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Thicker Than Water is a film about how two sisters, at odds with each other, cope with the complicated grief of their mother.
After the family holiday home has been sold, sisters Beth and Niamh, and Niamh's boyfriend Rob, reluctantly return to the Sligo coast to clear the cottage of its belongings. There, the sisters are forced to confront the past that lost them their mother, quickly devolving into an increasingly challenging and emotionally suffocating four days.
Why We Need Your Help
We are student filmmakers, and though the National Film School will provide us with some of the equipment for the shoot, the college does not provide any financing or budget when it comes to funding our films. What this means is, if you do not have the means yourself to self-fund your graduate film, then it cannot be made. Being a group of students, and paying Dublin rent on top of university fees, means raising all of the necessary funds associated with production is extremely challenging. All contributions are immensely appreciated, so if you can give anything (big or small), know that it will go a very long way in helping bring Thicker Than Water to life. I realise money is tight for everyone, so if you are not in a position to donate, a share is all I ask.
Donations will directly cover the cost of cast+crew travel expenses, catering, equipment hire, production design and construction, costumes, COVID-19 PPE and Health + Safety supplies. Any left over budget will be divided into the film's distribution to film festivals. We will need funds by the 25th of February before production commences.
Donors will recieve a ‘Thank You’ in the credits and a link to the film upon completion of its festival run. Please share and spread the word. Thank you for your time and I urge you to consider our plea!
Director's Notes
Thicker Than Water is a film about sisters. It is about blame. Why we blame others, or ourselves, for what is out of our control. It’s about a complicated grief, how to grow within it, how to outgrow it, if either option is a possibility. It’s about how siblings grow in opposition. It’s about places, old and new, and how strange it is when the places we know best become unfamiliar. It’s about memory, what we can and can’t remember and the memories we choose to forget. It is about how an exterior reflects an interior dialogue, opposes it, and both - all at once. It is about how an empty space makes room for relationship, and how two people, through the act of packing up a house that was once their home, unpack the story of their childhood. It is a film which hints at something much bigger than what is shown, perhaps never resolving or including catharsis, but almost certainly suggests a clearer future ahead. Thicker Than Water is about strength: strength in talking, strength in trusting and strength in feeling.
About the Team
Director/Writer: Pippa Molony is an an artist and filmmaker based in Dublin. She studies at the National Film School, IADT and is a past member of the National Youth Theatre Ensemble, Dublin Youth Theatre and Youth Theatre Ireland’s ‘ARTiculate’ and Young Critics programmes. She is currently a member of the Irish ‘Be SpectActive’ programme with Dublin Theatre Festival and her writing has been performed as part of the Dublin Youth Theatre Member's One Act Play Festival (2018, 2020). Pippa has performed in notable productions such as 'Ask Too Much Of Me' by Dylan Coburn Gray (Abbey Theatre, 2019) and ‘All I Believed Happened There Was Vision’ by Frank Sweeney (AEMI, St Patrick’s Festival 2020). Her most recent film, ‘Clara’s Room’ won the Inaugural First Frame Award (2020) at the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival, and has since screened at a large number of national and international film festivals, for which she wrote and directed. Pippa is interested in making work that challenges audiences and addresses questions of identity, morality and transgression.
Cinematographer/Writer: Gráinne Galvin is a Cinematographer and final year student at the National Film School at IADT. She also spent a year studying Cinematography at The Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague. There she developed her skills in a range of video formats, working mostly with 16mm. Gráinne has additionally worked in the camera and lighting departments of large scale film productions, both feature and short length, which has contributed significantly to her filmmaking ability. Gráinne and Pippa are frequent collaborators and have been working on Thicker Than Water together since it’s conception back in February of 2020. They are both deeply invested in the project and are excited to finally realise the film and with your help bring it to it’s full potential.
Producer: Meghan O'Shaughnessy is a Third Year Film + Television Production student at the National Film School, IADT. Limerick native, Meghan is an actor, writer and director in her own right, and this will be Meghan's second time producing a Graduate Film for the National Film School, having previously produced the widely praised 'NFS Video Files' for the school in September, 2020. Meghan is an incredibly diligent person, who embraces teamwork wholeheartedly and is dedicated in bringing TTW to life.
