22 Jan 2021 : News Desk Ballast Galway Film Fleadh and Short Circuit Scotland are teaming up to present a touring programme of five short fiction films from Scotland, combined with the five Award-winning Irish shorts from the 2020 Film Fleadh.
Together, they will highlight the exciting diversity and wealth of talent that Scottish & Irish emerging filmmakers have to offer.
In the Scottish programme, take a trip with Miles and Stanley in rural Scotland to a 4th encounter in
UFO; plunge back to the 80s for a metal journey to hell in
Satanic Panic ‘87; experience a
Boys Night in North East Glasgow; join a brave warrior queen as she shows ‘The Man’ who’s boss in
World-weary stand-up comedian Kate McLoughlin wants out. Her morbid prayers are answered in the form of a cancer diagnosis. For Kate, this is the perfect excuse. However, a last supper of dodgy shellfish and champagne puts paid to her overdose attempt and to placate her family she begrudgingly agrees to undergo treatment.
Armed with staggering levels of cynicism and a plethora of blackly comic jokes, Kate gets off to a bad start with the four other women she encounters on the chemo ward, whose unsolictited friendships are destined to blow open her shut-down heart.
CAST: Gemma-Leah Devereux, Siobhan Cullen, Karen Egan, Barbara Brennan, Derbhle Crotty, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor