A B O U T

Anú Pictures is an interdependent film production company established by New York and Ireland based filmmaker Dónal Ó Céilleachair to synthesize over 30 years of experience across the independent film landscape.

Anú Pictures’ work explores the connections between culture, spirituality and ecology that are so central to the major challenges facing us in the pivotal times we live in.

Projects by Anú Pictures represent a fusion of long-established cinema methodologies with the latest in digital technologies, embracing new narrative possibilities and ever-evolving strategies for distribution.

Dónal Ó Céilleachair is a multiple-award winning filmmaker with 30 years of experience in cinema, broadcast television and the arts. His work has been shown in cinemas, museums, galleries, film festivals and on broadcast television and streaming services worldwide.

Sunniva O’Flynn of The Irish Film Institute writes that ‘Ó Céilleachair’s passion, rigour and artistry – informed by his love of cinema and his pioneering work – is evident in his considerable catalogue of work’.

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*Surname pronounced ‘O-Kay-Lee-Ker’

FILMMAKING

Director	OUR STORY – A Call To Ecological Consciousness	In Development	View
Director	The Red Book; Jung's Myth for our Times	In Development	View
Director	Seeding The Future	In Development	View
Director	Three Zen Gifts	2024	View
Director	Are We One	2024	View
Director	Continuing Traditions	2022	View
Director	I Heard Music (Do Chuala Ceol)	2020	View
Director	Good Life of Song (Glen Hansard Music Video)	2020	View
Director	The Camino Voyage	2014 - 2019	View
Freelance Director & Editor	Eco-Eye Series for RTÉ	2009 - 2019	View
Director	Leave a Light (Glen Hansard Music Video)	2019	View
Director	The Song of Amergin	2016	View
Director	From the Land of Múscraí	2016	View
Creative Consulting	Pushtar	2015	View
Director	Ó Chúil Aodha go hOileán Í (From Coolea to Iona)	2014	View
Director	Tadhg McSweeney, Painter (A Film Portrait)	2014	View
Director	Aisling Gheal (Bright Vision)	2013	View
Director	Dreamtime, Revisited	2012	View
Producer & Co-Director	Scéalta Mhuscraí (Muskerry Stories)	2011	View
Editor	A Burning Question	2010	View
Director	3-TRIÚR - Ag Cuardach Crot Ceoil (In Search of Musical Form)	2009 - 2011	View
Editor	Who Do You Think You Are? RTÉ Series	2009	View
Editor	BBC Newsnight Spot	2009	View
Artist-in-Residence	Peidhleacáin Solais (Butterfly Light)	2008	View
Co-Director & Producer	i, of k (Imitation of Kiss)	2001/2007	View
Director	Prelude / Préludio	2008	View
Editor & Associate Producer	The Matador	2007	View
Creative Consulting	American Furry	2007	View
Creative Consulting	The Unicorn	2007	View
Editor	Tootie’s Last Suit	2006	View
Director	Un Peu Moins (A Little Less)	2006	View
Editor	Member of the Group (A New Orleans Cinderella Story	2006	View
Editor, Associate Producer & Sound Designer	Journey Into Buddhism Trilogy	2003 -2005	View
Editor	Moving Parts	2005	View
Director	With Wind & White Clouds	2005	View
Editor	Three Soldiers	2005	View
Creative Consulting	Richard Foreman : The Ontological Cowboy	2005	View
Editor	Gobi Women Song	2005	View
Director	Vernissage	2004	View
Editor	Prajna Paramita	2004
Creative Consulting	Invisible	2004	View
Editor	He Raised as a Flag his Head Against the Wind	2004
Director	Empire 2	2003	View
Director	IZTAPALAPA - Jesus of Mexico City	2003
Director	CUZCO 1999	1999-2003	View
Co-Editor	Marathon	2002	View
Assistant Editor	Twin Towers; A History	2002
Assistant Editor	National Geographic: True Originals Series on Wade Davis	2002
Co-Director & Producer	WAR OF THE WORLDS	2001	View
Editor	POV - Behind the Lens Spots	2001
Contributing Director	NIGHT ON EARTH	2000
Associate Editor	The Simian Line	1999	View
Edit Room Assistant	Music of the Heart	1999	View
Edit Room Assistant	Gunshy	1999	View
Assistant Editor	Fireflies	1998
Editor & A.D	Come To	1997
Assistant Editor	Under the Bridge	1996	View
Director	Remnants of Forgotten Memories	1995
Assistant Director	LOST	1994
Director	The Empty Space	1993
Director	Fornication Under Consent of the King	1991

