FILM WORK PORTFOLIO
I have a wealth of experience across many projects over my 30 year career. Here’s just a small selection of some the productions that I have worked on. For a more detailed list, check out my IMDB profile for a full list of everything that I have worked on.
The Last Rifleman (2023) | View Film Info on IMDB
Position: Sound Designer / Supervising Sound Editor
Description:
A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.
The Black Guelph (2022) | View Film Info on IMDB
Position: Sound Designer / Re-Recording Mixer
Description: Stunning Debut Feature Film exploring Mental Health and Memory in a vicious world giving a voice to the voiceless.
Winner: Independence Best Film Oldenburg Film Festival 2022
Winner: Best Actor – Graham Earley Oldenburg Film Festival 2022
Barber (2022) | View Film Info on IMDB
Position: Sound Designer / Re-Recording Mixer
Description: Val Barber, a private investigator, is hired by a wealthy widow to find her missing granddaughter.
A Bend in the River (2021) | View Film Info on IMDB
Position: Sound Designer / Re-Recording Mixer
Description: The story of a writer who returns to Ireland, after spending twenty five years in New York, to confront the ghosts of his past.
Endless Sunshine On A Cloudy Day (2020)
Position: Sound Designer / Re-recording Mixer
Description: A poignant documentary feature film, which tells the story of the McCann family from Ireland. A story about a family battling to stay together with the odds stacked heavily against them. The film examines life in the face of one’s own mortality. A beautiful portrayal of acceptance, positivity and the ability to find meaning in the darkest of times, resulting in the discovery of “Endless Sunshine on a Cloudy Day”.
- Winner, Audience Award Best Film Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival (2020)
Broken Law (2020) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer
Description: Dave Connolly is a respected member of the Garda Síochána but his loyalty to the law gets tested by his ex-convict brother Joe who is in desperate need of his help.
The Limit Of (2019) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer
Description: James Allen is a man in control. He lives alone and works as a banker. He does his best to look after his widowed mother. What he doesn’t know is that the bank he works for is about to repossess her home. When the stress of this provokes a family crisis, James begins to question his whole life and to glimpse the ruthless, manipulative black heart behind the glossy veneer of the banking world. He decides to take action. Meanwhile, Alison Leonard, his beautiful co-worker, has her own agenda, which puts her on a collision course with James. Her actions trigger a dark spiral of deceit, revenge and death. The film explores limits imposed upon us by choices we make – limits set by our careers, desires, needs and even the choice of who we love.
- Winner, Best International Filmmaker, 27th Woods Hole Film Festival Cape Cod (2018)
Penance (2018) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Foley Designer
Description: Father Eoin O’Donnell is unambiguous about the need to use violence to force Britain out of Ireland. He influences a young impressionable boy, Antainem to fight in the 1916 Rising. Fifty years later Antaine arrives in Derry as an experienced gunman.
Con (2017) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Mixer
Description: Con Keogh, a successful film-maker & actor has just completed treatment for alcohol abuse at a secret rehab clinic. He has agreed to take part in a documentary directed by his first cousin about meeting his estranged Father after 25 years. But with emotions running high the documentary takes a few twists and turns.
Vaudevillains (2017) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer
Description: Vaudevillians is a sharp, darkly comic look at the lives of two dysfunctional sociopaths, who just want to ‘fit in’ with society, to become good neighbors and help out in the local charity sale. It looks at them, and the path of total destruction they leave in their wake.
Out of Innocence (2016) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer
Description: Directed by Danny Hiller, in Out of Innocence a young woman is accused of murdering two babies. This film is a poignant social drama based on true life events at the turn of the century which helped shape history to make the Ireland we know today.
- Winner, Best Supporting Actress in a Feature Film Portsmouth International film Festival (2016)
- Winner, Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film Portsmouth International film Festival (2016)
- Winner, Best Feature Screenplay Portsmouth International film Festival (2016)
- Official Selection : Raindance Film Festival (2016) (World Premiere)
- Official Selection, Buffalo NY International Film Festival (2016)
- Nominated, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, IFTA Awards (2017)
South (2016)
Position: Sound Designer
Description: Gerard Walsh’s second feature film, South, the story of Tom (Darragh O’Toole) a young man struggling through his fathers recent passing. After finding a photo of his estranged mother Tom decides to search for the only family he has left.
