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Morgan Bushe

Documentary + Film + Music Video + Other + TV Director
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Filmography
  • Lisdoonvarna
    2025 — TV Series — 120 mins
  • The Belly of the Whale
    2018 — Feature Film — 83 mins
  • Doghouse
    2013 — Short Film — 16 mins
  • If I Should Fall Behind
    2009 — Short Film — 14 mins
  • Mr. Crocodile in the Cupboard
    2008 — Short Film — 12 mins
Awards
  • 2018 — Nominee
    Chicago International Film Festival — New Directors Competition. The Belly of the Whale
  • 2018 — Nominee
    Rome Film Fest — Alice in the City Prize. The Belly of the Whale
  • 2013 — Nominee
    Dresden Film Festival — Best Short Fiction Film - International Competition. Doghouse
  • 2010 — Nominee
    Irish Film and Television Awards — Best Short Film. If I Should Fall Behind
  • 2009 — Winner
    Celtic Media Festival — Best Short. If I Should Fall Behind

Morgan Bushe is an Irish filmmaker whose films and series as a producer, writer and director, have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, the Berlinale, TIFF, Sitges, Locarno, Telluride, IDFA, Busan and Tribeca and has been long-listed for the Academy Award, three time EFA nominated and collectively received fifteen Irish Film and Television Awards; and sold internationally to Netflix, Sky Docs, ZDF Arte, the Discovery Channel, PBS, Sony and StudioCanal.

Previously written and directed shorts ‘If I Should Fall Behind’, ‘Doghouse’ and ‘Mr. Crocodile in the Cupboard’, received numerous nominations and accolades, most notably at the Celtic Film & Television Festival Awards, the Galway Film Fleadh, Cork International Film Festival and selected for the BFI London International Film Festival as well as screening at over twenty leading international film festivals. Debut feature film ‘The Belly of the Whale’ was selected as the Opening Film at the Galway Film Fleadh and nominated for the New Director’s Award at the Chicago International Film Festival and the Camera D’Oro Award at the Rome International Film Festival, described as a “darkly humorous, intriguing debut” by Screen International.

Morgan’s production company Fastnet Films received a dedicated retrospective at the Irish Film Institute and he is a guild member of the European Film and the Irish Film and Television Academy, and co-founder of WildCard Distribution. He has graduated from the EAVE and Inside Pictures, and was previously nominated as the EFP Irish Producer on the Move.

He is currently in production on his sophomore film ‘Lisdoonvarna’, for Screen Ireland and RTE Specialist Factual, scheduled for theatrical release in early 2026.