I am an Irish film director, photographer and writer. I’ve made award-winning documentary films exploring art, tribal customs, war, crime, and spirituality and exhibited my work at film festivals, tv networks. My photographic work is regularly exhibited in galleries and exhibitions worldwide and has been published in The Irish Times, The Independent and online.
I began filming semi-nomadic Dinka herdsmen in war-torn Southern Sudan while still in school, travelling to the frontlines of the civil war and living amongst nomadic Dinka and Atuot cattle herders there. My debut documentary, New Sudan Dances, led to work with Oscar-winning director Kevin MacDonald on My Enemy’s Enemy and The Last King of Scotland.
My feature doc debut Abasezi: The Nightdancers, emerged out of a breakdance school I helped set up in Kampala, sharing skills I learnt in the South Bronx and Lower East Side of New York -through hiphop legends Ken Swift, Rocafella and Qwikstep- to disadvantaged kids in Kampala. The project developed into Tabu Flo dance company’s groundbreaking hip-hop theatre show Myth of the Nightdancers which premiered in Sadler’s Wells in London. Since then I have been making independent work while also directing and producing for television, including true crime series Evidence of Evil (CBS Reality’s highest-rated series in 2020/21) and Bloodline Detectives for Discovery Networks/Sky.
I could write more but by this stage you’ll definitely be moving on... so I’ll leave you with this quote from Nisargadatta...
“The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it”
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