Gordon Bruic
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Gordon Bruic
Address: 14 Manor Close, Kingston, Galway
Phone: +353 86 3363590
Email: gbruic@gmail.com
Website: http://www.mandy.com/home.cfm?c=bru130
Education / Training
Television Production Certificate
RTÉ / Údarás na Gaeltachta Training 1991-92
Trainee / Apprentice / Assitant Editor
Telegael & Loopline Films 1992 – 1995
Digital Post Production Foundation & Masters
Pinewood Studios 1996
Information Technology & Digital Telecommunications
Open University 1998 - 1999
Career:
Telegael: 1992 – 2001
Loopline Films: 1992 – 1997
Media Technology Consultant: 1994 – present
Media Educational Consultant: 1996 - present
Freelance Media Professional: 2001 – 2015
Black Field Films: 2015 - present
Company directorships:
Vibehaus: 1997 – 2001
Black Field Films: 2015 - present
Production Roles
Editor - Various: 1992 – 2015.
Over 63 single half hours, 32 single one hours, 3 features & seven 6 part series,
as well as season twenty of the long running TG4 soap opera Ros na Rún
please refer to website.
Director / Assisstant Director
Beithigh na Farraige 1991 / Bernadette: notes on a political journey 2011
Awards & Nominations
Mutiple commendations, over 36 nominations as well as 25 wins at various film & television festivals throughout the world, including 5 Celtic Media Festivals Awards (6 nominations), 5 Oireachtas Awards, 2 IFTA Awards (7 nominations), 2 Worldfest-Houston Awards (3 nonimations), A Radharc Award and a nomination for a Grierson Award amongst others.
Lecturing
Various workshops & third level institutions: 1996 - 2012.
Undergraduate to post graduate levels, including MA and PhD students.
Third level institutions include: GMIT, UCD, Trinity College Dublin & The Huston School of Film & Digital Media.
Referees
Pat Collins / Harvest Films,
Spain, Baltimore,
Co. Cork
028 20799 / 0872250945
Lelia Doolan / Digital Quilts
Killeenaran, Kilcolgan
Co. Galway
091 796010 / 087 7052526
GORDON BRUIC
selected editorial credits
Ros na Rún
Twice weekly television soap opera with weekend omnibus.
42 x 25 min. / 21 x 50 min. television drama for TG4, Season Twenty, 2015/2016
Series Producer: Hugh Farley
Directors: Various
Secrets of Great British Castles
Historian Dan Jones explores the turbulent history behind six if Britain’s most famous castles:
Dover, The Tower of London, Warwick, Caernarfon, Stirling & Carrickfergus.
6 x 46 min. documentaries for Channel 5, 2015
Producers: Úna Shinners, Billy McGrath
Directors: Gerry Hoban, Maurice Sweeney
Danger! Amanda at Work
Four part ‘fish out of water’ series following Irish socialite Amanda Brunker as she tries
her hand at construction, tree surgery, pig farming and deep-sea fishing.
4 x 46 min. documentaries for TV3, 2014
Producer / Director: Conor O’Mahony
Into the Light
Several female survivors explore alternative healing approaches to try and come to terms
with the harsh realities of their abusive upbringings in Irish industrial schools.
1 x 25 min. documentary for festival release, 2014
Producer / Director: Hilary Dully
Ireland’s Ocean
Underwater marine wildlife series which examines Irish coastal waters and the myriad of
creatures living in –and visiting these waters throughout the seasons.
4 x 25 min. documentaries for RTÉ / BAI, 2014
Producer / Director: Ken O’Sullivan
An bhean a shiúil trasna Mheirceá
Documentary about Máire Ní Dhubháin, a West Kerry woman who walked across America
during the height of the American civil war with her two young children.
52 min. documentary for TG4 / BAI / Festival Release. 2013
Producer: Jackie Larkin
Director: John O’Donnell
A Lost Son
Former Tánaiste & Minister for Justice Michael McDowell examines the mysterious and
controversial death of his uncle during the Irish Civil War.
52 min. documentary for RTÉ. 2012
Producer / Director: Niamh Sammon
In Time, In Tune
Documentary about the 25 year history of the Feakle Music Festival in Co. Clare.
40 Minute documentary for festival release / TG4 / Clare Local Development Company. 2012
Producer / Director: Hilary Dully
Dul i bhFiáin
A six part series about two men foraging from Northern Ireland to Southern Ireland.
6 x 25 min. documentaries for TG4 / NIS – ILBF. 2012
Producer / Director: Conor O’Mahony
John Doherty ‘Ar Leirg na Gaoithe’
Documentary about the famous Donegal fiddler, John Doherty.
51 min. documentary for TG4 / BAI / Festival Release. 2012
Producer: Ciarán Ó Maonaigh
Director: Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde
(Winner, Arts Documentary, Celtic Media Festival, 2013)
Bernadette ‘notes on a political journey’
Documentary exploring the public life of the civil rights
activist and former M.P. Bernadette Devlin McAliskey.
Feature documentary for festival release, TG4 / BAI. 2011
Producer / Director: Lelia Doolan
(Winner, Radharc Award, Documentary, 2012)
(Winner, Best Documentary, Irish Film New York, 2012)
(Nominated, Best use of archive in a factual production,
The FOCAL International Awards 2012 in Associated Press Archive)
(Winner, George Morrison – Feature Documentary Award, Irish Film & Television Awards 2012)
(Nominated, The Grierson Award – Best Documentary at the 55th London Film Festival 2011)
(Winner, Paddy Hill Award, Best Feature Documentary, Document 9 Film Festival Glasgow 2011)
(Winner, Best Feature Documentary, Galway Film Fleadh 2011)
Farraigí na hÉireann
Marine wildlife series exploring Irish marine and coastal wildlife.
