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Meghan O'Shaughnessy 

BA [Hons] Film + Television Production

Meghan is a filmmaker and actor from Limerick. Her credits include short documentary 'They Killed Us for Existing' which won The Royal Television Society Award for Best Overall Factual Piece (2023) with a Special Mention for Editing, Best Student Film in The Richard Harris International Film Festival and The Disappear Here International Film Festival (2022). Her work has featured in Irish Film Festivals across the country such as the IFI Documentary Film Festival and Spook Screen Film Festival. Meghan is passionate about feminist themes, coming-of-age and parenthood in the horror/thriller genre and enjoys exploring tones from the German Expressionist movement.

How to Skin a Cheetah (Director/Co-Writer) Enya Donohue as Bobby, Fiachra Corkery as Lucas, Joanne Brennan as Mrs Cheatmen & Maggie Hannon as Bernadette. Producer/Co-writer Thomas Purdy, Director of Photography Naoise Kettle.
I know this is what you want. I can put an end to it.
'I know all about you, and your Mother. She's deluded.'
'October 9th 1991, Today I have slain the fastest land animal. The cheetah.'
'Best not to let it suffer.'
'That's mine. Caught her last night when I went out hunting.'
They Killed Us For Existing (Director/Editor) Director of Photography Naoise Kettle. A documentary about gendered violence against women in Ireland. Featuring Ashley Chadamayo Makombe, Bernadette O'Shaughnessy and Kelly Lane.
They Killed Us for Existing
What The Tide Brought In (Director) Director of Photography/Writer* Ailill Martin. Editor* Luke O'Shaughnessy. Henry (Micheal Browne), a small time drug smuggler, finds himself stranded on a strange island waiting for a boat that never comes. After eating a peculiar looking fish that washes onto the sandy shores he begins to experience supernatural behaviour and soon realises that he is the fish out of water. Psychological Horror
What the Tide Brought In
Reborners (Director/Editor) Director of Photography Naoise Kettle. A short documentary about a troubled mother and how she copes with the death of her child. Factual/Horror
Reborner (Director/Editor)
How To Skin A Cheetah - Graduate Film 2023

Dreaming of escaping her bedridden Mother for the plains of Tanzania, Bobby starts working at ‘Mrs Cheatmen’s Corner Store’ only to strike up a strange friendship with Mrs Cheatmen's mollycoddled son, Lucas who's volatile nature threatens her dream.

How to Skin a Cheetah is a black comedy / thriller that tackles themes of violence, motherhood and coming of age set in an off-kilter, nightmarish world.
Written by Meghan O'Shaughnessy & Thomas Purdy.
Directed by Meghan O'Shaughnessy.
Produced by Thomas Purdy.
Cinematography by Naoise Kettle.
Edited by Luke O'Shaughnessy.
Sound Design by Conor Waldron.


CV_2023 PDF

Mother Knows Best - Thesis

'Mother knows Best' investigates the portrayal of motherhood onscreen from early cinema to modern day. It tackles films from all different era's and genre's, focusing mainly on mother characters such as Marmee March from the many retellings of Little Women, Amelia Vanek from The Babadook, Beth Jarett from Ordinary People, Margaret White from Carrie and Mary Jones from Precious . This thesis challenges what it means to be a Mother and how these mother characters and the categories they fall into have defined how the mother role is viewed in modern day society.


CV_2023 PDF
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