Aisling Rights Catalogue

Literary IP for screen.

Prepared for producers, SCELF, and the Marché du Film. Independently held titles with verified chain of title.

Laurence O’Bryan, Rights & Acquisitions · LOB@yourasms.com·1st Floor, Fumbally Exchange, Argus House, Malpas Street, Dublin D08Y273, Ireland

01
The Salt Line
M. Ellison Hart
The Salt Line
M. Ellison Hart
A coastal surveyor finds a boundary that should not exist — and a town determined to keep it that way.
Genre
Thriller
Screen
Feature · Limited series
Scale
Mid-scale
Audience
Adult
Setting
Coastal Maine, present day
Territories
Worldwide
Rights
Film & television · Audio · Translation
Chain of title
Independently held — verified
A feature or limited series of closed rooms and open water: a surveyor, a township, and a line that has already been decided. Procedural without becoming cop-show; the camera lives in weather, ledgers, and the faces of people who have lived inside an error.
Comparable films / series: Mare of Easttown; True Detective (S1); The Killing
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02
Afterlight
Priya Nadesan
Afterlight
Priya Nadesan
The last analog radio station on earth begins broadcasting from the future. A night engineer has to decide whether to answer.
Genre
Speculative
Screen
Limited series · Returning series
Scale
Contained
Audience
Adult
Setting
High-desert radio station, American Southwest
Territories
Worldwide
Rights
Film & television · Audio · Interactive
Chain of title
Independently held — verified
A contained limited series that can reopen: one engineer, one transmitter, one overnight shift that starts arriving already recorded. Sound is the special effect. The future is a frequency you almost tune past.
Comparable films / series: The Vast of Night; Midnight Mass; Arrival
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03
A Cartography of Quiet
Elena Voss
A Cartography of Quiet
Elena Voss
Maps, grief, and the rooms we keep after someone is gone.
Genre
Memoir
Screen
Feature · Limited series
Scale
Contained
Audience
Adult
Setting
A European city of shared apartments, recent years
Territories
Worldwide
Rights
Audio · Translation · Stage
Chain of title
Independently held — verified
A feature or short limited series of rooms, weather, and two languages. Adaptation lives in image more than plot: the kitchen, the coats, the balcony. Grief as a surveying problem. Intimate, adult, award-circuit.
Comparable films / series: Aftersun; Nomadland; Pieces of a Woman
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04
The Last Orchard
James W. Calder
The Last Orchard
James W. Calder
In 1919 Vermont, a widow bargains with a timber baron to save a hillside of heirloom apples — and a secret buried with the roots.
Genre
Historical
Screen
Feature
Scale
Mid-scale
Audience
Adult
Setting
Rural Vermont, 1919
Territories
Worldwide
Rights
Film & television · Audio · Translation
Chain of title
Independently held — verified
A period feature with dirt under its nails: a widow, a hillside of heirloom apples, a timber baron, and a secret in the roots. Land and labour as plot. A closed moral bargain, not a saga.
Comparable films / series: The Power of the Dog; There Will Be Blood; The Piano
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05
Glass Country
Sable Wren
Glass Country
Sable Wren
A girl born without a shadow is conscripted to walk the border of a nation made of light.
Genre
YA
Screen
Feature · Returning series
Scale
Large-scale
Audience
Young adult
Setting
An invented high country of civic light
Territories
Worldwide
Rights
Film & television · Interactive · Merchandising · Translation
Chain of title
Independently held — verified
A feature that can open a returning series: a girl without a shadow is conscripted to walk a border made of light. World-led, exact rather than chosen-one. Visual effects in weather and rim-country, not armies.
Comparable films / series: His Dark Materials; The Hunger Games; Pan’s Labyrinth
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06
What the River Kept
Tomás Hale
What the River Kept
Tomás Hale
A hydrologist returns to the drowned town of her childhood after a drought pulls the steeple back into the air.
Genre
Literary
Screen
Feature
Scale
Contained
Audience
Adult
Setting
A drowned American town, present-day drought
Territories
Worldwide
Rights
Film & television · Audio · Stage
Chain of title
Independently held — verified
A contained feature: a hydrologist returns when drought pulls a steeple back into the air. Climate as plot, family as sediment. The town is the set — mud, porches, a church that was never as gone as the maps claimed.
Comparable films / series: Nomadland; Beasts of the Southern Wild; Minari
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07
The Inventory of Small Gods
Lin Zhao
The Inventory of Small Gods
Lin Zhao
A pawnbroker in a city of forgotten deities begins to receive the gods themselves — one household object at a time.
Genre
Speculative
Screen
Limited series · Feature
Scale
Contained
Audience
Adult
Setting
A pawnshop in a city of forgotten household gods
Territories
Worldwide
Rights
Film & television · Audio · Translation · Stage
Chain of title
Independently held — verified
A limited series or feature of a ledger and a counter: gods arrive as objects, polite and diminished. Magical realism with inventory. Funny in the way true belief is funny. Episode as ticket, season as theology.
Comparable films / series: The Green Knight; Amélie; Midnight in Paris
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08
Night Market
A. R. Quen
Night Market
A. R. Quen
A translator working the midnight stalls of a port city is hired to interpret a confession that was never meant to be heard.
Genre
Crime
Screen
Limited series
Scale
Mid-scale
Audience
Adult
Setting
A port city of midnight stalls, East and South-East Asia inspired
Territories
Worldwide
Rights
Film & television · Audio · Translation
Chain of title
Independently held — verified. Screen rights currently under option.
A limited series of lanterns, ledgers, and the gap between languages. A translator is hired to sit in on a confession; by morning the confession is hers. Crime as close as breath — not a detective, a witness.
Comparable films / series: The Night Of; Infernal Affairs; Shoplifters
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Literary IP for screen.

The Salt Line

Afterlight

A Cartography of Quiet

The Last Orchard

Glass Country

What the River Kept

The Inventory of Small Gods

Night Market