Underground Cinema

 

                                            

Thursday September 16th

Duality - Directed by Noel Brady

Circus Porcelina - Directed by Aaron O'Reilly

In The Darkness - Directed by Sarah McCann

I Shagged Ronaldo - Directed by Rita Marie Lawlor

He Dies At The End - Directed by Damien McCarthy

Love Storey - Directed by Flynn Von Kleist

Kim - Directed by Kathy Rafferty

43 (yonju-san) - Directed by John Curran & Craig Woods

A Day In The Life Of A Pint - Directed by Robbie Walsh

Shit Creek - Directed by Anthony Kinsella

Henry & Sunny - Directed by Fergal Rock

Lucky Escape - Directed by Shane McCabe

Sugar Stick - Directed by Laura Way

Out of the Blue - Directed by Michael Lavelle

Screwback - Directed by Brian O'Malley

Friday September 17th

The Wonderful Story of Kelvin Kind - Directed by Ian Power

The Covies - Directed by Len Collins

Isn't Technology Wonderful - Directed by Barry Holihan

In The Waiting Room - Directed by Linda Teehan & Sarah Carroll

Corduroy - Directed by Hugh O'Connor

The Euthanizer - Directed by Ian Hunt Duffy

Gemma? - Directed by Kevin O'Neill

It's All About George - Directed by Roy Lecane & Don Field

No Justice - Directed by Alan Walsh & Mario Bortas

Jesus of Limerick - Directed by Dermott Petty

The Hollow Girl - Directed by Dave McCabe

The Man in the Boot - Directed by Anthony Kinsella

Heart - Directed by Mark Cogan

Of Best Intentions - Directed by Brian Durnin

 

 

43 (yonju-san)

21 Shot Productions

Animated/photographic comic book toned short film, set amidst the back alleys and darker corners of Dublin City.

 When a homeless drifter accepts an offer of a bed for the night, he soon realises that having nothing.... doesn't mean you've nothing to lose.

Directed by John Curran and Craig Woods

Written by John Curran, Craig Woods and Pachal Woods

Starring

Emmet Flood, Stewart Roche, Rory Connolly, Jason Gilroy, Steve Fanagan, Robbie Howlett, Noel Aungier, Shane Fahy, John Curran, Craig Woods, Noreen Woods, Niall Keegan & John Lawless

Running Time 33 Mins

 

Heart

Medicine Hat Films

Damien is compelled to follow his heart for one last chance of happiness.  Watching out for him are Fiona and Doc who prove that family isn't always who you're born to but who's got your back

Written & Directed by Mark Cogan

Starring

Frank Prendergast, George Hanover, Shane Casey & Jon Whitty

Running Time 13 Mins

 

 

The Man in the Boot

Rogue Media

The story unfolds in rural Ireland, when two friends who stumble across an Adolf Hitler impersonator, alive and well and living in the boot of their car. The adventure begins when they abduct the man and take him out to the mountains to be shot. However, they get more than they bargained for and find out more about their friendship and about the mysterious man in the boot.

 Starring

Patrick Murphy, Thornston Braun & Anthony Kinsella

Written & Directed by Anthony Kinsella

Produced by Niall O'Connor

Running Time 17 Mins

 

No Justice

Bootstrap Films

No Justice is about John Taylor an ordinary hard working man in his early fifties, who's life has been turned upside down with the murder of his Son. John’s wife stricken with grief suffers a stroke and at the funeral. John finds himself compelled to do something, but what?

Written by Alan Walsh

Directed by Alan Walsh & Mario Bortas

Starring

Don Baker, Honor Heffernan, Glen Baker, Karl Shiels, Paddy Courtney, Ciaran O'Grady, Tommy O'Neill, Paddy Burdis, Paul Burke, Paul Thompson, Daniella Gibney, Nicole Elizabeth, John Phelan, Aoife O'Connor, Harry Shiels, Rose O'Connor, Adam O'Connor, Anthony Inglis, Collette Stapleton, Kenneth Cummins, Rachael Kavanagh, Hayley Murphy, Eamon Norris, Gerard Boland & Kristina Stapleton

Running Time 15 Minutes

 

 

The Euthanizer

IADT 


The Euthanizer is a black comedy about a man struggling to make a living by helping people kill themselves.
It was made by fourth year students of film and television Production in Dun Laoghaire IADT.

