Writing
Storyland is an award-winning initiative by RTÉ.ie and Screen Ireland, a program that develops and showcases new, original Irish short dramas by emerging talent in writing, directing, and acting. It operates as a competitive call-out for scripts, with the top finalists receiving funding and support to produce their 25-minute short dramas, which are then broadcast on RTÉ2 and the RTÉ Player.
Join Jason on a chemically enhanced trip through the streets of Dublin as he stumbles from one misguided adventure to another. Somewhere between the DJs, decks, drug busts and hilltop raves, he stumbles across a familiar face from the past, his brother Daniel. Daniel is an educated homeless heroin addict living on the streets of Dublin. The brothers haven’t seen or spoken to each other in years but over a lost weekend they reconnect and reminisce over tunes, trips, their history and their city. Two brothers living on the edge but perhaps they have more in common than they think.
Eleven-year-old Roy Keane needs to get on the starting eleven for his football club - and nothing is going to get in his way.
Annalise and Chris are bringing up their infant son surrounded by love and care. When Chris brings terrible news home, everything becomes under threat. A film about family and an interracial couple under fire. Annalise is at heart of it all.
Three strangers in London find themselves on the last tube heading east: Berto, a lost Italian tourist, Denise, a young woman terrified by the city and Cherub, a baby-faced singer with a dangerous mind. An adaptation of a Charlie Higson short story.
Vinny and Lauryn fall for each other but their future together is threatened by their present.
A music and documentary film, with singers and third-generation traders, filmed over one day in February 2023 in the now closed Smithfield Fruit and Veg Market of Dublin.
When the Rising starts, the local sweet shops are the first to be looted by Dubliners living in the tenements. Noel and Tom race off and leave their mothers and sisters at home but the havoc of the next few days will come right to everyone’s door.
