Charlie Safe Home

Charlie Safe Home

Feature · Drama · 120 pages
Status: Financing
With the world at war in 1914, two aristocratic brothers, one accomplished and the other autistic, leave the serenity of their Irish stately home for the pandemonium of war in France where they must contend with matters far greater than just the Germans.
Written by Jack C Irwin
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Finalist, ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship 2022
Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship 2021
Finalist, Stowe Story Labs Programs and Fellowships Application 2021

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Jack C Irwin
London, England, GB
Inspired by his love of history, as well as his background working with autistic children in London, Jack has written his debut feature Charlie Safe Home to shed a light on Ireland’s forgotten contribution to WWI, to illuminate how horrendous life in the trenches would have been for someone with autism, and to showcase the injustice of the execution...
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The Old Film Farm Ltd in London has now entered into a co-production agreement with the Co. Galway-based Babyjane Productions to develop and produce this film with the Oscar-nominated Vincent Lambe (Detainment, 2019) set to direct. Charlie Safe Home placed in the finals of the Irish Film London Fellowship as part of the Stowe Story Labs contest with the previous draft. The new script takes into account the Screencraft reader critiques, and others, shortens its length, removes the "filler" training scenes at Sandhurst, and introduces a new character from the West Indies to diversify the character list and combat the perception that this was just a "white man's war". My heart and soul is in Charlie Safe Home. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.