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Jun 20, 2021 · Writer Jean Pasley’s home is essentially a period house fittingly furnished with antiques and interesting artworks. However, there are strong echoes of her many years spent in Japan
May 14, 2021 · Jean Pasley. Long before the motorway existed, we used to travel to Castlegregory from Dublin through one town after another on a journey that took almost seven hours. Sometimes longer.
Apr 21, 2021 · We're delighted to present an extract from Black Dragonfly, the new novel by Jean Pasley, published by Balestier Press. Black Dragonfly is a novel based on the remarkable life of the nomadic...
Winner of the award for Best Director at the Richard Harris International Film Festival 2022 for her latest film Ship of Souls, Jean is an accomplished Irish writer and director for screen, stage and radio based in Dublin.
Jean Pasley writes mostly for film but also for stage and radio. Her screenplays have won. numerous awards and include How About You, based on a Maeve Binchy short story. Her most. recent screenplay as co-writer, The Bright Side, won The Audience Award at Cork International Film Festival 2020.
Apr 15, 2021 · Jean Pasley. 4.18. 76 ratings15 reviews. The year is 1890. Western influences are flooding into Japan. A nomadic Irishman arrives to record this unique culture before it vanishes. In this richly imagined novel, late nineteenth century Japan is brought vividly to life.
Jean Pasley first encountered the subject of her debut novel during time spent in Japan in her early adult years. Often upon telling people she was from Ireland, they would refer to Koizumi Yakumo, as locals mostly called him.
Jean Pasley lived for many years in Japan and the inspiration for the short film “Ship of Souls” came from her fascination with ‘Obon’ the annual Buddhist festival of the dead that she witnessed there.
Jean Pasley’s Ship of Souls won Best Irish Short Film at the prestigious Foyle Film Festival 2021. Jean wrote and directed the film in which a bereaved father comes to terms with his grief in a most unexpected way. The film was produced by Gregory Burrows and stars Lorcan Cranich and Cathy Belton.
Ship of Souls. Jean Pasley’s short film Ship of Souls, which she also directed, won Best Irish Short Film at Foyle Film Festival and has been nominated for an IFTA. Unable to accept his son’s sudden death in a car crash, a father comes to terms with his loss and finds peace in a most unexpected way.
