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Birdman

A short film featuring Birds, Dogs and lots of Charlie...

A London Café

Short video poem

Written & Directed by Simon O'Neill

Éire

Short video poem

Written by Audrey Huigens

Directed by Simon O'Neill

Starring Nelly Henrion

Drop The Hand

Comedy drama short film set among the Irish community and building sites of 1980s Reading, Berkshire starring:

Martin Condon

Donal Gallery

Lauren Cardiff

Edward Dogliani

Donna Preston

Elis James

Tommy Blaize

 

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The Man with My Name

The Man with My Name is a documentary about Giovanni Simonelli - an Italian screenwriter of Biblical epics, Spaghetti Westerns, Spy thrillers, horrors movies (Giallo) and B-Movies in a career that spanned five crazy decades.

The film also celebrates the golden age of the B-Movie and Italian Cinema's most prolific period, while also examining the practise of anglisicing the Italian names of key crew members to disguise the fact that these films were "foreign".

This wonderful era of B-Movies, Westerns, Spy Movies, Sex Comedies and Video Nasties saw Italian and European production thrive and Giovanni Simonelli managed to stay at the forefront of his craft from the late 50s all the way through to the 90s.

Along the way, I meet horror legends Ruggero Deodato (Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man, 1976 / Cannibal Holocaust, 1980) Luigi Cozzi (The Killer Must Kill Again, 1975 / Starcrash, 1979) and Catriona MacColl (The Beyond, 1981).

My own connection with Giovanni Simonelli is a strange quirk of fate that bonds us through a shared identity.

Open Mic

It's a serious business, being funny...

Comedian Rachel Brooke is slogging her way through London's comedy circuit when she catches a lucky break.

Open Mic is a short film about life, love and knob jokes.

Cast:

Rachel Brooke: Samia Rida
Dominic Strayhorn: Edward Dogliani.

Crew:

Director of Photography - Robbie Ryan
Editor - Eamonn Cleary

Sound - Brando Mosca
Sound Editor - Emer Sands

Produced by Samia Rida & Simon O'Neill
Written & Directed by Simon O'Neill

The Unicorn's Tear

A TV sitcom proposal based on the life and times of obscure literary icon, Pascal Belmont - author of the classic novel, The Unicorn's Tear.

Script available on request.

The Elephant is Contagious

imdb.com/title/tt3715378/

The Elephant is Contagious is a short film based on an original poem by Irish poet, Eabha Rose. It tells the tale of a territorial battle between two love rivals at a polite and outwardly formal gathering.

The poem was recorded at Avenue 33 studios in Rathgar, Dublin.

Tell me about yourself

Actor Steve Hayes tries to 'self tape' for an audition.

ROFLMAO

Winner of best film at the inaugural (and it would seem only!) Relate Film Festival in Oxfordshire, UK and the sole Irish representative at the Fetish Film Festival in Kiel, Germany, ROFLMAO has played numerous other festivals and was screened on Irish TV in April 2013.

The film was shot in London over an October weekend, which fortunately coincided with an unseasonal heatwave in the UK. We applied the 'Only Fools & Horses' rules of cinematography. These Dogme-like restrictions mean that all exteriors are shot on film (16mm Aaton A-Minima) and interiors are shot on tape (or in this case digital with a Canon 7D). Why did we choose this method? Well 16mm is bloody expensive to process these days. There was also some vague idea about the film exteriors portraying a grittier more urban world and the digital interiors representing the safe, fantasy environment Samia's character had conjured about herself but cost was undoubtedly a factor as it is in any short film.

ROFLMAO is the story of an internet hook up. A woman and a man meet for the first time. However, it is apparent they have spoken at length before on the phone and via email. These two familiar strangers have met over some unmentioned but obviously adult orientated website. Each of them is a little suspicious of the other character's motives and they attempt to put each other at ease. The film examines how an immediate intimacy is now more accessible than ever via the internet.

16mm rushes and some stills attached too.

imdb.com/title/tt2273513/

Starring:

Samia Rida, Joseph Beattie, Ted Dogliani & Lucy-Anne Holmes

Sea Dogs

Sea Dogs is the story of a group of men reunited for a weekend in the Irish countryside that becomes a tale of high jinks on the high seas as they take to the Atlantic Ocean aboard a stolen trawler.

Full script available on request (125 pages).

Oaxaca FilmFest
Shore Scripts Screenplay Contest
Nominated for Best Screenplay (Comedy) at Finow Film Festival
ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Contest

Carnival of Carnage

A quick reboot of The Lehane Trilogy ad for the "Faux Horror Trailer" that ran as part of the Horror on Sea Film Festival.

Screened as a 'faux trailer' before the screening of "The Vampires of Bloody Island", 19th January, 2013.

Coppers

NOV 2009 - Forever Rushes, London, UK
APR 2013 - Underground Cinema Season IV - Screening VII
OCT 2013 - Underground Cinema Awards (*NOMINATED, Best Comedy & Best International Film)

Two police officers are on surveillance duty, waiting for a hostage negotiator to arrive. Ignoring the orders from his superiors, no-nonsense copper Derek "Fents" Fenterman reckons it's time the kidnapper was told a few home truths.

Low budget short film shot in London... It's all a bit silly really.

Written and Directed by Simon O'Neill

Director of Photography - Robbie Ryan

Starring Samia Rida, Rhashan Stone, Christopher Hatherall & Ted Dogliani.

Twins

A woman is forced to confront her "Geminiphobia" (Fear of Twins, especially identical ones). A short film I directed in 2008.

Written by Samia Rida.

Starring Edward Dogliani & Samia Rida

Dating Don'ts

Matchmakers beware - starring Edward Dogliani & Tina Barnes. Written and Directed by Simon O'Neill.

This was great fun, if slightly shambolic to shoot. The quality of the upload isn't great but Ted and Tina (TNT) are on top form in this silly, puerile bit of nonsense. I'll try and dig out a better looking version.

Nominated for Best Irish Short Comedy Competition in The Charlie Chaplin Film Festival 2012.

Possessive Boyfriend 1

Possessive Boyfriend 2

Possessive Boyfriend 3

Showtime!

Colin has a bizarre request.

Birdman

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A London Café

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Éire

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Éire

Drop The Hand

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Drop the Hand

The Man with My Name

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Open Mic

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Open Mic

The Unicorn's Tear

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The Elephant is Contagious

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The Elephant is Contagious

Tell me about yourself

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Tell me about yourself

ROFLMAO

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ROFLMAO

Sea Dogs

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Sea Dogs

Carnival of Carnage

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Carnival of Carnage Trailer

Coppers

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Coppers

Twins

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Twins

Dating Don'ts

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Dating Don'ts

Possessive Boyfriend 1

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Possessive Boyfriend 1

Possessive Boyfriend 2

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Possessive Boyfriend 2

Possessive Boyfriend 3

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Possessive Boyfriend 3

Showtime!

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Showtime!

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