CURRICULUM VITAE
DIRECTOR & STUNT COODINATOR & 2nd Unit Director
With over 20-Years Experience in the Feature Film. Television. Commercials. Theatre.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Alan has worked in the Film Industry for twenty-eight years as a stunt performer and Coordinator and 2nd Unit Director. Alan has also Written/Directed and produced short films.
DIRECTING CREDITS:
Spiders Trap feature film 2014. Wins best feature,
Nine episodes of Mystic Knights a TV Series for Fox Television.
"VICIOUS CIRCLE". Set in 1916. (short and has been given worldwide distribution)
"What If" Award winning. (Short-written and Directed Alan Walsh) Won best short film and Best Director for Alan, in the Los Angeles & New York International Independent Film & Video Festival & won an audience at the Chicago Film festival 2007. "No Justice" (drama which he wrote and Directed 2009 and won Best Director. The film also won best music score at the Underground Cinema festival.
Directing Referees
John Boorman & Jim Sheridan
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Films made or in development :
MADE AND SOLD: Vicious Circle (short 2006) Award winning short WHATIF 2007)
Film Festival
What If" Award winning Short- Won best short film and Best Director for Alan, in the Los Angeles & New York International Independent Film & Video Festival." And an Audience Award at the Chicago Irish Film Festival,
NEWS:
My award winning Short NO JUSTICE has been accepted and will be shown in Canne at the short festival 2010.
WHAT IF " the multi award winning short
Movieola purchases "What If" rights
Movieola, the dedicated Canadian Short cable channel has purchased the non-exclusive rights over 2 years.
No Ifs about it
"What If", in which two movie stuntmen decide to become film-makers, recently played at the Irish Film Institute, and was enthusiastically received. Walsh's picture has already impressed audiences at festivals in Ireland and the USA."
Irish Times, Donald Clarke
More good news for "WHAT IF"
Alan Walsh & John Phelan pictured at the New York festival. Bootstrap Films is pleased to announce that Alan Walsh has won Best Director for his short film " WHAT IF ", in the International Film Awards section of the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival which took place in New York.
"What If" To Screen With "Special" at IFI from 23-Nov-06
"What If" will screen with the US feature "Special" at the IFI from Friday December 8th. with Hal Haberman's indie feature "Special". The film stars Michael Rapaport (Boston Public)
COLIN FARRELL, JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS AND BRENDAN GLEESON LINED UP TO STAR IN NEW FEATURE "WHAT IF"
Following on the success of the short film, WHAT IF, the project is currently being developed into a feature film. WHAT IF is produced by Bootstrap Films and Colin Farrell and Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Brendan Gleeson will star in the feature film version.
SOME OF ALAN'S TV and FILM CREDITS:
The Tudors Series . Murphy's Law 4. Northanger Abbey Becoming Jane. The Tigers Tale. How Harry became a Tree. Disco Pigs. Ella Enchanted . Intermission
High Binder . Chasing The Dragon . Reign of Fire. King Arthur. Count of Monte Christ
The Boxer. Man About Dog. Rebel Heart. Father Ted. Michael Collins. Moll Flanders.
Breaveheart.. The Old Curiosity . In The Name Of the Father.....
AWARDS
Alan has won Best Feature Film for Spiders Trap
Alan has won two awards of Exclance for Spiders Trap
Alan has won Award for Best Director . for WhatIf.
Alan has won Award for Best Screen Craft for WhatIf.
Alan has won Award for Best Director . for No Justice.
Audience Award at the 2007 Chicago Irish Film Festival. for WhatIf.
Best Historical Film Vicious Circle directed by Alan Walsh