Is the customer always right? How far should an artist compromise their vision for commercial gain? And what do Michael Winner and Charles Bronson have to do with any of this?
Bien Suit / Well Done. A short film in French & English, shot on location in Paris, France. Coming soon.
Feature script in development.
WINNER - Best Irish Film, Dublin Smartphone Film Festival (2019)
Short video poem
Written & Directed by Simon O'Neill
Short video poem
Written by Audrey Huigens
Directed by Simon O'Neill
Starring Nelly Henrion
Comedy drama short film set among the Irish community and building sites of 1980s Reading, Berkshire starring:
Martin Condon
Donal Gallery
Lauren Cardiff
Edward Dogliani
Donna Preston
Elis James
Tommy Blaize
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The Man with My Name is a documentary about Giovanni Simonelli - an Italian screenwriter of Biblical epics, Spaghetti Westerns, Spy thrillers, horrors movies (Giallo) and B-Movies in a career that spanned five crazy decades.
It's a serious business, being funny...
Comedian Rachel Brooke is slogging her way through London's comedy circuit when she catches a lucky break.
A TV sitcom proposal based on the life and times of obscure literary icon, Pascal Belmont - author of the classic novel, The Unicorn's Tear.
Script available on request.
The Elephant is Contagious is a short film based on an original poem by Irish poet, Eabha Rose. It tells the tale of a territorial battle between two love rivals at a polite and outwardly formal gathering.
The poem was recorded at Avenue 33 studios in Rathgar, Dublin.
Actor Steve Hayes tries to 'self tape' for an audition.
Winner of best film at the inaugural (and it would seem only) Relate Film Festival in Oxfordshire, UK and the sole Irish representative at the Fetish Film Festival in Kiel, Germany, ROFLMAO has played numerous other festivals and was screened on Irish TV in April 2013.
Starring:
Samia Rida, Joseph Beattie, Ted Dogliani & Lucy-Anne Holmes
Sea Dogs is the story of a group of men reunited for a weekend in the Irish countryside that becomes a tale of high jinks on the high seas as they take to the Atlantic Ocean aboard a stolen trawler.
Full script available on request (125 pages).
Oaxaca FilmFest
Shore Scripts Screenplay Contest
Nominated for Best Screenplay (Comedy) at Finow Film Festival
ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Contest
NOV 2009 - Forever Rushes, London, UK
APR 2013 - Underground Cinema Season IV - Screening VII
OCT 2013 - Underground Cinema Awards (*NOMINATED, Best Comedy & Best International Film)
Two police officers are on surveillance duty, waiting for a hostage negotiator to arrive.
Written and Directed by Simon O'Neill
Director of Photography - Robbie Ryan
Starring Samia Rida, Rhashan Stone, Christopher Hatherall & Ted Dogliani.
A woman is forced to confront her "Geminiphobia" (Fear of Twins, especially identical ones). A short film I directed in 2008.
Written by Samia Rida.
Starring Edward Dogliani & Samia Rida
Matchmakers beware - starring Edward Dogliani & Tina Barnes. Written and Directed by Simon O'Neill.
Nominated for Best Irish Short Comedy Competition in The Charlie Chaplin Film Festival 2012.
A video I directed for Paul Tylak as 'Stan Francisco', the lounge singer crooning about the possible perils of Y2K.
Shot by Conor O'Mahony.
Produced by Rachel Smith.
Spoof music video. Joe Rooney as MC Benny with his club hit "Sun Suntan".
Directed by Simon O'Neill
Director of Photography Conor O'Mahony
A video I shot on 16 mm film for Dublin band Wormhole from their album "Chicks Dig Scars" some time in the mid 90s.
Directed by Eamon Crudden.