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RONAN GALLAGHER BIOGRAPHY
Written and
directed by first timer Ronan Gallagher, Underworld took second
prize at the Galway Film Festival in the Best First Film category.
The
film was also one of the very few Irish Short films to receive a nation-wide
theatrical release. Through Buena Vista, Underworld was screened for five weeks in 30 cinemas
across the country playing support to 'The 13th Warrior' written by
Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park) Starring Antonio Banderas and Omar Shariff and
directed by John Mc'Teirnan (The Hunt For Red October). This nation-wide release
ensured that the film was seen by thousands of people affording it an audience previously unheard of for short films
Underworld has also been screened at Laemmele Theatre's Sunset Boulevard cinema in Hollywood as part of the Kodak sponsored 'Oscar Qualification Run' and was seen at the Dublin, Galway, Cork and Belfast Film Festivals and at the Berlin Irish Festival and The Irish Reels Festival in Seattle.
Gallagher,
also a keen photographer
hails from Co Leitrim in the North West of Ireland. He was also a co-writer
of 'When The Sky Falls' a story based on the life and work of murdered
journalist Veronica Guerin starring Joan Allen (Nixon, Face Off, Pleasantville)
Patrick Bergin (Sleeping With The Enemy) Pete Postletwaite (The Usual Suspects,
In the Name Of The Father)and Liam Cunningham (A Love Divided).
An Irish Screen
production, 'When The Sky Falls' was released in Summer 2000.
He directed
'She's The One' an episode of 'Dark Realm' for Warner
Bros. A TV series hosted by American actor Eric Roberts which was broadcast in
Germany, France, Russia and Israel and is destined for an American
Network TV, broadcast in 2003.
Ronan directed and shot
'Kila: Sauerkrauts and Schnitzels' a documentary on Traditional
Irish band Kila, currently
in post-production.
In 2002 he wrote directed and produced a short film Guest of the Nation starring Nigerian born actor and writer Eugene Ebhonuaye, on an award from The Galway Film Center. For more info on this film click link above.
Currently developing Bad Trip his first full-length feature which he hopes to direct.
OTHER PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
TV: COURTNEY: Detective Series. 3 x I Hr Stories.
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TV: THE DARK ISLAND CHRONICLES
A TV series of half-hour chillers dealing with the paranormal myths and stories from our Celtic past, but set in today's world.
FEATURES IN DEVELOPMENT
SNUFF: First Draft: A thriller set in Ireland and New York dealing with the more sinister and evil side of the porn industry and one mans discovery of the horrific truth behind his daughters murder.
BAD TRIP: Johnny Harkin's life revolved around drugs. Buying them, selling them, but best of all, taking them. He made a handsome living from them and supplied Ecstasy to most of Dublin's clubbers. At 23 Johnny was going places. He was King of the city. But soon he was to find out that drugs can take you to places you don't want to be. Places you never dreamed of. Even in your worst nightmares.
Bad Trip. A paranormal thriller set in the hedonistic and drug addled world of Dublin's club-land.
CRIMEWEEK: The year is 2097. Due to President Joan Hackford's decision twenty years earlier, to deploy the Network Electronic Surveillance Satellite system (N.E.S.S after the great 20th Century crime fighter Elliot Ness), the USA is virtually crime free due to almost 100% detection rates. However the one flaw in the system is that the huge computer memory banks at N.E.S.S headquarters have to be emptied every five years. This entails shutting down the system for one week every five years. That week has brought chaos, death and destruction. It became known as 'Crime Week'. But young software engineer Milton Haines thinks he has the solution to this problem and presents it to NESS. Now someone is trying to silence him and their best chance in five years is just around the corner. A Sci-Fi thriller set in the crime obsessed US of the future.