Besom Productions

read more60min documentary giving you the inside story of the midsummer highlight of the City of Culture 2013 year when writer Frank Cottrell Boyce stages an epic confrontation between the Loch Ness monster and Colmcille. Teya Sepinuck is the bomb disposal expert of troubled spirits. Her hybrid form of drama puts marginalised people at the core of a new type of theatre performance in which they perform their own, often shocking, stories to the public. A 3 x 30' documentary series on the Derry/Londonderry boat in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race through the eyes of three unemployed Derry City Council Bursary winners.

read moreRecently commissioned by BBCNI, Paradiso is a musical journey to capture the heyday of the Fountain estate, a disappearing protestant enclave in the heart of Derry. We will follow musician Roy Arbuckle's high risk efforts to stage a major music and dance event in the Memorial Hall by inviting formerly divided communities to celebrate the rock & roll and show band eras with people who desperately need to believe they are welcome in a majority nationalist city under the new vision for Northern Ireland.

read moreThis lively new drama tells the story of Mei, Kenny, Ciaran and Niamh - four young people coping with a tangle of friendships, family life and local politics in present-day Belfast. You Looking at Me? explores the narrow ground of conflicting loyalties, identities and family traditions against a backdrop of community fears, suspicions and aggression. The predictable sectarian tensions, which often bedevil romance across the Protestant-Catholic divide, are complicated in this story by the involvement of another culture in the shape of Mei's traditional Chinese family ties.