AWARDS + EDUCATION

Samskara International Film Festival, India	Best International Non-Fiction Feature Film Award for Continuing Traditions	2023
Vindhya International Film Festival, India	Best International Feature Documentary Award for Continuing Traditions	2023
Irish Screen America Film Festival, NYC	The Documentary Award for The Camino Voyage	2018
Luxembourg British & Irish Film Season	Audience Award for The Camino Voyage	2018
An tOireachtas Media Awards	The Documentary Award for The Camino Voyage	2018
Dingle International Film Festival	Audience Award for Best Feature Film for The Camino Voyage	2018
An tOireachtas Media Awards	The Best Series Award for Camino by Sea	2017
19th European Film Festival of India	Aisling Gheal Selection	2014
Cork Film Festival	Cork Shorts Award	2014
Irish Arts Council	Artist Bursary	2013
Access Cinema	Michael Dwyer Award	2013

LSAD (Limerick School of Art & Design)/ TUS (Technological University of the Shannon)	Creative Practice Masters Tracking PhD	2021 - 2024 (Current)
Cloughjordan Eco-Village	Certificate in Permaculture Design	2019
National College of Art & Design (NCAD)/GaelChultur,Dublin	Diploma in Teaching Art through the Irish Language	2012
Film Video Arts (FVA)	Avid Media Composer Training Workshop	1997
University of Havana, Cuba	Certificate in Intermediate Level Spanish	1997
New York University (NYU)	Intensive Film Workshop	1996
Film Video Arts (FVA), NY	Sync-Sound Film making & Film Editing Workshop	1994
School of Visual Arts (SVA), NY	16mm Film Production, Painting, Still Life, Life Drawing & Illustration	1992 – 1993
Cooper Union, NY	Painting, Figure Drawing & Abstract Drawing	1990 – 1992
DIT & Trinity College, Dublin	MA / BSc	1994 / 1990

TEACHING + CINEMA WORKSHOPS

UCC	Documentary Masterclass	2022
Limerick School of Art & Design	Filmmaking Masterclass	2019
IMBOLC Festival	Artists Talk & Filmmaking Masterclass	2018
Ionad Cúltúrtha / Cultural Centre Cork	Artists Moving-Image Workshop	2015
Cork Film Centre	Mentorship Programme Director	2012 - 2014
Sculpture Factory, Cork	Artists Moving-Image Workshop	2011
Ionad Cúltúrtha / Cultural Centre Cork	Adults Cinema Workshops	2012
Cork Film Centre	Mentor-in-Residence	2010
IFI, Dublin	Irish Language Cinema Workshops	2009
Kerry Film Festival	Filmmaking Masterclass	2009
Ionad Cúltúrtha / Cultural Centre Cork	Cinema Workshops	2008
NYU-SCPS Film Department	Filmmaking Masterclass	2007
New York Film Academy	Editing & Final Cut Pro Instructor	2002
MoMA / PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York	Cinema Workshops	2000

EXPANDED CINEMA

Dónal was one of the founding members of the Expanded Cinema collective; kinoSonik (1999-2004). For five years kinoSonik presented numerous live improvisationary expanded cinema public performances in New York and Internationally.

Each kinoSonik performance – mostly comprised of 16mm film found footage and loops – was unique and never repeated.

We did live performance visuals for composed works, at gigs for bands like the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs and Genesis P-Orridge and Throbbing Ghristle and for public performances including:

Parallel Worlds Cultural Platform at the opening ceremonies for Lille, Cultural Capital of Europe 2004, France
CATHEDRAL – Opening performance of the historical 48 hour web-cast orchestrated by William Duckworth
Outer Space an outdoors presentation on the Williamsburg Waterfront Organologic, 2000
P.S.1’s Greater New York Reception at Galapagos,1999
Closing Reception Outer Limits Video & Film Festival, 1999

kinoSonik’s ‘composed’ expanded cinema projects include:

The Nutty Projector – premiered at Ocularis, 2002 (90 mins) /
Luminous Space – premiered at Anthology Film Archives, 2003 (43 mins)
Document (of the Moment of It’s Own Making) – premiered at Ocularis, 2004 (7 mins)
i, of k – the expanded cinema version – completed in 2009 (52 mins)