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Horseshoe was produced by WaveWalker Films and 3 Hot Whiskeys Films with support from Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland. It was awarded Completion Funding by Screen Ireland and premiered in July 2025 at the Galway Film Fleadh where it won Best Irish First Feature and Underground Cinema International Film Festival where it won Best Irish Feature. It received critical acclaim with four and five star reviews from The Irish Times, Sunday Independent, Irish Examiner, Rte Guide and Arts Review. It was nominated for two awards at the 2026 IFTAs, including Best Direction and Best Actress (for Carolyn Bracken). It has gone on to screen at festivals around the world and earned three Irish Film & Television Award nominations. The comedy drama follows four estranged siblings who reunite after the death of their father and unearth their own dark secrets. The film stars Carolyn Bracken, John Connors, Lalor Roddy & Mary Murray.
This one-night only screening is its regional premiere and the only time the film is scheduled to play in the area.
Here is some information about the film’s creative team:
Adam O’Keeffe (Co-Director/Writer/Producer)
Adam is an IFTA Nominated, multi-award-winning writer, director and producer. He is the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of WaveWalker Films, based in Sligo, Ireland. Horseshoe is his debut feature film as writer, co-director and co-producer. Adam has been selected to participate in Screen Ireland’s Post-Graduate Diploma in Advanced Producing and their Screen Mentorship Programme.
Edwin Mullane (Co-Director/Producer)
Edwin is an award-winning Irish director living in Sligo. With a background in theatre as a member of The Corps Ensemble, Mullane’s work is rooted in collaboration and performance, bringing a naturalistic, actor-focused approach to the screen. He has directed a number of acclaimed short films, including Cleaner and A Day in the Sun, and is currently developing a slate of film and television projects, including Pilgrim Soul and Long Hot Summer. Horseshoe is his debut feature film as co-director and producer.
Maureen O’Connell (Producer)
Currently based in Dublin, Mo O’Connell is a multi- award-winning actor, writer, director & producer and the founder & head of 3 Hot Whiskeys Productions. Recently, She was at the helm of a Screen Ireland Focus short, Come Back and was selected for Screen Ireland mentoring from Neasa Hardiman. She has won ‘Best Performer in a Play’ from the Broadway Ireland Theatre Awards, directed the World Premiere of Garret Baker’s play, The War Wounded, at the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival which earned four nominations and won Best Actress for its lead, was selected by the Advanced Producer’s Programme run by TU Dublin & Screen Ireland to partake in the prestigious Lord David Puttnam Scholarship and produced Lambing, which won Best Irish Short at GAZE 2023. In addition to making films and theatre, Mo runs the Dublin International Comedy Film Festival which won Screen Ireland funding this year 2024.
Jass Foley (Cinematographer)
Equally comfortable on sound stage or in sideways rain on a mountain top, Jass Foley has worked across every corner of Ireland as well as internationally in USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Qatar, Bulgaria, France, Holland, Switzerland, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique. Jass I the winner of the Seamus McGarvey Award for Best Cinematography 2021, cinematographer of Oscar long-listed film A White Horse at the 2021 Academy Awards, member of the Irish Film & Television Academy.
Tony Cranstoun (Editor)
Tony Cranstoun is an award-winning editor who has cut drama, comedy & documentary for cinema & TV. His work has received a ‘Best Editing’ BFTA, The Royal Television Society (RTS) and the American Cinema Editors (A.C.E.). He is English by birth and resides in Ireland where he is married to filmmaker Emer Reynolds. Recent credits include Samanta Nobody (2026), One Last Deal (2026), The Damned (2024), The Surfer (2024), TWIG (2024), and Sunlight (2023).
Anna Mullarkey (Composer)
Anna Mullarkey is a multi-award-winning Irish composer and performer for screen and stage whose music weaves electronic and acoustic instrumentation. In her work she explores the intersection of classical, folk and electronica. She was named by The Irish Independent as one of the ‘Faces of 2025’.
Carolyn Bracken (actor)
Tracing roots from the vibrant town of Nenagh in County Tipperary, Ireland, Carolyn Bracken caught the acting bug early, cutting her teeth with local troupes like the Nenagh Players before storming the screen with a knack for gripping, layered roles. She turned heads as the tormented Sandra Sculley in Dublin Murders, sinking deep into the character’s psyche with raw finesse. Her standout turn came in the chilling You Are Not My Mother, where she tackled the grueling dual role of Angela and her eerie doppelgänger, earning raves for a performance that lingered like a bad dream. Fresh off that triumph, she brought quiet strength to The Quiet Girl as ‘The Woman,’ a role that resonated globally, then pivoted to play steely journalist Aileen Ryan in the cross-continental crime saga The Gone. In 2024, Bracken’s fierce work in Damian McCarthy’s Oddity, a horror gem that snagged an Audience Award at SXSW, landed her a coveted 2025 IFTA nod for Best Lead Actress. Not just a performer, she’s also flexed her creative muscle as a writer, infusing every project with sharp insight and a commanding presence. Whether diving into thrillers, dramas, or straight-up scares, Bracken has carved out a bold space in Irish cinema, delivering performances that stick with you long after the credits roll.
John Connors (actor)
John Connors is a groundbreaking Irish actor, writer, director and producer from the Irish Traveller community, who has blazed a trail for his community in the world of film, television, and theatre. Best known for his powerful performance as Patrick Ward in the acclaimed Irish crime drama Love/Hate, John won Best Actor at the 2018 Irish Film and Television Awards for his lead role in Cardboard Gangsters, cementing his place as one of Ireland’s most compelling screen talents. His recent screen credits include a featured role in Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series The Gentlemen, and he stars in the critically acclaimed “Re-Creation”, directed by six-time Academy Award nominee Jim Sheridan and David Merriman. He also appears in the new film by Werner Herzog, alongside Kate and Rooney Mara. He was named one of the 50 most incredible people shaping modern Ireland by the Irish Independent in 2017 and listed among the 22 young voices likely to influence Ireland and the world by The Irish Times in 2018.
Lalor Roddy (actor)
Lalor Roddy is an Irish actor from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Before pursuing acting, Roddy studied psychology at Ulster University. Then, in 1988, he was a co-founder, and later co-artistic director, of the influential Belfast-based Tinderbox Theatre Company. He spent a full season with the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1998 and won an ESB / Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in In a Little World of Our Own. He is known in Ireland and Northern Ireland for his stage work, but better known internationally for extensive work in film and on television, which includes He is an actor, known for Grabbers, Hunger, The Devil’s Doorway, and That They May Face the Rising Sun. He is widely recognized for playing the Catspaw assassin sent to kill Bran Stark in the first season of HBO’s Game of Thrones.
Mary Murray (actor)
Born in Ballyfermot, Dublin, Mary Murray has built a prolific career spanning over two decades across film, television, theatre, and voice acting. She is widely recognized by Irish audiences for her standout role as Janet in seasons 3, 4, and 5 of RTÉ’s hit crime drama Love/Hate, and has appeared in series like Penny Dreadful, Vikings: Valhalla, and Dead Still. Her extensive film work includes prominent independent features such as Peter Mullan’s The Magdalene Sisters (2002), Adam & Paul (2004), and the thriller Let the Wrong One In (2021). Mary has toured internationally with prestigious Irish theater companies like Druid and Fishamble. She is also a prominent voice director and voice actress, lending her vocals to animated projects like Niko: Beyond the Northern Lights (2024). Outside of performing, she is the founder and director of the Visions Drama School and Agency in Dublin, where she mentors and trains up-and-coming Irish acting talent.