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.
A short film about death and disease. What are the practical steps you should take when you’ve been bitten by a zombie?
WINNER - Best Special Effects, Santecchia Horror Festival, Gioi, Italy
WINNER - Best Screenplay, The Romford Horror Film Festival, UK
WINNER - Best Ensemble Cast, Dublin International Comedy Film Festival DICFF, Ireland
WINNER - Best Comedy, The Ealing Film Festival, London, UK
WINNER - Best Irish Short, Ennis International Fantastic Film Fest, Co Clare, Ireland
WINNER - Best Fantastic Short, Curtas Festival do Imaxinario, Pontevedra, Spain
He's a lovely lad, really. He just fell in with the wrong crowd...
Short film starring Norma Sheahan, Keith Singleton, Martin Condon & & Shane Cadden.
Feature script in development.
Various feathered friends splashing around in a Clontarf garden.
Short documentary #ShotOniPhone
WINNER - Best Documentary, Super 9 Mobile Film Fest (2020)
WINNER - Best Irish Film, Dublin Smartphone Film Festival (2019)
Music video for "Good Life" by The Family Dog
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
WINNER - PRIX DU PUBLIC (AUDIENCE AWARD), This is England Film Festival, Rouen, France (2016)
WINNER - BEST DIRECTOR, Chicago Independent Film Festival, USA (2017)
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.
ROFLMAO (2012). Short film re-edited (2024)
Starring:
Samia Rida, Joseph Beattie & Ted Dogliani.
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 on surveillance duty wait 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).
Written by Samia Rida. Directed by Simon O'Neill
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.
