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Documentary Director
DIRECTORS
Agent
Filmography
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Khorfakkan
2020 — Feature Film — 107 mins -
Penance
2020 — TV Series 3 × — 60 mins -
Blood
2020 — TV Series 3 × — 60 mins -
Inside Mighty Machines
2019 — TV Series Documentary 3 × — 51 mins -
I, Dolours
2018 — Documentary — 82 mins -
Barbarians Rising
2016 — TV Documentary Mini-Series 4 × — 120 mins -
Trial of the Century
2016 — TV Mini-Series 2 × -
Secrets of Great British Castles
2015 — TV Series Documentary 6 × — 45 mins -
After Braveheart
2015 — TV Documentary Mini-Series — 60 mins -
W.B. Yeats: No Country for Old Men
2012 — TV Documentary Film — 55 mins -
A Story with Me in It
2012 — TV Series Documentary -
Saving the Titanic
2012 — TV Movie — 104 mins -
The Forgotten Irish
2011 — Feature Film -
Of Blood And Lost Things
2010 — Feature Film -
Cromwell In Ireland
2008 — TV Series — 60 mins -
Flann O Brien: The Lives Of Brian
2006 — TV Documentary Film — 60 mins -
Play It Again Sam
2006 — Documentary — 45 mins -
Michael: The Sound Of Sunday
2006 — Documentary — 60 mins -
The Death of Our Angels
1992 — Short Film — 14 mins
Awards
- 2020 — Nominee
Irish Film and Television Awards — George Morrison Feature Documentary Award. I, Dolours - 2015 — Nominee
Irish Film and Television Awards — Best Director Television. - 2013 — Winner
Irish Film and Television Awards — Best Director Television. W.B. Yeats: No Country for Old Men - 2012 — Nominee
Dublin International Film Festival — Audience Award for Best Film. Saving the Titanic - 2011 — Winner
Irish Film and Television Awards — Best Sports Feature. Man On A Mission - 2009 — Winner
Irish Film and Television Academy — Best Documentary. Cromwell In Ireland - 2006 — Winner
Irish Film and Television Awards — Best Sports Feature. Michael: The Sound Of Sunday - 2006 — Winner
Irish Film and Television Awards — Best Single Documentary. Flann O Brien
Maurice Sweeney is an award winning director as comfortable producing full scale drama as he is in documentary where he has pushed the boundaries of the drama doc genre. He has a number of large scale credits where he has developed a proven eye and ear for story and emotion.
His most recent work includes Lead Director on Blood – Season 2. It made Empire Magazine’s best TV of 2020 list. He directed the three-part drama Penance for Channel 5. It was one of the channel’s highest viewed dramas of 2020.
He directed and co-wrote the critically acclaimed and award winning Feature Documentary I, Dolours. It was released in cinemas and went on to be acquired by Netflix.
Over his twenty year career, Maurice has worked on numerous international co-productions, and has credits with HISTORY US, BBC, ZDF, ARTE, FIVE and RTE. Maurice has been a board member of the Irish Film Board and of the Screen Directors Guild of Ireland. Maurice has won 5 Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs) and was awarded Best Director at the London Independent Film Festival.