Dónal Ó Céilleachair - Screen Directors Guild of Ireland

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Dónal Ó Céilleachair
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Filmography

Three Zen Gifts
2024 — Feature Doc — 70 mins
Are We One?
2023 — Feature Doc — 62 mins
Continuing Traditions
2022 — Feature Doc — 70 mins
I Heard Music (Do Chuala Ceol)
2020 — Artist Moving Image work — 60 mins
Glen Hansard - Good Life of Song
2020 — Music Video — 6 mins
Glen Hansard - Leave A Light
2019 — Music Video — 6 mins
Eco-Eye Series
2009-2019 — Tv Series — 25 mins
The Camino Voyage
2018 — Feature Doc — 90 mins
The Song of Amergin
2016 — TV Short — 10 mins
An Irish Music Trilogy
2016 — TV Documentaries — 70 mins
From the Land of Múscraí
2016 — Feature Doc — 70 mins
Ó Chúil Aodha go hOileán Í (From Coolea to Iona)
2014 — TV Doc — 70 mins
Tadhg McSweeney, Painter (A Film Portrait)
2014 — Short Film — 25 mins
Aisling Gheal (Bright Vision)
2013 — Feature Doc — 70 mins
Dreamtime, Revisited
2012 — Feature Doc — 70 mins
3-TRIÚR - Ag Cuardach Crot Ceoil (In Search of Musical Form) (Director)
2011 — TV Doc — 52 mins
Prelude / Préludio
2008 — Short Film — 10 mins
Butterfly Light
2008 — Short Film — 10 mins
i, of k (Imitation of Kiss) (Co-Director & Producer)
2007 — Artist Moving Image Work — 60 mins
Un Peu Moins (A Little Less)
2006 — Short Film — 8 mins
With Wind & White Clouds
2005 — Short Film — 7 mins
Vernissage (Director)
2004 — Short Film — 8 mins
Empire 2 (Director)
2003 — Short Film — 7 mins
IZTAPALAPA - Jesus of Mexico City (Director)
2003 — Feature Doc — 60 mins
CUZCO 1999
2003 — Feature Doc — 65 mins
WAR OF THE WORLDS 2001
2001 — Feature Doc — 70 mins
NIGHT ON EARTH
2000 — Feature Doc — 70 mins
Remnants of Forgotten Memories (Director)
1995 — Short Film — 5 mins
The Empty Space (Director)
1993 — Short Film — 5 mins
Procreations Under Consent of the King
1991 — Feature Film — 60 mins

Awards

2023 — Winner
Samskara International Film Festival, India — Best International Non-Fiction Feature Film Award. CONTINUING TRADITIONS
2023 — Winner
Vindhya International Film Festival in Madhya Pradesh, India. — Best International Feature Documentary Award . CONTINUING TRADITIONS
2018 — Winner
Irish Screen America Film Festival, NYC — The Documentary Award. The Camino Voyage
2018 — Winner
Luxembourg British & Irish Film Season — Audience Award. The Camino Voyage
2018 — Winner
An tOireachtas Media Awards — Feature Documentary Award . The Camino Voyage
2018 — Winner
Dingle International Film Festival — Audience Award for Best Feature Film . The Camino Voyage
2017 — Winner
An tOireachtas Media Awards — Documentary Award. Camino by Sea
2014 — Winner
19th European Film Festival of India — Aisling Gheal Selection. Aisling Gheal
2014 — Winner
Cork Film Festival — Cork Shorts Award. Tadhg McSweeney – A Portrait’
2013 — Winner
Access Cinema — Michael Dwyer Award. Dreamtime Revisited

Dónal Ó Céilleachair
Documentary + Film + TV Director

Dónal Ó Céilleachair is a multiple-award winning filmmaker with 30 years of experience in cinema, broadcast television and the arts. His work has been shown in cinemas, museums, galleries, film festivals and on broadcast television and streaming services worldwide.

Sunniva O’Flynn of The Irish Film Institute writes that ‘Ó Céilleachair’s passion, rigour and artistry – informed by his love of cinema and his pioneering work – is evident in his considerable catalogue of work’.

Praise for Dónal’s work:
‘Poetic, deep and beautiful’
Iranian Director Mohsen MAKHMALBAF

‘Transcendentally beautiful’
Irish Times
‘Life-Affirming’
Sunday Independant

‘Unforgettable’
Tim Severin, The Brendan Voyage

‘Magical, wondrous, sensual and spiritual’
Film Ireland Magazine

‘One of the Most Beautiful Films I’ve Ever Seen’
Actor, Paul McGann

‘One of the most remarkable Irish documentaries of the year’
RTÉ Culture

‘Possibly the most moving, emotional and beautiful film I’ve seen in the last few years’
Manchán Magan

Contact:
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