Projects
Boa Island Immersive Film
Boa Island Immersive Film
Boa Island is an immersive film prototype that invites audiences to explore a digitally created landscape of Lough Erne where sound, light and environment respond to their actions.
Inspired by, and incorporating, archival sound recordings of Seamus Heaney from the 1972 BBC documentary The Loughsiders: Lough Erne, the project explores how myth and narrative can be experienced through interactive cinema. The immersive film also functions as a world-building prototype for the television drama series of the same name currently in development by Lír Pictures.
Experiment
£20,000
Aims of the project
The project focuses on phase-one world-building for the television drama series of the same name, creating a digitally constructed environment inspired by the landscape and mythology of Boa Island in Lough Erne.
Boa Island is an immersive film prototype developed by Niamh Gormley (Lír Pictures), Brian Gormley and immersive artist Leandros Ntolas.
Built using Unreal Engine, the immersive film allows audiences to move through a virtual island where sound, light and environment respond to their actions. Inspired by archival recordings of Seamus Heaney from the 1972 BBC documentary The Loughsiders: Lough Erne, the project uses spatial sound and responsive environments to explore how myth and narrative can be experienced through interactive cinema. This prototype will be tested with audiences to gather feedback and inform future immersive installations and the wider Boa Island screen project.
Meet Lír Pictures
Niamh Gormley
Screen Writer and Director
she/her
Niamh Gormley is an award-winning Irish screenwriter, filmmaker, and co-founder of Lír Pictures with her brother, Brian Gormley. The company develops film and television projects grounded in Irish history and mythology. Her practice is story-led, working across screen and immersive media. She uses emerging visual technologies to create cinematic experiences that extend beyond traditional film. A Sundance Collab Community Leader, she supports writers and filmmakers internationally while continuing to develop original projects for global audiences.
Brian Gormley
Co-founder, Producer, Writer, Senior Education Adviser
he/him
Brian Gormley is an Irish writer, producer, actor, and Senior Education Adviser, and co-founder of Lír Pictures. His work spans storytelling, performance, and education. On this project, he is involved in creative development, producing strategy, and delivery, ensuring the work is both artistically grounded and accessible to diverse audiences.
Leandros Ntolas
Immersive Artist
he/him
Leandros Ntolas is a Greek born immersive artist and creative technologist based in The Hague, whose cross disciplinary practice merges contemporary art, architecture, philosophy, and video game design to craft embodied, experiential worlds.