The film was shown as part of the IADT 2009 film graduate showcase which took place in the lighthouse cinema in Dublin.

Starring

Tommy O'Neill, Colin O'Donoghue, Dorothy Cotter, Michael Bates, Jordan Lee McGrath and Myles Breen

Written by Simon Doyle 

Directed by Ian Hunt Duffy

Running Time 13 Mins

 

  Love Storey

 

 

 

Gerry, a lonely security
guard, has his nightly routine disrupted by the presence of Joan, a new security guard in the building opposite. Can romance blossom ten storeys up?

Written  by Kevin Fetherson

Directed by Flynn Von Kleist

Starring

Jack Walsh, Niamh Shaw, Don Conroy, Jack Lowe, Aoibheann McCaul, Danny Kehoe, Dermot Lyndski & Anthony MacNamee

Running Time 12 Mins

 

 

 

 

The Hollow Girl

Squid Media Ireland

When young Katie wanders into a strange field and takes something that doesnt belong to her, she discovers that the fairies in her story books were lies and that there's a good reason why farmers leave the fey folk well enough alone.  Will she survice the encounter with the Hollow Girl?

Written by Stephen Cumisky

Based on a story by Dave McCabe

Directed by Dave McCabe

Starring

Emma Griffith, Emma McArdle, Fiona Lawrence, Aine Lawrence, Bill Manahan & Ambrose McDermott

Running Time 10 mins

 

Corduroy

Emu Productions

 

Jessie sees fragments. Details. More than the sum of theirparts. Sometimes sounds become deafening and she feelslike she can't breathe. And even though she knows it's wrong,she knows what she has to do.

A story about the healing powers of the sea, seen through theeyes of a young autistic woman who really shouldn't be there...

Written & Directed by Hugh O'Connor

Starring

Caoilfhiona Dunne, Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Negga, Brendan McCormack, Tommy O'Neill, Maura Shannon, Scott Graham, Chloe McCormack, Carmel O'Sullivan & Pat O'Brien

Running Time 11 Mins

 

Out of the Blue

Vico Films

The film tells the story of Georgie's love life which becomes transformed  when he discovers a TV floating in the sea.  it is a charming tale of lonliness and the discovery of true love in the most unexpected of places.

Written & Directed by Michael Lavelle

Starring

Ciaran Bermingham, Amy Hill and Elaine Stevens

Running Time 10 Mins

 

 

 

 

 

Of Best Intentions

Red Rage Films

We all want to leave behind a little something for future generations to remember us by.  In his lifetime, renowned inventor Thomas Midgley cannot have forseen the future ramifications of his work.  The film tells the story of five characters whose well intentioned actions all incur disastrous consequences.

Written & Directed by Brian Durnin

Starring

Stuart Graham, Ian McElhinney, Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Prasad Jadhav, Rita Davies, Delrick Vinu, Deva Naidu, Pat Cannon, Oisin O'Connor, Mary Murphy, Claire Creely, Dale Parry, Steve Lynch, Jessica Felton, Peter Duff, Paul Ellis, Paddy Geraghty, Tom Walsh, Ger Roe, John Kilkenny, Donald Helme, John O'Regan, Anton McClelland, Eugene Ruane, Bill Fallover, Paul Holmes, Jessica Bermingham, Ciara Whelan, Clare O'Meara, John Hand, Siraj Zaida, Sudansh, Mohammed Osama Fuzail, Dhrubha Baneejee, Dr Puri, Molly Vinu, Jacob Vinu, Divines Vinu, Sangita Lal, Tarini Lal, Catherine Stauton, Gary Moore and Brian O'Malley

Running Time 13 Mins

 

Screwback

Red Rage Films

Harry though his past was behind him.  He was wrong.  Forced back into the unforgiving brutal world he tried to leave behind.  Harry must do one last job for his old boss.  If he refuses, the girl dies.

