A programme of six short films produced in the SLR region in the past year, including the three winners of the 2025 Creative Heartlands Adaptation Bursary and two films realised through the Glens Centre/Leitrim Development Company Film Production Course.
An Buachall Nua
Diarmuid Timmons 1970s set story about two boys whose dreaming sees them fall foul of their headmaster, only to encounter an unlikely saviour.
The Blow In
Monica McCarthy directs Róisín Mulligan’s script about an American tourist who gets taken for a ride. Produced by Mariia Levko as part of the Glens Arts Centre’s/Leitrim Development Company project.
Ah It’s Myself
Thomas Conway directs his debut short inspired by a painting Ah It’s Myself by Fran Conway. (CH Bursary 2025)
Beyond the Hedge
Emma Brennan adapts Rose Byrne’s short story. Two fifty-something neighbours Emily (Andrea Kelly) and Mickey Joe (Gerry Herbert) have a thorny relationship, its true nature initially unclear. (CH Bursary 2025)
A Big Whoosh of Wind
Gerry Boland’s poem Bonfire is adapted by writer-actor Alan Devine and director-actor Hilary Bowen Walsh, a story of a self-obsessed writer and his increasingly infuriated wife. (CH Bursary 2025)
The Curse
Johnny Gogan directs Dermot Healy’s adapted short story set in 1970s midlands Ireland. Fourteen-year-old Charlie aspires to be a jockey, an ambition that makes him prey for manipulative local trainer Ted Webster Smith. Filmed as part of the Glens Arts Centre/Leitrim Development Company project.