The Golden West
1849. Having fled the Great Famine, two warring Irish sisters search for gold in the mountains of North Wales. But with winter approaching and nothing to show for their efforts, their age-old feud soon threatens to turn deadly.
- Ireland, United Kingdom
- 2022, 24 min
- Director: Tom Berkeley, Ross White
- Director of photography: Ebba Hult
- Editor: Quin Williams
- Screenplay: Tom Berkeley, Ross White
- Music: Ceiri Torjussen
- Sound: Jeff Smith
- Cast: Eileen Walsh, Aoife Duffin, Sion Ifan
- Art Director: Cai Dyfan
- Producer: Tom Berkeley, Ross White, Jamie Tarr
- Production: Floodlight Pictures
Tom Berkeley, Ross White
Tom Berkeley and Ross White are an Academy Award-, BAFTA-, and IFTA-winning filmmaking duo who rose to prominence in 2023 with their breakout short dark comedy An Irish Goodbye. They began working together in 2019, setting up the Floodlight Pictures production company. Their debut short film Roy (2021), starring BAFTA winner David Bradley, played at more than fifty international film festivals before going on to be one of ten films shortlisted for the Best British Short Film at the 75th BAFTA Awards. The duo’s third and most recent short film, The Golden West, had its international premiere at the 50th Anniversary Telluride Film Festival in 2023.