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Peter Foott

Film + TV Director

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Filmography
  • Spooked (in pre-production)
    TBD — Feature Film
  • The Fear
    2011–2021 — TV Series
  • The Young Offenders
    2018 — TV Series 7 × — 30 mins
  • The Young Offenders
    2016 — Feature Film — 83 mins
  • The Centre
    2014 — TV Series 6 ×
  • Mattie
    2011 — TV Series 2 ×
  • Republic of Telly (segment director)
    2011 — TV Series 6 × — 29 mins
  • Crystal Swing: Total Eclipse of the Heart
    2011 — Music Video
  • The Rubberbandits: Horse Outside
    2010 — Music Video
  • The Helpless Creature
    2007 — Short Film — 24 mins
  • The Carpenter & His Clumsy Wife
    2004 — Short Film — 14 mins
  • Just a Little Bit of Love: A Tribute to Des Smyth
    2002 — Short Film — 4 mins
Awards
  • 2018 — Nominee
    Broadcast Digital Awards, UK — Best Comedy Programme. The Young Offenders
  • 2018 — Winner
    Irish Film and Television Awards — Best Director Soap and Comedy. The Young Offenders
  • 2018 — Nominee
    Irish Film and Television Awards — Best Comedy. The Young Offenders
  • 2018 — Nominee
    Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival — Best Comedy Programme. The Young Offenders
  • 2017 — Winner
    Film Club's The Lost Weekend — Lost Weekend Award. The Young Offenders
  • 2017 — Nominee
    Irish Film and Television Awards — Best Film, Best Director- Film, Rising Star Award. The Young Offenders
  • 2016 — Special Mention
    Austin Fantastic Fest — Best Comedy Debut. The Young Offenders
  • 2016 — Winner
    Galway Film Fleadh — Best Irish Feature Film. The Young Offenders
  • 2016 — Winner
    L.A. Comedy Film Festival and Screenplay Competition — Best Feature Film, Best Feature Direction. The Young Offenders
  • 2010 — Winner
    Irish Film and Television Awards — Best TV Moment. Republic of Telly
  • 2005 — Honorable Mention
    Cleveland International Film Festival — Best Student Short Film. The Carpenter & His Clumsy Wife
  • 2005 — Winner
    Montecatini Filmvideo - International Short Film Festival — FEDIC Award. The Carpenter & His Clumsy Wife
  • 2005 — Nominee
    Tribeca Film Festival — Best Narrative Short. The Carpenter & His Clumsy Wife
  • 2004 — Special Mention
    Venice Film Festival — Best Short Film. The Carpenter & His Clumsy Wife
  • 2004 — Winner
    WorldFest Houston — Gold Award. The Carpenter & His Clumsy Wife

Peter Foott is an award-winning director with vast experience in the Irish television industry. His first short, ‘The Carpenter & His Clumsy Wife’, was screened on RTE and Canal+ and at over fifty international festivals, winning the ‘Best Comedy’ Gong at LA International Film Festival, as well as a Special Mention at Venice. Since then, Peter has worked primarily in television and comedy. He has directed over one hundred episodes of the popular RTE sketch show ‘Republic Of Telly’, which included the winning of an IFTA in 2010 for ‘Best TV Moment.’ On top of this he has also directed thirty episodes of RTE’s hidden camera show, ‘The Fear’. 2016 saw Peter write and direct ‘The Young Offenders’, a story inspired by the infamous 2007 multi-million cocaine haul off the coast of Cork, and is set for release in September 2016; it has already been selected to screen at the Galway Film Fleadh 2016.