6 x 25 min. documentaries for TG4 / BAI. 2011
Producer / Director: Ken O’Sullivan
(Special Jury Award, Oceanography / Marine Biology, Worldfest-Houston 2013)
Remember Skibbereen
Documentary exploring the ravages of The Great Famine in Ireland, with an emphasis on
The Skibbereen Union which was the hardest hit in Ireland.
56 min. documentary for festival release / TG4. 2009
Producer / Director: Pat Collins
Na Coisithe
Documentary about Liam S. Gogan, Poet, Revolutionary, Lexicographer, Irish Scholar & Spy.
52 min. documentary for festival release / TG4 / BCI / Arts Council. 2009
Producer: Nicky Gogan
Director: Johnny Gogan
In the Blood
Documentary celebrating the centenary of the Kilfenora Céile Band.
52 min. documentary for RTÉ / The Irish Film Board / The Arts Council / TG4. 2009
Producer: Jackie Larkin
Director: John O’Donnell
Fear Mhachaire Chlochair
A profile of actor and former Irish volunteer Néilidh Mulligan, who was born in 1916.
25 min. documentary for TG4. 2008
Producer: Ciarán Ó Maonaigh
Director: Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde
Loch Dearg
A three-day pilgrimage on Loch Dearg is explored.
25 min. documentary for TG4. 2008
Producer / Director: Pat Collins
Sea Fever ‘An Irish Surf Odyssey’
A film about the history of surfing in Ireland from the 1960’s to the present day.
Feature documentary for Festival Release / TG4. 2007
Producer / Director: Ken O’Sullivan
(Krasnogorski Award, 7th International Festival of Sports Films, Moscow 2009)
Na Duganna
Observational documentary exploring the workings & history of the docks in Cork.
25 min. documentary for TG4. 2007
Producer: Ciara Nic Chormaic
Director: Pat Collins
Ar Thóir Logainmeacha
Cartographer Éamon Lankford completes his collection
of 250,000 place names from Cork & Kerry.
25 min. documentary for TG4. 2007
Producer / Director: Pat Collins
Ar Lorg Shorcha
Profile on the enigmatic sean-nós singer and radical academic Sorcha Ní Ghuairm, Ireland’s
first female socialist newspaper editor who died mysteriously in London after twenty years of anonymity.
52 min. documentary for TG4 / BCI. 2007
Producers: Carmel Ní Bhriain, Máire Ní Thuathail
Director: Briona Nic Dhiarmada
(Television Programme of the Year – Oireachtas na Gaeilge Media Awards 2007)
The History of the Devil
Since being cast out from The Kingdom Heaven the Devil has appeared to many cultures in
many different guises, from the Old Testament to the war on Iraq.
52 min. documentary for The Discovery Channel / History Channel / SBS Australia / TG4. 2007
Producer: Dave Flitton
Director: Greg Moodie
(English Language Master with an Irish version for TG4)
Taibhsí I mBéal na Gaoithe
Documentary about the acclaimed Irish Language Poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.
52 min. documentary for RTÉ / The Irish Film Board. 2006
Producer: Niamh Ní Bhaoil
Director: Pat Collins
John ffrench – A life in Colour
Craft documentary, exploring John ffrench’s epic sixty year journey
to become a master ceramicist.
52 min. documentary for RTÉ / BCI / The Arts Council / The Irish Film Board. 2006
Producer / Director: David Shaw-Smith
Hands ‘Overture’
The 32 Hands films re-cut into one film to accompany the ‘Hands’ book.
30 minute film for The Film Corporation of Ireland. 2006
Producer / Director: David Shaw-Smith
Family Silver
Documentary exploring the murder of an Irish hairdresser in England. Convicted of manslaughter,
the killer (the victim’s lover) tries to lay claim to his victim’s estate.
40 min. documentary for RTÉ. 2005
Producer: Kate Fennel
Director: Robert Quinn
Cathair Chorcaí
A look at what the city of Cork means to its people.
52 min. documentary for TG4 / Cork 2005 / Festival Release. 2005
Producer / Director: Pat Collins
Traditions of Irish Life ‘The Log Boat’
A film exploring the use of log boats on the rivers of Ireland, from the
first settlers to the few remaining salmon fishermen on Irish rivers.
25 min. documentary for RTÉ. 2005
Producer / Director: David Shaw-Smith
Idir Shughraidh agus Dairire
Profile on the life author, actor & community activist Joe Steve Ó Neachtain.
52 min. documentary for TG4 / Festival Release. 2004
Producer / Director: Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín
(Oireachtas Programme of the year 2004)
(Nominated, Best Arts Documentary, Celtic Film Festival 2004)
Leaving Transylvania
A documentary about the plight of few remaining Transylvanian Saxons
living in the village of Aberjen since the fall of Communism in 1991.
52 min. documentary for ARTÉ / Festival Release. 2004
Producer: David Power
Director: Dieter Auner
(Commendations at The Venice & Romanian Film Festivals & The Galway Film Fleadh)
(Saxon Language Master with some Romanian & German)
The Empire of Juramidam
Documentary about The Church of the Eclectic Universal Flowing Light.
