About

Multi-award-winning Dublin-based writer-director of boldly distinctive, edgy and exciting genre cinema.

Psychological chiller To the Marrow (8 minutes, 2023) competed for the prestigious Méliès d’Argent — the coveted award for European genre cinema — three times between 2023-24; world premiering at the 34th Donostia/San Sebastián Horror and Fantasy Film Fest, Spain; UK premiering at the 18th Abertoir Horror Fest, Wales; and German premiering at the 11th edition of Hard:Line, Regensburg — “Ominous… intense, suspenseful and aesthetically virtuoso” (Hard:Line programme)
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Ross Forder in *Make Room in Hell* (still by Eoin Holland)

Macabre crime thriller Make Room in Hell (82 minutes, 2019); “Stylish… dark… hardboiled… gritty… fascinating… unsettling… ominous… bold and unexpected” — Film Threat
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Stephen Cromwell in *The Nightmare of My Choice*

Bizarre psychological thriller The Nightmare of My Choice (80 minutes, 2016); “Stylish… dark… beautiful… compelling… captivating… startling… genuinely remarkable… ultimately brilliant” — UK Film Review
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Tony Murphy in *The Late Men* (still by Peter Kelly)

Apocalyptic thriller The Late Men (79 minutes, 2013) won a “Special Award for Innovation in the New Cinema” and Best Actor at the 14th Melbourne Underground Film Festival — “Mesmeric… haunting… we invented a new award just for this… most daring film” — and was nominated for Excellence in Title Design at SXSW, Texas
• Watch the SXSW-nominated title sequence

Ben Smith and Bradley Hall in *Where the Monsters Go* (still by Malika Mezeli)

Horror Where the Monsters Go (12 minutes, 2009); premiered at Raindance, London, and played genre fests around the UK and US before scooping the Jury Prize for Best Narrative Short from the seminal 3rd Babelgum Online Film Festival, earning it a special screening at Tribeca 2010; “Haunting and spooky and filled with authentic childhood memories” — William C. Martell, author of ‘The Secrets of Action Screenwriting’
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Occasional, and occasionally competent, cinematographer, colorist, editor, graphic designer, photographer, sound designer, and title designer…

Developing a number of stylish and dark features.

Slave to multiple four-legged masters.

Berlinale Talents alum.

Bald.