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Ciaran O Cofaigh, Irish Director and Producer.
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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 RTÉ 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.