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    Peter Foott

     

    Website: www.peterfoott.com

    Email:  info@vicofilms.com 
    Agent:  Casarotto Ramsay. +44(0)2072874450,  Lotte Beasley - lotte@casarotto.co.uk & Abby Singer - abby@casarotto.co.uk

     

    Film Type: Commercials, Feature Film, Music Videos, Television Drama

    Bio

     

    Peter Foott is an award winning director with vast experience in the Irish television industry. His first short, The Carpenter & His Clumsy Wife, was screened on RTE and Canal + and at over fifty international festivals winning the 'Best Comedy' gong at LA International Film Festival as well as a 'Special Mention' at Venice. Since then Peter has worked primarily in television and Comedy. He has directed over one hundred episodes of the popular RTE sketch show, Republic Of Telly, which included the winning of an IFTA in 2010 for 'Best TV Moment.' On top of this he has also directed thirty episodes of RTE's hidden camera show, The Fear. 2016 has seen Peter write and direct The Young Offenders, a story inspired by the infamous 2007 multi-million cocaine haul off the coast of Cork, and set for release in September 2016; it has already been selected to screen at the Galway Film Fleadh 2016.


     

    Filmography
    The Young offenders

    2016 - Feature Film, Comedy

     
    Republic of telly

    2009 - present; 20 episodes a year - Comedy Sketch Show

     
    The Fear

    2011 - Present; 6 episodes a year - Comedy Hidden Camera

     
    The Carpenter & His Clumsy Wife

    2004 - Comedy Short

     

     

     

     

     

     

     
    Awards

     

    Republic of Telly

     

    2010 IFTA - Best TV Moment

     

    The Carpenter & His Clumsy Wife

     

    Venice Film Festival - Special Mention 

    LA International Short Film Festival - Best Comedy

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