Our Work
Across TV and audio, we make characterful, award-winning stories, spanning art and culture, history, true crime, narrative non-fiction, environmental series and more. Here’s a selection of our work.
Caomhnóirí na Talún [Custodians of the Land] follows five farmers over one year as they farm with nature. From the karst beauty of the Burren to dairy heartland in east Cork, our cameras follow as these farmers create and conserve habitats, pioneer new ideas and try to find a way to protect wildlife and their living.
Broadcast September 2024, funded by Coimisiún na Meán and TG4.
‘An incredible result’ as survey indicates two anomalies deep inside the cairn.’
Midwinter 2023 and the culmination of a three year project ‘Rún na Bóinne’ is the epic quest to locate a long suspected second chamber at Newgrange, one of the world’s most enigmatic Neolithic monuments. Directed by Neal Boyle.
Funded by Coimisiún na Meán and TG4 with support from Sligo, Meath and Kilkenny County Councils and the National Monuments Service.
Official Selection, Tribeca 2023
Directed by Mary Brophy for The Lyric Feature RTÉ lyric fm, Magic on a Winter’s Night goes behind the scenes at the 71st Wexford Festival Opera as Artistic Director Rosetta Cucchi and her teams orchestrate their particular brand of alchemy in this portrait of a post-pandemic creative world.
World premiere – Tribeca Festival, June 7-18, 2023
Son of Kerry, Son of Sam
Son of Kerry, Son of Sam tells the incredible story of how Kerry cop, Timothy J. Dowd, led the largest manhunt in New York history to capture the notorious serial killer, ‘Son of Sam’. Enthralling audiences and critics alike, this television documentary is presented by Seán Mac an tSithigh and produced and directed by Neal Boyle.
Nominated for a 2018 Torc Award, Celtic Media Festival.
An IWR Media production for TG4
Hear be Dragons is a sound essay of maps and dragons made in a time when there is little or no uncharted territory left; when Google maps and GPS plot our every course. And we’ve vanquished all the monsters, right?
Politics, Pleasure and Empire
In this two-part documentary, broadcaster Mary Brophy explores the characters and obsessions that made Ireland’s great 17th and 18th historic gardens. And questions their legacy in Ireland, where beauty was made on a contested stage, against a terrible backdrop of war, poverty and famine.
New York Festival, Silver Winner, 2018
Best Narration, International Radio Programmes
Signs of Life
It’s the greatest detective hunt that has ever been undertaken. And a group of pioneering scientists are now closing in on the answer to the ultimate question: Is there life beyond Earth?
For RTÉ Radio 1 Xtra, this three episode podcast features a host of the world’s leading astrophysicists, planet hunters, Nobel winners and includes one of the last interviews granted by SETI pioneer Frank Drake.
Art critic Cristín Leach takes us into an epic story of conquest, propaganda and nation building to explore how ideas of ‘Ireland’ have been represented or misrepresented in art across three hundred years. In this four part series for RTÉ lyric fm Ireland Portrayed interrogates how art tells our story. Asks, who’s telling that story? And why.
Image: Rita Duffy, Segregation 1989
Collection Crawford Art Gallery © the Artist
The Irish people were once a culture that paid close attention to the natural world. They fixed that knowledge into their native tongue, capturing the essence of every creature and element. But the land is growing silent now, as wildlife and words disappear. In the Wind navigates an eco-grief many of us feel, to plot a course back to a wilder, more enchanting world.
In the Wind was shortlisted for an IMRO Radio Award, Documentary in 2019.
1913, and the ballad “Danny Boy” was released in New York. And somehow, it became an anthem for Irish America, tapping into a nostalgia and patriotism that ran deep. From Carnegie Hall to the NYPD; even Elvis wanted in. But how did that happen? Mary Brophy journeys through the heartland to find out.