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Dónal Ó Céilleachair

Documentary + Film + Music Video Director

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Filmography
  • Three Zen Gifts
    2024 — Documentary
  • Are We One?
    2023 — Documentary
  • Continuing Traditions
    2022 — Documentary
  • I Heard Music (Do Chuala Ceol)
    2020 — Documentary
  • Glen Hansard - Good Life of Song
    2020 — Music Video
  • Glen Hansard - Leave A Light
    2019 — Music Video
  • The Camino Voyage
    2018 — Documentary
  • The Song of Amergin
    2016 — Documentary
  • From the Land of Múscraí
    2016 — Documentary
  • Ó Chúil Aodha go hOileán Í (From Coolea to Iona)
    2014 — Documentary
  • Tadhg McSweeney, Painter (A Film Portrait)
    2014 — Documentary
  • Aisling Gheal (Bright Vision)
    2013 — Documentary
  • Dreamtime, Revisited
    2012 — Documentary
  • 3-TRIÚR - Ag Cuardach Crot Ceoil (In Search of Musical Form)
    2012 — Documentary
  • Prelude / Préludio
    2008 — Documentary
  • Un Peu Moins (A Little Less)
    2006 — Short Film
  • With Wind & White Clouds
    2005 — Short Film
  • Vernissage
    2004 — Short Film
  • Empire 2
    2003 — Documentary
  • CUZCO 1999
    2003 — Documentary
Awards
  • 2018 — Winner
    Irish Screen America Film Festival — Best Documentary Award. The Camino Voyage
  • 2018 — Winner
    Luxembourg British & Irish Film — Audience Award. The Camino Voyage
  • 2018 — Winner
    An tOireachtas Media Awards — Best Documentary. The Camino Voyage
  • 2018 — Winner
    Dingle International Film Festival — Audience Award. The Camino Voyage
  • 2014 — Winner
    European Film Festival of India — Aisling Gheal Selection.
  • 2014 — Winner
    Cork Film Festival — Cork Shorts Award.
  • 2013 — Winner
    Irish Arts Council — Artist Bursary.
  • 2013 — Winner
    Access Cinema — Michael Dwyer Award.

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 at The Irish Film Institute writes that ‘Ó Céilleachair’s passion, rigour and artistry (informed by his love of cinema and his pioneering work) is underpinned by meticulous research and rigorous construction that is evident in his considerable catalogue of work’.