Well it’s October already, and the year is just steam rolling ahead with me pulled along behind it!
Teecar Productions, which consists of myself and my good friend Linda Teehan, are making headway on some exciting comedy scripts. Although I’ve always had a love for drama, I have to say, writing and acting comedy feels natural and compliments my own personality too. We’ve some great sketches outlined so far, and with regular writing days scheduled we’re moving quickly, and thankfully are finding interested directors popping up all the time
I’m filming a short with Redline Productions towards the end of the month. Daniel Corcoran is directing which is great, I like his past work, and I’m looking forward to being feisty on camera for that!
I also had a couple of days on a show for the Dublin Fringe Festival. It wasn’t acting per-say, but the show was an artistic take on a fashion show, involving strong movement, visual and musical input. It’s always fun to get involved and try something different and I had a great time on the show for a couple of days.
Other then that, between working on a pilot, shooting a TV advert, casting for a male lead to play opposite me in another short, and my regular voice work for RTE, I’ve been keeping the cogs in motion and the cobwebs at bay.
Now all I’ve to think of is what to dress up as for Halloween!
Well I have to say I am totally delighted to have won the Best Actress category for “Covies” at the Underground Cinema Awards this year. It was a fantastic night and superbly put together down to the fine details by Dave and all the Underground team. This year marks the first Underground Awards and with Labour party leader Eamonn Gilmore speaking on the night, I felt he hit the nail on the head saying that this is the first of many years of success for Underground and what a privilege to have been part of the first one.
The Underground team have already begun the process to kick off next years monthly screenings, and the films which were presented throughout this past year will continue to tour the UK and Ireland meaning an even wider audience will gain access to view these amazing independent short films.
In the run up to the Awards night David Byrne from Underground and I did a radio interview with Richie Beirne for “Arena” RTE’s flagship Culture/entertainment/ Arts programme. You can listen to the radio interview here:
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I haven’t any of the official photos from the night yet so here is just a snapshot of me on the night!!
Hey Everyone,
Recently I mentioned that I’ve been working on a sci-fi short film “Effigy Road”. Well, the director of the film, Rob Kelly, has put together a teaser trailer from the footage taken so far. This project is still in production with some ongoing filming taking place in Carlow town which should be wrapped over the next couple of weeks.
But for now thanks for reading and please enjoy this teaser:
Just over a year ago I worked on a short film, “Caliber”, directed by Rob Kelly. So when Rob got in touch and asked if I’d be involved on his new project “Effigy Road” I was happy to jump on board. “Effigy Road” is a sci-fi piece with an end of world theme running throughout.
Filming is taking place in various locations throughout Carlow town, and the Ardmore Studios C stage and green screen facilities will be used for the big crowd scene and replication of an “alien arena”. We’ve completed 3 weekends throughout June in Carlow town and have still a couple of weekends to go to finish the project. Next weekend will involve some stunt work which I’m really looking forward to.
Thanks for reading, Sarah
Still of Sarah Carroll taken from the short sci-fi film Effigy Road.
I have been very quiet on the blog front over the past few weeks so this is a short update of a couple of smaller projects I was involved with in June.
I accepted a role offered by the grad students in IADT Dun Laoghaire leading to an enjoyable and eventful week working with them on “Escape”. The piece was very visual and we had some interesting set ups, including a night shoot in a forest. Broken mirrors were suspended from the trees and reflecting light everywhere for part of a dream sequence.. It looked great on the night and I’m sure it’ll transfer well onto screen.
I also embarked on my first attempt at a short film of my own. An actor friend of mine, Linda Teehan, and I have been talking about putting something together ourselves for a little while now, so we bit the bullet and got down to business. We improvised some ideas together first of all, and although our ideas ranged from drama to black comedy, somehow a script for our 4 minute comedy short film evolved. Thankfully we were fortunate to enlist the help of Noel Brady of Phoenix Artz for camera and editing, and with him Ashleigh Ekins for sound. Our final input came from Dylan McDonough who played the role of the doctor for us. The concept was simple enough, so a short filming period and lightning quick editing from Noel meant our little short was packaged up and ready for festival submission within a matter of days. “Waiting Room” is the first production from TeeCarr Productions, we hope to get accepted into festivals and hopefully we’ll move on and film a few more little projects in the future.
That’s all for this little update… stay tuned as always for more information.
In a previous post I spoke about the short film, Guerrilla, that I worked on with Dunsany Productions. The film is due to be finished in the summer and will begin the festival rounds from then, but for now you can check out the new trailer below!
Enjoy!
Sarah
“In the near future, the economic structure of the entire western world collapses under massive recession. In an attempt to quell the chaos that ensues, the EU sets up the ECHO; combining all member states’ armies into one to enforce martial law on the people. Years pass and even when relative peace returns, the ECHO refuse to give up their power and a totalitarian Pan-European regime begins. In Ireland, the Guerrillas are formed to fight and remove their foreign oppressors. From Dunsany Productions, ‘Guerrilla’ is written and directed by Blaine Rennicks, produced by Randal Plunkett, edited by Dominique Brennan, director of photography is Stefano Battarola and music by Darius McGann. Starring Jack Lowe, Darren Killeen, Sarah Carroll, Eoin Barton, Bertie Brosnan, Karl Gordon, Shane Fox, Gerry Wade, Matthew Radford and Graham Ward. Coming Soon.”
It would seem auditioning with no voice isn’t such a bad thing after all. I was in a bit of a panic this week with three auditions to get to and a voice that just wasn’t co-operating. But here we are with my second role secured for the week. It’s a short film titled Guerrilla to be shot by Dunsany Productions on location in Navan, Dublin and Dundalk. It’s a futuristic war movie and judging by the size of the gun I held in audition it’s going to be an eventful shooting experience.
I will play the female lead of Jacky. She is a soldier totally dedicated to the cause she fights. She has found herself on opposite sides to a former lover, Donelly, also the father of her young son. She’s hated him ever since he left her because she was pregnant, however when presented with the situation to let him live or die what will be the outcome? (Ohhhhh suspense!)
Should begin with costume and promo shots next week and shooting week after that. I’m sure I’ll have plenty of updates as we get closer and shooting begins so stay posted.
I worked on a short film a few weeks ago called Hunting Grizzly, a comedy written and directed by Jeff Doyle, Co-Directed by Donnacha Coffey, and produced by Cathal Nally and Babershop Triplet Productions. I guess it falls into a strand of blue comedy, but to be honest it’s just plain Jeff Doyle humour… kinda have to know him to understand! It was great crack to work on and I’m sure it’ll be ready for screening in the near future and perhaps do the festival rounds, but for now here’s the trailer so you can get a taste of whats to come.
Well it’s October already, and the year is just steam rolling ahead with me pulled along behind it! 
Well I have to say I am totally delighted to have won the Best Actress category for “Covies” at the Underground Cinema Awards this year. It was a fantastic night and superbly put together down to the fine details by Dave and all the Underground team. This year marks the first Underground Awards and with Labour party leader Eamonn Gilmore speaking on the night, I felt he hit the nail on the head saying that this is the first of many years of success for Underground and what a privilege to have been part of the first one.
