SCREENPLAYS
ANNE has co-written a number screenplays. These include one based on her biography of Grace O’Malley and another on her biography of the famous cricketer Ranji. Both are currently in development. Three screenplays have received development funding from the Irish Film Board and from MEDIA.
The following screenplays, co-written with Canadian-born writer David.T Reilly, are currently available for option.
MELISSA
Genre: Human drama Time: Present Location: Ireland and America Outline: The arrival of a letter from Ireland, reopens old wounds for American-based author and wife Melissa. The result of a teenage pregnancy, a stillborn baby, and an outraged father come back to haunt her.
THE RATHDOWN LOTTERY aka BULLSHIT
Genre: Comedy Time: 1969 Location: Ireland Outline In a last ditch effort to safe the local Hurling Club, the villagers of the rural backwater of Rathdown hit on a novel way of raising money, with the aid of a pedigree prize bull.
LORNA
Genre: Western Time: 1870s Location: American West Story Outline Short-listed for the Irish Tiernan MacBride Irish Script Awards Twenty year old John Ridd sets out to avenge his father’s murder by the Doone gang and falls in love with the gang’s mysterious ’ward’ Lorna.
TO BEAR ARMS
Genre: Political Conspiracy Time: Present Location: America Outline When PI John Tressilian’s missing persons case becomes linked to a right-wing conspiracy to kill the anti-gun female candidate running for the American Presidency, he uncovers a deadly plot that, if it succeeds, will have awesome repercussions for American democracy.
Bad Habits
Genre: Black Comedy Time: Present Location: Ireland Story Outline Twenty year old rock chick Mariann’s life is falling apart. Sent for detox to a remote gulag convent in Ireland she teams up with 3 unorthodox American nuns When their escape van becomes involved in a drugs heist the ’bad habits’ of Mariann and the Nuns come into play and save the day.
Rights enquiries for above screenplays to:
Jonathan Williams Literary Agency, Rosney Mews, Upper Glenageary Road, Glenageary, Co Dublin. Tel: 353 1 2803482
email: annechambers@graceomalley.com.