Adrian McCarthy: Producer / Director

Adrian specialises in making documentary films. He is a director and producer with over 10 years experience of making entertaining and insightful documentaries with an emphasis on observational, human interest, arts and history films.
Adrian spent six years working as a Location Manager & Production Manager in the Irish Feature Film industry before focusing on documentaries. 

Adrian's credits include:

Year	Project	Client	Credit
2011	Whose Art Is It Anyway?	52 min - RTE	Director
2011	Living Colour	82 min	Producer
2011	Father Ted: Small, Far Away	48 min- Channel 4	Producer/Director
2010	Life After Dell	52 min- RTE	Producer/Director
2010	Gilbert O'Sullivan: Out on his Own	52 min- RTE	Producer/Director
2009	Croke Park Lives	52 min- RTE	Producer/Director
2009	The Riordans: Tea, Taboos and Tractors	52 min- RTE	Producer
2008	Consuming Passions – Series One & Two	16 x 25 min- RTE	Exec Producer/Director
2007	Red Mist – Roy Keane and The Football Civil War	58 min– IFB/BCI/Setanta	Producer
2007	Graham Linehan: Funny Business	52 min- RTE	Director
2006	A Missing Generation – AIDS in Africa	52 min– RTE	Producer/Director
2006	Pigeon Heads	25 min– RTE	Producer/Director
2005	Fairy Wife - The Burning of Bridget Cleary	52 min- RTE/IFB	Director
2005	A Good Innings	25 min– RTE	Producer/Director
2005	Beaten	52 min- Liberty Films for RTE	Director
2004	School No.1 – A Mission to Beslan	40 min- RTE	Producor/Director/Camera
2004	An Tobar (The Well)	52 min– TG4/IFB	Producer/Co-Director
2004	Communion Kids	30 min– RTE	Producer/ Director
2004	Muca Le Maidi (When Pigs Carry Sticks)	52 min– TG4/IFB/YLE	Producer
2003	Walking The Dog	25 min– RTE	Producer/Director
2003	Crash	52 min– Mint Productions for RTE	Director
2002	Living the Revolution	50 min– TV3,IFB	Produced, Directed & Filmed
2001	Dead Silence	52 min– RTE	Produced & Directed
2000	Blowing the Whistle	52 min– RTE	Produced & Directed
1999	To Russia with Love	48 min– TV3	Produced & Filmed

For a full list of credits, please contact info@wildfirefilms.net.

Awards & Nominations:

• Winner Radharc Award (Missing Generation – AIDS In Africa)
• Winner Best European Documentary at Grand Prix Circom Regional (Dead Silence)
• Nominations for Irish Film and Television Awards (Red Mist, Living The Revolution, Crash)
• Winner Best Feature, Irish National Media Awards, 2001 (Dead Silence)
• Winner Best Sports Programme, Irish National Media Awards, 2000 (Blowing the Whistle)
• Winner Best Feature at New York Film Fleadh (Living the Revolution)
• Short listed Radharc Television Award (To Russia with Love, Sing And You Win)
• Short listed Celtic Film and Television Festival (Fairy Wife, Dead Silence, Crash)
• Selection Maysles Brothers Documentary Competition / Belfast Film Festival (Pigeon Heads)

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