Summertime

Summertime This drama short was written by Michael Ennis, directed by Eve Morrison, produced by Hilary McLoughlin and Storm Productions, and jointly financed by RTE and the Irish Film Board. It was made in 1995 and broadcast by RTE on January 13, 1997. Two outsiders, Andrew who is gay and Victoria who has recently arrived from London, form a strong friendship in secondary school that helps them both to come to terms with their 'otherness.' Townsend played an eighteen-year-old gay schoolboy, who was being bullied by his classmates. Filmed in Ireland.