Greenlit: Rewarding/ Helpless/ Mourning Glory

TIME & LOCATION

Wednesday 12 November, 3:00 pm

End Time: 4:45 pm

Upstairs Theatre

About

Green Lit was launched in December 2024 by BBC Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Screen as a way to support emerging writing, production, directing and acting talent from Northern Ireland through the development and production of three new standalone scripted comedy or drama films.

 

From a huge number of submissions, six projects were selected for an initial phase of funded development. Three of these projects where then chosen to proceed to full production of a short film.

The films will be broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland and carried on BBC iPlayer across the UK.

The three successful projects are:

Rewarding from Conker Pictures written by Matthew McDevitt featuring Vittorio Angelone, Seána Kerslake and Joanne Crawford.

Meet Francis and Sinead. The last two people mad enough to be working on the frontline of Belfast’s social care system. They both want the best for their clients… they just have very different ideas on how to do it. A hilarious, heart-warming and authentic look at the residential care system today.

Helpless from Fabel Productions written by Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney starring Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Éanna Hardwicke and George Robinson

In this pitch black comedy thriller, newly disabled Cillian is tetchy, bored and obsessed with Grace the curious girl in the flat upstairs. Convinced that her charmless boyfriend Joe is mistreating her, Cillian risks everything to be Grace’s hero. But when he uncovers their dangerous secrets Cillian’s life will never be boring again.

Mourning Glory produced by Fíbín Films written by Shane McNaughton featuring Nigel O’Neill, Amy Huberman, Lennox Loughran and Lalor Roddy.

Newly widowed Dermot, played by Nigel O’Neill, turns to an unusual past-time to process his pain. But his gate-crashing of every wake he can across rural county Antrim doesn’t go unnoticed. The new funeral director and her young son catch him in the act but then make him an offer he surely can’t refuse…

Chair

Jason Butler

SPONSOR

Panel

Conker Pictures

About Conker Pictures:
Founded in 2023 by former Apple and BBC commissioners Kim Varvell and Tommy Bulfin, Conker Pictures is a scripted television production company based in London and Belfast. We make entertaining, mainstream television that speaks to audiences across the globe and work with the brightest and best creative talent in the industry.

Fíbín Films

About Fíbín Films:
Fíbín Films is a vibrant home for brilliant creative people who share their passion for original films and TV content. Culturally bold, internationally minded, and rooted in the Irish experience.

Kim Varvell

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Fabel Productions

About Fabel Productions:
FABEL is an indigenous, Belfast-based scripted indie built upon the belief that funny, entertaining and thrilling scripted content can be created, developed and produced in Northern Ireland. Dedicated to sharing stories and perspectives not seen before and championing diversity in all its forms. A sense of humour is at the centre of everything FABEL does, empowering specificity, decency, big heartedness and creative risk taking.

Micheal Patrick and Oisin Kearney

Shane McNaughton and Méabh Nic Alastair