Peat is a Screen Ireland funded Focus Short that I wrote and directed and is currently on its festival run.
It’s about Anne Byrne, a recently widowed Irish mammy who lives with her clane useless adult son Petey, and now that the Dad is dead she’s left to do the housework and bring all the turf in for winter on her own.
Run ragged she’s convinced by her witchy neighbour Helen to build a magical creature from turf to help, and ends up developing feelings for him, but when Petey finds out he’s not very pleased.
Starring: Andrea Irvine, Chris Walley, Mary McEvoy & Michael Power.
Produced by Maggie Ryan for Escape Pod Media.
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Building the turf Golem. Concept to realisation.
I drew the initial sketches which were then interpreted as sculptural pieces by Mark Maher in Odyssey Studios .
We spent a day in Odyssey testing the make-ups on the actor with a 5 person Make-Up team lead by Claire McCauley making sure everything worked and we were as prepped as possible for the shoot days.
BTS from the shoot. Photos by David Copeland and Tristan Shiels.
Sequence Storyboard by me.
The two facing pages of the Spellbook with designs by Aidan Harte
A design for the fake cereal that Petey eats but sadly got cut from the film.
‘Demon Pit’ poster - the video game that Petey plays is a genuine old-school shoot-em-up video game designed and built by Irish designer Paul Conway.