FAR
FEATURE FILM
A young Irish woman returns home to rural Donegal to discover that her brother has joined a far-right group.
Writer Shannon Welby, director Oonagh Kearney, producer David Power of EZ Films. In development with Screen Ireland.
NEGATIVE SPACE
FEATURE FILM
An art critic with a fine eye discovers she’s been blind to her husband’s infidelity and has to relearn to see in the world.
Negative Space, the stunning debut memoir from Irish art critic and writer Cristín Leach, examines the importance of art and words to a woman when her world, marriage and belief system are turned upside down.
Initial development via an Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award to director Oonagh Kearney. In feature film development with writers Cristín Leach and Michael West, producer Lara Hickey of Copper Alley Productions and Screen Ireland.
THE Hag oF beara
FEATURE FILM
Colliding in a snowstorm in West Cork, three women must learn to trust each other to survive the night and return home stronger.
Set in the forty-eight hours when the chaotic lives of ESTHER, NELL and ROWAN collide, this journey catapults us through their emotions as secrets unravel and they confront the challenges ruling their lives.
Writer-Director Oonagh Kearney. In development with producers John Kelleher, David Power, David Clarke and Ciarán Deeney of EZ Films with the support of Creative Europe.
NOTIONS
TV DRAMA SERIES
What if the next coding genius wasn’t some tech bro but a working class girl from Cork?
A highly intelligent teenager a working-class area in Cork faces the joys and struggles of love, friendship, sex, and social division when the chance for education takes her to the other side of the city, where she is surrounded by wealthy upper-class teenagers.
Written, directed and created by Oonagh Kearney. Developed at the TFL Extended TV Series Lab. In development with producers Yvonne Donohue and Katie Holly of Keeper Pictures, Tasja Abel of Merry Pictures, RTE, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, ZDF Neo and Screen Ireland.
VIRTUOSO
FEATURE FILM
A love story about the extremes we follow to maintain belief in each other.
After a haunting out-of-body experience during an acclaimed performance, a virtuoso violinist abandons her Irish husband to seek spiritual guidance in her ancestral home in Japan.
Writer-Director Oonagh Kearney. In development as part of the Lux-Ireland Co-Development Fund with the support of Screen Ireland and Keeper Pictures.