- Claire Best
- info@clairebest.net
- US +1 323 601-5001 / UK +44 (0) 207 060 6501
- Claire Best and Associates
736 Seward Street
Los Angeles,
CA 90038.
DIRECTORS

Agent
Filmography
-
Northern Lights
2023 — TV Series 3 × -
The Bright Side
2020 — Feature Film — 100 mins -
Red Rock
2015 — TV Series 4 × — 22 mins -
Men And Women
2013 — Short Film — 13 mins -
The Measure Of A Man
2012 — Short Film — 12 mins -
Lilou
2010 — Short Film — 1 mins -
The Silent One
2010 — Feature Film -
One In Six
2009 — Documentary — 90 mins -
Masters Not Partners
2007 — TV Documentary -
The Privatisation Of Patagonia
2007 — TV Documentary -
No Place Like Home
2007 — TV Series -
Nios Gaelli…
2007 — TV Series -
Art’s Lives: Art For Sale
2006 — Documentary -
West Of Eden
2005 — Feature Film -
Art’s Lives: Stealing Beauty
2005 — Documentary -
What In The World
2004 — Documentary Series -
Imagining Ulysses
2004 — Documentary -
Minimum Wage
2004 — Commercial -
And The Red Man Went Green
2003 — Short Film — 2 mins -
Music By Water
2002 — Feature Film -
Bitter Autumn, Bright Winter
2002 — Short Film — 18 mins -
Close
2000 — Short Film — 17 mins
Awards
- 2021 — Nominee
Prague International Film Festival — Febiofest Grand Prix. The Bright Side - 2006 — Winner
Encounters International Film Festival — DepicT! Award for Live Action. And The Red Man Went Green - 2003 — Winner
Tehran Film Festival — Kodak Prize. And The Red Man Went Green
Ruth Meehan is a writer/director who has been creating multiple award-winning & nominated work for both film and television in Ireland and Britain since the early 2000’s. She is a graduate of the NFTS in London (MA in Screenwriting) where her short film Numb, received a special commendation at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Ruth’s first short after college, And The Red Man Went Green was funded by Universal Studios, London won several major prizes including the Special Jury Prize at the Tehran Film Festival; the Prix Canal+ at Brest; the Depict Award at the Encounters Short Film Festival in the UK; and the Kodak Prize, Raindance Film Festival UK. Her short film Lilou, won the Judges Award at the 30 second film festival at the Galway Film Fleadh. Her other short films, The Measure Of A Man and Men And Women (an adaption of a short story by Clare Keegan) were both screened at the Galway Film Festival and as part of RTE’s Shortscreen strand.
Adventurous by nature and with a nose for a good story, over the course of her career, Ruth has travelled the world making hard hitting and award-winning documentaries for RTE, including the groundbreaking social documentary series, What In The World, the daunting, Hostile Environment, presented by Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones) and the adventure that was Traveller’s Guide to The Amazon. She has also directed numerous hours of arts and travel programming for RTE.
Ruth has developed four feature films with funding from Screen Ireland including her debut feature film, The Bright Side (2020). The Bright Side was the recipient of the Audience Award at the 2020 Cork International Film Festival, the Jury Award Honorable Mention at the Sonoma International Film Festival in California and the Grand Logis, Prix du Public in Rennes in Brittany in 2022. It had its theatrical release in Ireland in August 2021 and is available online on Amazon Prime in Ireland and the UK.
More recently Ruth has been focusing on directing tv drama along with developing a number of feature films. She cut her teeth on the highly popular, Virgin Media crime drama series, ‘Red Rock’ for Element Pictures and thoroughly enjoyed a stint in 2022 directing on the Lionsgate financed drama series, ‘Northern Lights’ for Deadpan Pictures, Dublin. She is currently in development with three feature films for Rimsky Productions, London, Calico Pictures, Dublin and O’ Sullivan Productions, Wicklow along with adapting, Kathleen McMahon’s, Nothing But Blue Sky for the screen.
As a creativity consultant, Ruth is a co-facilitator on Aligning With Flow, creativity retreats supported by Screen Ireland and coaches acting students at Bow Street Acting Academy, The Lir Academy, Dublin, MA students in Film at IADT, Dublin and students of the media programme at Queens University Belfast. Ruth is also an active board member of The Screen Director’s Guild of Ireland, and a member of the Writer’s Guild of Ireland and Women in Film and TV, Ireland.