Faitíos

Writer & Director

WINNER:

• Dónal Gilligan Award for Best Cinematography in an Irish Short Film at the Galway Film Fleadh, 2021

• Best Irish-Language Short Film at Still Voices Film Festival, Longford, 2021

“In an abandoned asbestos processing plant, two teenagers reluctantly execute a task they have both been dreading.”

Faitíos is a short film funded by Creative Ireland and Kildare County Council, and a Fizz & Chips production.

It is an Irish language coming-of-age film that plays with filmic genre and deals with the themes of culturally-inherited sexual shame, adolescent anxiety, and growing up in Ireland.

Screened at (2021):

Galway Film Fleadh, Disappear Here Film Festival, Kerry International Film Festival, Still Voices Short Film Festival, Cork International Film Festival, Belfast Film Festival, The Richard Harris Film Festival