Best selling author and playwright, Paul O’Brien makes his debut as a filmmaker with his amazingly
raw and beautiful, terrier of a movie, Staid. Although set in Ireland, its themes are universal
centrepieces of love, loss, ambition and that feeling of being stuck in life.
Hidden away in a small town, four people who are tied together by new and old relationships, tangle,
fight, sing, talk, smoke, drink, argue, laugh, leave and return - while stumbling towards the reality
that their lives are finally changing whether they like it or not.
This unfolds in a unique, lush package that hangs together so well because of the the craft of the
script, the amazing first-time screen performances, and the gentleness of the storytelling. To see all
of these characteristics come together in a first-time movie makes it irresistible.
Staid signals the arrival of a new, important voice in Irish cinema.
Executive Producer, Eoin Colfer
Followed by a Q+A with the Filmmakers