Feature documentary for ZDF / The Irish Film Board / NIFTC / Festival Release. 2004
Producer / Director: Colum Stapleton
(Winner, Best Documentary, Greencine Film Festival San Francisco 2005)
(Portuguese Language Master with some Italian, German, French & English)
Frank O’Connor ‘The Lonely Voice’
Documentary about the renowned short story writer, Frank O’Connor.
52 min. documentary for RTÉ / Cork 2005. 2003
Producer: Philip King
Director: Pat Collins
Sundays / Dé Domhnaigh in Éireann
Four short films exploring what Sunday means in the four provinces of Ireland.
52 min. documentary (4 x 13 min. short films) for TG4 / The Irish Film Board. 2003
Producer: Pat Collins
Directors: Pat Collins, Eamon Little, Adrian McCarthy
Gaeltacht Thír Eoghain ‘The lost language of The Sperrin Glens’
Documentary exploring the lost Irish language dialect of the Sperrin Glens in Omagh.
25 min. documentary for TG4 / Northern Irish Film & Television Council. 2003
Producer: Carmel O’Brien
Director: Brendan McAleer
Abbas Kiarostami ‘The Art of Living’
Documentary about the Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami.
52 min. documentary for Festival Release / The Irish Film Board / MK2 / The Arts Council. 2003
Producers: Pat Collins, Fergus Daly, Seamus McSwiney
Directors: Pat Collins, Fergus Daly
(Feature Documentary Award, Galway Film Fleadh, 2003)
(Audience Award, Galway Film Fleadh, 2003)
(Iranian / Farsi Language Master with some French & English)
Máirtín Ó Direain ‘An Charraig Stoite’
Documentary about the Irish language poet from the Aran Islands, Máirtín Ó Direain.
52 min. documentary for TG4 / The Irish Film Board. 2003
Producers / Director: Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín
(Nominated for the best Irish language programme, Irish Film & Television Awards, 2003)
Dara Beag ‘file pobail’
Documentary about the Aran islander and people’s poet, Dara Beag Ó Fatharta.
52 min. documentary for TG4 / Festival Release. 2003
Producer / Director: Seán Ó Cualain
Dúiche
The story of Irish agriculture since E.U. membership in 1973.
6 x 26 min. documentaries for TG4. 2002
Producer: Máire Ní Thuathail
Director: Peter Carr
Togail Grianain
Documentary exploring the construction of a latter day megalithic cairn in Sligo.
26 min. documentary for TG4. 2002
Producer / Director: Colum Stapleton
Oileán Thoraí
Documentary exploring 18 months of day-to-day life on Tory island.
52 min. documentary for TG4 / The Irish Film Board / Festival Release. 2002
Producer / Director: Pat Collins
(Winner, Best Documentary, Irish Film & Television Awards, 2003)
(Nominated for The Best Irish Language Programme, Irish Film & Television Awards, 2003)
(Programme of the Year, Oireachtas na Gaeilge, 2003)
(Factual Documentary Award, Celtic Film Festival, 2002)
(Selected for the Official Programme of Cultural Irlandais Paris, 2005)
(Audience Award, Best TG4 Documentary televised during TG4’s first 10 years of broadcasting)
Tell me Captain Strange
The story of UFOs in Ireland, past and present.
52 min. documentary for RTÉ / The Irish Film Board / Festival Release. 2001
Producer / Director: Colum Stapleton
Liam Ó Flatharta ‘Idir dhá Theanga’
Documentary about the renowned author Liam Ó Flatharta / Liam Ó Flaherty.
52 min. documentary for TG4. 2001
Producer: Ciarán Ó Cofaigh
Director: Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín
(Winner, Arts Documentary, International Celtic Film and Television Festival 2003
(Galway Film Fleadh Award 2002)
Mairtín Ó Cadhain ‘Is mise Cré na Cille’
Documentary about the controversial teacher, author and activist Mairtín Ó Cadhain.
52 min. documentary for TG4. 2001
Producer: Ciarán Ó Cofaigh
Director: Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín
Tomás Mac Eoin ‘Seo Aonair’
Documentary about the life of the poet and entertainer, Tomás Jimmy Mac Eoin.
52 min. documentary for TG4. 2001
Producer: Ciarán Ó Cofaigh
Director: Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín
(Special programme screening, Oireachtas na Gaeilge 2001)
(Programme of the Year, Oireachtais na Gaeilge 2001)
(Nominated, Best Documentary, Irish Film & Television Awards 2001)
(Nominated, Best Documentary, Celtic Film Festival 2002)
(Spirit of the Festival Award, Celtic Film Festival 2002)
Aoife
Documentary about the Irish disk jockey Aoife Nic Canna.
26 min. documentary for TG4. 2001
Producer: Ciarán Ó Cofaigh
Director: Rachel O’Connor
Vincent ‘The man who won the lotto & bought the dole office’
Ob. Doc. following the restoration of the former White Star Line offices in Cobh, Co. Cork
by eccentric lottery millionaire, Vincent Keaney.
52 min. documentary for RTÉ. 2000
Producer / Director: Peter Carr
Irish Dreamtime
Documentary series exploring how Irish people view their heritage, past & present.
6 x 26 min. documentary films for RTÉ / The Heritage Council / Festival Release. 2000
Producer: Catherine Tiernan
Director: Frank Stapleton
The Department
Observational documentary series exploring the inner workings
of The Department of Social, Community and Family Affairs.