- Winner, Best Feature Film, TMC London Film Festival (2016)
- Winner, Best Feature Film, Fingal Film Festival( 2016)
- Official Selection, Galway Film Fleadh (2016)
- Official Selection, Indie Cork Film Festival (2016)
- Official Selection, Fingal Film Festival (2016)
Gridlock (2016) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer
Description: When a little girl goes missing during a traffic jam, her father forms a desperate search party to find her. But soon everyone is a suspect.
Film Awards:
- Winner, Best Short Film, Rhode Island International Film Festival (2016)
- Winner, Best Irish Short Film, Cork Film Festival (2016)
- Winner, Best Irish Short Film, Foyle Film Festival (2016)
- Winner, Most Inspiring Short Film, Irish Film Festival Boston (2017)
- Qualifies for Oscar Long List (2018)
- Nominated, Best Short Film, IFTA Awards (2017)
- Winner, Best International Narrative DCShorts, International Film Festival (2017)
- Winner, Best Sound Design EtCultura Festival Florida USA (2017)
- Winner,Best Editing EtCultura Festival Florida USA (2017)
- Winner, Best Actor in Drama EtCultura Festival Florida USA (2017)
- Winner, Best Thriller EtCultura Festival Florida USA (2017)
- Winner, Best Cinematography EtCultura Festival Florida USA (2017)
Moscow Never Sleeps (2015) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer
Description: Russian/Irish co-production Moscow Never Sleeps is a multi-narrative drama about the hidden bonds that connects us all. The film dives headlong into the volatile intersections of contemporary Moscow and the intimate lives of five people; An Entrepreneur whose business empire comes under siege by powerful bureaucrats, a Teenage Girl mired in the misery of a broken home, A Young Man forced to choose between his girlfriend and his grandmother; a beautiful Singer torn apart by the pursuit of two men and an ailing Film Star who gets embroiled in a bizarre kidnapping. Over the course of one day, their lives will change forever.
The Clockmaker’s Dream (2016) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer
Description: A Clockmaker is entrusted to care for a world that runs like clockwork. But when his heart gets broken he rages against time itself only to discover that unless he finds a cure for a broken heart everything will end. The clockmaker tries desperately to find a cure in all manner of new creations.
Film Awards: | View Awards on IMDb
- Nominated, Best Sound, Underground Cinema Awards (2017)
- Winner, Best Director, Limerick Film Festival (2016)
- Winner, Best Limerick Film, Limerick Film Festival (2016)
- Winner, Best Irish Film, Fastnet Film Festival (2016)
- Winner, Best Arthouse Film, Fastnet Film Festival (2016)
- Winner, Grand Jury Prize, Amarcort Film Festival Rimini (2016)
The Nightmare of my Choice (2015) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer
Description: A darkly comic-tinged neo-noir that finds sweet-talking but penniless mystery man Alan Ball and his put-upon servant Flukes desperately clinging to all they have left: the house they live in, which Ball inherited from his brutally murdered wife. As Christmas looms and looks increasingly miserable, unwelcome figures from Ball’s past reemerge with suspicious timing, plunging Ball into paranoia and upsetting the strenuous juggling act that his existence… his existences… have become.
