Room Taken: how Colin Farrell is helping an Irish short film in its quest for Oscars glory

Writer Michael Whelan and director TJ O’Grady-Peyton on their film about a

Gabriel Adewusi as Issac and Bríd Brennan as Victoria in Room Taken

If you want to raise the international profile of your short film, making one of the most famous Irish actors of his generation an executive producer will do the trick. It has certainly done no harm to Room Taken, the 19-minute short written by Michael Whelan and directed by TJ O’Grady-Peyton.

The film has been shortlisted for an Oscar nomination and tomorrow its makers will find out if it has made the final cut. It tells the story of a homeless immigrant called Isaac who surreptitiously weaves himself into the life and home of Victoria, a blind woman.

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