Showreel 2010
Current teaser reel for director David Lawless. My work includes documentary, TV factual, music videos, commercials, short film and current affairs.
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Caffeine – The Passion in the Cup
Caffeine is a feature documentary exploring the passions and dedication of a group of baristas, roasters and café owners from around the world as they embark on a quiet revolution to change the world one humble bean at a time.
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Stumptown
Surrounded by both life and decay, unsure of what is memory and what is reality a man travels through an unfamiliar city struggling to separate thought from confusion, a fog of recollection that overwhelms his assumptions about past and present.
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Stumptown
Surrounded by both life and decay, unsure of what is memory and what is reality a man travels through an unfamiliar city struggling to separate thought from confusion, a fog of recollection that overwhelms his assumptions about past and present.
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Director with over ten years experience of documentary, television, drama, and music promo.
Visuals
Prime Time
Feirm Factor
Prodrift
Consuming Passions
Diary of a Sports Star
Creative
Highly visual, excellent communicator of ideas that inspire, inform and move.
Director – Producer – Writer
I’m a freelance visuals director based in Dublin. I specialise in concept to realisation workflows across a wide range of formats, media and genres. Whether it’s originating a new concept or bringing my visual and storytelling skills to an existing project, I excel under pressure and strive to get the very best out of every scene and every budget. For documentary, commercials, music promos, drama or factual entertainment I bring something unique to every frame.
I have a passion for peoples’ stories. Using my many years of filmmaking experience I try to bring these stories to the screen in a dynamic, visual and sensitive way. My core strengths are attention to detail, a keen interest in the way that we as people interact and live our lives and an extensive and multi-disciplinary background meaning I can leverage many different styles and approaches to achieve the right tone, to coax the best out of a story and to present it to an audience in a visually and emotionally engaging way.
I’m currently on a 12 month contract producing and directing Prime Time, the flagship current affairs programme for RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster.
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- Caffeine – Feature Documentary
- Stumptown – short film
Caffeine – The Passion in the Cup
Caffeine is a feature documentary exploring the passions and dedication of a group of baristas and cafe owners from around the world as they
embark on a quiet revolution to change the world one humble bean at a time. By educating themselves on the providence of the bean, delving into every scientific detail of brewing coffee and by forming personal relationships with coffee farmers in the developing world, their goal is to change the way the world looks at coffee. These coffee nerds have started a grassroots movement based on quality of life for the farmer and quality of coffee in the cup. Their motivation is quality, not profit and their commitment and enthusiasm for coffee is mesmerising.
As the most traded commodity in the world after oil and one of the most exploitative industries for the coffee grower, coffee pervades every part of our global society and has done for hundreds of years. Can these young people, through travel, education, refining their skills and their unbridled passion change perceptions about coffee and in doing so create a fairer world?
This film follows several of these baristas as they embark on their global treks in search of the knowledge and connections they feel will give their public a better cup of coffee.
Featuring World Barista Champions Stephen Morrissey and James Hoffman, Caffeine journeys from Dublin to London, Ethiopia to Nicaragua and Vancouver to Los Angeles.
With over 40 hours of footage shot across four continents and with preparations being made for the next batch of filming, this documentary has a truly global reach. With passionate, engaging and curious characters the film portrays a new approach to Globalization that is positive and inspiring.
Discover more at www.caffeinethemovie.com or become a fan of the Caffeine Facebook Page
Stumptown
Surrounded by both life and decay, unsure of what is memory and what is reality a man travels through an unfamiliar city struggling to separate thought from confusion, a fog of recollection that overwhelms his assumptions about past and present.
Stumptown is an experimental short shot in Portland, Oregon.
Directed & Edited by David Lawless
Cinematography by Patrick Jordan
Sound Design by Patrick Hanlon
Stumptown will be completed in August 2010 for submission to international film festivals.
For more, visit the Stumptown website or become a fan of the Stumptown Facebook Page.
