Biography

Edward Kennedy was born in Dublin, Ireland, on October 19th 1981. He began making short movies on 8mm videotape with his younger brother Rob Kennedy at the age of 13. After graduating from school with three A Levels, he studied Film Production at Coláiste Dhúlaigh College of Further Education. He graduated with a Diploma in Film Production in 2003, earning nine Distinctions and seven Merits. His student short film 'Elevator' screened at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival and the Galway Film Fleadh in 2004. Later that year, Kennedy produced and directed a short film for 'The Poe Project' at the Fringe Arts Festival in Dublin. This was an experimental theatre project which combined live performance with film, based upon the poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Later that year he enrolled in Dublin City University, and in 2006 he graduated with a Master of Arts degree in Film and Television Studies.

In 2006, he registered the film-making partnership First Quarter Films and returned to work with his partners Rob Kennedy and Andrew Mahon. He produced 18 short films with them and they have screened at film festivals in Europe and the United States. In Europe, his short films have screened at the Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival in Italy, Motelx in Portugal, the Mayhem Film Festival in Nottingham, UK, the Belfast Film Festival, the Foyle Film Festival, and the Galway Film Fleadh in Ireland. In the United States, his films have screened at various film festivals, including the LA Comedy Shorts Film Festival, the Irish Film Festival, Boston, the BOXURSHORTS film festival, and the New York City Horror Film Festival. In 2010, he produced the super short horror film 'In the Night, In the Dark' which premiered in the United States, Mexico, Ireland, and Portugal that year. 'In the Night, In the Dark' was distributed in selected cinemas throughout Ireland in the Autumn of 2010, and screened before the US films 'Paranormal Activity 2' and 'Saw 3D'. He just finished the script for the supernatural mystery romance movie 'Clear Seeing', a feature that he will direct in 2014.

Filmography

Director

'Wheels of Death' (short) (co-director) 2008 'Parking Ticket' (short) (co-director) 2009 'Taxi at Midnight' (short) (director) 2010

Producer

'In the Night, In the Dark' (short) (producer) (2010)

'Midnight Man' (feature) (producer) (2013)
- IMDb mini biography by: Edward Kennedy