Brian O'Malley (director)

Brian O'Malley is an Irish film director known for the horror film Let Us Prey and the ghost story The Lodgers.[1]

Brian O'Malley
Born
Ireland
NationalityIrish
Known forThe Lodgers (2017) Let us Prey (2015)

Career

O'Malley is a director known for the gothic horror movie Let Us Prey, starring Liam Cunningham, which won the Méliès d'Argent for Best European Fantastic Feature Film at its world premiere at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival in 2014.[2]

His second feature film The Lodgers, a gothic ghost story set in rural Ireland in 1920, completed post production in April 2017. It tells of orphaned twins Rachel and Edward, who reside in the crumbling manor they share with their ghostly tormentors.[3][4]

He wrote and directed the short films Crossing Salween (2010) and Screwback (2005).

In 2005 he won the Hartley Merrill Screenwriting award for his feature films script SISK, co-written with Terry McMahon and Mark O'Rowe.

Brian studied Fine Art, at Dublin Institute of Technology, College of Marketing and Design in 1994, specialising in Sculpture, before moving into music video and short film direction. He has been directing TV commercials since 2001.

Filmography
  • 2017: The Lodgers - Director
  • 2014: Let Us Prey - Director
  • 2010: Crossing Salween (Short) - Writer and Director
  • 2005: Screwback (Short) - Writer and Director
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References
  1. http://www.fuel.ie, Website Design by Fuel.ie in Dublin. "Red Rage Films - Brian O'Malley". www.redragefilms.com.
  2. "Q&A: Director Brian O'Malley and Star Pollyanna McIntosh on "LET US PREY"".
  3. "Watch! Director Brian O'Malley on Let Us Prey". 11 June 2015.
  4. "Production begins in Wexford on Brian O'Malley's The Lodgers". 29 September 2016.
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