Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT)

Two strangers. Two personalities. One hand-made secret.

A short film about a guy who is the odd one out in a topsy turvy world.

Death is training his son in the art and responsibilities of the family business. His son does well until he's sent out on his own to claim an accident victim. Instead, he's asked by a friend of the dying man to help with CPR. Taken aback, he assents, the dying man is resuscitated, and Death's son is in the doghouse with dad. Enraged, pop gives his son 24 hours to deliver a corpse, so the young man sets out to ice the man who asked him for help earlier that day. Junior's target is a young actor, Tom, going through opening night and loved by Sarah, a rather histrionic young woman. A near-Death experience awaits them all as Junior comes of age.

When an under-twelves hurling team and their coach get lost on their way to a match, they encounter... The Braineater.

A tale about isolation and lack of communication, the gap between the reality a teenage boy lives, and how he would like it be. He has a secret that he would like to tell his family, something that he has come to terms with and is about to affect the rest of his life. But how will they react?

A young boy's love for the piano offers escape from his parents disintegrating marriage and the bullies at school.

Peeping Anto follows the eccentric presenter Anto Orange, the host of a game show in which three contestants must guess the mystery celebrity owner of a luxurious estate correctly or they will be subjected to the dreaded Chairs of Doom.

Two Dublin youths inhabit their own autonomous teenage world where adult moods have no sway, cigarettes are the standard unit of currency, and alcohol the usual means of escape.

Interviews with male prostitutes in Dublin city are repeated on camera by actors nonetheless cast in shadow as if they were the people in question. This footage is interspersed with grainy hand held, slow motion images of actors playing out typical rent boy scenes.

Michael O’Connell’s adaptation of the short story Swallows filmed where an isolated rural Garda is reminded of his love of Paganini when he meets a violin playing surveyor.