Acting
Shane Davis
Limerick, Ireland
Shane Davis is a hip hop artist from Limerick. Having worked for several years at his own music and spoken word poetry, he hit the spotlight after featuring last year in Episode Two of the Crude Film series, a Limerick-based series of online short films, documenting Irish artists and subcultures. This episode featured Shane’s take on life in Limerick. To date, Shane has collaborated with many other Limerick artists and is currently working on his own first album.
Acting credits
7.3When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed "low life scum" Naoise and Liam Óg, the needle drops on a hip-hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.
Kneecap
2024
6.7Earl Clancy, a cinema owner on the edge, battles a series of disasters while juggling personal turmoil and the chaos of a packed Friday night crowd. Told in real time over the course of the movie playing in the cinema (Breathless, starring Richard Gere).
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
2026
NRBased on the clairvoyant practices of poets of ancient Ireland, still practices by those with the eyes to see, a young poet travels through space and time to come face to face with an entity as old as Éire.
Imbas Forosnai
2021
5.6An army veteran discovers an abandoned boy lurking in the woods behind her childhood home. After taking in the boy, she searches for clues to his identity, and discovers local folklore about a malevolent life-draining spirit that comes in the form of a child: The Tatterdemalion.
Lost Child
2018