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Ritz Carlton
Client: Ritz Carlton – Powerscourt
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Production Company: Animo
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The ROSIE Study
Video for the National Advisory Committee on Drugs. The ROSIE Study is an ongoing study examining the effectiveness of drug treatment in Ireland, especially treatment for heroin addiction.
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Development Education
To explain in visual terms the importance and relevance of Development Education to a teenage audience. For NUI Maynooth.
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Ilk by The Bardo
ILK by The Bardo Year: 1999 Label: Riverman Records Production Co: Brazen Films Credit: Director/Editor
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Circus Trick by Throat
Circus Trick by Throat Year: 2001 Label: Riverman Records Production Co: Brazen Films Credit: Director/Producer
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If Silence Should End (2001)
This atmospheric short tells the story of a man who has lost everything. He drives into the lonely mountains in an attempt to lose himself. An encounter with a ghostly figure causes him to question his perspectives.
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Stumptown (2010)
Surrounded by both life and decay, unsure of what is memory and what is reality a man travels through an unfamiliar city struggling to separate thought from confusion, a fog of recollection that overwhelms his assumptions about past and present.
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Consuming Passions
Documentary series exploring the lives of those who are passionate, even obsessive about their interests. These episodes look at those enamored of a Rockabilly lifestyle and those obsessed with dancing.
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Prodrift
This action-packed magazine series combines door to door sideways drifting with the heady lifestyles of the drivers. Drifting has exploded around the world and this series follows some of the top drivers and competitions across Europe.
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Prime Time
Flagship current affairs series for RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster. This VT covers the run-up to the then impending UK Election.
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Swap
VTs for popular daytime show Seoige & O’Shea sees Brian Dowling attempting to swap a photo of the presenters for whatever he can get, improving the value each time in 6 towns and cities.
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Caffeine
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Kingdom of the Asante
Feature Documentary exploring the lives, history and culture of the Asante tribe of Ghana, West Africa.
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Irish Chamber Orchestra
Caffeine project on Indiegogo
Indiegogo is a terrific crowdfunding website where creatives can attract funding to their projects. Caffeine is one such project and has already attracted some funding. I’m trying to raise $5,000 to do some more filming next Spring. Click on the widget below to find out more or contribute.
“IndieGoGo is a collaborative way to fund ideas. Founded on the principles of opportunity, transparency, choice, and action, IndieGoGo launched in 2008 to provide any idea (creative, cause or entrepreneurial) the tools and process to raise money, offer perks and keep 100% ownership. “Stumptown website now live
The website for my soon-to-be-completed experimental short, Stumptown is now live. It’s a little sparse at the moment but expect plenty of updates as we get closer to online stage. It’s been entered into several international festivals and I’ll be updating as news comes in.
There’s also a facebook page here.
Behance Network
I now have a profile on the excellent behance.net
Behance is a company that designs organizational products and services for creative professionals, based on research among productive creative people and teams.
Promo for documentary proposal
Here’s a promo for a short documentary I made a few months ago. It’s for the Filmboard’s Reality Bites short documentary scheme 2009.
The proposed documentary examines the relationship between artist and inspiration. It features artist Niamh O’Malley and composer George Higgs. The piece is produced by Arlene McGann and shot by Paddy Jordan on EX1.
New contract with RTE’s Prime Time
I’ve just signed a twelve month contract with RTE to become a Producer/Director on Prime Time, Ireland’s flagship current affairs programme.
Starting in January I’ll be producing and directing cutting-edge current affairs reports for this show which airs every Tuesday and Thursday on RTE 1. The Prime Time website is here.
I’ll be posting about the stories I’m working on regularly via my Twitter feed.
Contact information
If you want to know more about me, some of the projects I’m working on, if you’re looking for someone to take an idea and apply it, or for a totally fresh concept, get in touch.
- Phone: +353 (0)87 673 9635
