Ian Hunt-Duffy
Directing
Biography
Ian Hunt-Duffy is an award-winning filmmaker from Ireland. Having graduated from the National Film School Ian established Failsafe Films in Dublin. His IFTA Nominated and Oscar long-listed short 'Gridlock' won 60 awards at over 150 film festivals worldwide, including Best Director at the Savannah International Film Festival, and a Young Director Award (YDA) at Cannes Lions. In 2018, Ian was selected for the prestigious Berlinale Talents in Germany as a director, before winning the Discovery Award In 2019 at the Dublin International Film Festival. In 2022, Ian directed his debut feature film 'Double Blind', a psychological horror/thriller for Screen Ireland and Epic Pictures, releasing theatrically in 2024. 'Double Blind' was nominated for 11 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards (IFTAs), including Best Film and Best Director, with Ian also being nominated for the IFTA Rising Star Award and the Bingham Ray New Talent Award.
Known For
After an experimental drug trial goes awry, the test subjects face a terrifying side effect: if you fall asleep you die. Trapped in an isolated facility, panic ensues as they try to escape and somehow stay awake.
Double Blind
Gridlock is a thriller set during a traffic jam on a country road. When a little girl goes missing from one of the cars, her father forms a desperate search party to find her, and soon everyone is a suspect.
Gridlock
Is this fishing excursion really about bonding between a father and his son?
Low Tide
Struggling children's book writer Harold Finch gains an unexpected house guest in the form of an ageing, hyper-intelligent mosquito named Anabel.
Love is a Sting
A black comedy about a man struggling to make a living by helping people kill themselves.