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Keith O'Grady

Director
Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Actor.
Ireland

About Me:

Website: keithogrady.com
Where I work: justme
Technical Skills: Camera Operating, Lighting, Editing, Colour grading.

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Skills

My Work and Credits:

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Mir Friends (2000)

About: A short film about the relationship between a group of ham radio enthusiasts and a cosmonaut trapped on the Mir Space Station. I played a character called Shades who is a ham radio enthusiast.
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Rebel Heart (2001)
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Hamlet (2004)
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Teenage Cics (2006)
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Flipsides (Irish Version) (2007)
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Fáire an Rí (The King's Wake) (2008)
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Buile Bhaloir: Seán Nós Nua (2007)
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JAM (2009)
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Not Normal: An Information film (2010)
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Tubáiste Bhaile Mhánais (The Ballymanus Disaster) (2011)
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Bram Stoker & Dracula (2012)
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Ballaí Dhoire (The Derry Walls) (2013)
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Féilte is Fleadh (2013)
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Vótaí Do Mhná (Votes for Women) (2013)
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Robert Burns (2014)
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A short film about fear (2014)
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An Coláiste Éireannach (The Irish College) (2015)
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Saving Santa (2017)
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The Prince of Pies (2018)
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Truckers na h-Éireann (2019)

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Fun stuff:

Films I wish I had made:

Back to the future, The Goonies, Ghostbusters, Hard Boiled, Sonatine, Unforgiven, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Rear Window, The Field, Being John Malkovich, Cuckoo's Nest, Cool Hand Luke, Shawshank, Big Lebowski, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Dead Man's Shoes, Gangs of New York; Acceptable Levels, Kes, Life is Sweet, I, Daniel Blake.

I cried watching:

Lots of things.

I left the cinema during:

I never leave the cinema during films although I seriously considered a change of policy a few times.

Directors I love:

Scorsese, Kubrick, Loach, Hitch, Kurosawa, Allen, Chaplin, Godard, Malick, Ford, Eastwood, Coppola, Coens, Spielberg (most of the time), 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano, Hong Kong John Woo, Sheridan, Jordan, Abrahamson, Meadows, Boyle, PT Anderson, Wes Anderson, Gilliam, Almodovar, Del Toro, Spike Lee, Mike Leigh, Lang, Fassbinder, Wilder, Murnau, Herzog, Wenders, Griffith, Raoul Walsh, Antonioni, Minelli and many more.

Actors I admire:

Day-Lewis, Streep, DeNiro, Foster, Pacino, Nicholson, Hoffman, Hackman, Brando, Cazale, Wilder, Pryor, Sellers, Newman, Depp, Washington, Norton, Buscemi, DiCaprio, Winslet, Vincent Gallo, Ossie Davis, Cagney, Bogart, Edward G., Harold Lloyd, Richard Harris, Jared Harris, Liam Neeson, Gerard McSorley, Colm Meaney, Paul Ronan, Saoirse Ronan, Brenda Fricker, Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Stephen Rea, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Matt Lucas, Paul Whitehouse, Kathy Burke, Brenda Blethyn.

Writers I Respect:

David Mamet. Aaron Sorkin. Kenneth Lonergan. Paul Laverty. John Hodge. Steven Zaillian, Jay Cocks, PT Anderson and many more.

My death row meal:

A full Irish Breakfast with Irish butter and HP sauce, and a bottle of bourbon.

The best thing I own:

My mind, my eyes, my glasses, my hands, my cameras.