Soulsmith
Directed by	Kevin Henry
Written by	Kevin Henry
Produced by	Kevin Henry Seamus Waters
Starring	Matthew O'Brien Miriam Devitt Brian Fortune Conor Marren Elva Trill Tommy Canavan Aoibheann McCann Richard Keaney Tristan Heanue
Cinematography	Stephen C. Walsh
Edited by	Eoin McDonagh
Music by	Michael Fleming
Production company	WHIM Films
Release date	1 September 2017
Running time	83 minutes
Country	Republic of Ireland
Language	English

Soulsmith is a 2017 Irish film, directed, written and produced by Kevin Henry.^[1][2][3]

Production

€2,176 was raised via an Indiegogo campaign.^[4] Soulsmith was filmed in Castlebar and Dublin. It was filmed in 2.35:1.^[5] Kevin Henry said that "When writing Soulsmith, so much coverage on my generation had been about emigration but I just wanted to focus on those who stayed. And in a more focused sense, Soulsmith tries to take a step back and look at masculinity within my generation."^[6]

Plot

Ed Smith is a once-successful playwright now struggling. Then, his father dies, and he goes home to County Mayo.

Reception

The film was shown at the 2017 Cork Film Festival. It won the Best International Feature award at the Austin Revolution Film Festival.^[7] It was shown at the Irish Film Institute^[8] and received its TV premiere on RTÉ One on 21 December 2018.^[7]

On Scannain.com, Dave Higgins gave it 4.0/5, saying "Soulsmith is a movie brimming over with the passion the director clearly has for the story and it’s full of wonderful characters and clever writing."^[9]