Brian OâMalley is a feature film and TV commercials Director who has been directing TV commercials with Red Rage Films in Ireland for over 10 years. Since 2001 he has made over 200 TV commercials worldwide, and has directed many Shark, ICAD and Golden Lion award winning commercials and campaigns including Meteor âStuffâ, Trociare âInterviewâ, Today FM, Teletext âNice Busâ. Brian continues to be one of Ireland leading TV commercial directors.
Let Us Prey
For his debut feature film, Brian brings us the sinister, noirish horror âLet Us Preyâ. This darkly strange and original piece of horror genre reunites OâMalley with Liam Cunningham (Screwback, 2005), and is the perfect platform for OâMalley to introduce himself to feature length arena.
Premiering at BIFFF in Belgium in April 2014, Let Us Prey won the prestigious Meliee dâArgent award for Best European Horror. It has since played at festivals all over the world where it has received rave reviews from both audience members and international press.
âOâMalley has marked himself as a talent to watch. Striking a perfect balance of suspense, violence, humour, story and action, Let Us Prey feels at once classic and modern; horror the way it was always supposed to have been made. You will not be disappointed - 10 10â
Andrew Marshall - Startburst Magazine
Crossing Salween
In 2010 Brian wrote and Directed the short film âCrossing Salweenâ. A tragically poetic film which represents the most ambitious of short films made anywhere in the world, and transcends common perceptions of Irish Cinema. Set in Burma and filmed on location in Thailand, this tragic tale of loss, struggle and survival of the human spirit, has a hugely emotive quality and epic scale which far exceed the expectations of the short film genre.
It has now been developed into a feature length script, to be produced by Gary Moore at Red Rage Films.
Of Crossing Salween, film director John Boorman, whom himself directed the Burma based film âBeyond Rangoonâ said - âI was impressed with its atmosphere and sense of place, and its poetic expression of the underlying terrorâ.
Screwback
The short film âScrewbackâ, which Brian wrote and Directed, and which was based loosely on âSiskâ, is a highly regarded piece of genre film making and one of the most commercially successful Irish short films of all time. The central character of Harry Sisk, brilliantly underplayed by Liam Cunningham, is considered to be one of the Irish actors finest screen moments. The film itself is a hardboiled noir-ish thriller which has been stylistically compared to Michael Mann, Brian De Palma and Takeshi Kitano.
Leading Irish Film Critic Ciaran Carty, described Screwback as - âan eye-grabbing Tarantino-like 10 minute thrillerâ.
Screenwriting
In 2005 Brian OâMalley was awarded the Hartley Merrill Screenwriting Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival for his feature length screenplay âSiskâ, having also won the Tiernan McBride award for screenwriting in Ireland that same year. âSiskâ, a Shakespearean family tragedy set against a genre backdrop, was co-written with the award winning writers Mark OâRowe (Boy A, Broken, Perriers Bounty and Intermission) and Terry McMahon (Dir Writer Charlie Cassanova). The script focuses on the final days of a terminally ill ex-gangster who returns to Ireland after three decades of exile to atone for the sins of his youth, with tragic consequences.
Screenplays:
'The Lost Station' - written by Brian O'Malley and Phil Hickes.
'Crossing Salween' - written by Brian O'Malley. Based on a short story by Gary Moore.
'Sisk' - written by Brian O'Malley & Terry McMahon and Mark O'Rowe.
'The Lost Station' - written by Brian O'Malley and Phil Hickes.
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