Paul Duane
Paul Duane is an Irish-born writer and director of television and film.[1]
Career
Has directed television programmes including:
- Ballykissangel
- Casualty
- The Royal
- Small Potatoes
- Footballer's Wives
He has also made several short films including LSD 73!, based on an original script by the Irish novelist Patrick McCabe.[2] More recently he co-created the ITV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl based on the well-known blog, Belle de Jour.[3] The Irish production company Screenworks was established by Paul Duane and Rob Cawley in 2008. Their first production, Barbaric Genius, on the life of the London-Irish author John Healy premiered in February 2011.[4][5]
More recent films include Very Extremely Dangerous and Natan, about the French producer Bernard Natan.[6]
In December 2013 he was listed by Variety magazine as part of their yearly 10 Directors to Watch feature.[7]
His latest film What Time Is Death? described as "his long-gestated study of new activities by the men who used to be KLF"[8] is a documentary charting Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty’s latest project to build a pyramid of hand-fired bricks, each containing the ashes of a dead person, a process dubbed MuMufication (referencing the KLF song Justified & Ancient).
What Time Is Death? featured at the 2019 Dublin International Film Festival.[9]
References
- "Paul Duane". BFI.
- "Crisis? What crisis ?". The Irish Times.
- "The Secret Diary of a Call Girl[27/09/2007] (2007)". BFI.
- Screenworks website,
- IMDB page for Paul Duane, IMDb, accessed 28 March 2008
- "Very Extremely Dangerous (2011)". BFI.
- "Variety Announces This Year's 10 Directors to Watch". Variety. 2 December 2013.
- Clarke, Donald. "As KLF they burned £1m. Now they're firing bricks of human ashes". The Irish Times.
- "What Time is Death? - Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival". www.diff.ie.