Project Title: Fishscale
Spotlight Development Scheme
To discover fresh, original and diverse screenwriting talent, for projects inclusive and representative of modern Ireland.
Discover 2020/2021's Spotlight Writers
Project Title: For Love Or Money
Benjamin Marcus
David Druker, thirty something underachiever and self-selected black sheep of the tiny Dublin Jewish community, discovers he can only get his huge surprise inheritance upon marrying a Jewish girl.
Project Title: Normality
C.K Harris
Desperate to escape from the sterility of his world, an existentialist office worker quits his mundane job to find meaning in life and ends up hounded for breaking the rules of a clinically perfect society.
Project Title: Abilo and The Peacock King
Damien Ryan
A Spanish graffiti artist leaves his home in San Sebastian to join an Irish vigilante seeking to overthrow the New World Order after he loses his job and the bank repossesses his dead mother’s house.
Project Title: Tough Old Broad
Denise Deegan
When a rebellious care home resident takes on the bully of a mute teenage volunteer, the ensuing battle teaches her to give up the fight for her dying husband.
Project Title: Consequences
Derek Ugochukwu
After an upright father is abducted by a vicious drug lord, his three teenage children take hostage the abductor's son who happens to attend their school.
Project Title: Butterfly
Emma Wall
An 18 year old girl living with a chronic skin disorder, embarks on an adventure to prove that she is more than the condition she was born with.
Project Title: Marie and Destiny
Eva Wyse
When a restrained nun begins a Chaplaincy placement at a Dublin secondary school, a summer gardening project with a soon to be retired, recently ‘out’ teacher prompts romance to blossom where it's least expected.
Project Title: Briefly Gorgeous
Ferdia MacAonghusa
Three teenagers, poised at the cliff’s edge of adulthood, learn to live while one of them learns to die.
Project Title: Quare
Fiona Shiel
A queer romance centring around two artists, Delaney and Zofia, and the bohemian community of 1970's Galway surrounding them.
Project Title: The Mount
Fiona Tuohy
When a village conspires to frighten off the American beneficiary of the village’s stately home, they get more than they bargain for when they awaken the 200 year old malevolent spirit of the house’s original owner.
Project Title: Fair Game
Gemma Creagh & Mo O'Connell
An alienated teenager is drawn into the violent world of a girl gang and their charismatic leader.
Project Title: Son of Man
Michael J. Daly
An Irish Catholic priest struggles with his identity and faith when he falls for another man. His own Passion story begins when a photo of him kissing his lover in a garden is revealed online, but the journey could prove his deliverance.
Project Title: What Would Rocky Do?
Roisin Jones
In 1980's Ireland, two film-obsessed teens smuggle “dirty” magazines from the first Northern Irish sex shop to fund their movie-making dreams, provoking paramilitaries, local mammies and Christian groups.
Project Title: ‘77