Patrick’s Day (2014) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer
Winner IFTA Award Best Sound for Film 2015
Description: A young man with mental health issues becomes intimate with a suicidal air hostess but his obsessive mother enlists a dysfunctional cop to separate them. Starring Kerry Fox, Moe Dunford, Catherine Walker and Philip Jackson
World Premiere SXSW Festival, Austin Texas 2014
Film Awards: | View Awards on IMDb
- Joint Winner, Best Irish Feature Galway Film Fleadh 2014
- Winner, Screen Director’s Guild Finders Series Awards 2014
- Winner, Best Actor, Hell’s Half Mile Film and Music Festival 2014
- Winner, Best Screenplay, Hell’s Half Mile Film and Music Festival 2014
- Winner, Maverick Grand Jury Prize, Best Film, Woodstock Film Festival NY 2014
- Winner , Best Editing, Woodstock Film Festival NY 2014
- Winner, Best Cinematography, Woodstock Film Festival NY 2014
- Winner, Audience Award for Best Film, Cork Film Festival, 2014
- Winner, Cinema Owners Jury Recommendation Prize, Mannheim Germany 2014
- Winner, Shooting Star Award, Berlinale 2015
- Winner, Manhattan Feature Film Project 2015
- Winner, Torc Award for Best Feature, Celtic Media Festival 2015
- Winner, Best Sound for Film, IFTA 2015
- Winner, Best Film, Best Director and Best Supporting Actress for Kerry Fox, 16th Melbourne Underground Film Festival, September 19th 2015
- Winner, Best Irish Film, Irish Times Ticket Awards 2015
- Runner-up, Best Film, Irish Times Ticket Awards 2015
- Winner, Best Actor, ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival 2016
Jack and Ralph Plan a Murder (2014) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer
Description: Jack (Jeff Doyle) is a quiet man whose life reaches a turning point when a co-worker unmercifully bullies him. Along with his imaginary friend Ralph (Johnny Elliot), Jack decides to take revenge on his torturer in the most final manner possible
The Sea – Trailer (2013) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer
Description: The story of a man who returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of his wife.
Good Vibrations -Trailer (2012) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Supervising Sound Editor
Description: A chronicle of Terri Hooley’s life, a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfast’s punk-rock scene.
Film Awards: | View Awards on IMDb
- Winner, Best Screenplay, Dinard British Film Festival (2012)
- Winner, Feature Film Award, Galway Film Fleadh (2012)
- Winner, Best Costume, Irish Film and Television Awards (2013)
- Nominee, Best Actor, Irish Film and Television Awards (2013)
- Nominee, Rising Start, Irish Film and Television Awards (2013)
Man On The Train – Trailer (2011) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer
Description: A mysterious criminal rolls into a small town planning to knock off the local bank, assuming it will go off without a hitch. But when he encounters a retired poetry professor, his plans take an unlikely turn. With no place to stay, the professor generously welcomes him into his home. As the two men talk, a bond forms between these two polar opposites, and surprising moments of humor and compassion emerge. As they begin to understand each other more, they each examine the choices they’ve made in their lives, secretly longing to live the type of lifestyle the other man has lived, based on the desire to escape their own. Written by Tribeca Film
Tasting Menu – Trailer (2013) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer
Description: A couple makes a reservation for the best restaurant in the world for a year later. When the day arrives, they’re separated and it is the last night the restaurant will be open. None of them will miss the culinary event.
Blind Flight (2004) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer
Description: Award-winning 2004 cinema film about Irishman Brian Keenan and Englishman John McCarthy’s ordeal as hostages in Lebanon, from their No 1 best-selling books An Evil Cradling and Some Other Rainbow, starring Ian Hart and Linus Roache. Director: John Furse.
Film Awards: | View Awards on IMDb
- Winner, Best Actor in a Narrative Feature, Tribeca Film Festival NY (2004)
Road Kill (2011) | View Film Info & Trailer on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer
Description: Award-winning 2004 cinema film about Irishman Brian Keenan and Englishman John McCarthy’s ordeal as hostages in Lebanon, from their No 1 best-selling books An Evil Cradling and Some Other Rainbow, starring Ian Hart and Linus Roache. Director: John Furse.
Film Awards: | View Awards on IMDb
- Winner, Best Actor in a Narrative Feature, Tribeca Film Festival NY (2004)
My Brothers – Trailer (2010) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer
Production: Element Pictures
Description: My Brothers is the story of three young brothers’ epic quest to replace their dying father’s watch. Using a battered bread van, the brothers embark on a journey across the wild Irish landscape on the Halloween weekend, grinding gears and screaming at each other to get to an arcade machine in the small Irish seaside town of Ballybunnion.
Film Awards: | View Awards on IMDb
- Winner, Best Editing, Irish Film and Television Awards (2011)
- Nominated, Best Original Score, Irish Film and Television Awards (2011)
- Nominated, Best Script for Film, Irish Film and Television Awards (2011)
Charlie Casanova – Trailer (2011) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer
Description: A ruling class sociopath kills a working class girl in a hit and run and uses a deck of playing cards to determine his fate.
