12 minutes to fight an entire government. She brought receipts.
TV PILOT SHORT: Trapped in a bureaucratic maze not built to see her, one transgender woman sparks a historic battle against the Irish State in this dramatisation of real events.
Acting
Liath Hannon carries crushing weight in minimal runtime.
Direction
Roberts makes forms and filing cabinets feel viscerally cruel.
Writing
Every line of dialogue earned from real court transcripts.
Director
Caleb J. Roberts
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Lydia Foy's 22-year legal battle for gender recognition in Ireland, which ultimately forced 2015 legislation.
The short deliberately uses the TV pilot format to mirror procedural television's obsession with 'solving' problems in 45 minutes—here, nothing is solved.
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