Moya O’Shea
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Moya O’Shea

FILMOGRAPHY

The Glassworker

2024, Animated Feature, Director: Usman Riaz, Mano Animation Studios, Pakistan

Peppa Pig

2024-2026, Karrot Animation for eOne Entertainment - 6 Eps

King of Tory

2023, Animated Feature Film Treatment, EZ Films, Ireland

Little Princess

2020, Animated Series, The Illuminated Film Company for Channel 5 - 10 Eps

Some Sweet Oblivious Antidote

2017 Short Film, Director: Christiana Ebohon-Green, Creative England/BFI

Floogals 

2016, “Project Sleepover”, Animated Series, Director: Ruth Ducker, The Foundation and Sprout/NBCUniversal

Toot The Tiny Tugboat 

2016, Animated Series, Lupus Films for Channel 5 - 3 Eps  

‘Melt Down’ episode nominated for Best Short Film at Love International Film Festival

Doctors

TV Drama, BBC One - 10 Eps

Tree Fu Tom 

Animated Series, Cbeebies/Fremantle Media Enterprises/Blue Zoo - 3 Eps

Tilly and Friends 

Animated Series, Cbeebies/Jam Media - 3 Eps

Driver Dan’s Story Train  

“Sweetie’s Reward”, Animated Series, 3 Line Media for Cbeebies

The Koala Brothers

Animated Series, Famous Flying Films/Spellbound Productions - 3 Eps

Gordon the Garden Gnome

Animated Series, Collingwood O’Hare Entertainment for Cbeebies - 6 Eps

Yoko!Jakamoko!Toto!

Animated Series, Collingwood O’Hare Entertainment for ITV - 11 Eps

Eddy & The Bear

Animated Series, Collingwood O’Hare Entertainment for ITV - 2 Eps

Byker Grove

Family Drama, “Law and Disorder”, Director: Tim Leandro, Zenith Productions for BBC One 

Awards

The Glassworker

Best International Feature Academy Awards 2025 Official Entry: Pakistan

Oscars long lists for Best International Feature Film and Best Animated Feature Film Academy Awards 2025

Best Film - Pakistani Cinema Awards 2025

Best Screenplay: Moya O’Shea - Pakistani Cinema Awards 2025

Best First Feature Film Award, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival 2024

Audience Prize, 10th Asian World Film Festival Los Angeles 2024

Excellence in Feature Filmmaking: Honourable Mention - International South Asian Film Festival 2024, Canada 

Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2024 - Official Competition

Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2022 - Work in Progress

Some Sweet oblivious Antidote

Best International Screenplay - Canberra Short Film Festival 2018

Winner: Best of the Fest - Triforce Short Film Festival 2018

Winner - Earl’s Court Short Film Festival 2018, 

BAFTA Long List 2018 

Various

Moya O'Shea writes for Film, TV, Animation, Audio Drama and Theatre. Recent work includes the screenplay for the animated feature film, The Glassworker, for Mano Animation Studios, Pakistan, which premiered in competition at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2024. The film was Pakistan’s Official Entry for Best International Feature for the 2025 Academy Awards.

 

Her award winning short film, Some Sweet Oblivious Antidote, starring Sir Lenny Henry, Wunmi Mosaku, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Arinzé Kene and Colin Salmon, won Best Screenplay at the Canberra Short Film Festival, Best of the Fest Triforce Short Film Festival 2018 and was voted best film at Earl’s Court Short Film Festival 2018.

 

Moya has written many original plays for BBC Audio Drama namely Theo which was voted the most popular play in the BBC Archive and Beside Myself, a biography of writer, Daphne du Maurier, starring Helena Bonham Carter and Bill Nighy broadcast on BBC Radio in 2024.

 

Audio adaptations comprise Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Nevil Shute’s A Town Like Alice (Sony Award Winner), Mary McCarthy’s The Group, Daphne du Maurier’s September Tide, Edna Ferber's Show Boat and Michael Field based on the diaries of the poet, Michael Field.

Her comedy play Room Service Included was performed at New Farnham Rep and The Mill At Sonning.
 

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