the brain of a team of experts on six expeditions to a ‘locked-in patient’ to control a computer uncover the truth. The stakes are high in cursor with their mind. Compared to this game of strategy as they face fatwas, Alexander Graham Bell in The Washington military interventions and the stoic bedrock Post, Kennedy became known as ‘The of the ancient Middle East. One man, Father of the Cyborgs’. Travelling to South code-named ‘The Inventor’, holds the exact America in 2014, he made further headlines coordinates of the tomb entrance – will he when tiny electrodes were implanted inside give up the secret? his brain in order to continue his research. Director Neasa Ní Chianaín Producers David Rane, This film examines the ethical quandaries Brendan J Byrne, Trevor Birney Photography Eleanor Bowman Editor Mirjam Strugalla Music Eryck Abecassis of self-experimentation and a future where Running Time 90 minutes technology and human brains combine.

Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Directors David Burke, Seán Ó Cualáin Producer David Soilsiú Films Kew Media, Blue Ice Docs Burke Photography JJ Rolfe Production Design Ian Benjamin [email protected], Delivery Date Early 2020 Kenny Music Simon O’Reilly Running Time 90 minutes Finepoint Films

Production Company Financiers Screen Ireland, Dot Television RTÉ, Alfred P. Sloan [email protected] Foundation Delivery Date Mid 2020

72 73 In Absentia Church of Damo — — Exploring the unique story of the brutal Directors Jim Sheridan, Colm Quinn Producers Donal Focusing on healing and emotional release, murder of French film producer, Sophie MacIntyre, Catherine O’Flaherty Photography Kevin Cantrell Damien Dempsey is an Irish musician who Editor John Murphy Running Time 90 minutes Toscan du Plantier, at her Cork holiday home writes songs about social issues with a in December 1996, this film follows her remarkable passion and openness, enabling Production Company Financier Screen Ireland family’s battle for justice over two decades Hells Kitchen Delivery Date Late 2020 his live audiences and fans to let go. and their attempt to hold long-term suspect, [email protected] journalist Ian Bailey, to account. The case Following a number of individuals who have has set new precedents in both French and been strongly influenced by his message, Irish law as Bailey, who was arrested but this film unearths their stories of overcoming never charged with the murder in Ireland, pain and finding solace in his music. was tried and convicted in absentia in Paris in May 2019. Until December 2019, Director Ross Killeen Producers Ross Killeen, Louise Byrne, Bailey remained a free man in Ireland and Ross McDonnell Photography Narayan Van Maele Music John Reynolds, Damien Dempsey Running Time 90 minutes a convicted murderer in France, facing a 25-year-prison sentence there. Then the Irish Production Company Financier Screen Ireland High Court endorsed the third French arrest Motherland Delivery Date Mid 2020 warrant, meaning Bailey (who has always [email protected] protested his innocence) faces extradition. The outcome still hangs in the balance.

74 75 The Flats Atomic Hope — — A Catholic neighbourhood in the heart of Director Alessandra Celesia Producers Jeremiah Cullinane, An insight into a controversial global Belfast, New Lodge, is today marked by Jean-Laurent Csinidis, John McIlduffPhotography Ray movement consisting of individual pro- Carlin Editor Adrien Faucheux Running Time 90 minutes social abandonment, and remains one of the nuclear environmentalists, Atomic Hope neighbourhoods most violently affected by follows a group of people that passionately Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, the conflict in Northern Ireland. Although Planet Korda Pictures Région Sud (Provence- believe the only way to save the climate occasionally unhinged, inhabitants still have [email protected], Alpes-Côte d’Azur), and decarbonize the world is through the a proud sense of belonging and an idealism Films de Force Majeure, Northern Ireland Screen, use of nuclear power. Dumbworld, BFI Doc Society, La SCAM that can be found in the humanity of their Thank You and Good (Brouillon d’un Rêve), interactions and in their caustic humour. Night Productions Creative Europe, Eurimages, The film uncovers the deep-rooted Centre du Cinéma et de controversy, hatred and conflict associated l’Audiovisuel de Bruxelles, More than 20 years after the ceasefire, Sales Agent Doc & Film with the subject, and just what it takes to The Flats examines what has become of International be an activist for nuclear power in today’s the residents of this high-rise microcosm, Delivery Date Late 2020 climate conscious world. forever marked by the trauma and bloodshed of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Director/Photography Frankie Fenton Producers Kathryn Kennedy, Frankie Fenton Editor John Murphy Running Time 90 minutes

