Something in the Barn: Folklore, Fear and the Horror ShortSomething in the Barn: Folklore, Fear and the Horror Short
Nerve Centre, 7-8 Magazine Street, Derry~Londonderry
Something in the Barn: Folklore, Fear and the Horror Short
Three filmmakers from this year's British Short Film Competition take horror's oldest stories and give them new teeth.
Adrián Ramírez León, whose one-minute shorts have drawn tens of millions of views online, turns a one-night stand into darkly comic horror in Night Whispers.
John Foxen, editor and co-producer of Pawen, discusses its reimagining of W. W. Jacobs' classic The Monkey's Paw as a family tragedy.
Filmmaker Isabelle Kirk’s Pandora reworks the Pandora myth into a dystopian tale of family secrets and the price of female curiosity.
Together they discuss how folklore is reanimated for today's audiences, and the different routes from viral shorts, film school and festival buzz to a sustained career in genre.
Meet Adrián Ramírez León
Adrián Ramírez León is a Spanish award-winning filmmaker based in London, known for his genre-bending take on horror. His films have screened at Oscar® and BAFTA-qualifying film festivals, and his one-minute horror shorts have drawn over 75 million views across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
Building on momentum from both social media and the film festival circuit, he is now developing longer-format projects that expand his distinctive style in bold new directions.
Meet Isabelle Kirk
Isabelle Kirk is a British director, editor and producer, and a graduate of the London Film School, where she directed four films, edited seven more and earned a distinction on the MA Filmmaking programme in an editing role. Before turning to film, she took a First in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London and won one of six places on Channel 4's Dispatches Investigative Journalism Training Scheme.
She specialises in post-production and is currently working in the editorial department on an Amazon Studios feature film whilst developing her own first feature.
John Foxen
John Foxen is a film editor, writer and producer specialising in horror. He began his career in television post-production, working across a range of high-profile productions including Gangs of London and Nautilus, before developing a strong reputation within the independent horror scene. John is best known for his editing work on the Horror-Scopes trilogy and a series of short films produced through Grime Horror, the micro-budget horror company he co-founded with filmmaker Richard Elson.
Their films have screened at festivals around the world and received multiple awards and nominations. John also co-writes and produces with Grime Horror, contributing to the distinctive, darkly playful style that has become a hallmark of their work.
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