Tommy Creagh
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Tommy Creagh is an award winning British-Irish writer, director and producer, known for his expressive and lyrical style of storytelling that naturally finds itself in the intersection between film and literature. He graduated from Bristol UWE in 2017 with a 1st Class BA (Hons) in Filmmaking. With more than a decade of prolific activity as a director, writer and producer, and having accumulated over thirty credits, his own films have won ten awards and have been screened at over sixty film festivals around the world.
His most notable works are Father of the Man (winner of Best Short Film at the Vienna Independent Film Festival 2018), Land of Winter (winner of Best Irish Short at the Dublin International Short Film 2018 & Music Festival & Best Young Talent at the New Renaissance Film Festival 2019) & Acheron (winner of Best Director at the Shadow Film Festival 2022 and Best Actor at the Dublin International Short Film & Music Festival 2022), and most recently Arachne (winner of Best Short Film at the Prague Independent Film Festival 2024 & Best Experimental Short at the New Renaissance Film Festival, London 2024).
As well as his writing and directing projects, Tommy Creagh is the creator and director of the Bloomsday Film Festival, est 2020, and a film curator at the James Joyce Centre, Dublin. Since 2023, he has been producing poetry film series for the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation in the UK and Ireland, where he also recently directed his first poetry film for them starring Freddie Fox in 2024. He currently has four feature scripts and a novel in development.
His most notable works are Father of the Man (winner of Best Short Film at the Vienna Independent Film Festival 2018), Land of Winter (winner of Best Irish Short at the Dublin International Short Film 2018 & Music Festival & Best Young Talent at the New Renaissance Film Festival 2019) & Acheron (winner of Best Director at the Shadow Film Festival 2022 and Best Actor at the Dublin International Short Film & Music Festival 2022), and most recently Arachne (winner of Best Short Film at the Prague Independent Film Festival 2024 & Best Experimental Short at the New Renaissance Film Festival, London 2024).
As well as his writing and directing projects, Tommy Creagh is the creator and director of the Bloomsday Film Festival, est 2020, and a film curator at the James Joyce Centre, Dublin. Since 2023, he has been producing poetry film series for the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation in the UK and Ireland, where he also recently directed his first poetry film for them starring Freddie Fox in 2024. He currently has four feature scripts and a novel in development.