6 x 26 min. documentaries for RTÉ. 2000
Producer: Catherine Tiernan
Director: Peter Carr
Amhairghin / Postcards from the Hedge
A collection of seven short films exploring contemporary and early Irish poetry.
7 x 4 min. films for TG4 / Irish Film Board / Northern Ireland Arts Council / Festival Release. 2000
Producer / Director: Tommy Collins
Ré na Ceilpe
Craft doc. examining the traditional methods of seaweed harvesting & kelp making.
30 min. film for TG4. 2000
Producer / Director: Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín
Hands ‘Liam Ó Neill, Woodturner’
Craft documentary exploring techniques of small and large-scale woodturning.
26 min. and 45 min. documentaries for RTÉ. 2000
Producer / Director: David Shaw-Smith
An Fear a Phléasc
Documentary about the Irish language publisher & author Micheál Ó Conghaile.
30 min. documentary for TG4. 2000
Producer: Brian Ó Cróinín
Director: Johnny Gogan
An Bealach Ó Dheas / Wild Ireland
Hill walking series following Dermot Somers as he walks from the northerly most point
of Ireland, Malin Head, to the southerly most point of Ireland, Mizen Head.
6 x 26 min. documentaries for RTÉ / International distribution. 2000
Producer / Director: John Murray
(Shortlisted Finalist – Documentary Series, Worldfest-Houston 1999)
Sean Nós ‘Thír Chonaill’
Documentary covering traditional Irish singing from Donegal & Tory island.
52 min. documentary for TG4. 2000
Producer / Director: Peter Carr
Gordon Bruic
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Gordon Bruic
Address: 14 Manor Close, Kingston, Galway
Phone: +353 91 722524 / 086 3363590
Email: gbruic@gmail.com
Websites: http://gbruic.wix.com/gordon-bruic?fb_ref=Default
https://crew.mandy.com/aa/crew/profile/gordon-bruic-1
Education / Training
Television Production Certificate
RTÉ / Údarás na Gaeltachta 1992-93
Trainee / Apprentice / Assistant Editor
Telegael & Loopline Films 1993 – 1995
Digital Post Production Foundation & Masters
Pinewood Studios 1996
Information Technology & Digital Telecommunications
Open University 1998 - 1999
Career
Telegael: 1993 – 2001
Loopline Films: 1993 – 1997
Media Technology Consultant: 1994 – present
Media Educational Consultant: 1996 - present
Freelance Media Professional: 2001 - present
Black Field Films: 2015 - present
Production Roles
Editor: 1992 – 2019.
Over 55 single one hours, 27 single half hours, 12 six part series & 3 features,
as well as seasons 20 - 23 of the long running TG4 soap opera Ros na Rún.
Director / Assistant Director
Beithigh na Farraige 1991 / Bernadette: notes on a political journey 2011
Awards & Nominations
Mutiple commendations, over 36 nominations as well as 25 wins at various film & television festivals throughout the world, including 5 Celtic Media Festivals Awards (6 nominations), 5 Oireachtas Awards, 2 IFTA Awards (7 nominations), 2 Worldfest-Houston Awards (3 nominations), A Radharc Award and a nomination for a Grierson Award amongst others.
Lecturing
Various workshops & third level institutions: 1996 - 2012
Undergraduate to post graduate levels, including MA and PhD students.
Third level institutions include: GMIT, UCD, Trinity College Dublin & The Huston School of Film & Digital Media.
Languages
Fluent Irish & English.
Referees
Pat Collins / Harvest Films,
Spain, Baltimore,
Co. Cork
028 20799 / 0872250945
Lelia Doolan / Digital Quilts
Killeenaran, Kilcolgan
Co. Galway
091 796010 / 087 7052526
selected editorial credits
Anna May 'Banríon an Plough'
Observational documentary about the National Ploughing Association matriarch Anna May McHugh.
Europe's largest outdoor event suffers a crisis which leads to a brief cancellation in 2018.
1 x 52 min. documentary for TG4 / 2018
Producer / Director: David Power
Doolin Folk Festival
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh presents two one hour music films from the 5th Doolin Folk Festival.
Acts include Luka Bloom, Susan O'Neill, Martin Hayes, Steve Cooney, Paul Brady and many more.
2 x 52 min. documentaries for TG4 / BBC Alba / 2018
Producers: Jackie Larkin & Suzanne Colwell
Director: John O'Donnell
Tocht na Mathair
A mother's grief examines the tragic story of 18 year old Sadhbh Ní Bhrádaigh
who died from pneumococcal meningitis on Christmas Night 2009.
1 x 25 min. documentary for TG4 / ILBF / 2018
Producers: Jacqueline Newell, Carol O'Connor
Director: Feilimí O'Connor
Dead Leaf Moth
A dark comedy where nothing is at it seems. A young woman uses her guile to manipulate those around her.
Lies, sex & cunning can both hide & reveal a truth - but is the truth one & the same?
1 x 22 min. drama for The Lir Academy / 2017
Producer: Dawn Mac Allister
Writer / Director: Louise Ní Fhiannachta
An Tulla
Formed in 1946, The Tulla Céile Band's ongoing cultural significance - both at home and abroad is explored.
1 x 52 min. documentary for TG4 / BAI / Festival Release 2016/2017
Producer: Jackie Larkin
Director: John O'Donnell
Ros na Rún
Twice weekly television soap opera with weekend omnibus.
