Caroline E. Farrell's Blog

Wonderful to have my short story A Thin Red Stitch published in

The Ogham Stone Literary Journal 2024.

VIMEO LINK TO CAROLINE’S FILMS

A ‘Stowe Story Labs’ Launch Fellow 2023, Caroline was also the recipient of a Stowe Story Labs/Screen Ireland Screenwriting Fellowship in 2022. In 2020, she made a short experimental film, HEART(h) themed around the emotions of grief and isolation during lockdown. It screened at the Little Cinema Galway.

In 2018, Caroline wrote and directed the short film FRAMED, selected for screening at over 30 festivals worldwide. It also won ‘Best Short Horror Film’ at the U...

In my capacity as a Stowe Launch Fellow 2023, it was such an honour to spend a week in Stowe, Vermont, working on the pilot episode for my TV Series, LADY BETH.

In beautiful surroundings, and a community of like-minded writers, the week was filled with insight and affirmation from workshops, panel discussions, meetings with mentors, and peer group sessions.

A very special thank you to the Stowe Story Lab founders David Rocchio and David Pope for their kindness and expertise in all aspects of t...

I want to share massive appreciation to Stowe Story Labs, Screen Ireland and the Galway Film Fleadh for awarding me the ‘Stowe Story Labs/Galway Film Fleadh Marketplace Fellow 2023’, and also huge respect to the talented screenwriters, producers, speakers and supportive mentors I had the opportunity to work with and be inspired by during the inaugural Connemara Writers Retreat 2022. I’m excited to be awarded this amazing opportunity and to be moving forward with my feature screenplay, IONA’S HOU...

I am absolutely delighted to be a recipient of a Stowe Story Lab | Screen Ireland Screenwriting Fellowship, attending the Connemara Writer’s Retreat at Renvyle House. Five full days of mentoring, peer-to-peer feedback, access to informative panels with industry professionals, writing exercises and an unquantifiable amount of inspiration, encouragement and constructive feedback. Grateful and inspired to move forward with my work. Thanks also to the Galway Film Fleadh and Northern Ireland Screen f...

Caroline Farrell is a writer and filmmaker from Dublin, Ireland. In 2018, she wrote and directed the short film FRAMED, selected for screening at over 30 festivals worldwide. It also won ‘Best Short Horror Film’ at the Underground Cinema Film Festival, Ireland. 2019.

FRAMED

https://player.vimeo.com/video/266284274

She has written and co-produced the short films ADAM [2013] and the multi-award winning IN RIBBONS [2015], the only Irish short film to screen at the ‘Women Deliver Global Conference’ ...

It’s my favourite time of the year, and I’m delighted to chat to Fiona Cooke for her October / Halloween series Horror Zone. 

Check it out here: https://unusualfiction.wordpress.com/2021/10/21/horror-zone-horror-thrills-with-award-winning-writer-screenwriter-and-director-caroline-farrell/

And while you are there, check out Fiona’s latest collection of creepy short stories, The Nightmare (E.B.Hogan) published by Spellbound Books.

Happy Halloween!!

Here is the list of titles I discussed last night at our recommended reads session for South Dublin County Libraries, Tallaght. Hope you check some of them out and let me know what your think.

1: The End of The World is a Cul De Sac by Louise Kennedy. Published by Bloomsbury

There’s a quote that I heard many years in relation to writing…If you scratch the skin of pain, you’ll find beauty – and that certainly applies to this debut collection. Dark, funny, sad and sometimes visceral, I highl...

I have been invited by Tallaght Library to recommend some of my favourite books from my current reading stacks. This will be a ZOOM event on Monday, 21st June at 7:30pm. (Summer Solstice – what better day to chat about books to borrow for the Summer months!)

I’ll be chatting for about 30 mins so do sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/recommended-reads-with-caroline-farrell-tickets-154071157981

This is my diary for 2020.

Projects progressed. Notes on cancelled creative, teaching and facilitative work. Notes on other offers of work I have declined. Work that under normal circumstances I would have enthusiastically leapt in, head first.

The energy of 2020 did not permit that.

This diary is also bundled with many notes, cards and tokens. Blessings from the friends who kept in touch, those connections that proved so vital to our mental health. To our resilience.

And what a year for paper-c...