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To the outside world, Yvonne is a strong, happy and successful woman. But when she returns home to be with her sick mother, she is forced to make life-changing decisions and the facade that she has carefully constructed begins to collapse.

Writer: Ivan Kavanagh

Director: Ivan Kavanagh

Cast: Valene Kane, Emma Eliza Regan, Bibi Larrson, Patrick O’Donnell

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Awards

• World cinema selection, PUSAN international Film Festival 2010.
• Winner of the best Irish film award, Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards,
• Jameson Dublin Film Festival 2010
• Critics choice award for ‘Best Feature’ & Best Actor, Jameson Film Festival 2010.

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A Feature Film

Recently dumped by his girlfriend for another man, working in a job he hates, things could be better for Peter. One night, while he is alone in his apartment, there is a knock at the door. His life will never be the same again.

Writer: Ivan Kavanagh

Director: Ivan Kavanagh

Cast: Michael Parle, Emma Eliza Regan, Kreeta Taponen, Patrick O’Donnell

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Awards

• Winner of the Dublin Film Critics Special Jury Prize 2012.
• Winner of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival for Best Foreign Film, Best Foreign Director and Best Foreign  Actor.
• Winner of the Best Cinematography at the Strasbourg International Film Festival.
• Winner of the Boundary Breaking Best Feature and Best International Actor for at the Sydney Underground Film Festival

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A Feature Film

Cinema Archivist David Williams lives with his wife, Alice, and their 6-year-old son. All seems well until David begins to suspect that Alice is cheating on him. His anxiety is then compounded by a bizarre coincidence at work: he learns that his home was the site of a brutal series of murders by an occultist  named William Jackson, who slew his wife for being unfaithful and drowned both of their children in the nearby canal.

As David’s suspicions grow, a shadowy figure of a man, who resembles Jackson, starts to appear to him and David becomes convinced that this “evil supernatural presence” that inhabits his house, never ever wants him or his family to leave.

Writer: Ivan Kavanagh

Director: Ivan Kavanagh

Cast: Rupert Evans (Hellboy), Antonia Cambell Hughes (Albert nobbs, Kelly + Victor),
Hannah Hoekstra (Hemel) and Steve Oram (Sightseers)

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Awards

• Tribeca Film Festival 2014 Official Selection
• Busan International Film Festival 2014 Official Selection
• Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival Official Selection
• ​Winner of the International Fantasy Film Award Best Actor Rupert Evans 2015
• Winner of the BloodGuts UK Horror Award Scariest Film 2014

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A Feature Film

Completed October 2020

From acclaimed writer/director Ivan Kavanagh, SON is a bold and unnerving character-driven horror film, in the vein of Hereditary, Rosemary’s Baby, The Omen and The Babadook.
Having escaped from a cult as a child, a mother must face her past when its sinister members break into her home and attempt to steal her eight-year-old son, David. Now the two are on the run pursued by a detective determined to save them both. Since his aborted kidnapping something has changed in David and the boy has succumbed to a mysterious illness. Following her maternal instincts to save him, his mother commits unspeakable acts to keep him alive but is losing the battle. Soon, she has to decide how far she is willing to go to save her son.

Writer: Ivan Kavanagh

Director: Ivan Kavanagh

Producers: AnneMarie Naughton of Park Films,  Louis Tisné (Hungry Hearts, Border), Rene Bastian (Transamerica, Funny Games, Cold in July)

Cast: Andi Matichak (Halloween) and Emile Hirsch