Director: Martha Fitzgerald

Producer: Orlaith Ní Chearra & Lindsey Woods

Writer: Orlaith Ní Chearra & Martha Fitzgerald

Director of Photography: Alba Fernandez

Editor: Ryan Keane

Cinematographer & Colourist: Alba Fernandez

Location & Post-Production Sound: Jennifer O’Malley

Composer: Bernard de la Mer

Cast: Ross Fitzpatrick & Molly Mew

In an abandoned asbestos processing plant,

two teenagers reluctantly execute a task they have both been dreading.

Faitíos or The First Fear, is an Irish language coming-of-age film that plays with filmic genre and deals with the themes of culturally-inherited sexual shame, adolescent anxiety, and growing up in Ireland.

Runtime: ~7 minutes.