Production Company Financier Screen Ireland Kennedy Films Delivery Date Early 2020 [email protected]

76 77 The Making of MÁM Pure Grit — — Michael Keegan-Dolan is one of the Set against the captivating backdrop of the most exciting and thought-provoking Wyoming wilderness, Sharmaine, a Native choreographers working in dance and American bareback horse racer, and her theatre today. Keegan-Dolan's latest girlfriend Savannah, strive to overcome the show brought the virtuoso concertina ghosts of past abuse. player Cormac Begley, the European musical collective ‘s t a r g a z e’ and Director/Photography Kim Bartley Producer Rachel Lysaght twelve international dancers to the Dingle Editor Paul Mullen Running Time 75 minutes Peninsula. The show is a unique confluence between soloist and ensemble, classical Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Underground Films Frontline Films, Headgear and traditional, the local and the universal. [email protected], Films, Spiral Pictures, The film follows this process over ten Frontline Films Underground Films, weeks from the first day of rehearsals Windmill Lane Pictures Sales Agent Bankside Films to the opening night performance at the Delivery Date Mid 2020 Dublin Theatre Festival in 2019.

Director Pat Collins Producers Philip King, Tina Moran, Pat Collins Photography Colm Hogan Editor Music John Brennan Running Time 80 minutes

Production Companies Financier South Wind Blows Screen Ireland, RTÉ [email protected], Delivery Date Early 2020 Harvest Films

78 79 The Sheriff To the Moon — — As the impact of a Trump White House takes This is a cinematic ode to the moon, hold, The Sheriff follows two candidates who made in large part from archival sources are competing to be elected for this prolific combined with literary fragments and role in two contrasting territories. In the bound together by a haunting original run-up to polling day in November 2018, the score. The film steps lightly through the contenders will have to prove themselves. ideas that people through the ages have With protests, mass shootings and hate drawn from the moon — dreams of escape, crimes now a daily occurrence, this is an myths of heaven, songs of longing and loss, exploration of how and why people come to odes of yearning, stories of lost futures — power in America, and how they represent taking the viewer on a constantly surprising an ever-dividing community. Expect big night-walk through the night sky. egos, deep-rooted social problems and personal rivalries. The race is on. Director/Editor Tadhg O’Sullivan Producers Clare Stronge, Tadhg O’Sullivan Music Linda Buckley, Amanda Feery, Peter Broderick Running Time 80 minutes Director Grace Sweeney Producers Grace Sweeney, Michael Fanning, Trevor Birney, Sinead Ingoldsby Photography Nickolas Rossi Editor Paul Devlin Music Ray Production Company Financiers Screen Ireland, Harman Running Time 97 minutes Fabula Films Arte, YLE, [email protected] Delivery Date Delivered

Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Below the Radar Kew Media Group, [email protected], Northern Ireland Screen Fine Point Films Delivery Date Delivered