82 x 25 min. / 41 x 50 min. television drama for TG4, Seasons 20-23, 2015/2019
Series Producers: Hugh Farley / Déirdre Ní Fhlatharta
Directors: Various
Secrets of Great British Castles
Historian Dan Jones explores the turbulent history behind six of Britain’s most famous castles:
Dover, The Tower of London, Warwick, Caernarfon, Stirling & Carrickfergus.
6 x 46 min. documentaries for Channel 5, 2015
Producers: Úna Shinners, Billy McGrath
Directors: Gerry Hoban, Maurice Sweeney
Danger! Amanda at Work
Four part ‘fish out of water’ series following Irish socialite Amanda Brunker as she
tries her hand at construction, tree surgery, pig farming and deep-sea fishing.
4 x 46 min. documentaries for TV3, 2014
Producer / Director: Conor O’Mahony
Into the Light
Several female survivors explore alternative healing approaches to try and come to terms
with the harsh realities of their abusive upbringings in Irish industrial schools.
1 x 25 min. documentary for festival release, 2014
Producer / Director: Hilary Dully
Ireland’s Ocean
Underwater marine wildlife series examining the myriad of creatures
living in, as well as visiting Irish coastal waters throughout the seasons.
4 x 25 min. documentaries for RTÉ / BAI, 2014
Producer / Director: Ken O’Sullivan
An bhean a shiúil trasna Mheirceá
Documentary about Máire Ní Dhubháin, a West Kerry woman who walked
across America during the height of the American civil war with her two young children.
52 min. documentary for TG4 / BAI / Festival Release. 2013
Producer: Jackie Larkin
Director: John O’Donnell
A Lost Son
Former Tánaiste & Minister for Justice Michael McDowell examines
the mysterious and controversial death of his uncle during the Irish Civil War.
52 min. documentary for RTÉ. 2012
Producer / Director: Niamh Sammon
In Time, In Tune
Documentary about the 25 year history of the Feakle Music Festival in Co. Clare.
40 Minute documentary for festival release / TG4 / Clare Local Development Company. 2012
Producer / Director: Hilary Dully
Dul i bhFiáin
A six part series about two men foraging from Northern Ireland to Southern Ireland.
6 x 25 min. documentaries for TG4 / NIS – ILBF. 2012
Producer / Director: Conor O’Mahony
John Doherty ‘Ar Leirg na Gaoithe’
Documentary about the famous Donegal fiddler, John Doherty.
51 min. documentary for TG4 / BAI / Festival Release. 2012
Producer: Ciarán Ó Maonaigh
Director: Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde
(Winner, Arts Documentary, Celtic Media Festival, 2013)
Bernadette ‘notes on a political journey’
Documentary exploring the public life of the civil rights
activist and former M.P. Bernadette Devlin McAliskey.
2 x 44 mins / 1 x 88 min. feature documentary for TV & festival release, TG4 / BAI. 2011
Producer / Director: Lelia Doolan
(Winner, Radharc Award, Documentary, 2012)
(Winner, Best Documentary, Irish Film New York, 2012)
(Nominated, Best use of archive in a factual production,
The FOCAL International Awards 2012 in Associated Press Archive)
(Winner, George Morrison Feature Documentary Award, Irish Film & Television Awards 2012)
(Nominated, The Grierson Award – Best Documentary at the 55th London Film Festival 2011)
(Winner, Best Feature Documentary, Galway Film Fleadh 2011)
(Winner, Paddy Hill Award, Best Feature Documentary, Document 9 Film Festival Glasgow 2011)
Farraigí na hÉireann
Marine wildlife series exploring Irish marine and coastal wildlife.
6 x 25 min. documentaries for TG4 / BAI. 2011
Producer / Director: Ken O’Sullivan
(Special Jury Award, Oceanography / Marine Biology, Worldfest-Houston 2013)
Remember Skibbereen
Documentary exploring the ravages of The Great Famine in Ireland,
with an emphasis on The Skibbereen Union which was the hardest hit in Ireland.
56 min. documentary for festival release / TG4. 2009
Producer / Director: Pat Collins
Na Coisithe
Documentary about Liam S. Gogan, Poet, Revolutionary, Lexicographer, Irish Scholar & Spy.
52 min. documentary for festival release / TG4 / BCI / Arts Council. 2009
Producer: Nicky Gogan
Director: Johnny Gogan
In the Blood
Documentary celebrating the centenary of the Kilfenora Céile Band.
52 min. documentary for RTÉ / The Irish Film Board / The Arts Council / TG4. 2009
Producer: Jackie Larkin
Director: John O’Donnell
Fear Mhachaire Chlochair
A profile of actor and former Irish volunteer Néilidh Mulligan, who was born in 1916.
25 min. documentary for TG4. 2008
Producer: Ciarán Ó Maonaigh
Director: Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde
Loch Dearg
A three-day pilgrimage on Loch Dearg is explored.
25 min. documentary for TG4. 2008
Producer / Director: Pat Collins
Sea Fever ‘An Irish Surf Odyssey’
A film about the history of surfing in Ireland from the 1960’s to the present day.
Feature documentary for Festival Release / TG4. 2007
Producer / Director: Ken O’Sullivan
(Krasnogorski Award, 7th International Festival of Sports Films, Moscow 2009)
Na Duganna
Observational documentary exploring the workings & history of the docks in Cork.
25 min. documentary for TG4. 2007
Producer: Ciara Nic Chormaic
Director: Pat Collins
Ar Thóir Logainmeacha
Cartographer Éamon Lankford completes his collection
of 250,000 place names from Cork & Kerry.