Written & Directed by Brian O'Malley

Starring

Liam Cunningham, Gerard Carey, Kit M Tsang, Anna Sneyd, Dayboy Kelly, Brian Herron, Robert Boyd, Conan Sweeney, Leon Lu, Kamen Wong

Running Time 9 Mins

 

 

  

 The Wonderful Story of Kelvin Kind

Fastnet Films

Kelvin Kind, a wonderful loser with a heart of gold, is blissfully unaware of his own loneliness.  But when a beautiful gil moves into the apartment across the hall, Kelvins solitary world is turned upside down.  As he tries in vain to get the girls's attention, Kelvin is soon forced to realise that being in love isn't easy for nice guys...

Written and Directed by Ian Power

Starring Bern Deegan, Keith McErlean, Joanne King, Doreen Keogh

Running Time 15 Mins 

 

Gemma

Savaege Films

A homeless man encounters someone from his past

Written and Directed by Kevin O'Neill

Starring

Brian Fortune, Roisin O'Donovan, Michael Nagle, Conor Dwayne, Pat Malone, Odette Norman and Zoltan Kovay

Running Time 7 mins

 

 

The Covies

A Len Collins Film

Episode 3 - A Kind Of Loving - See's Vinnie's abusive relationship with
Bridie deteriorating even further.
An otherwise confident woman, Bridie reflects on the past for answers to
uncomfortable questions.

Written & Directed by Len Collins

Starring

Sarah Carroll, Paul O'Brien, Christopher Dunne, Natalia Kostrzewa & Ava Ryder

Running Time 14 Mins

 

 

Kim

Cinnte Productions Ltd. 

After meeting a man in a supermarket and agreeing to go on a date, Kim
is brutally subjected to date rape. With the courts failing to convict
her rapist, he is free to walk away from what he has done, whereas it
is clear Kim is unable to simply move on.

"She would never forget the one that got away."

Starring

Nicole Elizabeth, Keith Ward & Therese Mitchell.

Written & Directed by Kathy Raftery

Running Time 6 Mins

 

 

 

 

Duality

A Phoenix Artz Production

Based on an ancient Zen parable, we join our hero int eh middle of his journey.  Corporal Sean Curtis, a US Marine separated from his platoon hides from the war that rages outside, only to be thwarted by an incoming missile, the blast of which knocks him to the ground unconscious.  Sean awakes, sitting opposite him is an armed Iraqi, his enemy.  But even from our perceived enemies we can learn the most valuable of lessons.  That even in this Hell that can be life, we always have the power of choice, and it is up to us what path we choose

Starring

Ciaran O'Grady, Deva Naidu & Amy Hastings

Written, Produced & Directed by Noel Brady

Running Time 16 Mins

 

I Shagged Ronaldo 

 RML Films

 Aoife is a 24 year old Dublin woman infatuated with footballer Christiano Ronaldo.  Unable to get a ticket to see his new Real Madrid take on Shamrock Rovers, her friend Donna takes her out on the town to a place where players just might be with some pleasent surprises.

Written & Directed by Rita Marie Lawlor

Starring

Patrick Murphy, Melissa Nolan, Rita Marie Lawlor, Paul O'Bryan and Eoin Quinn

Running Time 12 Mins 

 

 

Circus Porcelina 

Blue Hair Productions

Circus porcelina is a symbolic & theatrical piece is loosely adapted from the original Little Red Riding Hood fairytale. A young girl awakens from a prescient nightmare as her father sneaks into her room to rape her. Withdrawing back into the nightmare, she places herself in the character of her doll, Porcelina. Despite veiling her tainted innocence with make-up, she cannot escape from the Ghoulish Clown, the embodiment of her abusive father. Dragged to a nightmarish location, she is forced to endure his awful spectacle, and fights back by displaying pleasure for her demeaning captor

Starring

Paddy Dean, Aoife Lennon and Caitlyn McGoldrick

Written and Directed by Aaron O'Reilly

Running Time 9 Mins

 

Sugar Stick 

Inca Films



Mary is trapped in a toxic friendship. Miriam with her chain-smoking and vicious tongue, is that toxic friend. Morning tea and vitriol. There is no smoke without fire. 

