Fiona Ashe of FlasheForward Films has a slate of projects in development.
Darken Ship
Feature film: psychological thriller. Director: Fiona Ashe. Writer: Dee Chilton.
* WINNER of the ‘NEW BLOOD’ Competition, SEMIFINALIST in the ACADEMY NICHOLL FELLOWSHIPS IN SCREENWRITING, + 12 more script competition wins/placements/selections *
A traumatised Navy Officer battles for her sanity and her life when she’s attacked by unidentified assailants aboard a dark, desolate warship where she killed four of her crew, including her former lover.
Status: script completed.
Dark Road
TV drama series: crime thriller. Directors: Maurice Sweeney, Fiona Ashe. Writer: Paul FitzSimons.
* Selected for SITGES ONLINE PITCHBOX 2021: SCRIPTED SERIES *
When a celebrated rugby player is killed on Dublin’s most fashionable road, investigative journalist Claire Goodwin comes up against its powerful and sinister residents. She soon finds everything hanging in the balance – her career, her family, her life.
Status: pilot script and series bible are completed.
Cracks In The Ice
Feature film: thriller. Writer/Director: Fiona Ashe.
* QUARTERFINALIST, ACADEMY NICHOLL FELLOWSHIPS IN SCREENWRITING *
In 1999, Lexie Turner, a daring New York journalist, haunted by her failure to save a girl from rape and murder during the Rwandan genocide, returns to Africa – this time to war-torn Sierra Leone – in the hope of breaking a society-changing story to purge her guilt. She discovers the corrupt, megalomaniac President of neighboring Liberia is brutalizing Sierra 
Leone’s population and stealing blood diamonds to fund a major terror attack against the US. To silence Lexie permanently, the President lays a lethal trap by kidnapping her cameraman’s 10-year-old daughter. Lexie must choose between risking her life to save the girl or breaking the story to save her country.