Dermott Petty

Dermott Petty is an independent filmmaker from Lisdoonvarna, County Clare in Ireland.

Film career

In 1998 Petty won a Dramalogue Award for his stage direction of The Midnight Court. He produced a television pilot detailing his early experiences as an emigrant entitled Dot Ave, and a documentary about traditional Irish Ceilidh dancing called A Gathering. He was a recipient of a grant from the Irish Film Board for his script, The Prodigal Dancer.

He wrote and directed a short film entitled Paddy Takes a Meeting which played at the Galway Film Fleadh and at film festivals worldwide. He also made a short documentary, The Last Chance Saloon, which won an award at the VOV Film Festival in Los Angeles.

Petty made the feature film Manband!, a comedy on ageism, boy-bands and bad dancing which played at the Rat Powered Film Festival in Santa Ana, California,[1] at Chapman University in Orange, California and at the Glor Music Center in Ennis, Ireland.[2][3]

He created the first Irish Spaghetti Western with Sean Nós Dancing with the short film 'The Good the Bad & the Sean Nós Dancer' as a media prototype for his MA In Creative Media at the Tralee Institute of Technology in 2013. The Good the Bad & the Sean Nós Dancer

He has written and directed Animation. Starting with 'Jesus of Limerick'(2009) The Man From Q web series (2013) and 'the Leprechaun & the Stripper'(2015) web series The Leprechaun & the Stripper.

Filmography

Year Film Capacity Notes
Dot Ave Television pilot
A Gathering Documentary
The Last Chance Saloon
2002 Paddy Takes a Meeting Director and writer
2006 Manband! Director and writer
2009 Jesus of Limerick (Short)
2011 Waits in Love (Short)
2012 For Goth & Country (Short)
2012 The Man from Q (Short)
2013 The Good the Bad & the Sean Nós Dancer (Short)
2014 1916 a form of Revolution (short)
2015 The Leprechaun & the Stripper (short)
2016 The Good Ship Delirous (Video short)
2018 The Waiting is Over? (Short)

References

  1. ^ "Rat Powered Films". Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2009.
  2. ^ "New Irish Feature 'Manband' Screens at Glor | The Irish Film & Television Network". www.iftn.ie. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Lisdoon filmmaker's feast for the senses". The Clare Champion. 31 March 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2020.