25 min. documentary for TG4. 2007
Producer / Director: Pat Collins
Ar Lorg Shorcha
Profile on the enigmatic sean-nós singer and radical academic Sorcha Ní Ghuairm, Ireland’s first
female socialist newspaper editor who died mysteriously in London after twenty years of anonymity.
52 min. documentary for TG4 / BCI. 2007
Producers: Carmel Ní Bhriain, Máire Ní Thuathail
Director: Briona Nic Dhiarmada
(Television Programme of the Year – Oireachtas na Gaeilge Media Awards 2007)
The History of the Devil
Since being cast out from The Kingdom Heaven the Devil has appeared
to many cultures in many different guises, from the Old Testament to the war on Iraq.
52 min. documentary for The Discovery Channel / History Channel / SBS Australia / TG4. 2007
Producer: Dave Flitton
Director: Greg Moodie
(English Language Master with an Irish version for TG4)
Taibhsí i mBéal na Gaoithe
Documentary about the acclaimed Irish Language Poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.
52 min. documentary for RTÉ / The Irish Film Board. 2006
Producer: Niamh Ní Bhaoil
Director: Pat Collins
John ffrench 'A life in Colour'
Craft documentary, exploring John ffrench’s epic sixty year journey
to become a master ceramicist.
52 min. documentary for RTÉ / BCI / The Arts Council / The Irish Film Board. 2006
Producer / Director: David Shaw-Smith
Hands ‘Overture’
The 32 Hands films re-cut into one film to accompany the ‘Hands’ book.
30 minute film for The Film Corporation of Ireland. 2006
Producer / Director: David Shaw-Smith
Family Silver
Documentary exploring the murder of an Irish hairdresser in England. Convicted of manslaughter,
the killer (the victim’s lover) tries to lay claim to his victim’s estate.
40 min. documentary for RTÉ. 2005
Producer: Kate Fennel
Director: Robert Quinn
Cathair Chorcaí
A look at what the city of Cork means to its people.
52 min. documentary for TG4 / Cork 2005 / Festival Release. 2005
Producer / Director: Pat Collins
Traditions of Irish Life ‘The Log Boat’
A film exploring the use of log boats on the rivers of Ireland, from the
first settlers to the few remaining salmon fishermen on Irish rivers.
25 min. documentary for RTÉ. 2005
Producer / Director: David Shaw-Smith
Idir Shughraidh agus Dairire
Profile on the life author, actor & community activist Joe Steve Ó Neachtain.
52 min. documentary for TG4 / Festival Release. 2004
Producer / Director: Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín
(Oireachtas Programme of the year 2004)
(Nominated, Best Arts Documentary, Celtic Film Festival 2004)
Leaving Transylvania
A documentary about the plight of few remaining Transylvanian Saxons
living in the village of Aberjen since the fall of Communism in 1991.
52 min. documentary for ARTÉ / Festival Release. 2004
Producer: David Power
Director: Dieter Auner
(Commendations at The Venice & Romanian Film Festivals & The Galway Film Fleadh)
(Saxon Language Master with some Romanian & German)
The Empire of Juramidam
Documentary about The Church of the Eclectic Universal Flowing Light.
52 min. + 70 min. TV & feature documentary for ZDF / The Irish Film Board / NIFTC / Festival Release. 2004
Producer / Director: Colum Stapleton
(Winner, Best Documentary, Greencine Film Festival San Francisco 2005)
(Portuguese Language Master with some Italian, German, French & English)
Frank O’Connor ‘The Lonely Voice’
Documentary about the renowned short story writer, Frank O’Connor.
52 min. documentary for RTÉ / Cork 2005. 2003
Producer: Philip King
Director: Pat Collins
Sundays / Dé Domhnaigh in Éireann
Four short films exploring what Sunday means in the four provinces of Ireland.
52 min. documentary (4 x 13 min. short films) for TG4 / The Irish Film Board. 2003
Producer: Pat Collins
Directors: Pat Collins, Eamon Little, Adrian McCarthy
Gaeltacht Thír Eoghain ‘The lost language of The Sperrin Glens’
Documentary exploring the lost Irish language dialect of the Sperrin Glens in Omagh.
25 min. documentary for TG4 / Northern Irish Film & Television Council. 2003
Producer: Carmel O’Brien
Director: Brendan McAleer
Abbas Kiarostami ‘The Art of Living’
Documentary about the Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami.
52 min. documentary for Festival Release / The Irish Film Board / MK2 / The Arts Council. 2003
Producers: Pat Collins, Fergus Daly, Seamus McSwiney
Directors: Pat Collins, Fergus Daly
(Feature Documentary Award, Galway Film Fleadh, 2003)
(Audience Award, Galway Film Fleadh, 2003)
(Iranian / Farsi Language Master with some French & English)
Máirtín Ó Direain ‘An Charraig Stoite’
Documentary about the Irish language poet from the Aran Islands, Máirtín Ó Direain.
52 min. documentary for TG4 / The Irish Film Board. 2003
Producer / Director: Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín
(Nominated for the best Irish language programme, Irish Film & Television Awards, 2003)
Dara Beag ‘file pobail’
Documentary about the Aran islander and people’s poet, Dara Beag Ó Fatharta.
52 min. documentary for TG4 / Festival Release. 2003
Producer / Director: Seán Ó Cualain
Dúiche
The story of Irish agriculture since E.U. membership in 1973.
