Founded by Maya Derrington, Nicky Gogan, and Paul Rowley, Still Films is a production company based in Dublin and New York. Our company focuses on the production of TV, 360 productions, feature films, animations, documentaries and artist films.
Our work together began with the founding of the Darklight Festival, a digital arts festival that Nicky started in 1999. Darklight was set up to support digital filmmaking and distribution in Ireland, and promote Irish filmmakers internationally. The company then grew organically from our collaborations on the festival over the last ten years,
Still Films are in receipt of slate funding from the Irish Film Board under their Multiple Project Development scheme. We currently have in development several feature docs and dramas, including a feature drama to be shot in Morocco, and a feature animation based on Algis Budrys 1960 sci-fi classic Rogue Moon.
Our recent feature documentary Seaview premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and has being touring festivals internationally since. Seaview was nominated for an IFTA (Irish Film and Television Award) in the Best Feature Documentary category and received a special Jury mention at DMZ DOCS in Korea. The film is now available on DVD through Indiepix films.
Our most recent feature documentary Pyjama Girls was the opening night film at the Irish Film Institute’s annual Stranger than Fiction festival, and is now starting its festival tour. Over the course of a year Pyjama Girls follows the lives of a group of teenage girls who wear pyjamas as daywear, all day, every day. Focusing principally on teenagers Lauren and Tara, the film tracks the intense micro-dramas of teenage life in Dublin's inner city.
We were just commissioned by the Irish Arts Council and the Dublin International Film Festival to produce a new arts doc called Build Something Modern. The film examines the peculiar history of Irish architects exporting hundreds of modernist designs for structures to be built in Africa in the early 1960’s.
Recent artist films completed include a feature length experimental film The Rooms funded by an Arts Council Projects award, and Anne Maree Barry's new short Rialto Twirlers which premiered at the Dublin International Film Festival and was also exhibited as an installation at The Lab in Dublin.
Our most recent series for national broadcaster RTE Sweded TV achieved high ratings at peak-time throughout its run and has been selected by the Irish National Jury for Input, the international conference to celebrate challenging public television programming worldwide. The second series is now in production.
We’ve participated in EAVE, Documentary Campus, and were just selected to take part in Beyond Borders, a collaborative programme for creative producers from Europe and Africa. |
