- Mia Mullarkey
- www.miamullarkey.com
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Filmography
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Safe as Houses
2022 — Short Film — 16 mins -
Cumasc
2022 — TV Documentary Series 12 × — 30 mins -
The Passion
2021 — Short Film — 19 mins -
Finné: Brian Pennie
2021 — TV Documentary Series 1 × -
Éiru’s Threshold
2021 — Art Film — 8 mins -
Mood Atlas
2020 — Short Documentary — 18 mins -
Mother & Baby
2018 — Short Documentary — 18 mins -
Throwline
2017 — Short Documentary — 14 mins -
Feats of Modest Valour
2016 — Short Documentary — 26 mins -
Danger Overhead Powerlines
2013 — Short Documentary — 24 mins
Awards
- 2022 — Nominee
Irish Film & TV Awards — Best Irish Short. The Passion - 2021 — Silver Shark Winner
Shark Advertising Awards — Best Animation Direction. Aviva Ireland ’The Trip’ - 2021 — Winner
Cosmo Genetics Film Festival Saint Petersburg — Best Short Documentary. Mood Atlas - 2020 — Nominee
Fusion Film Festival Warsaw — Best Short Documentary. Mood Atlas - 2020 — Nominee
Raw Science Film Festival — Best Professional Documentary. Mood Atlas - 2020 — Nominee
Richard Harris International Film Festival — Best Short Documentary. Mood Atlas - 2020 — Nominee
Richard Harris International Film Festival — Best Director. Mood Atlas - 2020 — Nominee
Richard Harris International Film Festival — Best Overall Short Film. Mood Atlas - 2020 — Nominee
Santorini Film Festival — Best Short Documentary. Mood Atlas - 2020 — Winner
Science on Screen Film Festival — Best Short Film. Mood Atlas - 2020 — Winner
Sci-On! Science Film Festival — Best Medical Documentary. Mood Atlas - 2020 — Nominee
Vienna Science Film Festival — Best Short Documentary. Mood Atlas - 2019 — Nominee
Emerging Directors Ireland — Best Director. Ulster Bank ’Chris’ - 2019 — Winner
Irish Film Festa, Rome — Best Short Documentary. Mother & Baby - 2019 — Winner
International Short Film Festival Radio City — Best Short Film. Mother & Baby - 2019 — Winner
Paleochora Lost World Short Film Fest — Best Short Documentary. Mother & Baby - 2019 — Finalist
Firenze FilmCorti Festival — Jury Prize. Mother & Baby - 2018 — Winner
Dublin International Film Festival — Discovery Award. - 2018 — Winner
Dublin International Film Festival — Best Irish Short. Mother & Baby - 2018 — Winner
Irish Film Institute International Documentary Festival — Audience Award. Mother & Baby - 2018 — Winner
São Paulo International Short Film Festival — Audience Award. Mother & Baby - 2018 — Nominee
BendFilm Festival — Best Documentary Short. Throwline - 2018 — Nominee
Fastnet Film Festival — Best Documentary. Throwline - 2018 — Nominee
Still Voices Film Festival — Best Irish Award. Throwline - 2018 — Winner
Bleeding Pig Film Festival — Audience Award. Throwline - 2018 — Nominee
Ethnocineca Int Documentary Film Fest — International Shorts Award. Throwline - 2018 — Winner
Raw Science Film Festival — Best Professional Documentary. Feats of Modest Valour - 2017 — Winner
Cork International Film Festival — Best Short Documentary. Mother & Baby - 2017 — Winner
Galway Film Fleadh — Best Short Documentary. Throwline - 2017 — Winner
TriForce Short Film Festival — Audience Choice Award, Best Short Documentary. Throwline - 2017 — Winner
TriForce Short Film Festival — Best Short Film. Throwline - 2017 — Nominee
Kerry Film Festival — Best Short Documentary. Throwline - 2017 — Winner
Largo Film Awards — Best Short Documentary. Throwline - 2017 — 2nd Prize
Rivne International Film Festival — Best Short Documentary. Throwline - 2017 — Winner
Saratov Documentary Drama Film Festival — Special Jury Award. Throwline - 2017 — 2nd Prize
Waterford Film Festival — Best Short Film. Throwline - 2017 — Winner
Wexford Documentary Film Festival — Best Short Documentary. Throwline - 2017 — Winner
Imagine Science — Audience Award, Science Award. Feats of Modest Valour - 2014 — Winner
Canaries International Film Festival — Best Short Film. Danger Overhead Powerlines - 2014 — Winner
Festival Internacional de Cine Medioambiental de Canarias — Best Short Film. Danger Overhead Powerlines - 2014 — Nominee
Underground Cinema Film Festival — Best Short Documentary. Danger Overhead Powerlines - 2013 — Winner
Aesthetica Film Festival — Best Short Documentary. Danger Overhead Powerlines - 2013 — Winner
UK Film Festival — Best Short Documentary. Danger Overhead Powerlines
Mia Mullarkey is an Irish film director based between Dublin and Galway. She directed several successful short films, receiving over 60 awards and nominations at international festivals such as Aesthetica, Palm Springs, Flickers’ Rhode Island, and São Paulo. Mia directed a number of TV programmes, and her work has been shown on RTE, TG4, Virgin Media TV, France24, ShortsTV USA, and Mubi. She is a host on the Film Network Ireland Wrap Chat podcast and a member of Screen Directors Guild Ireland and Women in Film & TV. In 2018 she received the Discovery Award from Dublin Film Critics’ Circle for her body of work. Most recently, Mia’s debut short drama The Passion was nominated for an IFTA and a Zebbie, and her Screen Ireland Focus Short Safe as Houses had it’s World Premiere at the Oscar-qualifying 34th Galway Film Fleadh.