Her Mother's Daughter: Dance on the Box

Her Mother’s Daughter is one of four films selected for Dance on the Box 2010. Now shot and completed, the short dance films will be premiered on RTÉ Television during this year’s Dublin Dance Festival which runs from 8th to 23rd May and then screened in Temple Bar’s Meeting House Square.

RTÉ Dance on the Box is a scheme designed for film and dance artists to create work for the television audience. This jointly-funded initiative by the Arts Council and RTÉ aims to bring the energy and imagination of contemporary dance in Ireland to the TV screen and to stimulate the production of dance films.

Her Mother’s Daughter was designed by myself, directed by Oonagh Kearney, choreographed by Cindy Cummings and DOP'd by Pj Dillon.

Dancers cast were Joanna Banks, Jessica Kennedy, Megan Kennedy, Deirdre Murphy, Emma O’Kane.

Your Bad Self due for screening Jan 11th

This October i designed a new sketch show for RTE 2 called Your Bad Self. A six-part comedy sketch produced by Treasure Entertainment, YBS was piloted in December 2008.

The series introduces new cast members Amy Huberman (The Clinic) and Jason O’Mara (Life on Mars) to the orginal cast of Andrew Bennett (Garage), Karen Egan (Rock Rivals), Emily Fairman (Coronation Street: After Hours), Tom Farrelly (writer, Raw), Domhnall Gleeson (Boy Eats Girl), Peter McDonald (Spin the Bottle), Michael McElhatton (Fifty Dead Men Walking), Justine Mitchell (The Honeymooners) and Hugh O’Conor (A Film With Me In It).


YBS was filmed over four weeks in and around Fota Island Hotel in Cork, was directed by John Butler and produced by Ben Kelly.

The first episode is due to be screened January 11th 9.55 on RTE 2

Anton nominated for three IFTAs

My first feature film, Anton, has been nominated in three catergories in this years IFTAs:
Best Supporting Actor (Gerald McSorley); Best Cinematography (Fergal O'Hanlon); and Best Original Score(Anna Rice).
This years IFTA Cermony is to be shown on RTE One on 14th of February.