Projects in genres: Northern Irish

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'The Survivalist' is the near future story of a man eking out a meagre existence on a secluded smallholding deep in the forest. When a starving woman and her teenage daughter discover his farm, his loneliness drives him to strike a bargain with them in return for bed and board. But as desire becomes stronger than necessity, the exchange becomes an uneasy, ongoing arrangement which threatens not only his carefully constructed world but also his life.

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Rally driver Shane Hunter faces his comeback to Group B competition after a long and troubled absence.

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“The secret Life of Balloons”



Written By Nina Graham )

Directed By Nina and Lauren Graham

Produced by Lauren Graham



Actors:

Chris Grant

Holly Hanaway



Filmed in Northern Ireland Helens Bay County Down Summer 2014



Short Film 10 Mins



Log Line:

Sometimes there’s only one thing left to say and only one way to say it.



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The Secret Life of Balloons explores the parallel journeys of a boy and his girlfriend at very different stages of existence. Left lost and believing they’ll never connect again, this uplifting short film asks questions about the boundaries of love, life and letting go.

This is the first short film undertaken by sisters Lauren (age 18) and Nina (age 16) Graham. Inspired by the Australian Theatre for Young People's Fresh Ink playwriting development programme, which collects the best new monologues together to be performed as The Voices Project.

Nina wrote the original monologue as a dramatic piece of creative writing for a school assessment on the topic of love and loss. The sisters then adapted the piece into a short film project that was undertaken during the School holidays as they waited for external exam results. Together they managing to raise and utilise a small budget recruit a great team of friends to help shoot, compose music, edit and perform the work. The end result has been an exciting journey and taken them in a very different direction from the original work. The finished work has both surprised and delighted them from an initial idea of loss and despair they have managed to capture an uplifting film of loss and love.

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Jamesy and Malachy are over the moon when their soft-hearted dad presents them with two baby chicks. Raising their tiny charges, declaring themselves vegetarian and dreaming of running a chicken farm, the boys are in for a shock when their parents announce that big changes are coming to the family.

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Are there any such thing as miracles? Mickey McGuigan, a lively 73 year old farmer turned writer, has been documenting those he’s come across, along the Northern Irish border.

The stories may defy logic, but people swear by them. This is a disappearing world of pagan folklore and magic.

There’s a man who cures cows that suffer from ringworm, by just spitting on them and then there's a woman who can heal babies screaming with the colic by tying a piece of string.

One healer has a six month waiting list because people believe he can cure anything, even cancer.

A film that explores the thin line between faith and doubt.

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Cold Open is part of a series of films shot over a year, 2007 in the environs of the Waterworks (Queen Mary's Park), in north Belfast.

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On a difficult journey across the Irish Sea a woman in trouble meets a young girl in the same predicament.

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A boy wants to be a comedian but his father, a judge, is unintentionally his worst audience. He sentences himself to step into his son's shoes but they're secret shoes. A dirty sacrilegious film about comedy and love to scar your heart.

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A contemporary drama of fear, loss jealousy and rejection set in real time and filmed on 31 January and 1 February, at the time of Imbolc.

They say people come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime and when you know which one it is, you’ll know what to do. For Brigid Liston and her son Quinn, such a person comes in the form of American anthropologist, Janet Hattridge, on sabbatical researching her Ulster Scots roots and her family’s link to a long forgotten witch trial.

As the relationship between Janet and Quinn deepens, Brigid’s mother dies. Brigid’s grief sets her on a path that ends in tragedy and as her actions unfold, the past reveals itself.

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A sympathetic but searching portrait of Frank Ryan (1902-1944) IRA activist in Ireland, International Brigade Volunteer in Spain and Nazi collaborator in Berlin. Ryan enters a Faustian pact with a Nazi regime he believes will assist in forging a united Ireland. His collaboration is justified by the republican motto: "My enemy's enemy is my friend". But the former radical and internationalist pays a heavy price for this pact. The film raises important questions about collaboration between the IRA and the Nazis in World War II. It opens up a long suppressed debate about Irish neutrality in that war. Drawing upon Ryan’s correspondence and using a rich mix of period archive combined with live action - with a striking portrayal of Frank Ryan by Dara Devaney - the film makers tell a story of tragic proportions and probe the enigma that was Frank Ryan.

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After 1968, Ulrike Meinhof and Fusako Shigenobu sought world revolution. As leaders of the Baader Meinhof Group and the Japanese Red Army, they became the most notorious 'terrorists' of their time. Journalists Bettina Röhl and May Shigenobu explore the lives of their revolutionary mothers: what were they fighting for and what have we learned?