6 x 26 min. documentaries for TG4. 2002
Producer: Máire Ní Thuathail
Director: Peter Carr
Togail Grianain
Documentary exploring the construction of a latter day megalithic cairn in Sligo.
26 min. documentary for TG4. 2002
Producer / Director: Colum Stapleton
Oileán Thoraí
Documentary exploring 18 months of day-to-day life on Tory island.
52 min. documentary for TG4 / The Irish Film Board / Festival Release. 2002
Producer / Director: Pat Collins
(Winner, Best Documentary, Irish Film & Television Awards, 2003)
(Nominated for The Best Irish Language Programme, Irish Film & Television Awards, 2003)
(Programme of the Year, Oireachtas na Gaeilge, 2003)
(Factual Documentary Award, Celtic Film Festival, 2002)
(Selected for the Official Programme of Cultural Irlandais Paris, 2005)
(Audience Award, Best TG4 Documentary televised during TG4’s first 10 years of broadcasting)
Tell me Captain Strange
The story of UFOs in Ireland, past and present.
52 min. documentary for RTÉ / The Irish Film Board / Festival Release. 2001
Producer / Director: Colum Stapleton
Liam Ó Flatharta ‘Idir dhá Theanga’
Documentary about the renowned author Liam Ó Flatharta / Liam Ó Flaherty.
52 min. documentary for TG4. 2001
Producer: Ciarán Ó Cofaigh
Director: Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín
(Winner, Arts Documentary, International Celtic Film and Television Festival 2003
(Galway Film Fleadh Award 2002)
Mairtín Ó Cadhain ‘Is mise Cré na Cille’
Documentary about the controversial teacher, author and activist Mairtín Ó Cadhain.
52 min. documentary for TG4. 2001
Producer: Ciarán Ó Cofaigh
Director: Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín
Tomás Mac Eoin ‘Seo Aonair’
Documentary about the life of the poet and entertainer, Tomás Jimmy Mac Eoin.
52 min. documentary for TG4. 2001
Producer: Ciarán Ó Cofaigh
Director: Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín
(Special programme screening, Oireachtas na Gaeilge 2001)
(Programme of the Year, Oireachtais na Gaeilge 2001)
(Nominated, Best Documentary, Irish Film & Television Awards 2001)
(Nominated, Best Documentary, Celtic Film Festival 2002)
(Spirit of the Festival Award, Celtic Film Festival 2002)
Aoife
Documentary about the Irish disk jockey Aoife Nic Canna.
26 min. documentary for TG4. 2001
Producer: Ciarán Ó Cofaigh
Director: Rachel O’Connor
Vincent ‘The man who won the lotto & bought the dole office’
Ob. Doc. following the restoration of the former White Star Line offices in Cobh, Co. Cork
by eccentric lottery millionaire, Vincent Keaney.
52 min. documentary for RTÉ. 2000
Producer / Director: Peter Carr
Irish Dreamtime
Documentary series exploring how Irish people view their heritage, past & present.
6 x 26 min. documentary films for RTÉ / The Heritage Council / Festival Release. 2000
Producer: Catherine Tiernan
Director: Frank Stapleton
The Department
Observational documentary series exploring the inner workings
of The Department of Social, Community and Family Affairs.
6 x 26 min. documentaries for RTÉ. 2000
Producer: Catherine Tiernan
Director: Peter Carr
Amhairghin 'Postcards from the Hedge'
A collection of seven short films exploring contemporary and early Irish poetry.
7 x 4 min. films for TG4 / Irish Film Board / Northern Ireland Arts Council / Festival Release. 2000
Producer / Director: Tommy Collins
Ré na Ceilpe
Craft doc. examining the traditional methods of seaweed harvesting & kelp making.
30 min. film for TG4. 2000
Producer / Director: Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín
Hands ‘Liam Ó Neill, Woodturner’
Craft documentary exploring techniques of small and large-scale woodturning.
26 min. and 45 min. documentaries for RTÉ. 2000
Producer / Director: David Shaw-Smith
An Fear a Phléasc
Documentary about the Irish language publisher & author Micheál Ó Conghaile.
30 min. documentary for TG4. 2000
Producer: Brian Ó Cróinín
Director: Johnny Gogan
An Bealach Ó Dheas / Wild Ireland
Hill walking series following Dermot Somers as he walks from the northerly most point of Ireland,
Malin Head, to the southerly most point of Ireland, Mizen Head.
6 x 26 min. documentaries for RTÉ / International distribution. 2000
Producer / Director: John Murray
(Shortlisted Finalist – Documentary Series, Worldfest-Houston 1999)
Sean Nós ‘Thír Chonaill’
Documentary covering traditional Irish singing from Donegal & Tory island.
52 min. documentary for TG4. 2000
Producer / Director: Peter Carr
Na Glúnta
Documentary exploring several generations of one family from Conemara.
30 min. documentaries for TG4. 2000
Producer: Ciarán Ó Cofaigh
Directors: Ciarán Ó Cofaigh & Darach Ó Scolaí
Deantús an Phoitín
Craft documentary about the traditional process of making poitín in Ireland.
52 min. documentary for TnaG & Discovery Channel. 1999
Producer / Director: Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín
Hands ‘The Basket Maker of Lough na Fuaighe’
Craft documentary about the master basket maker, Joe Hogan.
40 min. documentary for RTÉ. 1999
Producer / Director: David Shaw-Smith
Synge agus an Domhain Thiar
Documentary about the life of J.M. Synge and his relationship with the Aran Islands.
