Vincent Lambe
Directing
Biography
Vincent Lambe is an Oscar-nominated writer, director and producer from Ireland. He is a double winner of the Young Director Award in Cannes and has been nominated for an Irish Film & Television Academy Award (IFTA). He has also won awards at several international film festivals including the Krakow Film Festival, the Odense International Film Festival, an Emerging Directors Award and a Rising Star Award from Irish Screen America. His film 'Detainment' received an Oscar nomination for Best Live Action Short Film at the 91st Academy Awards in 2019, sparking a major controversy which was reported around the world as it is based on interview transcripts from the infamous James Bulger case which continues to divide public opinion in the United Kingdom. It received widespread acclaim from renowned critics and experts connected to the case, leading to a public debate on the circumstances in which the crime occurred and a wider debate regarding the right to tell true stories. Vincent is a graduate of the National Film School of Ireland and has worked with a wide range of production companies and broadcasters. He has also worked in casting and as an agent for actors. He has served on the jury for several international film festivals and screenplay competitions. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (A.M.P.A.S.) and a voting member for the Academy Awards.
Known For
Storyland is an award-winning initiative by RTÉ.ie and Screen Ireland, a program that develops and showcases new, original Irish short dramas by emerging talent in writing, directing, and acting. It operates as a competitive call-out for scripts, with the top finalists receiving funding and support to produce their 25-minute short dramas, which are then broadcast on RTÉ2 and the RTÉ Player.
Storyland
A petrol station attendant is drawn into the harsh world of a trafficked immigrant car washer, torn between speaking out at the risk of losing everything.
Every Five Miles
Two ten year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler.
Detainment
Irish writer-director Clair Breton's winsome and stylish little love story is the very model of a women's webfilm - a kind of click-chick-flick. Fatboy and Twintub celebrates one of those love-hate relationship where the girl is either screaming "Don't TOUCH me!" or "Do you KNOW how much I love you." Naturally, since this is film, her boyfriend sticks around, rather than bolting for the pub at the first pout. Fiona Glascott, an actress with illegal amounts of charm, manages to make our heroine look fascinatingly mercurial rather than a bunny-boiler. Teamed with a tub of Chunky Monkey and the regulation Chardonnay, it'll ease the pain of broken-hearted female viewers everywhere. (Kate Stables - the Guardian)
Fatboy and Twintub
A young boy's love for the piano offers escape from his parents disintegrating marriage and the bullies at school.
Broken Things
A young boy falls in love with a dead rat. It begins to rot him, setting off a frenzy in his village with disastrous consequences
Rat King
Far into a strange future, an equation disproves the existence of god, leaving a mechanically preserved priest questioning his life choices. To make things worse, his once friendly church-going followers have become an angry mob, desperate for answers.