Lesbian Lines

Runtime: 80'

Expected release: September 2025

Production stage: Post-production

Budget: €792,933 (100% in place)

1st feature: No

Looking for: Sales agents, festivals, distributors, buyers

Synopsis:

Lesbian Lines encapsulates different stories of queer and lesbian Irish history told through an underground network of telephone helplines. Each anonymous call to the helplines was recorded as a handwritten note in their logbooks, kept through a time of historical constitutional change in Ireland. Lesbian Lines brings together an ensemble cast of volunteers as well as actors and performers to help bring this rich and unknown history alive. Over the last forty years, the Lesbian Lines saved hundreds of women whose stories remain untold.

Director’s Profile:

Cara Holmes is a director and editor whose work has predominantly been in long form and feature documentary as well as TV dramas, award winning observational documentary series, experimental and short films. Cara’s most recent work includes the Arts Council funded Notes From Sheepland, her debut features; which won Best Documentary at the Dublin International Film Festival and the Screen Ireland funded documentary short Welcome to a Bright White Limbo (2019); which won the IFTA Award for Best Short Film. The film received a Special Jury Mention at the Tribeca Film Festival and was awarded Best Irish Short at Dublin International Film Festival where Cara was also awarded the Discovery Award. Cara has been editing feature and broadcast documentaries for almost fifteen years with credits including Piano Dreams, The Father of the Cyborgs and Lost in France.

Producer’s Profile:

Evan Horan is a producer at film and TV production company Keeper Pictures – based in Dublin, Ireland. He has worked across various dramatic, documentary and genre projects including Oddity – a Shudder Original, directed by Damian McCarthy which world premiered at SXSW 2024 and won the Midnighters Audience Award; About Joan – a French / Irish / German co-production, directed by Laurent Larivière, starring Isabelle Huppert; and A Dog Called Money – directed by award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy who accompanied musician PJ Harvey on a journey through the creative process behind one of her albums. Horan is a queer filmmaker who is committed to working with LGBTQIA+ and female identifying talent and stories. He is on the Board of Directors of GAZE International LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, was selected by European Film Promotion and Screen Ireland as a Producer on the Move 2024 and is a graduate of EAVE Producers Workshop, Berlinale Talents, Rotterdam Lab and Emerging Producers.