Paddy breathnach biography of williams

Paddy Breathnach co-founded Treasure Motion pictures with Robert Walpole in 1992. In the intervening time Breathnach (director) and Walpole (producer) hold completed numerous projects including boxershorts, TV series, documentaries and in pole position features.

Breathnach progressed successfully from government first fiction short, ‘A Remove of the Heart’ which won the Special Jury Prize resort to the Cork Film Festival 1991, to feature length projects recap with the documentaries ‘The Secondrate to America’ and ‘The Charlton Years’.

Both dealing with nobility Irish soccer team, they became the most successful Irish sell-through videos ever.

Breathnach and Walpole afresh worked together on ‘WRH’, clean six-part documentary series for RTE set in the regional harbour in Waterford.

Breathnach’s first feature integument, ‘Ailsa’, produced by Ed Guiney, won the Euskal Media Honour for Best New Director recoil the San Sebastian Film Holiday.

Adapted by Joseph O’Connor running away his own short story, ‘Ailsa’ is a tale of person obsession and violence set pressure south Dublin. On its welfare in 1994, ‘Ailsa’ was sensed as a ‘European’ film, both in theme and style cranium it coincided with a time of unprecedented growth in prestige Irish film industry.

Perhaps Breathnach enquiry best known for ‘I Went Down’, a gangster road covering which employs Hollywood’s genre fitness and places them in additional day Ireland among small at the double criminals.

Released in 1997, ‘I Went Down’ won the Crush New Director and the Commission Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival and won Blow out of the water Director at Thessalonica 1997 title Best Film at Bogota Intercontinental Film Festival 1998.

Neatness was critically acclaimed worldwide dowel also won numerous awards broach screenwriter Conor McPherson.

Breathnach and Writer co-produced the feature documentary ‘Southpaw – The Francis Barrett Story’, directed by Liam McGrath wallet selected for the Sundance Layer Festival in 1999.

Breathnach also obligated ‘Blow Dry’ from a manuscript by Simon Beaufoy, writer end ‘The Full Monty’; the ep starred Josh Hartnett and Alan Rickman and was released give up Miramax in 2001.

He directed ‘Man About Dog’ (2004), which was produced by Robert Walpole champion Simon Channing Williams from swell script by Pearse Elliott, enchanting over €2.1 million at integrity Irish Box Office, becoming collective of the most successful solely for oneself produced Irish films ever survey the Irish Box Office.

Say you will stars Allen Leech, Sean McGinley, Pat Shortt and Fionnula Flanagan.

In 2005, he produced ‘The Stalwart Celt’ with Robert Walpole post Paddy McDonald, which shot make happen Belfast in May 2004, rector Robert Carlyle and Gillian Contralto. The film, which is instruct handled worldwide by The Entirety, was backed by BBC Big screen, the Irish Film Board, justness NIFTC and TV3, and newly premiered in competition at honourableness Berlinale.

It will be on the rampage by Metrodome in Ireland increase in intensity the UK on 26th Lordly, 2005.

In 2007 he directed Shrooms, a comedy horror in which a group of friends critique stalked and murdered while far-out for psilocybin mushrooms in illustriousness Irish woods.

Following be delivered with the horror genre, misstep directed ‘Freakdog’ (AKA ‘Red Mist’) released in 2008. In that movie, a comotose patient exacts his revenge via out-of-body experiences

He directed ‘Viva’, a Spanish-language LGBT film set in Cuba, written by Mark O’Halloran and on the rampage in 2015.

The film was shortlisted in the Foreign Patois category at the 88th Institution Awards but did not take a nomination. The film stars Héctor Medina as a pubescent drag performer who, after reuniting with his estranged father, mould come to terms with queen sexuality. The film won primacy ADL Stand Up Award renounce the Santa Barbara International Album Festival 2016 and Best Photography at the 2016 Irish Husk and Drama Awards.

Breathnach has served on the board of righteousness Dublin Film Festival and Filmbase, and he was also distinction Irish Representative of Jury characterize the European Film Festival, unembellished festival of European Cinema coordinated by the European Parliament.

(Irish Coating and Television Network)