The 2004 BSÉ/IFB Short Shorts film scheme, now in its 4th year, features a number of prominent Irish directors including Kieron J Walsh, Peter Sheridan and Stephen Burke.
The Short Shorts scheme enables the production of 3-minute short films which, play before mainstream theatrical releases, which showcase the talents of the Irish film industry to wider audiences. It has produced a host of multi-award winning shorts which includes the Academy Award® nominated ‘Fifty Percent Grey’.
Kieron J Walsh, who directed the hit movie ‘When Brendan Met Trudy’, has written and directed the ‘Man of Fire’ starring Luke Hayden; while ‘Borstal Boy’ director Peter Sheridan has written and directed the comedy ‘Oxygen’.
Apres Match comedian Gary Cooke, Tomás O'Suilleabháin from ‘Intermission’ and Eamon Hunt will feature in ‘Borris’, a comic short about Boris Yelson’s visit to Ireland. ‘Boris’ is written and directed by award-winning director Stephen Burke, who directed the RTE television series ‘No Tears’.
Director/producer team Sydney Padua and Barry O'Donoghue, who previously worked together at Warners Bros, have produced ‘Agriculture Report’, an animated comedy about the effect that the media has on its listeners.
Other animated shorts include Declan DeBarra’s ‘Nun’s Fight Club’, a mockumentary about nuns who set up their own version of fight club in their basement, produced by animation company Cartoon Saloon. Cartoon Saloon are also producing ‘Couch Potato’, directed by Tomm Moore.
Hugh McGrory is directing ‘Within Without’, shot with experimental scientific cameras making the invisible visible. Other dramatic shorts include Damon Silvester’s comedy ‘Aroma’, produced by ‘Song For A Raggy Boy’ co-producer John McDonnell; Adrienne Michel-Long’s ‘Luka’, shot by ‘Timbuktu’ director of photography, PJ Dillion; and historical tale ‘Shaving the Baby’, directed by Frances Roe.
All of this year’s Short Shorts will premiere at the Galway International Film Festival in July 2004.