52 min. documentary for TnaG. 1999
Producer / Director: Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín
It Must be Done Right
Documentary about the life of the famous Irish actor, Donal McCann.
52 min. documentary for RTÉ / Festival Release. 1999
Producer: Tommy Collins
Director: Bob Quinn
(Nominated, Best Documentary, Irish Film & Television Awards 1999)
Michael Hartnett ‘Necklace of Wrens’
Documentary about the renowned poet, Michael Hartnett.
40 min. documentary for TnaG / RTÉ / Irish Film Board / The Arts Council / Festival Release. 1999
Producer: David Power
Director: Pat Collins
(Special Jury Award, Celtic Film & Television Festival 1999)
(Nominated, Best Documentary, Irish Film & Television Awards 1999)
(Bronze Award, Documentary (Biography) Worldfest-Houston 1999)
(Nominated, Best Documentary, Yorkton Short Film Festival – The Golden Sheaf Awards 1999)
Boddi Dolwyn 'The last days of Dolwyn'
Richard Burton’s brother Graham Jenkins travels to the village of Rhydymain in Wales,
where Richard made his first film ‘The Last Days of Dolywn’ in 1949.
52 min. documentary for S4C. 1998
Producers: David Evans, Andrew Galimore
Director: Andrew Galimore
(Welsh Language Master with some English)
Celtic Radicals
Six part series about radical Celtic politicians from Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
6 x 26 min. documentaries for TnaG, BBC Alba, S4C, RTÉ. 1998
Producer: David Evans
Director: Andrew Galimore
Eoghan Mac Cormaic
Documentary about the life of the political activist Eoghan Mac Cormaic who learnt
the Irish language whilst sharing a cell with Bobby Sands in Long Kesh.
40 min. documentary for TnaG. 1998
Producers / Director: Dara Ó Baoill
Pobal agus Plearaca
Documentary about a rural Irish Language Arts Festival, Pléaráca Chonamara.
26 min. documentary for TnaG / RTÉ / Údarás na Gaeltachta. 1998
Producer: Brian Ó Cróinín
Director: Johnny Gogan
Litreacha Abhaile
Six part series about Irish speakers living in European cities.
6 x 26 min. documentaries for RTÉ. 1997
Producer: Catherine Tiernan
Director: Jane Kelly
Ann & Eileen
The story of a miscarriage of justice, which lead to two young Donegal sisters
being imprisoned in England on explosive charges.
26 min. documentaries for TnaG. 1997
Producer / Director: Mairéad ‘Dinny’ Ní Ghallchóir
Clocha
Stories from the megalithic landscape of West Kerry
are presented and brought to life by poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.
4 x 40 mins. documentaries for TnaG, 1997
Producer: Macella Connelly
Director: Noel O'Briain
Seó Bothar
Magazine series presented by Paidí Ó Lionaird & Áine Bric..
8 x 26 mins. for TnaG, 1997
Producer: Macella Connelly, Chips Chipperfield
Director: Macella Connelly
Ballycopeland Windmill
Craft documentary about the last remaining working windmill in East Co. Down.
30 min. film for BBC NI / Northern Ireland Environment Agency. 1997
Producer / Director: David Shaw-Smith
Cinniúint De Gallaí
Observational Documentary about Brendan Galway
becoming a lead dancer with Riverdance.
52 min. film for TnaG. 1996
Producers: Carmel Ní Bhriain, Máire Ní Thuathail
Director: David McKenna
Muintir na gCurach
Documentary about the tradition of currach racing in Connemara.
52 min. film for TnaG. 1996
Producer / Director: Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín
(Oireachtas Award winning documentary, 1996)
Éire Neodrach
Six part series about Irish neutrality during the Second World War / The Emergency.
6 x 26 min. documentaries for TnaG. 1996
Producer: Adelaide McCarthy
Director: Justin McCarthy
Simply Delicious ‘Meals in Minutes’
Cookery Series with Darina Allen
6 x 26 min. shows for RTÉ. 1996
Producer / Director: Colette Farmer
The Stunning
Filmed over several years, Irish rock band ‘The Stunning’ comes to terms
with the fact that they are about to split up so they have their last waltz.
52 min. documentary for RTÉ. 1995
Producer / Director: Justin McCarthy
Ruby Backdrop
Ob. Doc. celebrating over forty years of the Wexford Opera Festival.
26 min. documentary for RTÉ. 1994
Producer / Director: Barrie Dowdall
St. Patrick ‘The living legend’
An exploration into what Irish identity means to people from far and wide.
52 min. documentary for RTÉ. 1994
Producers: Catherine Tiernan, Frank Stapleton
Director: Justin McCarthy
Battlefield ‘The Fall of France’ – Parts 1&2
Two-part documentary exploring how France fell to Germany
during the Second World War.
2 x 52 min. documentaries for BBC, PBS, The Military Channel, Discovery, Polygram. 1994
Producers: Dave Flitton, Dave McWhinnie
Director: Justin McCarthy
Battlefield ‘The Battle of Stalingrad’ – Parts 1&2
Two-part documentary exploring one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare.
2 x 52 min. documentaries for BBC, PBS, The Military Channel, Discovery, Polygram. 1994
Producers: Dave Flitton, Dave McWhinnie
Director: Justin McCarthy
Beithigh na Farraige
Historical documentary about Blasket Island & West Kerry Naomhóg traditions (currach traditions).
26 min. documentary for RTÉ, Údarás na Gaeltachta 1992-93
Producer / Director: Gordon Bruic
