(2001) 76 mins

The Crooked Mile combines the coming of age road movie and the buddy movie to create a gentle fairy tale about the journey of nine year old Anna, her neighbour and medical school drop-out Elliot, and a cute little goldfish with an odd name.

Anna is a streetwise, outgoing kid who has the difficult responsibility of having to look after her immature, diabetic mother, Jane, and now they are on the move again into yet another grotty Dublin flat. The only constant in Anna's ever-changing environment is a postcard of Hollywood icon James Dean, whom she mistakenly believes is her father. Scared of being taken into care when her mother is hospitalised for a week, Anna improvises that her feckless neighbour Elliot is now her guardian. Irresponsible Elliot, on the other hand, refuses point blank to mind her. Feeling unwanted, Anna decides that the only person to take care of her is the father she has never met. So she sets off with her entourage in tow on a mission to find this man whom she only knows owns a ferris wheel in a seaside amusement arcade, 100 miles from Dublin.

Produced by Triona Campbell and Avril Ryan, The Crooked Mile is a whimsical, life-affirming comedy told from the perspective of a child mature for her years. Written and directed by Stephen Kane, this film will have broad based family appeal.