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- Throwline follows a group of Irish taxi drivers who join together to form a suicide prevention group. Uniquely positioned to patrol the night, the drivers keep vigil over streets and bridges and offer help to those who feel forlorn.
- Directed by Mia Mullarkey, this Irish documentary follows three personal stories, which reflect the power of including public and patient voices in planning and conducting research. Paul Ryan, father to Sophia who was born premature at 25 weeks, is contributing to a major research programme, exploring the most effective methods to monitor and manage babies with neonatal brain injury. Cameron Keighron (NUI Galway Student's Union VP and Education Officer) lives with Type 1 diabetes and has been heavily involved in developing a new way of delivering healthcare to young people with diabetes. Margaret Devaney and the Swinford Arthritis Walking Group in Co. Mayo, provide a first-hand insight of the impact of chronic pain on their day-to-day life with medical device developers at NUI Galway, inspiring the developers in their research endeavours.
- Danger Overhead Powerlines is a modern-day story of David and Goliath. This short documentary follows Teresa Treacy as she battles against Ireland's largest international semi-state corporation, the Electricity Supply Board, to protect the thousands of trees she planted by hand. In late 2011 she was sent to prison at age 65 for not allowing the ESB access to her land to cut down her trees. This story intimately follows Teresa's journey during and after prison, giving an inside perspective to a relentless fighter and advocate of nature.
- 'Halls Without Walls' is a short documentary about Jody, a painter and poet with Asperger's Syndrome. Unable throughout his childhood to fit in with the world of people, neither socially nor academically, he turned to nature where he found solace and inspiration for his work.