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Adam O’Keeffe

Film + TV Director
Horseshoe
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Filmography
  • Horseshoe
    2025 — Feature Film — 88 mins
  • Where Still Waters Lie
    2020 — Short Film — 15 mins
  • Bittern
    2018 — Short Film — 10 mins
  • The Elvis Parking Method
    2018 — Short Film — 10 mins
Awards
  • 2025 — Winner
    Galway Film Fleadh — Best Irish First Featur. Horseshoe
  • 2025 — Winner
    UCIFF — Best Irish Feature. Horseshoe
  • 2026 — Nominated
    IFTA — Best Director. Horseshoe
  • 2020 — Winner
    Monsterflix — Best Foreign Short. Where Still Waters Lie
  • 2020 — Winner
    UHorror — Best Horror. Where Still Waters Lie
  • 2020 — Winner
    Indie For You — Best Drama. Where Still Waters Lie
  • 2020 — Nominated
    New York Film Awards — Best Short. Where Still Waters Lie

Adam is an IFTA Nominated, multi-award-winning writer, director and producer based in Kerry. He is the co-founder of WaveWalker Films.

Adam’s debut feature film (as writer, co-director and co-producer) HORSESHOE, was awarded Completion Funding by Screen Ireland and premiered in July 2025 at the Galway Film Fleadh where it won Best Irish First Feature and UCIFF 2025 where it won Best Irish Feature. It received critical acclaim with Four and Five star reviews from The Irish Times, Sunday Independent, Irish Examiner, RTE Guide and Arts Review. It was nominated for two awards at the 2026 IFTAs including Best Direction (for Adam and his co-director Edwin Mullane) and Best Actress (for Carolyn Bracken).

He has been selected as one of Screen Ireland’s Perspectives candidates as director/co-writer for his horror project, WATCHTOWER. Additionally, his rom-com TV series LONG HOT SUMMER has just entered international co-development with Canada’s Project 10, the team behind hits such as Schitt’s Creek and Son of a Critch, and is in receipt of Screen Ireland TV Development Phase One Funding. In 2026 Adam has also been selected to participate in Screen Ireland’s Post-Graduate Diploma in Advanced Producing and their Screen Mentorship Programme.