Eleanor Rogers - Writer Biography
Eleanor Rogers wrote and directed her first short film "Breastfriends" which premiered at the GAZE International LGBT Film Festival, Dublin in 2018 and won Best Irish Short. Following on from this success Breastfriends was selected for a number of national and international film festivals including Newport Beach Film Festival, LA , Cork Film Festival, Newfest New York and Underwire Film Festival, UK. In 2019, she was nominated for Best Under25 Directing at Underwire Film Festival and was runner up at The Emerging Director Awards in 2019 for her directorial debut.
Good-Bi - Short Synopsis
Izzy has reached her mid 20’s with a strong moral compass. She’s grown up in a traditional rural background with everything she could have asked for, a secure pensionable job and a long term boyfriend who played county that one time. Although it seems she has it all, she feels that something is missing. After rejecting a marriage proposal, she sets out to explore her sexuality with the help of her two bisexual friends, Bill and Fiona.
As Izzy begins her journey of self discovery, she and her friends, in an act of solidarity, make a pact to date the gender they’ve less experience with.
But to their alarm, the experiment begins to unravel and they discover more about themselves than they bargained for.
Good-Bi is a comedy drama which explores the delayed “Coming of Age” that queer people often experience in their 20s, about how its never too late to find yourself and about the importance of friendship and community in that journey. Good- Bi hopes to de-mistify bisexuality and to break down the misconceptions surrounding it.
To get in touch with Eleanor or find out more about Good-Bi, contact spotlight@screenireland.ie