Tommy Creagh is an award winning British-Irish writer, director and producer, known for his expressive and lyrical style of storytelling that naturally finds itself in the intersection between film and literature. He graduated from Bristol UWE in 2017 with a 1st Class BA (Hons) in Filmmaking. With nearly a decade of prolific activity as a director, writer and producer, and having accumulated over thirty credits, his own films have won ten awards and have been screened at over eighty film festivals around the world.
His most notable works are Father of the Man (winner of Best Short Film at the Vienna Independent Film Festival 2018), Land of Winter (winner of Best Irish Short at the Dublin International Short Film 2018 & Music Festival & Best Young Talent at the New Renaissance Film Festival 2019) & Acheron (winner of Best Director at the Shadow Film Festival 2022 and Best Actor at the Dublin International Short Film & Music Festival 2022), and most recently Arachne (winner of Best Short Film at the Prague Independent Film Festival 2024, Best Experimental Short at the New Renaissance Film Festival, London 2024 & Best Short Film at the Solaris Film Festival 2026).
As well as his writing and directing projects, Tommy Creagh is the creator and director of the Bloomsday Film Festival, est 2020, and a film curator at the James Joyce Centre, Dublin. Since 2023, he has been producing and directing poetry film series for the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation in the UK and Ireland, recently directing Stephen Fry on a pair of films. He currently has three feature scripts and a novel in development.
Official Selection
Acheron
IndieCork Film Festival
Cork
2021
Official Selection
Acheron
Belfast Film Festival
Belfast
2021
Honorable Mention
Acheron
Solaris Film Festival
Nice
2021
Winner - Best Actor (Gerry Cannon)
Acheron
Dublin International Short Film and Music Festival
Dublin
2021
Winner - Best Director
Acheron
Shadow Film Festival
Birmingham
2021
Finalist
Father of the Man
Manhattan International Film Festival
New York
2019
Official Selection
Land of Winter
Belfast Film Festival
Belfast
2019
Official Selection
Land of Winter
Fastnet Film Festival
Schull
2019
Official Selection
Land of Winter
Carmarthen Bay Film Festival
Carmarthen Bay
2019
Official Selection
Land of Winter
Vienna Independent Film Festival
Vienna
2019
Winner - Best Art Direction
Land of Winter
Prague Independent Film Festival
Prague
2019
Official Selection
Land of Winter
Still Voices Film Festival
Ballymahon
2019
WINNER - Best International Young Talent
Land of Winter
New Renaissance Film Festival
London
2019
Official Selection
Land of Winter
Richard Harris International Film Festival
Limerick
2018
Nominated - Best Irish Narrative
Land of Winter
Kerry Film Festival
Killarney
2018
Winner - Best Irish Short
Land of Winter
Dublin International Short Film and Music Festival
Dublin
2018
Nominated - Best Short Film
Father of the Man
Prague Independent Film Festival
Prague
2018
Winner - Best Short Film
Father of the Man
Vienna Independent Film Festival
Vienna
2018
Official Selection
Father of the Man
Solaris Film Festival
Nice
2018
Birth Date
June 1, 1994
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