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    Ruth Meehan

     

    Email: ruthameehan@gmail.com

    Tel: +353 (0)86 8564243 / +353 (0)1 454 1325

    Address: 3 Monkstown Road, Monkstown, Dublin

    Film Type: Live Action

    Bio

     

    Ruth Meehan is a writer director who has been producing award winning work for both film and television in Ireland and Britain since 1998. She is a graduate of both Dublin City University (BA hons in Communications) and of the NFTS in Beaconsfield, UK (MA in screenwriting) where her short film Numb, received a special commendation at the Edinburgh Film Festival.

     

    In 2002 Ruth wrote and directed the short film And The Redman Went Green for Universal Studios, London. The film has won five major prizes; the Special Jury Prize at the Tehran Film Festival, the Prix Canal+ at Brest and the DepicT! ’06 Award at the Encounters Short Film Festival in the UK and the Kodak Prize, Raindance festival, UK.

     

    Over the past decade Ruth has directed award winning documentaries including the groundbreaking What In The World series for RTE which won a Radhard award in 2006 for her documentary on Child Labour in India. She was a co-director on Imagining Ulysses’, an RTÉ/Blueprint Pictures, feature length documentary which won the top prize, Gold Hugo Award for Arts and Culture, at the esteemed Chicago Intercom Film Festival.

     

    Along with her documentary work, Ruth has also developed three feature films with development funding from the Irish Film Board; Music By Water, (2002), West Of Eden, (2005) and The Silent One (2010). In 2011 Ruth was commissioned to write the feature film Raven On The Wing for Bedlam Productions London (The King’s Speech). In 2012 she was a recipient of the Screen Director’s Guild Arri Alexa award writing and directing The Measure Of A Man and received the Film Offaly award in 2013 to direct and adaptation of Clare Keegan’s award winning short story Men And Women which is currently screening on RTE’s Shortscreenstrand.

    Filmography

     

    THE MEASURE OF A MAN

    2013

     

    THE SILENT ONE

    2010 – Feature

     

    MASTERS NOT PARTNERS

    2007 – TV Documentary – 25min

     

    THE PRIVATISATION OF PATAGONIA

    2007 – TV Documentary – 25min

     

    NO PLACE LIKE HOME

    2007 – TV Show – 4 x 25min

     

    NIOS GAELLI…

    2007 – TV Series – 4 x 25min

     

    ART’S LIVES – ART FOR SALE

    2006 – Documentary – 52min

     

    WEST OF EDEN

    2005 – Feature

     

    ART’S LIVES – STEALING BEAUTY

    2005 – Documentary – 52min

     

    WHAT IN THE WORLD

    2004 – Documentary Series – 5 x 25min

     

    IMAGINING ULYSSES

    2004 – Documentary – 52min

     

    MINIMUM WAGE

    2004 – Commercial – 30sec

     

    WHEN THE RED MAN WENT GREEN

    2003 – Drama – 100sec

     

    MUSIC BY WATER

    2002 – Feature

     

    BITTER AUTUMN, BRIGHT WINTER

    Drama – 20min

    Awards

     

     

    And The Red Man Went Green

     

    2006 Winner of the Depict Short film award

     

    2006 Radharc Award for documentary on Child labour in India

     

    2004 Kodak Prize, Raindance festival, UK

     

    2003 Winner of the Special Jury Prize for best short film, Tehran Film Festival, Iran

     

    2003 Winner of Canal Plus prize, Brest Film Festival

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