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Suspicious Minds

A romance at a trippy Halloween rave goes wrong... Lola's public breakup is disrupted when an Elvis impersonator comes to the rescue. Sharing confidences and ghosts from their past, they reminisce about their homeland and discover meaning in their newly shared bond.

  • Imelda O'Reilly
    Director
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3285040/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  • Imelda O'Reilly
    Writer
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  • Ty Lawson
    Producer
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  • Imelda O'Reilly
    Producer
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3285040/
  • Joe G Foley
    Producer
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0284166/?ref_=fn_al_nm_2
  • Gina Costigan
    Key Cast
    "Lola"
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1440098/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  • Ed Malone
    Key Cast
    "Elvis/Phil"
  • Ty Lawson
    Producer
    Producer
  • Dammarius Thompson
    Producer
    Animator
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Romance, Drama
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 15, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    17,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Ireland
  • Country of Filming:
    Ireland
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Belfast Film Festival
    Belfast, Northern Irelan
    United Kingdom
    November 5, 2023
    Premier in Northern Ireland
    BAFTA QUALIFYING
  • Tacoma Film Festival
    Tacoma, Washingtong
    United States
    October 6, 2023
    North American Premier
  • Cucalorus Film Festival
    Wilmington, North Carolina
    United States
    November 15, 2023
  • IndieCork Film Festival
    Cork
    Ireland
    December 18, 2023
    BAFTA QUALIFYING
  • Richard Harris International Film Festival
    Limerick
    Ireland
    October 28, 2023
    Irish Premier
  • Waterford Film Festival
    Waterford
    Ireland
    November 20, 2023
  • Eastern Oregon Film Festival
    Le Grande
    United States
    October 19, 2023
  • WILDsound Feedback Film and Screenplay Festival

    November 23, 2023
  • Feel The Reel International Film Festival

    September 23, 2023
    Glasgow Premier
  • Triloka International FilmFare Awards
    Wellington, Tamil Nadu
    India
    Indian Premier
    Best Narrative Short Film, Audience Award, Best Female Director, Best Producer
  • Hercules Independent Film Festival

    Honorable Mention
  • The Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards
    London
    Nominations for Best Short Film, Best Director and Best Actor.
  • Vail Film Festival
    Vail Colorado
    December 8, 2023
Director Biography - Imelda O'Reilly

Imelda O’Reilly is an Irish independent filmmaker from Kildare. Her award winning short films and feature screenplay have been represented at over a hundred film festivals internationally around the world, including Cannes Film Festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Cinequest Film and Creativity Film Festival, DOC NYC, Black Maria Film Festival, International Film Festival de Creteil, WorldFest Houston and the Richard Harris International Film Festival.

As a commissioned writer on Song For New York with Mabou Mines her work was developed through the Sundance Theater Lab and New York Theater Workshop. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Morocco where her film Bricks, Beds and Sheep’s Heads was a Regional Finalist for the Student Academy Awards.

Imelda’s short film Eggs and Soldiers was broadcast on RTE and is distributed through ShortsTV Europe. It has screened at over 50 festivals in nine different countries to date. It won an award of excellence at the Broadcast Education Association a Tonino Guerra Award for screenwriting from the Chicago Art-house Blow-Up Film Festival. In addition, it received awards from Accolade Competition, Global Shorts, Los Angeles and IndieFest Film Awards. Her most recent short documentary film titled Tumbling Towards Home premiered at Cinequest Film and VR Festival in 2020 and just won a Best Director Award at the Black Maria Film Festival in 2021. She has just completed production on her most recent short film titled Suspicious Minds.

She has several projects in development. Her feature screenplay titled We’re the Kids in America was an official selection of L’Atélier Cinéfondation that is part of the Cannes International Film Festival for 2018. It also received an Honorable Mention from the Stowe Story Labs and “Best Of” competition from the Broadcast Education Association in 2019. It was workshopped through the Moving Picture Institute Screenwriting Fellowship. It placed in the top 10% of the Nicholls Fellowship in 2019.

She has an MFA in film with honors from Columbia University. Imelda spent three years in Singapore as an Arts Professor in the Graduate Film Program for New York University, TischAsia. Prior to NYU she taught at Barnard College, Hunter College and the School for Visual Arts. She is currently an Associate Professor at James Madison University.

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Director Statement

As a director I like to blend genres in my work. In my last film titled Tumbling Towards Home I combined live-action, super 8mm footage and animation. I am a process-orientated writer and director who enjoys using fragments from the subconscious, that help me to explore the relationship between reality and dream. I blur the boundaries within dramatic narratives, by creating a juxtaposition between the romantic and the real to expose a poetic truth hidden beneath the images. I am intrigued by the line between a child’s and adult’s perception and their relationship to wonder as a way of seeing the world. I am fascinated by the unknown and am a risk-taker. I write to uncover, I direct to reveal, and I create stories to deepen my understanding about life on the margins. I reveal human stories, emotional states, and provoke self-reflection. The journey is a narrative that stops and starts reflecting the creative impulse. Despite simultaneously contemplating stillness and silence in context to a world driven by internal and external rhythms.

I am drawn to urban and rural spaces as a point of curiosity to both culture and non-culture. In a nocturnal way, I am a cultural misfit. Growing up in the countryside in Ireland, the barren landscape and the culture of religion and the troubles drove me to observe and reflect on the world and characters that inhabited those settings. It was Freud that said, “the Irish were impervious to psychoanalysis.” There is a magical mysticism that haunts rural Ireland, that inspires my practice. My aspiration is to unfold the mystery of humankind in an unquiet, poetic way to cast reflection and light upon the infinite liminality of life.