Wasted
Having travelled the world and struggled to start a career, Sarah is forced to live back home with her mother. Over the summer Sarah strikes up a friendship with two teenage boys, spurred on as she reclaims her youth, but new extremes threaten to bring reality crashing back.
- United Kingdom, Ireland
- 2013, 32 min
- Director: Cathy Brady
- Director of photography: Sandra De Silva De La Torre
- Editor: Matteo Bini
- Screenplay: Cathy Brady
- Music: Finn McNicholas
- Sound: Finn McNicholas
- Cast: Barry Keoghan, Nora-Jane Noone, Andrew Simpson, Damien Hannaway, Olivia Nash
- Art Director: Romain Hémeray
- Producer: James Jose Walker
- Production: National and Television School London
Cathy Brady
Cathy Brady is a Northern-Ireland-born director and screenwriter. She studied visual arts at the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology but became interested in film and transferred to the National Film School of Ireland to complete her degree. Her first short film, Small Change (2010), won Best First Short by an Irish Director at the 2010 Cork International Film Festival and was named Best Short Film at the Dublin International Film Festival and the IFTA Film & Drama Awards. Wasted competed at the 2013 Edinburgh International Film Festival. In 2020, she wrote and directed her first feature film, Wildfire.