The Director is a short satirical comedy about a filmmaker's desperate - and increasingly cruel - attempts to make a documentary on homelessness. The film was produced by Shout Out UK and stars its writer-director Patrick Ireland as a parody version of himself. "Rather than making something which looked to highlight the specific struggles of the homeless, I instead wanted to make a film about the kind of people in this world that allow homelessness to persist" says Ireland, "they are the people this film mocks".