The Young Offenders
TV Comedy Series // 12 x 30 Mins (Series 1 & 2 & Xmas Special)
Selected Scenes
Coming-of-age drama about lovable rogues Conor and Jock as they navigate their awkward teenage years, hatching plans and adventures to help distract from their tough home lives and their inability to stay out of trouble at school.
Production Company : Vico Films // Funded by BBC & RTE-BAI
Producers : Martina Niland, Cormac Fox & Peter Foott // Directors : Peter Foott, Tom Marshall, Jim Archer, Shaun Wilson & Peter Delaney
Starring Chris Walley & Alex Murphy
Nominated for an IFTA in Cinematography for Television (2016)
The Young Offenders
Feature Film
Inspired by the true story of Ireland's biggest cocaine seizure in 2007, The Young Offenders is a comedy road movie about best friends Conor and Jock. When a drug-trafficking boat capsizes off the coast of West Cork and 61 bales of cocaine, each worth 7 million euro, are seized, word gets out that there is a bale missing.
The boys steal two bikes and go on a road trip hoping to find a missing bale which they can sell so as to escape their troubled home lives....But Sergeant Healy is in hot pursuit.
Production Company : Vico Films // Funded by The Irish Film Board
Producers : Peter Foott, Julie Ryan & Cormac Fox // Writer & Director : Peter Foott
Winner : ‘Best Irish Feature Film’ - Galway Film Fleadh 2016