Creative Heartlands Shorts Programme
Hot off the presses, this is our annual showcasing of new films realised by filmmakers in the SLR region
Handy Cam
W/Dir. Conor Lambert
A thief dumps a handy cam and there begins a roller-coaster journey through many hands and situations. Tessa Fonfara produces.
Creative Heartlands Bursary award
Svitlana
W/Dir. Patryk Łukaszewski
A Ukrainian mother and school-going daughter, separated from husband and father by war, face eviction and rising hostility in Ireland’s escalating housing crisis.
Creative Heartlands Bursary award
Ireland’s Oldest Altar Boy
W/Dir. Luke Curley
When a film crew arrives in a small parish in the mid-1980s to profile the country’s oldest altar boy, the encounter becomes an unexpected and unusual coming-of-age.
Creative Heartlands Bursary award
Next Door
W/Dir Ananya Sharma and Shane ÓCeallaigh
Noreen is struggling to deal with the changing complexion of her community. When an Indian family move in next door things come to a head.
Woodweb
W/Dir. Michéal Coughlan
In this witty eco-horror Dr. Battle, a frustrated biologist, enlists the help of Caelan a young PhD computer whizz-kid, to help her get a breakthrough in her research into how trees communicate.
Next Door and Woodweb were made under the Cultural and Creative Industries Skillnet/Creative Heartland Summer Film Production Course with additional support from Roscommon County Council Social Inclusion Fund.