80 81 Currently Selling Currently Selling Currently

82 83 Sea Fever Rialto The Castle The Last Right — — — — Siobhán, a marine biology student, joins Colm is in his mid-forties, married, with two This coming-of-age film follows Monika, a A comedy-drama road movie telling the the crew of a trawler in order to complete teenage children. Still grieving the death of thirteen-year-old Lithuanian girl who has story of a man bringing the body of someone her studies. As an academic, Siobhán is out his father, a destructive figure in his life, Colm recently moved to Dublin with her mother he barely knows for burial with his family. of place and clumsy in this environment. A struggles with his relationship to his own and grandmother. A passionate singer, His good intentions are motivated by trying few hours offshore, the trawler ploughs into son. At work, a recent takeover threatens Monika is pushing her mum, a professional to patch up his relationship with his own something uncharted. Panic rises — they are his job and unable to share his vulnerability pianist, to keep playing with her. When brother. However, en route from West Cork adrift with no radio, helpless and hopelessly with his wife, Colm’s world is falling apart they are invited by a mysterious older to Rathlin Island, both romance and family entangled. As tempers fray, Siobhán tries to around him. In the midst of this crisis, Colm music impresario to play at ‘The Castle’, secrets emerge to complicate the trip. analyse the life form. Only as the crew begin solicits sex from a young man called Jay. This Monika’s mother refuses and instead sells to suffer a gruesome fate, does Siobhán encounter and his growing infatuation has a their keyboard for extra money. Determined Director/Screenplay Aoife Crehan Producers Paul Donovan, realise what the creature wants. She must deep effect on Colm. He finds a comfort in to go, Monika is left to resort to desperate Pippa Cross, Casey Herbert Photography Shane F. O’Kelly Editor Matt Canning Production Design Neil Treacy Music find a solution fast, if the crew are to survive. Jay that no one else can provide. measures to buy the keyboard back and Stephen Rennicks Main Cast Michiel Huisman, Niamh Algar, make her dreams come true. Samuel Bottomley Irish Locations Dublin, Kildare, Cork Director/Screenplay Neasa Hardiman Producers Brendan Director Peter Mackie Burns Producers Alan Maher, John McCarthy, John McDonnell, Jean-Yves Roubin, Börje Wallace, Tristan Goligher, Valentina Brazzini Screenplay Mark Director/Screenplay Lina Lužyte Producers David Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Hansson Photography Ruairí O’Brien Editor Barry Moen O’Halloran Photography Adam Scarth Editor Tim Fulford Collins, Kestutis Drazdauskas Photography Michael Deadpan Pictures eOne, Northern Ireland Production Design Ray Ball Main Cast Hermione Corfield, Production Design Sarah Finlay Music Valentin Hadjadj Main Lavelle Editor Benjamin Mirguet Production Design [email protected], Screen, RTÉ, Lip Sync Dougray Scott, Connie Nielsen Irish Location Wicklow Cast Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Tom Glynn-Carney, Monica Dolan Tamara Conboy Music Jonas Jurkuˉnas Main Cast CrossDay Productions, Sales Agent Running Time 95 minutes Irish Location Dublin Running Time 93 minutes. Barbora Bareikyte, Juˉrate Onaityte, Gabija Jaraminaite Moonlight Bay Films Seville International Irish Location Dublin Running Time 90 minutes Delivery Date Delivered Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Production Company Sales Agent Fantastic Films BAI, Creative Europe MEDIA, Marcie Films The Bureau Sales Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Awards [email protected], RTÉ, Wallimage, VooTV, [email protected] Delivery Date Delivered Samson Films RTÉ, Lithuanian Film Center, Audience Award at Cork Film festival 2019 Bright Pictures, Film iVast, Swedish Film Financiers Screen Ireland, [email protected], Creative Europe Frakas Productions, Institute, Creative Scotland, British Film Institute Artbox Sales Agent Makar Productions Epic Pictures Wide Management Sales Agent Epic Pictures Delivery Date Early 2020 Delivery Date Delivered Official Selection Venice International Film Festival 2019

Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019

84 85 Here are the Sweetness Rose Plays Julie Arracht Young Men in the Belly — — Rose Plays Julie is the story of a young Accused of a crime he didn’t commit, — — woman searching for her biological mother. Coleman Sharkey has to abandon his family Matthew, a troubled teenager on the cusp Lilly Abdal is a woman caught between two Set against a backdrop of misogyny, and flee to a remote island. When the of adulthood, finishes school along with the worlds. Orphaned in Africa as a child, she revenge and longing, Rose undertakes a famine engulfs his community and takes his menacing Kearney and nihilistic Rez. In a escapes to England as a refugee, fleeing journey that leads her to revelations that wife and child, he is left with nothing but a final summer of excess, Matthew falls in love civil war. Lost in this cold new world, Lilly are both devastating and dangerous. solitary life. Coleman evades the law and with his childhood sweetheart Jen, but is embraces the immigrant community in fights starvation until he meets a girl named dragged into shocking acts of transgression London, but can she ever let go of the past? Directors/Screenplay/Editors Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor Kitty who helps him find a reason to live. by the increasingly psychopathic Kearney. Adapted from Camilla Gibb’s best-selling Producers David Collins, Joe Lawlor Photography Tom Comerford Production Design Emma Lowney Main Cast Cuirtear coir i leith Coleman Sharkey, novel, Sweetness in the Belly is a powerful Ann Skelly, Orla Brady, Aidan Gillen Irish Locations Dublin, Director/Screenplay Eoin C Macken Producers Richard love story that explores an immigrant’s life Wicklow Running Time 95 minutes coir nach ndearna sé, agus caithfidh sé Bolger, Edwina Casey, Noah Haeussner Photography James from a unique perspective. a theaghlach a thréigean agus cur faoi ar Mather Editor Colin Campbell Production Design Michael oileáinín iargúlta. Déanann an gorta slad Moynihan Music Ryan Potesta Main Cast Dean-Charles Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Chapman, Finn Cole, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Anya Taylor-Joy Director Zeresenay Mehari Producers Alan Moloney, Samson Films BAI, RTÉ, Creative Europe ar an bpobal, sciobann uaidh a bhean Irish Location Dublin Susan Mullen, Jennifer Kawaja, Julia Sereny Screenplay [email protected], MEDIA agus a pháiste agus níl aige sa saol ach an Desperate Optimists Sales Agent Hyde Park Laura Phillips Photography Tim Fleming Editor Susan t-uaigneas. Buaileann sé le cailín darb ainm Maggi Production Design Paki Smith Main Cast Dakota International Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Fanning, Wunmi Mosaku, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Kunal Delivery Date Delivered Cití a thugann cúis dó a bheith beo. Hail Mary Pictures Funny Leopard Films, Nayyar Irish Location Dublin [email protected], Foton Pictures, Glanzrock [email protected] Productions, EGG Studios Official Selection Director/Stiúrthóir Tom Sullivan Producer/Léiritheoir Sales Agent CAA/ICM (US), Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, BFI London Film Festival 2019 Cúán Mac Conghail Screenplay/Scáileán Tom Sullivan Arclight (ROW) Parallel Film Productions HanWay, Eurimages, Photography/Ceamara Kate McCullough Editor/Eagarthóir Delivery Date Delivered [email protected] Telefilm Canada, Mary Crumlish Production Design/Dearadh Léiriúcháin Sienna Films OMDC, eOne Pádraig O’Neill Main Cast/Príomh-aisteoirí Dónall Ó Héalaí, Sales Agent HanWay Saise Ní Chuinn, Dara Devaney, Michael McElhatton, Eoin Ó Delivery Date Delivered Dubhghaill Irish Location/Suíomhanna Éireannacha Galway Running Time/Fad 90 minutes

Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 Production Company/ Financiers/Airgeadaithe Comhlachtaí Léiriúcháin Screen Ireland, TG4, BAI Macalla Teoranta Delivery Date/Dáta [email protected] Seachadta Delivered

