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    Graham Cantwell

     

    Website: www.powertriphome.com, www.theatticstudio.net

    Address: 11 Grangemore Rise, Dublin 13, Ireland

    E-mail: powertrip@ireland.com

    Tel: +353 (0)86 3747974

    Film Type: Live Action

    Bio

     

    Graham Cantwell is an award winning Irish director and writer, who achieved early acclaim when his short film A Dublin Story won several awards and was shortlisted for Academy Award nomination in 2004.


    In 2006 he directed a sellout run of the European premiere of stage play Babylon Heights with writer Irvine Welsh. He also collaborated with the writer on a staged reading of A Letter from Death Row, which featured Gary Lewis.

     

    In 2008 he directed Anton (international title Trapped) which stars IFTA winner Gerard McSorley. The film was picked up for distribution at the Cannes Film Festival and has sold to over 40 territories worldwide. It has since been nominated for three Irish Film and Television Academy awards, had a three week domestic theatrical release and hit the Top 10 in DVD sales charts at Christmas on it’s release in Ireland.

     

    In 2010 he directed The Guards for TV3, the first ever home grown single drama commissioned by the broadcaster, set in the dynamic world of the Irish police force.

    His latest feature, romantic comedy The Callback Queen recently screened at the 25th Galway Film Fleadh and had screenings in Leicester Square London, at the British and Irish Film Season in Luxembourg and in Rome at the Irish Film Festa. Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin hosted a run of screenings of the film at his Jean Cocteau cinema in Santa Fe in February 2014.

     

    Graham recently worked on a rewrite of romantic comedy Poison Pen from a script by Artemis Fowl creator Eoin Colfer. He is also in development as director on an adaptation of a Jennifer Johnston novel, Fool’s Sanctuary, with Parallel Films in Ireland and Kettledrum Films in the US. His feature script Thin Air was given development funding to shoot a promo as part of the Cornerstone scheme run by The Factory and the Irish Film Board. He has recently been attached to direct Galahad, a Science Fiction feature with Fight Me Productions in the UK and his feature thriller Footsteps of Angels is slated to begin production with Graham at the helm in late 2014.

    Filmography

     

    THE CALLBACK QUEEN

    2013 – Feature Film

     

    THE GUARDS

    2010 – TV Drama

     

    EXERCISE CAUTION

    2010 – Short

     

    THE LETTER

    2009 – Short

     

    ANTON/TRAPPED

    2008 – Feature

     

    ONE

    2008 – Music Video

     

    SIRENS

    2008

     

    ONE CAREFUL OWNER

    2007 – Short – 15sec

     

    AN RACAN

    2007 – Short – 3min

     

    PRIMETIME INSERTS

    2007 – Current Affairs Programme

     

    ANTON

    2006 – Feature – 95min

     

    THE COALBOAT KIDS

    2006 – TV Pilot – 14min

     

    MELON HUNTER

    2006 – Short – 3min

     

    KICKSTARTING THE CAO

    2006 – Corporate Video – 30min

     

    PHILIPS IRELAND

    2006 – Corporate Video – 10min

     

    FAILTE GO HEIRINN

    2005 – Short – 12min

     

    WHO’S YOUR DADDY?

    2005 – Short – 15min

     

    STILL LIFE

    2005 – Short – 4min

     

    PAST PUPIL

    2005 – Short – 13min

     

    FIGHTING FITNESS

    2004 – TV Pilot – 30min

     

    A DUBLIN STORY

    2003 – Short – 14min

     

    AMIE/MY CITY SHITTY: DAMIEN RICE

    2003 – Music Video – 4min

     

    A MACHINE THAT WORKS

    2002 – Short – 10min

     

    L’ETRANGER

    2001 – Experimental Film

     

    FUASCAILT

    2001 – Short – 13min

     

    THE PACKAGE

    2001 – Short – 10min

     
    ON A CLEAR DAY

    1999 – Short – 8min

     

    POWERTRIP

    1998 – Short – 15min

    Awards

     

    3 IFTA Nominations (Anton) Irish Film & Television Awards 2010

    Bronze award (One Careful Owner) 15 Second Film Festival 2008

     

    Shortlisted for Academy Award Nomination (A Dublin Story) Academy Awards 2004

     

    Special mention for Best International Short Film (A Dublin Story) Tirana International Film Festival 2004

     

    Remi Bronze Award for Best Dramatic Original Short (A Dublin Story) WorldFest, Houston 2004

     

    Light In Motion Award for Best Irish Short (A Dublin Story) Foyle International Film Festival 2003

     

    Kodak Tiernan McBride Award for Best Short Film (A Dublin Story) Galway Film Fleadh 2003

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