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We Ourselves
2018 — Feature Film — 96 mins -
Pursuit
2015 — Feature Film — 89 mins -
Síol
2010 — TV Series 1 × -
Aifric
2006-2007 — TV Series 19 × -
Studs
2006 — Feature Film — 90 mins -
Tubberware
2001 — Short Film — 18 mins -
Lipservice
1999 — Short Film — 18 mins -
Before I Sleep
1997 — Short Film — 29 mins
Film Director
DIRECTORS
Filmography
Awards
- 2008 — Nominee
Irish Film and Television Awards — Best Director for Television. Aifric - 2006 — Winner
Celtic Film and Television Festival — Bronze Torc Award. Aifric - 1999 — Winner
Irish Film and Television Awards — Best Short Film. Lipservice - 1998 — Winner
Cork International Film Festival — Audience Award, Special Commendation. Lipservice - 1998 — Honorable Mention
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival — Prize of the Catholic Filmwork Germany. Before I Sleep - 1997 — Special Mention
Cork International Film Festival — Best First Short by an Irish Director. Before I Sleep
Paul Mercier was a founding member and artistic director of the Passion Machine theatre company. His plays have received numerous awards such as the Harvey’s Irish Theatre Award for Best New Irish Work, the Sunday Independent Arts Award, the Sunday Tribune Arts Award, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and an Edinburgh Fringe First Award. His 1998 Dublin Trilogy received the Evening Herald/ Dublin Theatre Festival Award for Best Irish Production and the Irish Times/ ESB Irish Theatre Award for Best Production.
He has written and directed two award-winning short films for Brother Films, ‘Before I Sleep’ and ‘Lipservice’. A former Irish teacher at Greendale Community School in Kilbarrack, he directed the hit Irish-language teenage series ‘Aifric’ for TG4. ‘Sétanta’, a co-production by the Abbey Theatre and Fibín Theatre Company and directed by the author, won the BBC Irish language award at the 2012 Stewart Parker Trust Awards.
(Irish Theatre Institute)