86 87 Finky Extra Ordinary A Girl From Breaking Out — — Mogadishu Documentary A psychological drama telling the story Rose, a sweet but lonely small-town driving of Micí Phincí Ó Foghlú, a young musician instructor, must use her supernatural — — with a tragic past who is crippled in a gifts to save the daughter of local man A Girl From Mogadishu — Born into a Suffering all his life from muscular car accident. He is given a chance at Martin Martin from a washed-up rock star refugee camp in war-torn Somalia, Ifrah dystrophy, Irish musician Fergus O’Farrell redemption when he is recruited by a looking to use her for satanic purposes. A is trafficked to Ireland as a teenager. found his release through music and his violent avant-garde circus. mysterious, romantic, oddball, ghost story Recounting her traumatic childhood ever-changing band of musicians. Filmed and adventure comedy, this film shines experiences of female genital mutilation/ over a decade, charting his first tour to Fadscannán shíceolaíoch drámatúil is é a light on important, serious issues like cutting when applying for refugee the Czech Republic, to Radio City Music Finky a insíonn scéal Micí Phincí Ó Foghlú, possessed magpies and toasters, hell holes, status, she is re-traumatised and vows Hall and to his last days of recording his ceoltóir óig le stair tragóideach, atá ina spooky floating potato chips, and haunted to devote her life to the eradication of final album at his home in West Cork, chláiríneach de bharr timpist cairr agus rubbish bins in rural Ireland. the practice. She takes her campaign all Breaking Out is a love story about music, a fhaigheann deis cúiteamh a dhéanamh the way to the President of Ireland and family and friendship. nuair a earcaíonn sorcas neamhghnách é. Directors/Screenplay Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman finally to the European Parliament and Producers Katie Holly, Yvonne Donohoe, Mary McCarthy, Ailish Bracken Photography James Mather Editor Gavin the United Nations. Director Michael McCormack Producers Michael Director/Stiúrthóir Dathaí Keane Producers/Léiritheoirí Buckley Production Design Joe Fallover Music George McCormack, Aideen O’Sullivan Photography Nick O’Neill, Eileen Seoighe, Pierce Boyce Screenplay/Scáileán Diarmuid Brennan Main Cast Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Will Forte, Richard Kendrick, Cormac Downes Editor Mick Mahon De Faoite, Dathaí Keane Photography/Ceamara Cathal Director/Script Mary McGuckian Producers Mary Music Fergus O’Farrell Running Time 85 minutes Claudia O’Doherty Irish Locations Offaly, Kildare, Wicklow McGuckian, Adrian Politowski Photography Michael Lavelle Watters Editor/Eagarthóir Dermot Diskin Production Running Time 95 minutes Design/Dearadh Léiriúcháin Mark Kelly Music/Ceol Steve Editor Mairead McIvor Production Designer Emmanuelle Lynch Main Cast/Príomh-aisteoirí Dara Devaney, Eoin Pucci Main Cast Aja Naomi King, Barkhad Abdi, Martha Production Company Geoghegan Irish Location/Suíomhanna Éireannacha Galway Production Company Financiers Screen Ireland, Canga Antonio, Maryam Mursal Irish Location Dublin Silver Running Time/Fad 95 minutes Blinder Films uMedia, Wildcard Running Time 96 minutes [email protected] [email protected] Distribution, Inevitable Financier Screen Ireland Pictures Delivery Date Delivered Production Company/ Financiers/Airgeadaithe Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Sales Agent Epic Pictures Pembridge Head Gear Films, Premiere Comhlachtaí Léiriúcháin Screen Ireland, TG4, BAI Delivery Date Delivered Abú Media Film Productions Delivery Date/Dáta pembridgepictureslimited@ Pictures, Screen Brussels Awards [email protected] Seachadta Delivered gmail.com, Umedia Sales Agent The Exchange Best Documentary Galway Film Fleadh 2019 Official Selection Delivery Date Delivered SXSW Film Festival 2019

