I am 22 years old. I was born on 23 August 1979. I have made about forty to fifty short films since I started at around the age of fifteen. Most of the early ones are pretty bad but that was where I learned a lot of the techniques both in camera and story telling which I still use today. I also learned about doing gore effects, having blood spray out of people’s necks etc, always a handy tool in the horror genre.
At 17 I won 2nd place in the Limerick Fresh Film Festival with a trilogy of short horror films called Tales of Terror. That was where I realized how well horror films could work as shorts and how the audience really reacted to it, even if it was disgust. Any reaction is better than people just sitting there, being bored. After leaving school I went on to Dun Laoghaire Film College. It was the only thing I put down on my college application form. I was never going to do anything else.
In college I continued to make short films both inside and outside the course. They included: The Corpse, the first of two silent films. A spoof documentary called Hearts of Fear, which was co-made with Ciaran Foy and Andrew Edger. Another silent film called 1902, which was also co- written and co-directed by myself, Andrew Legge and Ciaran Foy. During college I won best Harp Commercial at the Kodak commercial awards in London which, was a really cool experience. And then the Braineater was my own final project. So far it has been shown in a number of festivals including, The Cork International film festival, the Horrorthon festival in Dublin and the Sitges International Fantasy festival where it won best short in the Brigadoon section.
Now at 22 I am planning to do my first feature film. It is a horror film of course. I can’t turn my back on the genre that has been so kind to me in the past...
FILMOGRAPHY since 1998
Tales of Terror Writer/Director/Editor
Othello Writer/Director/Editor
Run to the Hills Writer/Director/Editor
The Corpse Writer/Director/Editor
Hearts of Fear Co-Writer/Co-Director/Editor
The Harp Foundation Co-Writer/Director
1902 Co-Writer/Co-Director/Co-Editor
The Braineater Writer/Director/Editor
