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.
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 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?
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.