How to Skin a Cheetah

Ireland2023fiction20'Międzynarodowy konkurs krótkometrażowy (2024)

Meghan O'Shaughnessy invites the viewers to a maze full of traps, where fantasies of revenge intertwine with illness, lies, solitude, hopelessness, violence and dreams of a journey-escape to Tanzania. This film is a macabre, coming-of-age story and a thriller in one. As if Carol Ledoux met Van Pelt. A metaphor and projection of dark desires sit on Freud’s couch. Teenage Bobby knows where a rifle is hidden in the cluttered house, full of old issues of ‘National Geographic’, dust and animal antlers. Is she going to use it, persuaded by her loopy friend Lucas? Both of them have serious problems with their demanding – nay! – castrating mothers. All is set in green Ireland.

directed by
Meghan O
Meghan O'Shaughnessy

Multi-award winning director from Limerick, Ireland. Her most recent documentary "They Killed Us For Existing" won a Royal Television Society Award for Best Factual Piece 2023. It has also won ‘Best Film in a Student Category’ in The Richard Harris International Film Festival and The Disappear Here International Film Festival 2022. Meghan received a First Class Honours degree from the National Film School with her graduate production, "How To Skin A Cheetah". The film is an exploration into surrealism and German expressionism.

cinematography
Naoise Kettle
script
Meghan O'Shaughnessy, Thomas Purdy
cast
Enya Donohue, Fiachra Corkery, Joanne Brennan, Maggie Hannon
music
Reuben Harvey
sound
Danilo Zambrano
editing
Luke O'Shaughnessy
production
Thomas Purdy (The National Film School at IADT Dún Laoghaire)
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