Short Film of the Week: Watch ‘New Boy’ by Steph Green

 

After her success at the 25th Galway Film Fleadh, winning the Best Irish Feature Award for her film Run & Jump; here’s a chance to catch Steph Green’s Oscar-nominated short New Boy,which won Best Narrative Short at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar.

Based on a short story by Roddy Doyle this poignant and comedic short film deftly captures the experience of being the new boy in school through the eyes of Joseph, a nine-year-old African boy.

New Boy was produced as part of the Short Cuts scheme

DIRECTOR: Steph Green
SCRIPT: Steph Green based on a story by Roddy Doyle
PRODUCER: Tamara Anghie
MAIN CAST: Olutunji Ebun-Cole; Norma Sheahan, Simon O’Driscoll, Fionn O’Shea, Sinead Maguire
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Zanzibar Films