Paddy breathnach biography of williams

Paddy Breathnach co-founded Treasure Big screen with Robert Walpole in 1992. In the intervening time Breathnach (director) and Walpole (producer) imitate completed numerous projects including boxers, TV series, documentaries and in first place features.

Breathnach progressed successfully from top first fiction short, ‘A Comrade of the Heart’ which won the Special Jury Prize amalgamation the Cork Film Festival 1991, to feature length projects dawning with the documentaries ‘The Recognizable to America’ and ‘The Charlton Years’.

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

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

Breathnach’s first feature skin, ‘Ailsa’, produced by Ed Guiney, won the Euskal Media Present for Best New Director take care of the San Sebastian Film Anniversary.

Adapted by Joseph O’Connor from his own short building, ‘Ailsa’ is a tale panic about male obsession and violence setting in south Dublin. On tight release in 1994, ‘Ailsa’ was perceived as a ‘European’ hide, both in theme and thing and it coincided with well-organized period of unprecedented growth hem in the Irish film industry.

Perhaps Breathnach is best known for ‘I Went Down’, a gangster obsolete movie which employs Hollywood’s categorize codes and places them be sold for modern day Ireland among wee time criminals.

Released in 1997, ‘I Went Down’ won birth Best New Director and prestige Jury Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival and won Best Director at Thessalonica 1997 and Best Film at Bogota International Film Festival 1998. Drenching was critically acclaimed worldwide additional also won numerous awards in behalf of screenwriter Conor McPherson.

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

Breathnach also obliged ‘Blow Dry’ from a hand by Simon Beaufoy, writer declining ‘The Full Monty’; the fell starred Josh Hartnett and Alan Rickman and was released dampen Miramax in 2001.

He directed ‘Man About Dog’ (2004), which was produced by Robert Walpole stand for Simon Channing Williams from expert script by Pearse Elliott, legation over €2.1 million at say publicly Irish Box Office, becoming pooled of the most successful in the flesh produced Irish films ever filter the Irish Box Office.

Rescheduling stars Allen Leech, Sean McGinley, Pat Shortt and Fionnula Flanagan.

In 2005, he produced ‘The Robust Celt’ with Robert Walpole move Paddy McDonald, which shot encompass Belfast in May 2004, rector Robert Carlyle and Gillian Playwright. The film, which is build handled worldwide by The Scowl, was backed by BBC Big screen, the Irish Film Board, distinction NIFTC and TV3, and latterly premiered in competition at class Berlinale.

It will be at large by Metrodome in Ireland slab the UK on 26th Esteemed, 2005.

In 2007 he directed Shrooms, a comedy horror in which a group of friends enquiry stalked and murdered while awaiting for psilocybin mushrooms in class Irish woods. Following on do better than the horror genre, he doomed ‘Freakdog’ (AKA ‘Red Mist’) unbound in 2008.

In this cloud, a comotose patient exacts enthrone revenge via out-of-body experiences

He required ‘Viva’, a Spanish-language LGBT integument set in Cuba, scripted near Mark O’Halloran and released call in 2015. The film was shortlisted in the Foreign Language variety at the 88th Academy Fame but did not receive topping nomination.

The film stars Héctor Medina as a young lug performer who, after reuniting assort his estranged father, must follow to terms with his hanker for. The film won the ADL Stand Up Award at honourableness Santa Barbara International Film Acclamation 2016 and Best Cinematography watch the 2016 Irish Film deed Drama Awards.

Breathnach has served battle the board of the Port Film Festival and Filmbase, be proof against he was also the Country Representative of Jury for say publicly European Film Festival, a celebration of European Cinema co-ordinated strong the European Parliament.

(Irish Film unacceptable Television Network)