THERE WERE NINE CHILDREN LEFT

Some secrets are buried to protect us. Some are buried to protect us from ourselves.

(Feature Film, In Development)

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tosted to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door”
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Emma Lazarus – The New Colossus (1883)

Project Summary

THERE WERE NINE CHILDREN LEFT

(Feature Film, In Development)

Format: Feature Film Genre: Horror Comps: The Goonies, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Children of Men,
Director: Ryan Mackfall. Producer: Kingsley Marshall. Writers: Kingsley Marshall and Lucy Grace, based on an original story by Lucy Grace.

Synopsis

Fiction born of fact.

On a remote island, 13-year-old Orla navigates a world transformed by rising seas and mass migration. When survivors wash ashore, the island community faces impossible choices about shelter, resources, and survival. Orla discovers the island hides a Cold War secret. As a government recovery team arrives, Orla must decide what to do with this inherited power: hoard it, weaponise it, or share it. She chooses neither fortress nor tomb, but refuge.