What's in Development

Now Love
Written and directed by Virginia Gilbert and produced by Ailish McElmeel.
Cast attached includes Juliet Stevenson.
Now Love is a powerful and passionate contemporary drama that explores our universal yearning for love. When Denise, reeling from a painful, recent divorce, and on the cusp of lonely middle-age, falls unexpectedly in love with Karel, a Polish emigré, she throws herself headlong into the relationship, desperate to get a second shot at happiness. But Karel, a man full of secrets, is in flight from the realities of his own life - a life that has been lived, for the most part, behind the Iron Curtain: a life of moral compromise and collusion and the slow erosion of his better self...

Maam's Crossing
Written by Colleen Davie Janes, Sybil St. Claire and Eoin O'Connor. Directed by Gaby Delall. Produced by Ailish McElmeel and John Pinckard.
“Maam’s Crossing” is a comedy road movie. When their mother dies, feuding siblings Meg, 30s, Finn, late 20s, Ness, early 20s are forced to go on a misadventure to Ireland to spread her ashes at the mysterious Maam’s Crossing, leading each of the travellers on a journey of love, reconciliation and redemption that will change their lives - and those of their newly found Irish friends - forever.

Sham
Written by Eli Richbourg and Barry McEvoy and to be directed by Eli Richbourg. Produced by Paul Donovan and Peter Eiff.
"Sham" is a coming-of-age comedy with a whiff of Billy Elliot about three brothers making their way without parents in a miserable town called Hole. To avoid his grim destiny as a chick sexer in the local hatchery, the youngest brother, Johnny, pretends to be an Australian surfer. Only trouble is, Johnny’s pale as balls, he can't swim, he's never actually been to Oz... and he's no clue how to surf.

The Piper
Written by Jean Pasley, directed by Terry Loane and produced by Michael Garland.
Cast attached includes Ciaran Hinds.
A disillusioned American photojournalist/artist goes to Ireland in search of some new inspiration only to find that she falls for more than the beautiful Irish scenery...

The Dead Spit of Kelly
Written by Johnny Ferguson, directed by Dearbhla Walsh and produced by Michael Garland.
Murphy, a diligent and dedicated taxidermist, finally loses his temper with his arrogant, cruel boss, Kelly, and kills him. To hide his terrible crime, Murphy, using his great skill, "becomes" Kelly, donning his skin and living a double life. Until...

Winterwood
Written by Johnny Ferguson and Pat McCabe and produced by Michael Garland.
Winterwood, based on the Pat McCabe novel, is a strange sort of ghost story in which the narrator's identity becomes confused with that which he most fears. Once, Redmond Hatch was in heaven, married to the lovely Catherine and father to enchanting daughter Immy. But then he took them both to Winterwood and it would never be the same again...