Children of Babel’s Market
Feature-length doc in development
Directed by Tomás Sheridan
Produced by Peter Gerard – Accidental Media
Set in Porta Palazzo, Europe’s largest open-air market in Turin, Italy Babel’s Market portrays the difficulties of young 2nd generation immigrants from different backgrounds to find their own cultural identity.
Winner at the MEDIA Engage 2009 Pitching Workshop
25% Development Funding in Place from Film commission Torino Piemonte
50% Development Funding in Place from MEDIA
When Life Throws Lemons (wt)
30/60min doc in post-production
Directed by Tomás Sheridan
Produced by Peter Gerard – Accidental Media
One month into her relationship with Liam Nita finds she is pregnant; she decides to keep the baby inspite of Liam’s requests for an abortion. Now that Una is born Nita and Liam are faced with difficult decisions that will change their lives for ever.
Mr Nasty
Short Doc in Production
Directed by Lukazs Kulec
Produced by Tomás Sheridan for Polifilm
As a carer for James, a boy affected by Muscular Dystrophy Lukazs felt compelled to pick up a camera and tell this story of a teenager with girls, video-games and explosions on his mind. A refreshing and intimate film about getting on with your life.
Radiostan
Doc; 10min; January 2010
Directed by Tomás Sheridan
Produced by Tanya Petrik & Guillaume Protsenko – Miru mir & Moviement
Made as part of the Cinetrain project this short experimental documentary was shot and edited over a 5week period in Autumn 2009 traveling by train between Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan and Moscow.
Throughout this journey people from different ethnic, economic and religious backgrounds speak of their struggles, immigration, racism, the ‘old days’ in the USSR and their dreams for the future.
- Special Program: Premiere as part of Cinetrain ’09 at the Moscow International Film Festival 2010
- Official Selection – Uppsala International Film Festival 2010 (Sweden)
- Official Selection – Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2011 (France)
- Official Selection – Go>Short International Short Film Festival 2011(Nijmegen, Netherlands)
- Official Selection – Mecal International Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain)
- Official Selection – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2011 (UK)
- Nominated Best Doc – Art Deco International Film Festival 2011 (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
- Official Selection – Guanajuato International Film Festival 2011 (Mexico)
- Official Selection – San Gió International Film Festival 2011 (Verona, Italy)
- Official Selection – Cinema City Festival 2011 (Novi Sad, Serbia)
- Broadcast Sale – Canal+ (France) and Canal+ Africa (June 2011)
As Time Goes By
Doc; 3min; January 2009
Director/Camera/Editor T. Sheridan
Produced by Tomás Sheridan – Polifilm
In January 2009 a group of performers walked down Edinburgh’s main shopping street in slow motion happening designed to draw attention to the hectic rhythms of our present-day shopping and working habits.
Archive of Dreams
Doc; 15min; August 2008
Directed by Tomás Sheridan
Produced by Lindsay Goodall – La Belle Allee
In the past 30 years Carlo Roda amassed an archive of over 2000 films on reel ranging from French New wave to American horror classics. Now this treasure lies in a dusty and damp basement. What happens when a group of well-meaning youths decide to bring the archive back to life?
UK Film council, Scottish Screen and BBC, funded Archive of Dreams; it won audience and jury prizes at Jim Poole Awards (Edinburgh) and the shorts prize at the Turin Film Festival. As well as featuring at Palm Springs, America’s largest short film festival.
Archive of Dreams was my first experience working in a really professional environment and most importantly, it was a project which I brought forward from the conception of the idea through the funding process and into production itself.
Winner: Edinburgh Jim Poole Audience Award 2008
Winner: Edinburgh Jim Poole Jury Award 2008
Winner: Turin International Film Festival 2008 (Spazio Torino)
Official Selection: Edinburgh International Film Festival ’09, Palm Springs Film Festival ’09, Bristol Encounters’08, Florence 50days of Cinema’08, London International Documentary Festival’10, Falstaff International Film Festival ’09 and other minor festivals.
The Word and the Name
Doc; 3min; November 2007
Directed by Tomás Sheridan
Produced by Peter Gerard – Accidental Media
An old lady reminisces on her first encounter with organised religion when her and her sister in their early teens are accidentally cought up in a Presbyterian gathering.
Madam, I’m Adam
Writer/Director/Producer (Fiction; 15min; May2006)
Directed by Tomás Sheridan
Produced by Anna Purkis
This short fiction film based on my father’s difficulties as an unpublished writer was my graduation film. Based loosely on the structure of the Odyssey; in it we follow the wondering and wandering of Adam an unpublished writer as memories and melancholy threaten his will to live.
It was my first experience directing a sizable crew and organizing the logistics of an overseas shoot transporting 16mm equipment to Italy and working with an overall budget of less than ￡3000.
Selected for NAHEMI Student Showcase 2006
Die Kiste
Writer/Director/Producer (Experimental; 6min; April 2004)
Directed by Tomás Sheridan
Produced by Tomás Sheridan
Short experimental piece aimed at emulating the themes and styles of German Expressionism.
Die Kiste was shot on standard 8mm expired soviet film in an attic in Napier University’s photography department. The £200 budget went entirely on stock and processing. Those were the days!!!