“IONA’S HOUSE”
Caroline Farrell
Horror
In a quiet backstreet in Dublin City, KATE, 40, rents IONA’S HOUSE from landlord and shopkeeper, MISTER JORDAN, 90. Both haunted by the terrible secrets they keep, their worlds collide to transform KATE’s future with a chilling sense of purpose.
IONA’S HOUSE is gritty, intense and pressurized, the story unfolding the dark history of the house and its occupants through elevated gothic horror. Portraying present-day trauma and devastating grief, interlinked to the past through the heart-breaking love story of childhood sweethearts.
Caroline Farrell. From Dublin, Ireland, Caroline writes atmospheric narratives with a touch of the gothic, dark and lyrical elements of story that explore humanity through characters that are flawed, yet compelling. She is particularly drawn to female stories, lifting the veil on ordinary lives to uncover buried wounds, always questioning that push towards the edge of reason and how adversity can become a driver towards refuge and transformation. Caroline is the recipient of the inaugural Stowe Story Labs | Galway Film Market Fellowship, 2023, and in 2022, was awarded a Stowe Story Labs/Screen Ireland Fellowship in Screenwriting. Caroline is the writer/director of the short film, FRAMED [2018], selected to screen at over 30 festivals worldwide and winning ‘Best Short Horror Film’ at the Underground Cinema Film Festival, Ireland. 2019. She has written and co-produced the short films ADAM [2013] an exploration of the effects that domestic violence has on a young boy, and the multi-award winning ‘autobiographical’ IN RIBBONS [2015], the only Irish film to screen at the ‘Women Deliver Global Conference’ in Copenhagen in 2016. Both films have screened worldwide at Festivals. In 2020, Caroline made the experimental short film HEART(h), a study of grief and isolation during lockdown. It screened at The Little Cinema, Galway. She is the author of the award-winning novel, LADY BETH, which she adapted from her screenplay.