After the family holiday home has been sold, sisters Beth and Niamh, and Niamh's boyfriend Rob, reluctantly return to the Sligo coast to clear the cottage of its belongings. There, the sisters are forced to confront the past that lost them their mother, quickly devolving into an increasingly challenging and emotionally suffocating four days.
Why We Need Your Help
We are student filmmakers, and though the National Film School will provide us with some of the equipment for the shoot, the college does not provide any financing or budget when it comes to funding our films. What this means is, if you do not have the means yourself to self-fund your graduate film, then it cannot be made. Being a group of students, and paying Dublin rent on top of university fees, means raising all of the necessary funds associated with production is extremely challenging. All contributions are immensely appreciated, so if you can give anything (big or small), know that it will go a very long way in helping bring Thicker Than Water to life. I realise money is tight for everyone, so if you are not in a position to donate, a share is all I ask.
Donations will directly cover the cost of cast+crew travel expenses, catering, equipment hire, production design and construction, costumes, COVID-19 PPE and Health + Safety supplies. Any left over budget will be divided into the film's distribution to film festivals. We will need funds by the 25th of February before production commences.
Donors will recieve a ‘Thank You’ in the credits and a link to the film upon completion of its festival run. Please share and spread the word. Thank you for your time and I urge you to consider our plea!
Director's Notes
Thicker Than Water is a film about sisters. It is about blame. Why we blame others, or ourselves, for what is out of our control. It’s about a complicated grief, how to grow within it, how to outgrow it, if either option is a possibility. It’s about how siblings grow in opposition. It’s about places, old and new, and how strange it is when the places we know best become unfamiliar. It’s about memory, what we can and can’t remember and the memories we choose to forget. It is about how an exterior reflects an interior dialogue, opposes it, and both - all at once. It is about how an empty space makes room for relationship, and how two people, through the act of packing up a house that was once their home, unpack the story of their childhood. It is a film which hints at something much bigger than what is shown, perhaps never resolving or including catharsis, but almost certainly suggests a clearer future ahead. Thicker Than Water is about strength: strength in talking, strength in trusting and strength in feeling.
About the Team
Director/Writer: Pippa Molony is an an artist and filmmaker based in Dublin. She studies at the National Film School, IADT and is a past member of the National Youth Theatre Ensemble, Dublin Youth Theatre and Youth Theatre Ireland’s ‘ARTiculate’ and Young Critics programmes. She is currently a member of the Irish ‘Be SpectActive’ programme with Dublin Theatre Festival and her writing has been performed as part of the Dublin Youth Theatre Member's One Act Play Festival (2018, 2020). Pippa has performed in notable productions such as 'Ask Too Much Of Me' by Dylan Coburn Gray (Abbey Theatre, 2019) and ‘All I Believed Happened There Was Vision’ by Frank Sweeney (AEMI, St Patrick’s Festival 2020). Her most recent film, ‘Clara’s Room’ won the Inaugural First Frame Award (2020) at the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival, and has since screened at a large number of national and international film festivals, for which she wrote and directed. Pippa is interested in making work that challenges audiences and addresses questions of identity, morality and transgression.
Cinematographer/Writer: Gráinne Galvin is a Cinematographer and final year student at the National Film School at IADT. She also spent a year studying Cinematography at The Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague. There she developed her skills in a range of video formats, working mostly with 16mm. Gráinne has additionally worked in the camera and lighting departments of large scale film productions, both feature and short length, which has contributed significantly to her filmmaking ability. Gráinne and Pippa are frequent collaborators and have been working on Thicker Than Water together since it’s conception back in February of 2020. They are both deeply invested in the project and are excited to finally realise the film and with your help bring it to it’s full potential.
Producer: Meghan O'Shaughnessy is a Third Year Film + Television Production student at the National Film School, IADT. Limerick native, Meghan is an actor, writer and director in her own right, and this will be Meghan's second time producing a Graduate Film for the National Film School, having previously produced the widely praised 'NFS Video Files' for the school in September, 2020. Meghan is an incredibly diligent person, who embraces teamwork wholeheartedly and is dedicated in bringing TTW to life.
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