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SAMANTA NOBODY

By Ciarán CREAGH

MEDIA LUNA NEW FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Post-Production 2025

Samanta is surviving as best as she can, living on the margins of society realises that only she can secure her future, through music

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Countries
- IRELAND
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Ciarán CREAGH
- Writer(s)
- Ciarán CREAGH
- Cast
- Ruby Jean LENNON, Brendan CONROY, Maggie HANNON
- Producer(s)
- Ciarán CREAGH (Hill Sixteen Features ), Ferdia DOHERTY, Niall FLYNN
- Synopsis
- Samanta is sixteen, homeless and already a master of living on the streets. Well wizened in the art of surviving life on the streets, she gets though life day-by-day, begging to eat, refusing all state help on principle and even being a car park attendant for Saturday evening mass. She does not drink, well not for the last four years anyhow. Wise and organised she lives in a derelict prefab, showers and eats on the goodwill of strangers, washes her clothes in a local launderette, eats in a Mission kitchen and is well known in the homeless community. Glimmers of her previous life, although hidden, impinge and influence her daily existence. No matter how well organised many dangers exist for a young woman living on the streets, and a simple occurrence can quickly unravel a life into disaster when you live on the margins of society. Unexpectedly, losing her "home" to redevelopment starts a downward spiral in Samanta’s fortunes. Her best friend on the streets, Mary Ann, 60s, eclectic, owes a drug dealer and this debt has fallen on Samanta who went guarantor for her. Samanta does her best to avoid him. As she goes deeper into extreme homelessness, her life disintegrates day by day in front of her own eyes. Searching out for help only ends in closed doors and a confrontation with the drug dealer rips her world apart. The one thing Samanta has is music. She writes, sings and plays but only for herself and never in public. The owner of a local music store has taken a fatherly interest in her and lets her play in the shop, and soon realises her talent. Resisting his suggestions of going busking, Samanta now has the choice to either give up on life or fight and survive. She has to realise that music can be her savour. This film depicts the reality of homelessness but demonstrates the ability of a young women to survive in a shocking, dangerous uncaring world.