88 89 Calm with Horses Folkland — — In darkest rural Ireland, ex-boxer Douglas ‘Arm’ Set among the rituals and rhythms of Armstrong has become the feared enforcer working artists across Brazil, , for the drug-dealing Devers family, whilst also North Carolina and Ireland, Folkland is an trying to be a good father to his autistic five- imaginative and poetic film essay inspired year-old son, Jack. Torn between these two by the writings and ideas of celebrated and families, Arm’s loyalties are truly tested when world-renowned scholar, Henry Glassie. he is asked to kill for the first time. Director/Screenplay Pat Collins Producers Philip King, Director Nick Rowland Producers Rory Gilmartin, Daniel Tina O’Reilly Photography Colm Hogan Editor Keith Walsh Emmerson, Kate Glover Screenplay Joseph Murtagh Main Cast Henry Glassie Executive Producers Michael Fassbender, Conor McCaughan, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Sam Lavender, Daniel Battsek Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Photography Piers McGrail Editors Nick Chaudeurge, South Wind Blows Arts Council Matthew Tabern Production Design Damien Creagh [email protected], Distributor South Wind Blows Main Cast Cosmo Jarvis, Barry Keoghan, Niamh Algar Harvest Films Delivery Date Mid 2019 Irish Locations Galway, Clare Running Time 100 minutes

Official Selection Production Companies Financiers Screen Ireland, Toronto International Film Festival 2019 Element Pictures Film 4, WRAP Fund, Element [email protected], Pictures Distribution, DMC Film Altitude Film Entertainment Sales Agent Altitude Film Entertainment Delivery Date Delivered

Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019

90 91 Released in 2019 Released in 2019 Released

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WinnerWinner Audience Audience Award Award Luxembourg Luxembourg British British & Irish& Irish Film Film Season Season 2018 2018 WinnerWinner Audience Audience Award Award Luxembourg Luxembourg British British & Irish& Irish Film Film Season Season 2018 2018 WinnerWinner Documentary Documentary Award Award Irish Irish Screen Screen America America Film Film Festival, Festival, NY NY 2018 2018 WinnerWinner Documentary Documentary Award Award Irish Irish Screen Screen America America Film Film Festival, Festival, NY NY 2018 2018 WinnerWinner Audience Audience Award Award Dingle Dingle International International Film Film Festival Festival 2018 2018 WinnerWinner Audience Audience Award Award Dingle Dingle International International Film Film Festival Festival 2018 2018 WinnerWinner Documentary Documentary Award Award The The Oireachtas Oireachtas Media Media Awards Awards 2018 2018 WinnerWinner Documentary Documentary Award Award The The Oireachtas Oireachtas Media Media Awards Awards 2018 2018 “HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL” “ENCHANTING, INSPIRING” Turlough O’Donnell, Camino Society Ireland Maurice Galway, Dingle Film Festival

WinnerWinner Audience Audience Award Award Luxembourg Luxembourg British British & Irish& Irish Film Film Season Season 2018 2018 WinnerWinner Audience Audience Award Award Luxembourg Luxembourg British British & Irish& Irish Film Film Season Season 2018 2018 WinnerWinner Documentary Documentary Award Award Irish Irish Screen Screen America America Film Film Festival, Festival, NY NY 2018 2018 WinnerWinner Documentary Documentary Award Award Irish Irish Screen Screen America America Film Film Festival, Festival, NY NY 2018 2018 WinnerWinner Audience Audience Award Award Dingle Dingle International International Film Film Festival Festival 2018 2018 WinnerWinner Audience Audience Award Award Dingle Dingle International International Film Film Festival Festival 2018 2018 WinnerWinner Documentary Documentary Award Award The The Oireachtas Oireachtas Media Media Awards Awards 2018 2018 WinnerWinner Documentary Documentary Award Award The The Oireachtas Oireachtas Media Media Awards Awards 2018 2018

