TJ O'Grady-Peyton
Directing
Biography
TJ O'Grady-Peyton first gained industry recognition in 2013 when he was shortlisted at the Young Director Awards in Cannes after graduating from the London Film School's filmmaking MA program. Since then, he has directed an array of commercial work all over the world for clients such as Under Armour, UEFA, Asics, Volkswagen, BMW and The European Union. TJ was awarded the Discovery Award in his home town of Dublin by the Dublin Film Festival. His short film "Wave" which TJ also starred in was picked up by The New Yorker after winning an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Short. Wave has played 75 festivals including BFI, Melbourne, Aspen and Clermont Ferrand after having its world premiere at Tribeca 2017. In 2020 he became a member of the Director's Guild of America. Last year his latest short film "Silence" had its world premiere at Tribeca 2021 and TJ was the recipient of the Bingham Ray New Talent Award at the Galway Film Fleadh. "Silence" was also nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award 2022.
Known For

What happens when the undead return to life? In a world ravaged for years by a virus that turns the infected into zombie-like cannibals, a cure is at last found and the wrenching process of reintegrating the survivors back into society begins.
The Cured

Jake De Long is one of the top computer programmers in the world. Hiding in an abandoned warehouse in Luxembourg, he is working on a secret website to be launched soon. As he does, he is warned that the police have discovered his whereabouts and are about to storm in. He manages to escape and fly back to Canada, where his colleague Valérie is waiting for him to get on with their life mission: the kidnapping of four very influential personalities.
Justice Dot Net

A mentally unstable homeless man attempts to save his new and only friend from the world and drug dealers that make his life a living hell.
Stalker
Jack is being bullied in work, so with a little help from his imaginary friend, Ralph, he begins to plot the murder of his bully, Pat.
Jack and Ralph Plan a Murder

A man wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognizable language baffling linguistic experts from around the globe.
Wave

When a man, new to Ireland, experiences homelessness and needs a place to sleep, he secretly takes up residence in the home of an elderly blind woman, which leads to them forming a unique bond.
Room Taken

King of the Travellers is a contemporary drama grounded in the traditions of the Irish traveller community and driven by emotive Shakespearean themes of love, betrayal, friendship and revenge. The story follows John Paul Moorehouse on his destructive quest to uncover the truth about the killer of his father twelve years ago. John Paul's desire for revenge is swayed as he falls for Winnie Power, the daughter of the man he suspects killed his father. John Paul must now battle between his consuming passion for justice versus his desire to be with the woman he now loves.
King of the Travellers
13 former missionary priests from rural Ireland reveal all in this telling documentary about why they joined and subsequently left the active ministry and their life in the Church. Raised as devout Catholics from infancy, these honest men now in their later stages of life open up about intimacy, faith, religion and life before, during and after the priesthood.
The Judas Iscariot Lunch

With his father’s dementia progressing, things quickly take a turn for the worse when Carl hears news that his dad is nowhere to be found in his new care home.
Sentinel

During the first lockdown a teenager wanders London’s streets at night, tagging buildings in his manor. One night, while creating a new artwork he hears music from a nearby abandoned building, and finds a girl dancing ballet, sparking a newfound curiosity and desire for dance, much to the dismay of his blokey father.
Silence

Every night, Fionn, a troubled teenager, evades questions of worth, as well as the dangerous atmosphere of his broken home, by going on gruelling night-time runs. Fionn routinely runs along the concrete path of his local beach. Running is his therapy.
A Runner

A man plunges from the sky, a militia chase down two siblings, a woman weeps in a derelict house: vignettes from a surreal family breakdown, visions from an unreliable narration who speaks only in idioms.