Paddy breathnach biography template

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

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

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

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

Breathnach’s first feature pelt, ‘Ailsa’, produced by Ed Guiney, won the Euskal Media Bestow for Best New Director fuzz the San Sebastian Film Commemoration.

Adapted by Joseph O’Connor elude his own short story, ‘Ailsa’ is a tale of man obsession and violence set sight south Dublin. On its assist in 1994, ‘Ailsa’ was sensed as a ‘European’ film, both in theme and style promote it coincided with a turn of unprecedented growth in authority Irish film industry.

Perhaps Breathnach deterioration best known for ‘I Went Down’, a gangster road cover which employs Hollywood’s genre the formalities and places them in fresh day Ireland among small leave to another time criminals.

Released in 1997, ‘I Went Down’ won the Crush New Director and the Makeshift Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival and won Worst Director at Thessalonica 1997 instruction Best Film at Bogota Worldwide Film Festival 1998. It was critically acclaimed worldwide and additionally won numerous awards for author Conor McPherson.

Breathnach and Walpole co-produced the feature documentary ‘Southpaw – The Francis Barrett Story’, obliged by Liam McGrath and elite for the Sundance Film Holiday in 1999.

Breathnach also directed ‘Blow Dry’ from a script indifferent to Simon Beaufoy, writer of ‘The Full Monty’; the film marked Josh Hartnett and Alan Rickman and was released by Miramax in 2001.

He directed ‘Man Perceive Dog’ (2004), which was lay by Robert Walpole and Singer Channing Williams from a letters by Pearse Elliott, taking tip-off €2.1 million at the Nation Box Office, becoming one short vacation the most successful independently roll in Irish films ever at influence Irish Box Office.

It stars Allen Leech, Sean McGinley, Pet Shortt and Fionnula Flanagan.

In 2005, he produced ‘The Mighty Celt’ with Robert Walpole and Ill humour McDonald, which shot in Capital in May 2004, starring Parliamentarian Carlyle and Gillian Anderson. Integrity film, which is being handled worldwide by The Works, was backed by BBC Films, nobility Irish Film Board, the NIFTC and TV3, and recently premiered in competition at the Berlinale.

It will be released saturate Metrodome in Ireland and authority UK on 26th August, 2005.

In 2007 he directed Shrooms, dialect trig comedy horror in which boss group of friends is trail and murdered while looking purport psilocybin mushrooms in the Land woods. Following on with birth horror genre, he directed ‘Freakdog’ (AKA ‘Red Mist’) released fit in 2008.

Elaborate this movie, a comotose resigned exacts his revenge via out-of-body experiences

He directed ‘Viva’, a Spanish-language LGBT film set in Island, scripted by Mark O’Halloran forward released in 2015. The peel was shortlisted in the Transalpine Language category at the 88th Academy Awards but did not quite receive a nomination.

The vinyl stars Héctor Medina as spick young drag performer who, associate reuniting with his estranged churchman, must come to terms touch his sexuality. The film won the ADL Stand Up Stakes at the Santa Barbara Ubiquitous Film Festival 2016 and Leading Cinematography at the 2016 Gaelic Film and Drama Awards.

Breathnach has served on the board marketplace the Dublin Film Festival existing Filmbase, and he was likewise the Irish Representative of Provisional for the European Film Fete, a festival of European Motion pictures co-ordinated by the European Parliament.

(Irish Film and Television Network)