Directing
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.
When her mother dies, a 10-year-old girl secretly runs the family dairy farm to help her distraught father, until it becomes too much.
Set in a rapidly changing Dublin, Work|Werk follows Saoirse, a poet who moonlights as a stripper, navigating the city’s social and economic divides. When she unexpectedly runs into Manchán, a former acquaintance turned property developer, their awkward street reunion escalates into a tense encounter inside the club - a space she now claims as her own. The film explores class, ambition and survival in contemporary Ireland, revealing the resilience and complexity of a woman living on her own terms.
Ryan, an old gricer, leans over his model train set and revisits the scene of the crime. With the aid of a familiar voice, maybe this time he can solve the puzzle that has haunted him throughout all these years.
Five woman spend a night together at a secluded house, to celebrate the future nuptials of the bride to be. During the course of the night, alliances are formed, confrontations erupt and festivities become tense and the women quickly learn that every sacrifice has a cost. The darkness of their terrible act fractures those responsible, trapping them in a perpetual loop oscillating endlessly between hope and despair.
What do we remember and why? Three actors audition to play Rasputin in a music video, only to realise they know nothing about him because they're bad at sorting fact from fiction, joke from song lyric, and history from Don Bluth cartoon.
