The Ferry Explores Ireland’s Forced Adoption Culture.
The Ferry, long listed for the 2021 Academy Awards, has been nominated for three awards and won one. It has been featured at the Galway Film Fleadh, the Foyle Film Festival and New Port Beach Film Festival and has played nearly a dozen festivals world world wide.
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The Ferry
Aoife searches for her birth mother and unveils a past that entangles two other women in town.
After given the shocking news that she was adopted, Aoife searches for her birth mother, but her pursuit of the truth unveils a past that entangles two other women in town.
The Ferry
is in competition for best short film at the Film Fest International World Cinema Antwerp. Played the Newport Beach Film Festival, Nominated for awards at the Foyle and the Dublin International Music and Shorts Festival.
We were also honoured to receive a special mention from the Jury at Galway Film Fleadh for “A well-executed and emotional resolution to an important story”Thank you and we are delighted to have been received so well.
The local busybody, Bertha, becomes deeply invested in helping Aoife, especially when a couple of breakins into the town’s birth records reveals someone else’s desperate search. When Clodagh, a stranger, comes into town asking questions, Bertha puts two and two together. Just as the three women search together for answers a surprising revelation is made.
The Ferry People balances bittersweet drama and mystery with heartfelt comedy as the three strong women confront their past and build new ties that help them move beyond a tragic history into a slowhealing future.
Screenings and Festivals
RTE Shortscreen
September 13, 2021
Galway Film Fleadh
July 6, 2019
Foyle Film Festival
October 12, 2019
Newport Beach Film Festival
March 20, 2020
Long listed for the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021
April 2021
Julien Dubuque International Film Festival
March 13, 2020
Irish Film From Home
The Ferry
June 4, 2021
World Cinema Antwerp Belgium
July 30, 2020
Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht
July 26, 2021
Press
CAST
AOIFE POWER
Aoife Duffin
BERTHA BAGGINS
Deirdre Donnelly
CLODAGH MCCARTHY
Clodagh Bowyer
POLICE SARGEANT
John Olohan
MICHAEL COLE
Gus McDonagh
CATHLEEN COLE
Eva Bartley
JADE
Rachel Rath
GARDA COSTIGAN
Gina Costigan
and featuring
Mrs. O’Toole
played by
Rosaleen Linehan
CASTING :Amy Rowen
COFFEE SHOP CROWD
Gorey Musical Society
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
Niall McKay
Producer
Clodagh Bowyer
Producer
Marissa Aroy
Producer
Roisin Kearny
Director of Photography
Trevor Murphy
1st Assistant Camera
Stephen Hayden
Gaffer
Leigh Dalton
Additional Photography
Margaret Sclafani
Sound Mixer
Alan Joyce
Sound recordist
Neil Horner
1st Assistant Director
Drew Maitland
Art Director/Costume
Orla Maher
Assistant Art
Roisin Blade
Key Hair and Makeup
Helen McGinty
Music Composition:
Hugh Rodgers
COLOR GRADE
Outer Limits Post Production
Eugene McCrystal
Jennifer McCann
ADDITIONAL EDITING Marissa Aroy
LIGHTING AND GRIP EQUIPMENT
Film Equipment Hire
Colin and Nicole
BERTHA’S CAR DETAILING
Carstyle Branding
Frank Brennan
PRODUCTION INSURANCE
The Insurance Shop
Seán M. O’Connell
CRAFT SERVICES
DLish Catering
Tinahely
PROPS & COSTUMES
Pug’s Props
Barry Keogh
LIGHTING AND GRIP EQUIPMENT
Film Equipment Hire
Colin and Nicole
BERTHA’S CAR DETAILING
Carstyle Branding
Frank Brennan
CATERING PROVIDED BY
DLish
LOCATIONS
TINAHELY FARM
Rebecca & Phillip Hadden
COOGAN’S HARDWARE
Jim & Carmela Coogan
TINAHELY NATIONAL SCHOOL
Siofra & Frank Gallagher
PASSAGE EAST FERRY COMPANY
SHILLELAGH COURTHOUSE
Vicky Mooney
SHILLELAGH POST OFFICE
Mick
BALISLAND, SHILLELAGH
THANK YOU
Elliot Greene & Michael Monks
Thelma Rath
Wesley Dagge
Eileen Doran
Nicola, Peter, Cheyenne
& Mackenzie Nolan
Carnew Garda Station
Jimmy Lillis
Michael Morris
Desmond Murphy
Community Centre Passage
East
& Smokehouse Cafe
Patricia Doherty
Gary Robinson
The Gap Pub,Gorey
Gary
Kenny’s Lounge, Shillelagh
Jane Kenny
The Zozimus Bookshop
John Wyze Jackson