DAILIES
RTÉ’S STORYLAND
Five months ago the call went out for new and established programme makers with exciting ideas to take part in a unique web drama competition.
The talented finalists have produced some brilliant content with buckets of tension, comedy and thrills. However it’s up to you to decide who goes through to the next round.
Watch episode one and vote for the drama you’d most like to see make a second episode. Voting opens 5pm Monday 16th March and closes 5pm Monday 30th March.
Visit http://www.rte.ie/storyland to view and vote.
JENNY WAS A FRIEND OF MINE
Writer: Thomas Martin & Steven Byrne
Director: Rob Cawley
Producer: Paul Duane and Rob Cawley (Screenworks)
From the moment you go online, they’re watching you. Recording your every move, collecting data, building your profile. They know your secrets. They’ve mapped your very soul. Now, they mean to do you harm. But who are they?
HAPPY SLAPPER
Writer: Gary Duggan
Director: Paul Duane
Producer: Rob Cawley (Screenworks)
‘Your school years are the best years of your life.’ Whoever said that must have been hit a few too many times on the head. With a hammer...Set in a North Dublin secondary school, during a final year that is filled with betrayal, manipulation, desperation & violence, HAPPYSLAPPER is a mystery thriller that centres on the disappearance of popular girl MADDY, and the dark secrets that are revealed when two of her friends start investigating what has happened to her and why…
HARDY BUCKS
Writer: Chris Tordoff & Martin Maloney
Director: Chris Tordoff
Producer: Chris Tordoff & Martin Maloney (Hardy Productions)
Hardy Bucks follows the lives of four lazy but likable lads from Castletown, Co Mayo as they try and make enough money to make a fresh start in the ‘big shmoke’ - Galway. The bucks try their luck at the Mitzi Turbo Cup - an underground boy-racer event - which has come to Castletown. With the chance of netting €250 “in the claw”, the boys may finally have the means of moving to Galway.
CHEZ SPUDS
Writer: Pat McCabe & Johnny Ferguson
Director: Rory Bresnihan
Producer: Brian Willis (Igloo Films)
A surreal comedy set around an Irish kitchen inhabited by Mrs Spuds and her son Shay. In each episode a well known figure will turn up through a strange portal into which step the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Gengis Khan and the 1966 English world cup squad!
PHYSCH WARD
Written by Luke & Sam McManus
Director: Luke McManus
Producer: Katie Holly & Adrienne Greenhalgh (Blinder Films)
Danny O’Hagan works as an emergency Psychiatrist on the night shift in a busy city centre hospital. One night Danny is forced to make an impossible decision. The consequences prove worse than he could have imagined. Pressure is building, and Danny soon finds himself in the biggest battle of his life.
RENTAL BOYS
Written by Gemma Creagh
Director: Garret Daley
Producer: Gemma Creagh (Mixed Bag Media)
‘Rental Boys follows the lives of the staff of two competing DVD rental chain stores in the Dublin suburb of Finglas. Main character Brian, a DIT drop out, is an aspiring sci-fi scriptwriter and the lethargic assistant manager of “Movie-visions”, the rental store that also specialises in most electronics. His average working days generally include run-ins with; his long-suffering manager Pawel, an array of crazy customers and his arch nemesis, Darren, a struggling actor with a great tan who’s the senior staff member at “Filmbusters” - the store where you can avail of sunbeds and diet pills with every new movie release.
RUNNING LOW
Writer: Diarmuid O’Brien
Director: PJ Dillon
Producer: Amy Breen (Happy Endings Productions)
Of course the oil ran out in the end, and civilisation duly crumbled in its absence. But Tom and Bala Weldon, two slackers manning the last petrol station in Ireland, have no intention of going anywhere. Their plan, to lay low and sit out mankind’s barbarous return to the Dark Ages, is foiled by the very last thing they expected to see… a motorist.
PUBWORLD
Writer: Steven Stubbs
Director: Ray Sullivan & Steven Stubbs
Producer: Ray Sullivan & Steven Stubbs (EEKREB Films)
What is reality? What are its limits, its possibilities, its meaning? A young man called Darryl has been wrenched, against his will, from our reality and deposited in some other existence – an existence that on the surface appears similar - yet which openly defies the long established norms of physics and logic. He has been deposited in a place called Pub World, and closing time is near…
THIS IS NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORY
Produced by: Fastnet Films
Joe is a twenty-something male webcasting his personal experiences of UFOs and ‘abduction phenomena’. For reasons of security he prefers to remain anonymous.
View all the finalists on http://www.rte.ie/storyland/
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