Deborah Grimes

BIOGRAPHIE

My screenwriting career began in 2013 with an Irish language short film entitled Lá Bréa Chuige which was broadcast on Irish television (TG4) the following year and screened at several festivals. My first feature script entitled (Oileán) as was completed in 2018. It was successful in many competitions in the U.S and the UK that year, receiving eight short listings to date and was recently awarded script development funding from Screen Ireland. ‘A story on the edge of time and a landscape on the edge of the world’, Oileán is the dramatic portrayal of a disappearing world, the last days of a stalwart community who have lost the fight to remain on their island home. My hope would be to get it into production over the next year. My second feature script - Noah's Return was inspired by the tragic story of American writer, Robert Drake who moved to Ireland in the 1990’s. I hope to shoot the short film/teaser version of it in West Kerry this autumn in order to gain more experience as a director and increase my chances of getting the feature into production. The Yellow Dress is my directorial debut. It was shot last summer by DOP, Robin Whenary, with whom I hope to work on my next short film. With this film, I wanted to portray the difficulty faced by a woman struggling to reintegrate into the world as she comes to terms with both a marriage break up and the trauma of breast cancer. This is played out through the eyes of her young daughter who takes desperate measures to get her mother back to the carefree, vibrant woman she used to be. The positive reaction from the handful of people who have watched the film privately (the Irish cancer societies especially) and were uplifted by its message, has been a wonderful endorsement for this small, self-funded film and what it ultimately set out to be – a story of hope, reawakening and new beginnings.

FILMOGRAPHIE