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Past Productions - Short
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The following titles can be found on this page
Cake, The
Coronation Day/An La Churona
Dah Dit Dah
Dance Lexie Dance
Do Armed Robbers Have Love Affairs
Everyone's Gone
Fatal Extraction
Freesia of Eden, The
Furry Story
Heroes
I Was The Cigarette Girl
Jumpers
Long Walk, The
Out of The Deep Pan
Petrol Country Blues
Puddy Cat
Short Back and Sides
Skintight
Stumped
Suffering
The Devil You Know
Wayfarer
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Title: |
The Cake |
| Logline: |
The story
is set in small-town Northern Ireland on the eve of the Twelfth
of July. Beneath the watchful gaze of the Sacred Heart and John
F. Kennedy Josephine puts the finishing touches to her fabulous
sculptural creation - a celebratory cake in honour of the Twelfth
baked to order for the local Orange Lodge. Events take a surreal
turn as Josephine makes her delivery of the cake. |
| Starring: |
Lorraine
Pilkington, Tom Hickey, John Hewitt, Tim Loane |
| Writer: |
Pat Griffin |
| Director:
|
Jo Neylin |
| Producer: |
Sarah Carr |
| Executive
Producer: |
Robert Cooper |
| Production
Credits: |
A Fena Films
and Indica Films Production for Northern Lights funded by BBC
Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Film Council. |
| Genre: |
Short Film
- Part of Northern Lights series 1 |
| Channel: |
BBC2 |
| Year
Of First Transmission: |
1996 |
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| Title:
|
Coronation
Day/An La Churona |
| Logline: |
1953.
Glenarm Co. Antrim prepares to celebrate the Coronation of Queen
Elizabeth Fionnoula is forbidden from going to the Coronation
party by her parents as it is not part of her tradition. A funny
and moving short film about innocence and understanding. |
| Writer: |
Frances
Tomelty |
| Director:
|
Tony
Knox |
| Producer:
|
Neil
Martin |
| Cast
includes: |
Eileen
McCloskey, Vincent Higgins |
| Executive
Producer: |
Robert
Cooper, Stephen Wright |
| Production
Credits: |
Flying
Fox Films |
| Channel:
|
BBC2
NI 2 |
| Genre: |
Short
Film - Part of Northern Lights series 6. In Irish and English. |
| Year
Of First Transmission: |
28
November 2002 |
| Title: |
Dah Dit
Dah |
| Logline:
|
12 year old
Kay and her widowed father share a passion for communicating
by unusual means. But when Dad starts dating the girl’s
teacher, the messages become increasingly urgent. |
| Starring: |
Lorcan Cranitch,
Zara Turner, Collette Lennon |
| Writer: |
N.G. Bristow |
| Director: |
N.G. Bristow |
| Producer: |
Ben Woolford |
| Executive
Producer: |
Robert Cooper |
| Production
Credits: |
A Tall Stories
Production for BFI Production and BBC Northern Ireland |
| Genre: |
Short Film
- Part of Northern Lights series 3 |
| Channel: |
BBC1 NI |
| Year
Of First Transmission: |
1998 |
| Awards: |
1. Won one
of the Irish World Heritage Film Awards at the Kino Festival
of New Irish Cinema in Manchester (March 1997). It was chosen
as the best short in the "Northern Lights" category.
2. One of the short films selected as Best of the Fest at the
Drambuie Edinburgh Film Festival in August 1996. |
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| Title: |
Dance
Lexie Dance |
| Logline: |
 Lexie's
daughter Laura wants to become a Riverdancer. Little does Lexie
realise that his awkward attempts to help her will bring them
closer and soothe a deeper wound. |
| Starring: |
B.J. Hogg,
Kimberley McConkey |
| Writer: |
Dave Duggan |
| Director: |
Tim Loane |
| Producer: |
Pearse Moore |
| Executive
Producer: |
Robert Cooper,
Stephen Butcher |
| Production
Credits: |
A Raw Nerve
Production for BBC Northern Ireland |
| Genre: |
Short Film
- Part of Northern Lights series 2 |
| Channel: |
BBC1 NI |
| Year
Of First Transmission: |
1996 |
| Awards: |
1. Nominated
for an Oscar at the Academy of Motion Pictures. It was 1 of
5 short films from all over the world competing for a Best Achievement
Award in the Live Action Short Film category (March 1998).
2. Won the Silver Plaque in the Short Subject category at Intercom
(The International Communications Film & Video Competition),
Chicago, USA (Sep 1997).
3. Won the 1st prize in the Best Irish Shorts category at the
Galway Film Fleadh. This is the Tiernan MacBride award (July
1997).
4. Won the Special Jury Award and the Audience Award at the
Aspen Short Film Festival in Colorado, USA (April 1997).
5. "Dance Lexie Dance" director, Tim Loane, won the
Frank Copplestone award, a First-Time Director award, at the
Celtic Film Festival in Cornwall (March 1997).
6. Won the Claire Lynch Award at the Cork International Film
Festival October 1996 for Best First Film by Irish Director
(Director: Tim Loane). |
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| Title:
|
Do
Armed Robbers Have Love Affairs? |
| Logline: |
 An
intense, gripping short film exploring the emotions of three
armed robbers as they contemplate the risk of a bank robbery.
