Segotia Residents’ Short Films
Segotia Resident’s Film Screening - Night Glances + Stutterer
Night Glances
Romantic realisations between two best friends are made awkward, when classmates and crushes call over to an end-of-school party. Internal social pressures break down barriers, before the chaos of misunderstanding leads to a hazy truth.
Segotia Resident’s Film Screening - Night Glances + Stutterer
Stutterer
For a lonely typographer, an online relationship has provided a much-needed connection without revealing the speech impediment that has kept him isolated.
Now, however, he is faced with the proposition of meeting his online paramour in the flesh, and thereby revealing the truth about himself.
Stutterer won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film in 2017.
Screening of
Night Glances + Stutturer Time
11:00 - 11:30
Location
Cinema
Sam Ahern
Sam is a writer, director, and film festival organiser. Their latest short film NIGHT GLANCES premiered in 2024, a queer coming-of-age follow-up to LATE BLOOMERS (2023). Sam wrote SAFE AS HOUSES, which screened at over 50 festivals and received development funding from Screen Ireland to become a TV series. Sam is the lead writer on the project, about a fictional housing estate inspired by Dublin’s housing crisis. Sam’s most recent achievement is being selected for the inaugural Screen Ireland Perspectives scheme for their feature, LET THEM IN, a queer, trans, psychological horror set in Connemara. They are currently the festival manager for GAZE Film Festival and, recently, an assistant producer on Storyhouse. Sam is a member of the Writers’ Guild of Ireland, Segotia artists and the trans film gang.
Sam is currently one of Segotia’s creative residents
Ben Cleary
Benjamin Cleary is an Irish writer, director and producer from Dublin. In 2015 he wrote, directed and edited his first short film Stutterer. It stars Matthew Needham and Chloe Pirrie. The film has been accepted into 75 plus festivals at time of writing and has won over 20 awards including the London Critic's Circle award, an Irish Film and Television Award, the Audience Award and the Best International Short Film Award at the Kerry Film Festival. It also won the Best Foreign Film at the prestigious LA Shorts Fest. This award qualified Stutterer onto the long-list for an Oscar, which it went on to win for Best Live Action Short. Cleary won a Cannes Young Director Award and Best New Director at the Kinsale Sharks Awards 2016. He also wrote Love Is A Sting, which was long-listed for an Oscar 2017 after winning two qualifying festivals, Best Foreign film at LA Shorts Film Festival 2016 and Grand Prix best Irish film at Cork International Film Festival.
Ben is currently one of Segotia’s creative residents.