FUTURE STORIES

PHOTOS: Jilly McGrath

THE PROJECT

Cast:

Anisa Abuukar, Soffiyah Adewoyin, Clare Barrett, Callum Barry, Saoirse Bruen, John Cronin, Subhashini Goda,

B.L. MacMurrough, Jasmine-Frances Mooney, Nashad Omar Abdi, Ankur Vikal

Future Stories Contributors:

Gary Baxter, Halimat Adewoyin, Shannon O' Reilly, Sorcha Harris

Directed by:

Maeve Stone: The Free State, Love is a Foreign Language, Boiled Rice,

All the Things I Want to Say, Redacted‍ ‍

Oonagh Murphy: Care Order

Em Ó Ceallaigh: One Percent Chance

Edited by:

Alex Gill

Future Stories conceived by

Oonagh Murphy

Story by

Emmet Kirwan

Final monologue by

B.L. MacMurrough

Script Editor:

Em Ó Ceallaigh

Produced by:

Cracking Light Productions

Production Coordinator:

Zoe Reynolds

Production Assistants:

Ashleigh Dorrell, Anna Buchmueller

In 2025 Cracking Light began collaborating with the Future Stories collective. Future Stories, an 18-month participatory art project, premiered at First Fortnight Festival. It is a new film work by 10 young people with experience of the Irish care system.

Working with writer Emmet Kirwan, directors Oonagh Murphy and Em O’ Ceallaigh, and film-makers Maeve Stone and Alex Gill, the co-created film captures the unique perspectives of these young artists, the stories behind the numbers.

The film was followed by a conversation - exploring mental health, the care system and the emancipatory power of art.

Oonagh Murphy, Em O’Ceallaigh, Maeve Stone and Alex Gill