Baby Steps was a real labour of love from everyone involved and I am so grateful to the incredible crew who came together to help make it on such a shoestring. It's a dark comedy about motherhood, anxiety and the imperceptibly thin line between love and grief. Based loosely on a tape with a piece of music on it that was passed down from my Granny to my Mother to me, it explores the humour and tragedy as we all step on the same rakes and come to the same conclusions. Our central character is a woman searching for meaning that she might never find as the movie posits that maybe connection is something we can all have implicitly in life. One of the most ridiculous thing about being alive is that childhood is its own eternity and then suddenly you’re an adult and expected to know what to do. Time moves faster and your life feels like it's sectioned off into sleeping, eating, working, blinking, repeating. Em discovers that she has a choice to live and love, despite it all. Through the horror and the heartbreak and the mundanity. C’est la vie baby. Also, there's a pretty solid dick joke in there. I really hope you enjoy it.

Hannah works across film, theatre and comedy as a performer and writer. Baby Steps is her debut as a director. Baby Steps premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh 2023 where it won the Best New Short Drama Award and Hannah was nominated for the Bingham Ray New Talent Award. Hannah went on to win the Taking Flight: Rising Talent Award at Kerry International Film Festival. The film had its European premiere at Uppsala Short Film Festival and its Northern Irish premiere at Belfast Film Festival. Hannah is really interested in that sweet spot where comedy and pathos collide. The dark and weird and funny ways we can and do express ourselves. She loves the exploration of character and approaching narrative in a way that recognises our common humanity and vulnerability with a wry, surreal and tragicomic tone. Her previous work has been described as elastically hybrid, charming and absurd. Her goal is to bring a similar energy to future film projects in the works for 2024 and beyond.