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Trish McAdam

Documentary + Film + Other Director
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Filmography
  • Songs of Blood and Destiny
    2023 — Red Cam Digital — 97 mins
  • Outcry and Whisper
    2020 — Live Action and Animation Digital — 100 mins
  • Confinement
    2019 — Digital live action and AnimationFilm — 34 mins
  • Whistle-Blower
    2016 — Digital Documentary Film — 11.59 mins
  • Strangers of Kindness
    2015 — Digital and Google Earth footage Fiction Film — 14.47 mins
  • Rough Time
    2012 — Red CAM Live and Animation — 13 mins mins
  • No Enemies
    2012 — HD Digital Animation — 4.36 mins
  • Caged Bird Sins
    2011 — HD Digital Anination — 2.21 mins
  • What Am I doing here?
    2009 — HD Digitial Documentary — 52 mins
  • Flirting with the Light
    2002 — HD Digital Documentary — 56 mins
  • Hoodwinked
    1998 — Digi Beta 3 part TV Doc Series — 140 mins
  • Snakes and Ladders
    1996 — 35 mm Feature Film — 96 mins
  • Berlin
    1989 — 16mm Short Film — 30 mins
  • The Drip
    1984 — 16mm Short film — 20 mins
Awards
  • 2025 — Winner
    Arts Council — Film Project Award. Ai Baby
  • 2023 — Winner
    INDIE CORK — Film of the Festival. Songs of Blood and Destiny
  • 2023 — Winner
    KIFF — Best Score. Songs of Blood and Destiny
  • 2023 — Winner
    Experimental Forum — Honorary Mention . Songs of Blood and Destiny
  • 2020 — Winner
    Irish Film Institute — Shoot Footage Preservation. Hoodwinked
  • 2020 — Nominated
    Irish Film Institute — Restoration . Flirting with the Light
  • 2020 — Winner
    BAI Preservation Award — 35 mm reprint. Snakes and Ladders
  • 2021 — Winner
    SIWFF — Special Jury Prize . Outcry and Whisper
  • 2015 — Winner
    Chicago Irish Film festival — Audience award. Strangers of Kindness
  • 2011 — Distinction
    MAVIS — MA Visual Arts. AIWW
  • 2011 — Nominated
    ICCL — Human Rights. Caged Bird
  • 2012 — Nominated
    ICCL — Human Rights . No Enemies
  • 2009 — Winner
    Documenting the Arts — Project Award. What Am I doing Here?
  • 2009 — Winner
    Centre Culturel Irlandais — Paris Residency . Snakes and Ladders
  • 1996 — Nominated
    San Sebastian — In Competition. Snakes and Ladders
  • 1992 — Winner
    Nipkow — Berlin Residency . Sankes and Ladders

My films have a socio-political perspective, for big and small screens, in big and small places across feature and short, fiction, documentary and animation.

Award winning filmmaker with fiction and documentary, feature, short and art installation screenings across the world—In Dublin, Cork, Galway, London, New York, York, Washington, Sundance, San Sebastian, Toronto, Hof, Seoul (Special Jury Award 2021), Chicago (Audience Award 2015), Hong Kong, Kyoto, Berlin, Jean Roach, Paris. I also had a solo exhibition in the Butler Gallery Kilkenny,

My Irish Television documentary series ‘Hoodwinked and Flirting with the Light’, is now archived in The Irish Film Institute, with funding awards from Irish Screen, The Arts Council, ZDF, RTE, the Media Programme and Commissions from Front Line Defenders, TUD, Public Arts—Pathways, and Clonmel Junction Arts Festival, with films screened online and in site specific locations in a commercial cinema, festival and art gallery and installation context.

SONGS OF BLOOD AND DESTINY (2023) FEATURE (Photo EILEEN WALSH)
OUTCRY AND WHISPER (2020) FEATURE
HOODWINKED (1998) 3 X 40 MINUTE PRIME TIME TV DOCUMENTARY SERIES
SNAKES AND LADDERS (1997) 35mm FEATURE (GINA MOXLEY and POM BOYD)
CONFINEMENT (2019) 30 MINS Pathways - TECH UNIVERSITY Commission
STRANGERS OF KINDNESS (2015) 15 mins ARTS COUNCIL PROJECT AWARD
FLIRTING WITH THE LIGHT (2002) 56mins TV DOC ( photo LEO O'KELLY )
THE DRIP (1984) 20min IRISH FILM BOARD ( photo POM BOYD)
NEW YORK SLIDE SHOW (1981) 20 mins ( photo of NAN GOLDIN and COOKIE)