A new short fiction film shot by novelist and filmmaker Emer Martin (Breakfast in Babylon) and staring Maria Hayden (Bloom 2003) (The Dead 1987).
The movie features Irvine Welsh as a social worker who finds a traumatized unaccompanied minor from Africa on the streets of Dublin. Produced by Niall McKay.
A young African boy who does not speak is found on the streets of Dublin. The authorities name him Danny and he comes under the care of Sarah, an over-worked social worker and single mother of two. Sarah and Danny form an ineffable bond, and she decides to foster him, but is shattered by his sudden disappearance.
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NUTS
a new short film written and directed by Irvine Welsh. This film is in post production with Media Factory in Berkeley California 2006. Producer Emer Martin.
Irvine Welsh’s debut as a director is Nuts – a dark comedy. Underneath the obvious comic elements there are bigger issues at play here. Notably, the much overlooked men’s health issue of testicular cancer, and the closet racism among the professional Irish middle-class. Ireland is a country that has just undergone dramatic changes, and the comfortable materialistic world that Dominic has built around himself is about to fall apart.
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FILMOGRAPHY
Baby Zero, An adaptation of Emer’s book Baby Zero has been optioned by Zanzibar productions and just received developmental funding from the Irish Film Board www.zanzibarfilms.net
Valley Of Ghosts , 16mm Color, 16 mins, 2003
Valley of Ghosts is a film about Silicon Valley – the new Wild West. Mary, a laid off high tech worker makes a film for her unborn child whom she is forced to sell to Michael and Sangita, dot com. Millionaires.
The Motel At The Mouth Of The Tunnel, 16mm B&W, 9 mins, 2000
Rosemary’s Baby in eight and a half minutes, this narrative film is about a young Irish woman who is tricked by her bulimic demon roommate into having a child.
Programmer For Filum 04, San Francisco International Irish Film Festival.
March 10/11 2004, Delancey Screening Room.
UPCOMMING EVENTS
NUTS will be featured at the prestigious Cork Film Festival 2007
MARDI GRAS
Spirit Nightclub
Sunday, 8 July 2007
Frank Ilfman AKA DJ Carnival-Pod / DJ Saskia /
DJ Tony Walsh/ Irish short films / Diva Manilla
Venue: Spirit Nightclub, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1
Date: Sunday, 8 July, 2007
Time: Short films start screening at 10.30pm on the main floor; DJ competition begins at the same time in the basement; Tocadisco music video premier at 12.00am followed by DJ Carnival-Pod.
Price: Tickets 10 (with passes)
Free before 11.00pm