Script Development Master Class with Ailbhe Keogan
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Schedule November 28th:
10:00 -12:00 - In depth workshop with Creative Broadcast & Film Production level 7 students on script development for their final year film projects. - Open to CBFP students only.
Open booking - Script Development Masterclass - Millennium Theatre 13:00 - 14:00. All Welcome.
14:15 -16:30 - In depth workshop with Creative Broadcast & Film Production level 8 students on script development for their final year film projects. - Open to CBFP students only.
Ailbhe Keogan - Biography
Ailbhe's first feature film, Run & Jump, was selected as part of the Berlin Talent Campus Script Station and the Sundance Institute's Lab. Directed by Oscar-nominated Steph Green, it premiered at Tribeca in 2012 and the script went on to win numerous awards including a 2014 IFTA nomination and a Zebbie for best screenplay 2014.
Her second feature film, Doughnut, is due to go into production in 2020/21, a co-production between Zentropa Films (Denmark) and Subotica (Ireland), supported by Screen Ireland and to be directed by the Emmy award winning Emer Reynolds.
Her third feature, Two, with BirdFlight Films (UK), is to be directed by Chris Foggin, a Screen International Star of Tomorrow. (Fisherman's Friends, Friend Request Pending)
Sunlight has been selected for Screen Ireland's inaugural POV scheme. It will be produced by Roisin Geraghty with Blinder Films, directed by award-winning Claire Dix and starring Barry Ward. She is currently under the mentorship of Mark O' Halloran on this scheme.
Ping Pong, currently in development with Cowtown Films (IRL) and Screen Ireland, was one of 9 European projects to be selected for the 2018/19 Bridging the Dragon Project Lab in Beijing/ Berlin.
Other feature projects at various stages of development are basketball comedy, Sidelined, with Parallel Films, and a buddy cop future noir, Undone, with Screen Ireland.
Ailbhe's first short film script, After Words, was short-listed for two national short film competitions. Ailbhe's second short film script, Take Me Swimming, was one of four films to be funded by the Irish Film Board Focus Shorts scheme in 2017 and has shown at festivals internationally.
Ailbhe was selected as one of two Irish participants on Guiding Lights 8, the UK film industry’s leading mentoring programme. She was under the mentorship of Alex Garland.
Ailbhe's novel Molly & the Cyclops, was published by Hag's Head Press in 2006.
Ailbhe lives on the West coast of Ireland with her husband and two kids. She has worked extensively with teenagers under the Youth Justice scheme and is currently working with Jigsaw on a film project with young Asylum Seekers and Refugees.
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