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Sea Fever opens in theatres and on VoD across the US April 10th 2020.  The film is distributed by Dust, the sci-fi imprint of Gunpowder & Sky. Tickets available here

Sea Fever is a sci-fi thriller. The story sees solitary marine biology student Siobhán endure a week on a ragged fishing trawler, where she’s miserably at odds with the close-knit crew. But out in the deep Atlantic, the boat encounters an unfathomable life form. When members of the crew start succumbing to a strange infection, Siobhán must overcome her alienation and win the crew’s trust, before everyone is lost. A story of taking responsibility for ourselves, for eachother and for our world, the film sold out several times over and received glowing reviews at its festival début.

Neasa’s screenplay Sea Fever has won the inaugural Frontières Digital Postproduction Prize at the Cannes Film Festival Marché du Film. The win comes with a budget of $150,000 for  post-production services. The script for Sea Feverwas shortlisted for the AMPAS Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting 2015. It was selected at the Frontieres Film Festival as one of 12 showcase projects, as well as at the Les Arcs Film Festival as one of 9 showcase projects, and won a prize at the London Film Awards. It was selected at the Frontieres Film Festival as one of 12 showcase projects, as well as at the Les Arcs Film Festival as one of 9 showcase projects, and won a prize at the London Film Awards.

Neasa has been awarded the BAFTA for Best Series with Happy Valley. Read more here.

Neasa is on national public radio discussing her career, and how directing is all about creativity and trust. Listen here.

Neasa was awarded the Best Director IFTA last year, and has just been nominated again in the same category at the Irish Film and Television Academy Awards 2017, for Z: The Beginning of Everything.

Screen International details support for Neasa’s feature film, Sea Fever. The film, centred on a science student who becomes isolated from her superstitious trawler crew as they struggle to overcome a deadly parasite in their water supply, was written by Neasa Hardiman and will be produced by Fantastic Films.

Here’s the trailer for Z, the brand new drama Neasa directed with Killer Films for Amazon. Starring Christina Ricci, the drama explores the extraordinary true story of Zelda Sayre and her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, as they invent themselves and destroy each other amid the glitz and glamour of Manhattan in 1920.

Neasa’s on RTÉ Radio’s Inside Culture, discussing her feature project on writer Maeve Brennan, as well as new national initiative Big Stories on the Small Screen.