Two For the Road
TITLE
Two For the Road
DIRECTOR
Lochlainn McKenna
COUNTRY
Ireland
YEAR
2023
DURATION
19′
GENRE
Fiction
Two For the Road
Amidst spontaneous travels around 1990s Ireland, Oscar finds himself navigating the true essence of adventure and chaos with his father, one spirited weekend away at a time.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Lochlainn McKenna
Lochlainn McKenna is a director and writer from Cork City, Ireland. He is currently living and working out of London. McKenna works predominantly in advertising and has directed TV ads for brands such as Specsavers, Tesco, Guinness and Sky amongst many others. He has shot in several countries across the world including Ethiopia and Ukraine and has directed commercials for the US, UK and Irish markets. He’s also directed music videos for the likes of Westlife and Keane and his music video work for Daithí was nominated for a UKMVA as well as winning him the ‘Best New Director’ Award at the prestigious Kinsale Shark Awards. Narratively, he’s directed 3 short films. The last of which was a one shot break-up film called Boxed Up - told from the perspective of a box as it traded hands between a couple as they parted ways for the final time. In 2020 McKenna wrote a short story entitled ‘Guinness & Coke’ which was nominated for the RTÉ Francis McManus Short Story competition. The story was picked up by the Department of Education and placed on the Irish Junior Certificate Cirriculum as a comprehension, before now being converted into a film. The film, now entitled, Two For The Road, is his 3rd short film and is based on his own tumultuous weekends as a child with his alcoholic, vagabond father. He’s currently working on developing that story into a book and, furthermore, a feature film. McKenna is one of only a few hundred filmmakers to be chosen by Filmsupply to be one of their premium supply partners.
- DirectorLochlainn McKenna
- ScreenplayLochlainn McKenna
- CinematographyEOIN MCLOUGHLIN
- Cast
- EditingDAN SHERWEN
- Producer/s Grainne Dwyer, Natalie Britton
- Production Company
- Distributor/sNetwork Ireland Television Sales Agent Worldwide All Rights
- Project TitleTwo For the Road
- Project TypeFiction
- Completion Date 1 January 2023
- Country of originIreland
- Country of filmingIreland
- LanguageEnglish
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Lochlainn McKenna
Lochlainn McKenna is a director and writer from Cork City, Ireland. He is currently living and working out of London. McKenna works predominantly in advertising and has directed TV ads for brands such as Specsavers, Tesco, Guinness and Sky amongst many others. He has shot in several countries across the world including Ethiopia and Ukraine and has directed commercials for the US, UK and Irish markets. He’s also directed music videos for the likes of Westlife and Keane and his music video work for Daithí was nominated for a UKMVA as well as winning him the ‘Best New Director’ Award at the prestigious Kinsale Shark Awards. Narratively, he’s directed 3 short films. The last of which was a one shot break-up film called Boxed Up - told from the perspective of a box as it traded hands between a couple as they parted ways for the final time. In 2020 McKenna wrote a short story entitled ‘Guinness & Coke’ which was nominated for the RTÉ Francis McManus Short Story competition. The story was picked up by the Department of Education and placed on the Irish Junior Certificate Cirriculum as a comprehension, before now being converted into a film. The film, now entitled, Two For The Road, is his 3rd short film and is based on his own tumultuous weekends as a child with his alcoholic, vagabond father. He’s currently working on developing that story into a book and, furthermore, a feature film. McKenna is one of only a few hundred filmmakers to be chosen by Filmsupply to be one of their premium supply partners.