Film Awards: | View Awards on IMDb
- Nominated, Best Director, Film, Irish Film and Television Awards (2012)
- Nominated, Best Editing (Film / TV Drama) Irish Film and Television Awards (2013)
- Nominated, Best Film, Irish Film and Television Awards (2012)
- Nominated, Best Script for Film, Irish Film and Television Awards (2012)
Pin Up Dolls on Ice – Trailer (2013) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer (with an international team)
Production: BGOI Films
Description: The Pin Up Dolls are a hot retro act who put the tease back in striptease. But when an old friend (Suzi Lorraine) hires them to put on a show at a secluded campground, the girls find themselves being stalked by a homicidal maniac with a sick obsession with ice. As they’re hunted one-by-one, they soon realize they’ll have to rely on more than just their looks to survive this nightmare named Moe. Written by Michael Penning
Film Awards:
- Winner, Best Sound Design, New York Horror Film Festival (2013). What a team!
Cherry Bomb – Trailer (2009) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer
Production: Generator Entertainment
Description: With their exams over, best friends Malachy and Luke are out to have one hell of a summer. However, the arrival of Michelle, a captivating but troubled beauty, tests their friendship to the limit as she encourages the two boys to carry out increasingly dangerous and illegal deeds in the battle for her affections – with fatal consequences.
Film Awards: | View Awards on IMDb
- Nominated, Best Original Score, Irish Film and Television Awards (2009)
Adam and Paul – Trailer (2004) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer
Production: Screen Scene
Description: Friends since they were small boys, Adam and Paul have withered into two hapless, desperate Dublin junkies,tied together by habit and necessity. Astylized, downbeat comedy, the film follows the pair through a single day, which like every other, is entirely devoted to the business of scrounging and robbing money for drugs. The difference today is that Adam and Paul, already rock bottom, have finally run out of luck.
Film Awards: | View Awards on IMDb
- Nominated, Golden Iris, Brussels European Film Festival (2005)
- Nominated, Best Screenwriter, European Film Awards (2005)
- Winner, Best Screenplay, Evening Standard British Film Awards (2006)
- Winner, Audience Award, Best First Feature, Galway Film Fleadh (2004)
- Winner, Best Actor, Gijón International Film Festival (2005)
- Nominated, Best Irish Film, Irish Film and Television Awards (2005)
- Winner, Best Film Director, Irish Film and Television Awards (2004)
- Nominated, Best Actor, Irish Film and Television Awards (2004)
- Nominated, Best Actress, Irish Film and Television Awards (2004)
- Nominated, Best Editing, Irish Film and Television Awards (2004)
- Nominated, Best Hair/Makeup, Irish Film and Television Awards (2004)
- Nominated, Best Irish Film, Irish Film and Television Awards (2004)
- Nominated, Best Music, Irish Film and Television Awards (2004)
- Nominated, Best Script, Irish Film and Television Awards (2004)
- Winner, FIPRESCI Prize, Sofia International Film Festival (2005)
- Winner, Grand Prix, Sofia International Film Festival (2005)
Middletown (2006) | View Film Info on IMDb
Position: Sound Designer
Production: Green Park Films, Channel Four, BBC Northern Ireland, Eclipse Pictures
Description: An overzealous priest returns to his home town and ends up battling against his brother for the heart of the locals.
Awards: | View Awards on IMDb
- 2nd Place, Feature Film Award,
- Best First Feature, Galway Film Fleadh (2006)
- Winner, Best Actress in a Lead Role in a Feature Film, Irish Film and Television Awards (2007)
- Nominated, Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Feature Film, Irish Film and Television Awards (2007)
- Nominated, Best Director, Irish Film and Television Awards (2007)
- Nominated, Best Film, Irish Film and Television Awards (2007)
- Nominated, Best Hair & Makeup for Film, Irish Film and Television Awards (2007)
- Nominated, Best Production Design for Film, Irish Film and Television Awards (2007)
- Nominated, Best Script for Film, Irish Film and Television Awards (2007)
- Nominated, Best Sound in Film / TV Drama Irish Film and Television Awards (2007)
- Nominated, Breakthrough Talent, Irish Film and Television Awards (2007)