Brendan O'Neill
Brendan O'Neill
Brendan O'Neill
Brendan O'Neill
I'm a Birmingham UK based writer, producer and director. I write for both live action and animation.
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Brendan O’Neill has been making films since 2008. Since then he’s been selected for 2 regional, 3 national and 2 international talent schemes. He’s an alumnus of the Filmonomics scheme run by Oscar winning producer Mia Bays on the back of conceiving and curating 6 of the Best Festival in January 2017 which featured 6 new films by British women.
He won the UK parliamentary Film the House award in 2015 and the Sci-Cine Film Festival Best Short Short in 2016. He was a Stowe Story Labs fellowship finalist in 2021..
Filmography
  • Writer (9 Credits)
    Legion
    Screenplay, Short Script
    Love & The Divil
    Short Script
    The Little Winding Road
    Screenplay, Short Script
    The Rocking Horse War
    Short Script
    What Goes Up Must Come Down2023
    Short
    The Harrowing2022
    Short
    Fled2013
    Short
    Finders Keepers (Trailer)2011
    Other
    Internalised2011
    Short
  • Producer (8 Credits)
    What Goes Up Must Come Down2023
    Short
    The Harrowing2022
    Short
    Gwen2019
    Documentary, Short
    Around Again2013
    Short
    Fled2013
    Short
    Finders Keepers (Trailer)2011
    Other
    Internalised2011
    Short
    Wilhelm the Dwarf Vampire2011
    Short
  • Director (4 Credits)
    What Goes Up Must Come Down2023
    Short
    The Harrowing2022
    Short
    Gwen2019
    Documentary, Short
    Fled2013
    Short
6 Awards & Selections
Top 3 Finalist
The Little Winding Road
Lockdown Film Festival 2020
UK
2020
2nd from 350+ entries nationally
Legion
UK Script to Screen Short Script competition
Birmingham
2018
Best Super Short - Sci-Cine Film Festival
Fled
Sci-Cine Film Festival
Leicester
2016
UK Parliamentary Film the House Award
Around Again
UK Parliamentary Film the House Awards
London
2015
Winner
Wilhelm the Dwarf Vampire
est Overall Media Production
Coventry
2011
Winner
Wilhelm the Dwarf Vampire
Best Degree Show Media Production
Coventry
2011
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Personal Details
Birth City
Birmingham, UK
Current City
Birmingham, UK
Hometown
Birmingham, UK
Gender
Male
Ethnicity
Irish
Trivia
Seamus Heaney once wrote to me to say he liked one of my poems.
I once saved an old man's life by giving him cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Quotes
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. - Orson Welles
I'm a Birmingham UK based writer, producer and director. I write for both live action and animation.
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