ABOUT ME

I'm a filmmaker and screenwriter.

*** I'm not able to host guests at the moment as I have a Ukranian refugee staying with me***

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

I'd like to travel a bit more now that my parents have both passed.

Centres d'intérêt

I'm a screenwriter/writer and award winning filmmaker.

• poetry
• film festivals
• filmmaking
• film
• scrabble
• ireland
• screenwriting
• scriptwriting
• filmmaker
• poetry writing
• aston villa

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Films: Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, The Blues Brothers, Boyhood, many others.

Books: The Third Policeman.

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

Brendan O'Neill is a Birmingham based screenwriter, producer and film director with a range of projects in development – both live action and animation.

In Jan – April 2021. As a volunteer fixer he helped his producer friends at Caspian Films find crew and some locations for their film The Colour Room (A Sky Original).

He received a Thank You credit. Caspian Films Producer Thembisa Cochrane described him as a “Real champion of the film”.

His film The Harrowing was shortlisted for the 2023 Performance Insurance Awards in the Best Short Short category. It has won at 5 festivals and been selected at 16 including a Best Writer award.

He was a Stowe Story Labs Fellowship Finalist in 2021 via the Irish Film London competition.

His first film Black Widow (2008) was shot in 48 hours in Birmingham and Madrid on zero budget. It was cited for Best Cast.

In 2010 he won the 2 Weeks 2 Make It Music video competition.

In 2011 he was selected for the Screen West Midlands Regional Producer Mentoring Scheme and mentored by Rachel Robey (London to Brighton).

He was also selected for the 104 Films' Generator scheme for Disabled talent which involved attendance at Edinburgh Film Festival 2013 and the London Screenings 2014.

In 2014 he was selected for a UK team pitching at Dragon Forum – part of Krakow International Film Festival. His Animal Operations Executive animation idea was praised by both Dragons and fellow delegates.

He has put large teams together to make tiny budget, high quality 48 hour shorts on three different occasions. This culminated in winning the UK parliamentary Film The House competition 2015 for Around Again and getting a mention in Variety.

He won the Sci-Cine Film Festival Best Short Short in 2016 with his film Fled.

He’s an alumni of the 2017-18 Filmonomics scheme run by Oscar winning producer Mia Bays. This was on the back of conceiving and curating 6 of the Best Festival (#6BestFest) in January 2017. This festival featured screenings of 6 new films by British women including 3 Q&A screenings with Directors or Producers.

In November 2018 he came “A very close second” in the UK national Script 2 Screen competition run by Daniel Alexander Films. The judges were from the BBC and Creative England amongst others. Daniel said:-

"Really appreciate you entering and the conversations some of the judges had around your script were amazing to hear. I think out of all of them, your story was the one that had everyone the most excited about and was a very, very close second."

He is an alumni of the Royal Court Theatre’s Critical Mass play writing scheme 2010.

He has had short stories short-listed and highly commended in a national newspaper competition and published in print anthologies.

He has had poetry published worldwide in print anthologies, journals, magazines, newspapers and online i.e. Poetry Ireland Review, The Galway Review, The Clare Champion newspaper, Fire Magazine (UK), Trout Magazine (NZ) and The Susquehanna Review (USA).

He has supported Benjamin Zephaniah, Wendy Cope and Carol Ann Duffy at poetry readings

Nobel Literature Laureate Seamus Heaney once wrote to say he liked one of Brendan’s poems.

Pays que j'ai visités

Belgium, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, United States, Wales

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Ireland, Spain, United States