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    Donald Taylor Black

     

    Company:

    Poolbeg Productions, Killalane, Laragh, Co. Wicklow, A98 PN27, Ireland

    E-mail: poolbegproductions@gmail.com

    Film Type: Live Action

     

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    Bio

     

    DONALD TAYLOR BLACK was educated at Trinity College Dublin, where he was Chairman of Dublin University Players. He won an Arts Council bursary to train as a theatre director at the Abbey Theatre, and directed plays for the Peacock, the Project Arts Centre, the Irish Theatre Company and Gemini Productions. Subsequently he worked as a Film Selector/Programmer for the Cork Film Festival, Organiser/Programmer for the Celtic Film Festival and as a freelance writer for radio.

     

    His films, predominantly documentaries, have been commissioned or transmitted by RTÉ, TG4, Channel 4, BBC, the ITV Network, Ulster Television, La Sept/ARTE, YLE, SBS, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, PBS stations in the United States and many other international broadcasters. They have won a number of awards and have been screened at the Chicago, Melbourne, Sydney, London, Taormina, Hong Kong, Augsburg, Wellington, Geneva, Dublin, Cork, Foyle and Celtic Film Festivals; at INPUT, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Cinémathèque Française, and as part of retrospectives throughout the world.

     

    He was a board member of the Irish Film Institute, a founding member of Film Makers Ireland (now Screen Producers Ireland) and is a former Chairman of DOCUMENTARY, the Copenhagen-based project, which supported creative documentaries in Europe during the EUs first MEDIA Programme. Donald was Head of the Department of Film & Media at IADT (2001-2016) and Creative Director of The National Film School (2006-2016).

    Filmography
     
    BACK TO THE JOY
    2018 - Documentary
     
    SKIN IN THE GAME

    2012 – Feature Documentary

     

    DAVID FARRELL – ELUSIVE MOMENTS

    2008 – Feature Documentary

     

    CLONGOWES – THE GREATER GLORY

    2001 – Documentary

     

    IMPRINT: PASTERNAK

    2000 – Short Documentary

     

    DEAR BOY – THE STORY OF MICHEAL MAC LIAMMOIR

    1999 – Documentary

     

    BALLYPONZA

    1998 – Documentary

     

    DOWN TO THE BEDROCK

    1997 – Documentary

     
    THE JOY

    1997 – Documentary Series

     

    DEAD MAN’S DOCTOR

    1997 – Documentary

     

    HEART AND SOULS

    1995 – Documentary

     

    IRISH CINEMA – OURSELVES ALONE?

    1995 – Documentary

     

    THE TRIUMPH OF BEAUTY AND DECEIT

    1995 – TV Opera

     

    FROM BALLYBEG TO BROADWAY

    1993 – Documentary

     
    IN FLAGS OR FLITTERS: PICTURE OF DUBLIN

    1993 – Documentary

     

    DOWN FOR THE MATCH

    1992 – Documentary

     

    RETURN TO PARADISE: THE BELFAST CELTIC STORY

    1989 – Documentary

     

    GREAT WERE THEIR DEEDS: THEIR PASSIONS AND THEIR SPORTS

    1988 – Documentary

     

    OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY – SILENCE WOULD NEVER DO

    1987 – Documentary

     

    SAM THOMPSON – VOICE OF MANY MEN

    1986 – Documentary

     

    REMEMBERING JIMMY O’DEA

    1985 – Documentary

     

    AT THE CINEMA PALACE – LIAM O’LEARY

    1983 – Documentary

    Awards

     

    Skin in the Game

     

    2014, Best Documentary Irish Film Festival, Boston

     

    2013, IFTA Nomination: George Morrison Award for Best Feature Documentary

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