Written & Directed by Laura Way

Starring

Irene Wright & Kathleen Tierney

Running Time 6 Mins 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Henry & Sunny

A Film by Fergal Rock

Henry, an unemployed clown, is in love with the famous soap opera actress, Sunny Carmichael. He writes her letters daily yet fear of rejection prevents him from disclosing his return address. Sunny, stifled by showbiz, reciprocates Henry’s feelings but is tragically unable to reach him.

 Written & Directed by Fergal Rock

Starring

Paulo Braganca, Dorothy Cotter, Gavin Prior, Sam Jackson, Dan O'Sullivan, Tom Leddy, Frank Mackey, Matthew Keenan, Terry Russell, Paul Kiernan, Daniel Joyce, Sean Brady, Orla Delaney, Orla Maher, Eimear O'Reilly, Dermot Quinn, Colin Russell-Conway & Fergus Russell-Conway

Running Time 15 Mins

 

 Shit Creek

C13 Productions

An angry stock trader, down on his luck tries to salvage the last of his self respect when helped by a well meaning tourist in Dublin city centre.

Written & Directed by Anthony Kinsella

Starring

Patrick Murphy & Anthony Kinsella

Running Time 4 Mins

A Day in the Life of a Pint

A Babershop Triplet Production

 Sometimes life will pass you by, make sure to look

Writtne and Directed by Robbie Walsh

Starring

Johnny Elliot, Julian Judge, Jenny Dixon, Robbie Walsh, Alan Sherlock, Gill Keogh, Cathal Nally, Paul Kelly & Sean Flanagan

Running Time 3 mins

Cardboard Boy

IADT

Cardboard Boy is a short, stop motion animated film which tells a harsh truth about life. The film revolves around a little boy playing in a cardboard box and using his innocent imagination to turn the box into all sorts of objects. It displays the power of one’s imagination and how children will always be children and will play and dream despite their background and situation.

Directed by Kelley O'SUllivan

Running Times 4 Mins

Isn't Technology Wonderful

A Big Ideas Film and a Barry Holihan Film

Set in an Irish village in the 1960's, an old man becomes aware of the changing world around him and finally decides to embrace modern technology in his own unique way.

Written and Directed by Barry Holihan

Starring John O'Dowd and Liam Heffron

Running Time 5 Mins

 

 

In the Darkness

A Sarah McCann Film

An accomplished author struggles to complete his final novel after the death of his wife

Written & Directed by Sarah McCann 

Starring

Running Time 3 Mins

 

 

It's All About George

A Lecane/Field Film

Meet George & Irene. George likes to think he can make a difference. Irene is just looking for the simple relaxed life. Throw three kids into the mix and George the DIY expert along with your typical household arguments will have you thinking “Sometimes you are better left alone”.

Written & Directed by Roy Lecane & Don Field

Starring

John O'Donnell & Irene Morrisey

Running Time 4 Mins

Lucky Escape

Du Film Makers in Association with Shane McCabe Films

When a high powered career
woman is asked on a romantic date by her boyfriend, she decides to end their relationship there and then.  Not content to let her man down gently, she goes in all guns blazing, prepared even to vent her spleen, but is she really prepared for the outcome?… 

Starring

Vanessa Keogh, Jose Mantero & Tomasz Rola
 

Written & Directed by Shane McCabe

Running Time 4 Mins

 

Waiting Room

Teecar Productions

A chance conversation in a doctors waiting room results in comedy and crossed communication.

Written & Directed by

Linda Teehan and Sarah Carroll

Starring

Linda Teehan, Sarah Carroll and

Dylan McDonough

Running Time 4 Mins

Jesus of Limerick 

Jesus and his Ma Mary are at a wedding, the liquid refreshments have all run out.  Can Jesus (address Limerick) pull off his first miracle?

Starring

Danny Ryan and Aine Corcoran

Written and Directed by Demott Petty

Running Time 3 Mins

 

 

He Dies at the End

A Damien McCarthy Film

Working late a man begins answereing the questions put to him by his computer in the hope of learning how he will die.

Written & Directed by Damien McCarthy

Starring

Fintan Collins

Running Time 4 mins

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