Technical details
Narrative Feature - Ireland/UK - 93 minutes - English (with subtitles)
Cast and Credits
Director - Gabrielle Russell
Writer - Gabrielle Russell
Producer - Laura Torenbeek
Key Cast
Olwen Fouéré - "Erin Morrigan"
Jake Doyle - "The Boy"
Ciara Ivie - "Young Erin”
Aidan O'Callaghan - "Col"
Muireann Gallen - "Female prisoner”
Director of Photography - Tunji Akinsehinwa - Steve Wyatt
LVFF 2026 Award Nominations
Best Actress - Olwen Fouéré
Best Supporting Actor - Jake Doyle
Best Film by a Female Director - Gabrielle Russell
Female Experience Award
Best Narrative Feature
The Zhanna Award for Best Film
A dying former IRA interrogator, Erin Morrigan, lives in exile beside the graves of those she executed. As cancer consumes her, she numbs herself with opiates and alcohol - until a teenage boy on the run arrives, echoing a man she once loved and betrayed. Offering him shelter in exchange for care, Erin confronts her past. Their fragile bond forces a reckoning with violence, guilt, and the faint possibility of redemption.
Screening Details:
girls in film. April 26th 2026. 12pm-8:30pm venue to be confirmed.
Director biography
- gabrielle russell
Gabrielle is a writer and director of The Reckoning of Erin Morrigan, her second film in The Folklore Trilogy following Deer Woman Child (2020).
Currently Gabrielle is developing Run to Earth, the third film in The Folklore Trilogy, and completing a PhD by Creative Practice at York University alongside lecturing in Directing at the Northern Film School in Leeds.
A graduate of the National Film and Television School, Gabrielle has previously directed a portfolio of award-winning shorts that have screened internationally at festivals and on broadcast television.