Jeda de Brí
Selected credits
- TRYSTFeature Film/ Treasure Entertainment/ Screen Ireland
- TrystProject Arts/UK & Irish Tour/ Treasure Entertainment/ Screen Ireland
- ProcessionGalway Film Fleadh 2018
- Chimneys RTÉ/ Shortscreen Programme 2016
- TacticsSickle Moon/ Theatre Upstairs
- Slippers Sickle Moon/ Theatre Upstairs
About
Jeda de Brí is an award-winning Writer/Director for film and theatre.
She was Artistic Director of Sickle Moon Productions for 8 years and was a Director in the original Factory Actors Studio, Dublin. She has worked at The Abbey, The Gate, The Lyric, as well as collaborating with celebrated companies such as Fishamble and Rough Magic.
As a writer, she is interested in telling intimate dramatic stories that are both confronting and visually striking. She strives to tell tender human stories, framed as high pressure thrillers.
She wrote and directed the Screen Ireland funded short film Procession with 925 Productions (Best Short Bellingham Music Film Festival 2019, Official Selection Newport Beach Film Festival 2019, Aer Lingus In-Flight Programming) and co-wrote and directed the play TRYST (Project Arts Centre, Lyric Theatre, VAULT Festival London, Nominee Fishamble Best New Writing Award, Published by Oberon Books). She is currently developing TRYST as a feature film with Treasure Entertainment. Other film writing credits include Chimneys (Nominated: Louis le Prince Award, Leeds International Film Festival, Screened: RTÉ Shortscreen 2016).
She is currently developing feature films as both a Writer and Director with Screen Ireland, Samson Films and Treasure Entertainment.
Featured work
TRYST
Feature Film/ Treasure Entertainment/ Screen Ireland
WRITTEN BY Jeda de Brí
Feature film based on the critically acclaimed play by Jeda de Brí & Finbarr Doyle.
Selected as part of Screen Ireland POV development.
Developing second round with Treasure Entertainment & Screen Ireland, adapting and directing the critically acclaimed play as a feature film.
PROCESSION
Premiere Galway Film Fleadh 2018
Writer & Director: Jeda de Brí
Producer: Clare McCabe
Cinematographer: Patrick Jordan
Olwen Fouéré, Serena Brabazon, Finbarr Doyle
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE AT THE ONE-REELER SHORT FILM COMPETITION 2019
BEST SHORT BELLINGHAM MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL 2019
A bedraggled community of misfits gather to mourn one of their own the only way they know how – an elaborately eccentric folk music funeral.
TRYST
Project Arts/Civic Theatre/Dublin Fringe/
Lyric Theatre, Belfast/Vault Festival
Dublin Fringe/Bewley’s Café Theatre
Written by Jeda de Brí & Finbarr Doyle
Directed by Jeda de Brí
Set Design: Katie Foley
Costume Design: Nicola Burke
Lighting Design: Dara Hoban
Music: Dylan Tonge-Jones
“Jeda de Bri and Finbarr Doyle have written a truly terrific representation of an aspect of contemporary life, with sure-fire dialogue and wonderfully layered levels of rage, fear and disintegrating trust. It’s a complex, unresolved treatment of a very modern insoluble problem; a serious, extraordinarily well-made play that is as thought-provoking as it is gripping…….splendidly directed by de Bri.”
Sunday Independent