Like A Bolt From The Blue

Conflict is the main theme, but I wanted to explore how young people in a difficult situation progress, evolve and deal with what they are going through. Teenage pregnancy is a sensitive and serious subject. The couple can use this difficult situation as an opportunity to turn their relationship around or fall apart.” “Like A Bolt From The Blue” a ten-minute drama filmed in and around Dún Laoghaire, centres on a young conflicting teen couple, who must learn to forgive one and other in order to heal and grow. Keane, nominated back in March, for best director at the RTÉ Ireland’s Young Filmmaker Of The Year Awards, won himself a jury award in June of 2023 for direction at the Student World Impact Film Festival (US) and since took to the skies with his film, reaching audiences in New-York where his piece screened at the AMC Movie Theatre in Times Square New-York as part of the best drama selection, exclusively inviting himself, and, his fellow Irish filmmakers to attend the glamorous Teen Indie Awards at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn. Michael’s inspiration came from his experience with relationships in his past but also curiosity to the world around him “There comes a point where I had to write something I had not written before and which, you know my own interest in a particular subject such as relationships within my life inspired me and that’s why I suppose eventually most filmmakers approach wider topics of all kinds”