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    Keith O'Grady

     

    E-mail: keithogrady@hotmail.com

    Tel: +44 (0) 775 918 48 38

    ROI Tel: +353 (0) 85 8174986

    Website: www.keithogrady.com

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    Film Type: Live Action, Documentary, Music Videos, Commercials

     

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    Bio

     

    Keith O'Grady was born in Derry in the North of Ireland. He graduated with a BA degree in Media & Cultural Studies from the University of East Anglia, and then trained as an actor in Dublin, and got work in theatre and film. He then did a Masters Degree in film production from the University of Ulster in 2009.

     

    He is a skilled educator at University level with a PGCFHE (Distinction) in 2010 from the University of Ulster, and has trained youths at various community groups in film production.

     

    Primarily a director, he is also a writer, and at times a producer. He has directed the short fiction films Jam (2009), Not Normal (2010), and the award-winning 'A short film about fear' (2014).

     

    His short drama 'Saving Santa' (2017) has won multiple awards in the US, Canada and throughout Europe. He made the documentary films ‘Buile Bhaloir’ (2007), about the future of teenagers lives on Tory Island, and the hard-hitting ‘Tubaiste Bhaile Mhanais’ (2011) – about the Ballymanus Mine Disaster in Donegal in 1943, in which 19 young men and boys lost their lives when a sea mine washed up and exploded. His biographical film about the life and inspiration of Bram Stoker – the critically lauded ‘Bram Stoker & Dracula’ (2011), has screened at multiple festivals on both sides of the Atlantic. He made the landmark film, ‘Ballaí Dhoire’ (2013), for the BBC and TG4, a documentary about the 400 year history and developing meaning of the Derry Walls.

    Filmography

     

    Truckers na hÉireann
    2018 – Docu Series
     
    THE PRINCE OF PIES
    2018 - Drama
     
    SAVING SANTA
    2017 – Short film - Drama
     
    AN COLÁISTE ÉIREANNACH (The Irish College)

    2015 – Four Historical Documentary films

    -       Salamanca

    -       Leuven

    -       Paris

    -       Rome

     
    THE PEACE WALL

    2015 – Short Documentary

     

    VÓTAÍ DO MHNÁ

    2014 – Historical Documentary

     

    A SHORT FILM ABOUT FEAR

    2014 – Short film - Drama

     

    CREGGAN: THE SEQUEL

    2014 – Documentary

     

    Robert Burns

    2014 – Documentary

     

    FEILTE IS FLEADH

    2013 – Documentary Series

     

    BALLAÍ DHOIRE (DERRY'S WALLS)

    2012 – Documentary 

     

    BRAM STOKER AGUS DRACULA
    2011 – Documentary
     
    TUBÁISTE BAILE MHANÁIS

    2011 – Documentary

     

    NOT NORMAL

    2010 – Short film - Comedy

     

    JAM

    2009 – Short film - Drama 

     

    BUILE BHALOIR

    2007 – Short film - Documentary

     

     
    Awards

     

    Saving Santa (2017)
     
    Winner – 2017 Chico Short Film Festival – Judge’s Choice Best Short film
     
    Winner – 2017 Chico Short Film Festival – Audience Choice Best Short film
     
    Winner – 2017 Indie Film Awards, LA, Best Short film
     
    Winner – 2017 Disappear Here Film Festival – Best Irish Short
     
    Winner – 2017 Antwerp Moving Pictures Festival – Best International Short
     
    A Short Film about Fear

     

    2014 Winner of Judge's Choice Runner-Up Prize, Chico Short Film Festival

     

    2014 Nominee Best Narrative Short, Toronto International Film Awards

     

    2015 Nominee Best Short Film, Irish Independent Film Awards

     
    Vótaí Do Mhná
     

    Best Film of the Year 2014 Nominee, Irish Language Media Awards, Oireachtas

     

    Vimeo - Showreel                                                     

     

    For more of Keith's work, please visit his Vimeo Profile. 

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