Biography

Morgan Bushe is an Irish filmmaker whose films have screened at Sundance, Directors' Fortnight at Cannes, the Berlinale, TIFF, Sitges, Telluride, IDFA, Busan and TriBeCa and have been long-listed for the Academy Award, three time EFA nominated and collectively received fifteen Irish Film and Television Awards. As a producer his most notable credits include Rebecca Daly's The Other Side of Sleep, nine Vesna Award recipient Circus Fantasticus from Janez Burger, Alexandra McGuinness' Lotus Eaters, Urszula Antoniak's five Locarno Leopard recipient Nothing Personal and The Surprise from two time Academy Award winner Mike van Diem. His notable non fiction credits include TIFF and IDFA First Appearance recipient Colony with two time Emmy winner Ross McDonnell and Carter Gunn; Sundance Cinematography Award recipient The Land of the Enlightened from Pieter Jan Du Pue; Berlinale Special Presentation Anton Corbijn Inside Out from director Klaartje Quirijns; Sundance and SXSW alumni Ciaran Cassidy's debut Jihad Jane and previously IFTA recipient The Last Days of Peter Bergmann. His films with Reuter Foundation International Journalism Fellowship alumni Andrew Gallimore include the IFTA recipients A Bloody Canvas and In Sunshine and in Shadow, and IFTA and Radharc nominee Shoulder to Shoulder. In the role of writer director his previous films include IFTA nominee and CMF Gold Torc recipient If I Should Fall Behind, which premiered in the Youth section at the BFI London Film Festival and the Dresden Golden Horseman nominee Doghouse. His first feature The Belly of the Whale, described as a "darkly humorous, intriguing debut" by Screen International, opened the 30th Galway Film Fleadh and screened at the Rome and Chicago International Film Festivals where it was nominated as part of the Camera d'Oro and the New Director's Competition respectively. Morgan's Waterford based outfit Fastnet Films received a dedicated retrospective at the Irish Film Institute in 2015. He is a guild member of the European Film and the Irish Film and Television Academy, Screen Director's Guild of Ireland, Screen Producers Ireland and a founding board member of WildCard Distribution. A graduate of EAVE and Inside Pictures, he was previously nominated as the EFP Irish Producer on the Move.
- IMDb mini biography by: Fastnet Films