Keith Farrell
Directing
Biography
Keith Farrell is a four-time IFTA nominated director - who has never won one but he is not bitter! He has won multiple awards for his work. Keith began his career making docudramas for including Ireland's Nazis & Death on the Railroad for RTÉ & PBS, the six part series Assassins for Virgin Media and The Lost Ship for Channel 5 & Clear the Way for Smithsonian Network & TG4, as well has making two feature docs that got cinema releases entitled A Terrible Beauty... which won the IFTA for best cinematography in 2016 and Death or Liberty which won the spotlight documentary prize at the Atlanta Film Festival. His last short films, Jubilee Nurse, Rabbit Punch, Girl Alone and Another Happy Ever After all screened in Oscar qualifying film festivals and won numerous awards. His debut feature film Wait for Me won him a best director award at MANFF23 and was released in cinemas across the UK in June 2023. He hopes it win's him that elusive IFTA!
Known For
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Secrets of the Dead: Death on the Railroad
Alison is no girl-next-door. Dragged into a life of crime after arriving in England from Ireland. She works for small time gangster Max, whose fixation with Alison is the only reason she isn’t in prison… or dead. When she meets Sam, a damaged man with a troubled past, he opens her eyes that life can be a beautiful thing if you meet it half way.
Wait for Me
A young Irish musician arrives in London in 1982 full of optimism and the desire to realise her dreams as an artist. She will have to come up against a reality of violence and oppression, even from the police.
St Pancras Sunrise
A Terrible Beauty is the story of the men and women of the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, Irish and British, caught up in a conflict many did not understand and of the innocent men and boys, executed because of what transpired in The Battle of Mount Street Bridge. The British soldiers were the last of the Great War volunteers, who joined up together to fight the Germans. They knew that there was a strong chance they would die in France, but to die in Dublin would never have crossed their minds. The Irish Volunteers were weekend warriors many of whom had no idea they were about to take part in large scale battles on the streets of Dublin.
A Terrible Beauty
Between 1793 and 1867 the British Government banished its radicals, dissenters and rebels to harsh prison colonies at the very edge of the known world, Australia. Some escaped and returned to their homeland as heroes but many stayed on in this alien new world... The life stories of these rebels are full of acts of bravery and derring-do. In their own words they tell tales that are at once stirring, heart wrenching, dark, creepy, and even funny.
Death or Liberty
On a hot summer‘s day, Freya seeks to soak up the sun, but finds her thoughts are preoccupied with her mother at home.