WINNER WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD AUDIENCE AWARD LUXEMBOURG BRITISH & DINGLE INTERNATIONAL IRISH FILM SEASON FILM FESTIVAL 2018 2018

WINNER WINNER DOCUMENTARY AWARD DOCUMENTARY AWARD IRISH SCREEN AMERICA THE OIREACHTAS FILM FESTIVAL, NY MEDIA AWARDS 2018 2018

ANÚ PICTURES i gcomhar le/in association with PHOENIX FILMS A chuireann i láthair/Presents “IOMRAMH AN CHAMINO / THE CAMINO VOYAGE” with DANNY SHEEHY, BRENDAN BEGLEY, LIAM HOLDEN, BREANDÁN MORIARTY & GLEN HANSARD

Arna Mhaoiniú ag/ Funded By ÚDARÁS CRAOLACHÁIN NA hÉIREANN/THE BROADCASTING AUTHORITY OF IRELAND Le Rannpháirtíocht / With the participation of TG4, RTÉ agus BORD SCANNÁN NA hÉIREANN/THE IRISH FILM BOARD Léiritheoirí/Producers MARTINA DURAC, DÓNAL Ó CÉILLEACHAIR Léiritheoirí Feidhmiúcháin/Executive Producers PÁDRAIG & SÍLE Ó LAIGHIN Stiúrthóir/Director DÓNAL Ó CÉILLEACHAIR

Arna Mhaolniú ag Údaras Craolacháin na hÉirann leis an Táille Ceadúnais Teilifíse

100 101 Bill Drummond is on tour… for the rest of his life.

“If I knew what I was doing, I wouldn’t have to do it in the first place.” TRACEY PHOTO TRACEY MOBERLY

★★★★... a far more interesting and entertaining portrait of an inscrutable artist than the usual documentary primers we tend to get.” The Scotsman

SCREENWORKS AND SCREEN IRELAND/FÍS ÉIREANN, MEDIA RANCH, ROOK FILMS IN ASSOCIATION WITH SCOTTISH DOCUMENTARY INSTITUTE & BBC PRESENT BEST BEFORE DEATH OFFICIAL SELECTION EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL DIRECTED BY PAUL DUANE PRODUCED BY ROBERT GORDON & PAUL DUANE CINEMATOGRAPHY (KOLKATA) ROBBIE RYAN B.S.C. (LEXINGTON) PATRICK JORDAN FILM FESTIVAL A FILM BY PAUL DUANE 2019 SOUND (KOLKATA) KEVIN PINTO (LEXINGTON) MICHAEL HUNKELE EDITOR TONY CRANSTOUN A.C.E. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS JOHN CAULKINS, ANDY STARKE & BEN WHEATLEY (FOR ROOK FILMS) CELINE HADDAD (FOR SCREEN IRELAND/FÍS ÉIREANN) FINLAY PRETSELL (FOR SCOTTISH DOCUMENTARY INSTITUTE) TONY NELLANY (FOR BBC) ADDITIONAL CAMERA MICHAEL GALINSKY (LEXINGTON) AVIJIT HALDER (KOLKATA) WWW.SCREENWORKS.IE DRONE CAMERA, LEXINGTON MATTHEW BLYDEN ASSISTANT EDITORS, JACKIE JARVIS, ENDA MCDONAGH COLOURIST NICK FRANCO (1185 FILMS) SOUND MIX MARK HODGKIN GRAPHICS ANDREW KEOGH

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a film by Nuala o’coNNor / in association with Bord scaNNáN Na hÉIreaNN / IrIsh FIlm Board and rTÉ with the support of The BroadcasTING auThorITy oF IrelaNd / based on an original concept by dIarmaId FerrITer written by dIarmaId FerrITer & Nuala o’coNNor / director of photography colm hoGaN / sound JohN BreNNaN / editor eoIN mcdoNaGh score colm mac coN IomaIre / executive producer PhIlIP KING / producer TINa o’reIlly

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