Year: 2025
Director: Brian Durnin
Writer: Cara Loftus
Producers: Laura McNicholas, James Heath
Executive Producers: Cormac Fox, Cara Loftus
Production Companies: 925 Productions, Randan, Vico Films
Main Cast: Cillian Sullivan, Naoise Kelly, Danielle Galligan, Laurence O’Fuarain, Pom Boyd, Lewis Brophy, Justin Daniels Anene
Screen Scotland support: The film accessed £35,500 of funding through the PGF Project Post strand of Screen Scotland’s Production Growth Fund.
Spilt Milk follows eleven-year-old Bobby O’Brien, a precocious and energetic boy obsessed with becoming a great detective like his hero television sensation Kojak. Set against the backdrop of 1980’s, working class, inner-city Dublin, Bobby and his pal Nell torment their family, friends and neighbours as they set up their own private investigation enterprise. But when Bobby’s brother Oisin disappears this story of innocence and adventure stumbles into the murky world of criminality and addiction….
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Festivals: Spilt Milk will screen as part of the Audience Award strand at the 2025 Glasgow Film Festival.
Image credits: Stills courtesy of Randan