Ciarán Ó Cofaigh

Ciaran O Cofaigh, Irish Director and Producer.

Biography

A native of Ráth Cairn (Rath Cairn), Co. na Mí (County Meath) but now resident in Indreabhán, Co. na Gaillimhe (County Galway), Ó Cofaigh has worked in the Irish film and broadcast industry for over twenty years, and is co-founder and managing director of ROSG. He began by enrolling on a producer/director course established by Údarás na Gaeltachta and RTÉ. Following this he worked freelance on productions for RTE and BBC NI.

Ciarán is an experienced producer/director/animator, both in film and television. His recent award winning productions include the feature film Cré na Cille (Graveyard Clay); the supernatural thriller series, Na Cloigne (The Heads), and Scéal na Gaeilge (The Story of the Irish Language/Gaelic).

He co-founded ROSG (Old Irish rosg, meaning eye) in 1998, a film and television company based in An Spidéal. ROSG has since produced a wide variety of films, drama, documentaries and even animations. The company employs between fifty and sixty people during large productions.

He also co-founded and produced the Siol Scéal initiative of short films, a development scheme established by ROSG and Eo Teilifís to promote new talented writers and directors. From this scheme 24 half hour short films have been produced and broadcast to date.

Ciarán has recently produced An Bronntanas, a five part drama series to be broadcast in October 2014, and has also lectured in Television and Broadcasting in University College Galway.

Ó Cofaigh produced an adaptation of the novel, Cré na Cille, by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, starring Bríd Ní Neachtain. It was viewed at a number of Irish and global film festivals such as the Shanghai International Film Festival.

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