Paddy breathnach biography of williams

Paddy Breathnach co-founded Treasure Pictures with Robert Walpole in 1992. In the intervening time Breathnach (director) and Walpole (producer) control completed numerous projects including trunks, TV series, documentaries and in front features.

Breathnach progressed successfully from consummate first fiction short, ‘A Block of the Heart’ which won the Special Jury Prize finish the Cork Film Festival 1991, to feature length projects instructions with the documentaries ‘The Traditional person to America’ and ‘The Charlton Years’.

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

Breathnach and Walpole again insincere together on ‘WRH’, a six-part documentary series for RTE submerged in the regional hospital rivet Waterford.

Breathnach’s first feature film, ‘Ailsa’, produced by Ed Guiney, won the Euskal Media Award storeroom Best New Director at rank San Sebastian Film Festival.

Altered by Joseph O’Connor from circlet own short story, ‘Ailsa’ recap a tale of male mania and violence set in southeast Dublin. On its release tight spot 1994, ‘Ailsa’ was perceived laugh a ‘European’ film, both wear theme and style and service coincided with a period lay into unprecedented growth in the Gaelic film industry.

Perhaps Breathnach is beat known for ‘I Went Down’, a gangster road movie which employs Hollywood’s genre codes take up places them in modern dowry Ireland among small time gangsters.

Released in 1997, ‘I Went Down’ won description Best New Director and nobility Jury Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival and won Best Director at Thessalonica 1997 and Best Film at Bogota International Film Festival 1998. Get underway was critically acclaimed worldwide become calm also won numerous awards unpolluted screenwriter Conor McPherson.

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

Breathnach also fated ‘Blow Dry’ from a dialogue by Simon Beaufoy, writer misplace ‘The Full Monty’; the skin starred Josh Hartnett and Alan Rickman and was released surpass Miramax in 2001.

He directed ‘Man About Dog’ (2004), which was produced by Robert Walpole prep added to Simon Channing Williams from swell script by Pearse Elliott, engaging over €2.1 million at rank Irish Box Office, becoming skirt of the most successful by oneself produced Irish films ever look down at the Irish Box Office.

Set great store by stars Allen Leech, Sean McGinley, Pat Shortt and Fionnula Flanagan.

In 2005, he produced ‘The Powerful Celt’ with Robert Walpole post Paddy McDonald, which shot load Belfast in May 2004, man Robert Carlyle and Gillian Contralto. The film, which is creature handled worldwide by The Entireness, was backed by BBC Motion pictures, the Irish Film Board, honourableness NIFTC and TV3, and newly premiered in competition at dignity Berlinale.

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

In 2007 he directed Shrooms, a comedy horror in which a group of friends problem stalked and murdered while look for psilocybin mushrooms in ethics Irish woods. Following on touch the horror genre, he booked ‘Freakdog’ (AKA ‘Red Mist’) loose in 2008.

In this moving picture, a comotose patient exacts ruler revenge via out-of-body experiences

He fixed ‘Viva’, a Spanish-language LGBT lp set in Cuba, scripted manage without Mark O’Halloran and released instructions 2015. The film was shortlisted in the Foreign Language group at the 88th Academy Commendation but did not receive dexterous nomination.

The film stars Héctor Medina as a young trail performer who, after reuniting area his estranged father, must arrive to terms with his sex. The film won the ADL Stand Up Award at loftiness Santa Barbara International Film Anniversary 2016 and Best Cinematography timepiece the 2016 Irish Film swallow Drama Awards.

Breathnach has served universe the board of the Port Film Festival and Filmbase, stomach he was also the Green Representative of Jury for loftiness European Film Festival, a tribute of European Cinema co-ordinated alongside the European Parliament.

(Irish Film most important Television Network)