Nervous and unsure, they sit waiting in a car opposite the bank
for dawn to approach and the security van to arrive. Lost in
snatches of fond memory and chilling moments of recollection,
each one is instinctively aware that the outcome of the event
will be fatal. |
| Writer: |
Ronan
Bennett and Seamus Keenan |
| Director: |
Brian
Kirk |
| Producer: |
Pearse
Moore |
| Cast
includes: |
Sean
McGinley, Sorcha Cusack, Paul Ronan & Gerard McSorley |
| Executive
Producers: |
Robert
Cooper, Gemma McMullan |
| Production
Credits: |
A
Raw Nerve Film for BBC Northern Ireland |
| Genre: |
Short
Film - Part of Northern Lights series 6 |
| Year
Of First Transmission: |
BBC TWO NI November 2002 |
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| Title:
|
Everybody’s
Gone |
| Logline: |
Davey is
a young dreamer. One day a group of surfers come to town with
their high tech boards and their west coast music. Davey catches
the bug; but this is the west coast of Ireland, not America.
|
| Starring: |
James Ellis,
Alan McKee, Birdy Sweeney |
| Writer: |
Martin Meenan |
| Director: |
N.G. Bristow |
| Producer: |
Tom Collins |
| Executive
Producer: |
Robert Cooper,
Stephen Butcher |
| Production
Credits: |
A De Facto
Films Production for Northern Lights funded by BBC Northern
Ireland and the Northern Ireland Film Commission |
| Genre: |
Short Film
- Part of Northern Lights series 1
Channel: BBC2 |
| Year
Of First Transmission: |
1996 |
| Awards: |
1. Nominated
for a Royal Television Society , Craft and Design Award 1995/96
for Stephen Murphy’s music (Best Original Score).
2. Won Golden Plaque Award at the Chicago Film Festival 1995. |
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| Title: |
Fatal
Extraction |
| Logline: |
In the dead
of night a prisoner is on the verge of losing control. There
is only one man who can help, but will he get there in time?… |
| Starring: |
Walter McGonagle,
Stuart Graham, Eleanor Methven |
| Writer: |
Malachy Martin |
| Director: |
Colin McKeown |
| Producer:
|
Margo Harkin |
| Executive
Producer: |
Robert Cooper,
Tony Rowe |
| Production
Credits: |
Besom Productions
for BBC Northern Ireland. |
| Genre: |
Short Film
- Part of Northern Lights series 4 |
| Channel: |
BBC1 |
| Year
Of First Transmission: |
1999 |
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| Title: |
The Freesia
Of Eden |
| Logline:
|
The unique
friendship between Ned and his seven year old grandson, Conan,
stems from their devout love of gardening. When Ned realises
that he is going to die he knows he must explain his death to
Conan in the only way he will understand. So when God phones
and offers him the position of "chief gardener" in
heaven - complete with a golden rake and trowel - how could
he possibly turn down the promotion! |
| Starring: |
Barry Cassin,
Sheelagh O’Kane, Aaron Moore |
| Writer: |
Gemma McMullan |
| Director: |
Alastair
McIlwain |
| Producer: |
Paula Campbell |
| Executive
Producer: |
Robert Cooper |
| Production
Credits: |
A Footage
Production for Northern Lights funded by BBC Northern Ireland
and The Arts Council of Northern Ireland Lottery Fund |
| Genre: |
Short Film
- Part of Northern Lights series 3 |
| Channel: |
BBC1 NI |
| Year
Of First Transmission: |
1997 |
| Awards: |
1. Won a
Silver Spire Award in the Golden Gate Awards at the 42nd San
Francisco International Film Festival. The award was won in
the Children’s Programmes Category for Television (April
1999).
2. Won an Outstanding Achievement Award at the Chicago International
Children’s Film Festival (October 1998).
3. Nominated for an RTS Programme Award in the Regional Programme
Category to represent the BBC Northern Ireland region (March
1998).
4. Nominated for the Celtic Film Festival in Tralee, Ireland
(March 1998). |
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| Title:
|
Furry
Story |
| Logline: |
Northern
Lights first animated short film is an enjoyable and darkly
comic parable which concerns a sweet little girl, Janey, and
her bad tempered parents who are in the midst of a family break-up.
In answer to her wishes, Janey is befriended by FredGlob the
goblin, who proceeds to devour everything close to her - including
her mother and father. Just when she thought FredGlob and her
could play together happily ever after, he turns his hairy mouth
on her! |
| Writer: |
Jason Robertson |
Director/
Animator: |
Ken Simpson |
| Producer:
|
Jason Robertson |
| Executive
Producer: |
Gemma McMullan,
Kate Triggs |
| Production
Credits: |
A Brothers
Dimm Production for BBC Northern Ireland and The Arts Council
of Northern Ireland Lottery Fund |
| Graphic
Art & Design Work: |
William Simpson |
| Genre: |
Short Film
- Part of Northern Lights series 5 |
| Year
Of First Transmission: |
BBC
TWO NI November 2002 |
| Title:
|
Short
Back and Sides |
| Logline: |
 A
day in the life of a Belfast barber shop. An apprentice barber
learns from his mentor that, ‘A barber must be brave’ as he
encounters the mad, the bad and the vain who come to get their
haircut. Starring James Ellis and Kevin Elliott |
| Writer: |
Pearce Elliott |
| Director:
|
Pearce Elliott |
| Producer:
|
Colin McKeown |
| Executive
Producer: |
Robert Cooper,
Stephen Wright |
| Production
Credits: |
Fillum Ltd |
| Genre: |
Short Film
- Part of Northern Lights series 6 |
| Year
Of First Transmission: |
November
2002 |
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