“LESBIAN LINES” directed by Cara Holmes and produced by Evan Horan for @keeper_pictures is set to have its World Premiere in the International Competition at the incredible Sheffield DocFest (@sheffdocfest ), the UK’s biggest documentary festival this June!
“An intimate portrait of a network of underground telephone helplines established by a small community of Irish lesbians in 1979.”
This project was very special and it is such an honour to have been part of it. I hold a very special place in my heart for Mina.
Congratulations to every single person involved. 👏
More about LESBIAN LINES: At a time when homosexuality faced intense social and legal hostility in Ireland, a group of women created a lifeline for those experiencing isolation, abuse and profound loneliness. Every call was logged as handwritten notes, kept through decades of constitutional change as women fought for their rights in an oppressive and conservative society. Lesbian Lines brings together an ensemble cast of original helpline volunteers and actors to breathe life into this rich, undocumented history, weaving collective memories into a moving and joyful new archive. Blending dramatised sequences with archival material, it is a story of community, connection and the transformative power of listening.
#SheffieldDocFest #WorldPremiere #UK #IrishFilm #Ireland
An actress’ hope, descent and return.
📸: the unbelievable @sofiiaderosa 🙏
👗: Roberto Cavalli from @assisiassisiassisi ❤️🔥
*based on a true story.
#Irish #Fashion #Actress #Creative #Photography
For the marvellous @marmala__ who makes the most unbelievable bags! 🤩
Such a gorgeous shoot day, so grateful for the opportunity as per, go raibh míle maith agat ☺️
👜: @marmala__
📸: @marmala__ & @avarussell.photography
💁♀️: @iseultalicia
👗: Armani from @assisiassisiassisi
Everyone needs a Marmala bag, go get oneeee! 🤪
#Irish #Fashion #IrishActress #IrishFashion #Dublin
This time last year, it was my dream to have acted in a film that got into Dublin International Film Festival. 💭
A year later, ON BELONGING, the first ever short film I’d acted in and led became an official selection for Dublin International Film Festival. 🎞️
Yesterday, I watched it in a sold out screening in my favourite cinema surrounded by two rows of my beautiful friends who came to support me. 🍿
As I always say, despite all the madness, celebrating with your loved ones is really what makes any of this worthwhile and so special. I’m still sick with gratitude for it all, for my life, for my friends, for my insane amount of flowers! 💐
Thank you to @areebaanaveed for seeing Ananya in me and allowing me to play such a beautiful character, and the entire cast and crew on this incredible achievement - here’s to the future!👏
Areeba is convinced I manifested this for all of us 😂
I really am so addicted to making my wildest dreams come true. Life is so good and I am truly living my “good, old days”. ✨
We go on. 🙏
P.S. yes the reviewers were paid x
#DublinInternationalFilmFestival #DIFF #Actress #Irish #Film
The 2026 IFTA Awards. 🏆
Being in this room was a masssssive, and what felt like almost an unreachable dream of mine. Can’t believe my life is real, it’s still all a blur. I’m still taking it all in. Met some of my biggest inspirations and had the most thoughtful conversations, as well as infinite moments of pure awe of where I was, only a little over a year after starting acting. ‼️
So insane getting a behind the scenes experience of the awards and seeing how it all comes together so effortlessly (but so so much hard work) as well - everyone working the awards every year are nothing short of a magical dream team. 👏
Nothing more to say other than I would not be here without the belief that so many people have in me and in this crazy career of mine, I am so eternally grateful. 🙏
So much so that a security guard took a winners IFTA Award and basically forced me to take a photo with it on the stage as a way to practice for my one in the future. 😭
Also congratulations to all the nominees and winners last night - what an incredibly talented island we live on that I’m so proud to call home. ☘️
#IFTA #IFTA2026 #Actress #Irish
SHE KNOWS, directed by Naty (@kreatedbynaty ), is a psychological thriller about love, trust, friendship, and the tension that grows when doubt enters the room.
As you may have caught in this BTS, it was such a fun experience going down to Cork for the first time to shoot my third leading short film! Crazy, it feels like I shot this years ago but time really flies when you’re having fun and I got to spend some time with the most wonderful people on this set! So so grateful for the opportunity and Naty’s kind words. It really takes a village to actually put something out into the world so congratulations to everyone involved! (More yapping after the credits) 👇
CREW
Directed by @kreatedbynaty
Production company @rua_productions
D.O.P @mickael.docouto@kreatedbynaty
Gaffer @byfabianboros
Drone @mickael.docouto
Sound @mr.csanon@jameswhitesilver_a.k.a_jws
BTS @mcardphoto@jameswhitesilver_a.k.a_jws
Soundtrack @sxvagehoney
Special thanks to @blues_cafe_cork . @thelibertycork , @casey.m.hegarty , peter.d2407 , @byfabianboros
CAST
🙋♀️
Gabriel Casey (@gabrieljcasey )
Jaime Traynor (@traynorr_ )
Dana Kotenko (@danwery )
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After my first acting gig, I made it a goal to be in three short films because I wanted more experience and just like any other skill, acting is a muscle and you gotta keep going to get stronger at it. And the universe very graciously gave me exactly that. On Belonging which got into DIFF this year, Trapped which premiered at IMAX last year and last but not least, She Knows which was shot in Cork, where I hadn’t been before. Leading all of the first three shorts I’ve been in was not something I really ever expected but I’m so so grateful to be seen as the right fit for a project that I resonate with.
Shooting this crazy and fun project was like a fever dream, it was a whirlwind. Very quickly, I learned that short films are like that, they’re alllll a whirlwind and you blink and it’s over and it’s fast and wonderful and stressful and exhilarating. And just like that, I find myself falling deeper in love with my craft, hoping to never ever hit the ground.
Here’s to more whirlwinds and fever dreams. 🥂
#actor #irish #shortfilm #film #explore
‘Muse’
three artists, three visions, one story.
@jeffrinjerome as muse
concept and painting: @tokyoisonline
camera and edit: @scherhauferova_
music: Lana Del Rey - Art Deco (Instrumental)
