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BAREFIELD-native Nell Hensey has been selected as a finalist in the Virgin Media Short Film competition for her film ‘Good Chips’. The script goes back to Dublin 1989, where a family of Vietnamese immigrants struggle to keep their takeaway business afloat, while their 12-year-old daughter Tam finds common ground with a local Irish boy in an unexpected way. Hensey is one of three finalists chosen from a shortlist of 10 talented applicants, who all received an investment of €6,000 to develop their script with a mentor. The judges included award winning director and screenwriter Lenny Abrahamson (What Richard Did, Normal People, and Room), rising Irish actress, writer, and star of hit crime drama, Kin, Clare Dunne; Clinton Liberty who played Kiernan in global hit drama ‘Normal People’ and Linus in drama ‘Holding’; screenwriter and executive producer Ursula Rani Sarma (Delicious and Red Rock) as well as representatives from Virgin Media Television, Screen Ireland, and the Dublin International Film Festival. Speaking …

THE short film ‘Try n’ Touch’, written by 23-year-old graduate Nell Hensey, has been selected as Clare’s winning entry in the Engine Shorts film competition. The film is a coming-of-age drama set in an all-girls school, where a group of young rugby players are starting to come to terms with the trials of adolescence in that environment and learning to have the courage to be themselves. The script is inspired by Nell’s own secondary school experiences in the Coláiste Mhuire in Ennis, a location Nell is hoping to film at in the coming weeks. Nell said: “I wrote the initial draft, and as part of the Engine competition I was shortlisted for a development program, during which each of us were paired with a script editor. Mine was Brian McGill, who helped me develop the project. My producer, Gemma O’Shaughnessy, was really crucial in the process as well.” As part of the development shortlist, Nell was also given the chance …