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Redmond Morris at the Fleadh

The Galway Film Fleadh in association with the Irish Film and Television Academy are honoured to pay tribute to Redmond Morris.

Redmond Morris is a prolific Irish producer who has played an integral role in the production and making of many award winning films including Buster, Interview with the Vampire, The Butcher Boy, Michael Collins, The Reader, The Wind That Shakes the Barley and The Crying Game.

Redmond Morris is a native of Dublin but grew up in Spiddal, Co Galway. His interest in film was fuelled by his father’s connection with director John Ford during the making of The Quiet Man. Ford and his father, Lord Michael Killanin, later formed Four Provinces Films with the actor Tyrone Power to make Irish Films. They made The Rising of the Moon, a lot of which was shot in the Galway area, Gideon’s Day and The Playboy of the Western World with Siobhan McKenna which was directed by Brian Desmond Hurst.

Redmond’s first job was as Third Assistant Director on Alfred the Great, directed by Clive Donner.
He moved to London where he worked as Third, then Second Assistant Director and subsequently became a location manager working on films such as Quadrophenia, John Schlesinger’s Yanks, Agatha directed by Michael Apted and Warren Beatty's Reds.

He was production manager on many films including Gorky Park and was Associate Producer on the Bill Douglas film Comrades and on the Phil Collins film Buster. Scandal was the beginning of a fruitful collaboration with Stephen Woolley, which continued with The Big Man amongst others.

Returning to Ireland, Redmond began an association with Neil Jordan for whom he produced The Miracle. Following his Associate Producer role on Map of the Human Heart, he worked as Neil’s Assistant Director on The Crying Game and later Co-Produced Interview with the Vampire, Michael Collins, In Dreams and was producer for The Butcher Boy.

These were followed by The Affair of the Necklace, directed by Charles Shyer and Conor McPherson’s The Actors. He was Executive Producer on the Robert Towne directed Ask the Dust, starring Colin Farrell and Co-Produced the Ken Loach Cannes Palme d’Or winner The Wind that Shakes the Barley. He followed this as Executive Producer on Notes on a Scandal directed by Richard Eyre.

This year, as one of the Producers of The Reader, directed by Stephen Daldry, he was nominated for a BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Picture. Kate Winslet won an Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress in a leading role for the same. He is currently working in London as Executive Producer on London Boulevard. Written and Directed by William Monahan, Oscar winning writer of The Departed, starring Colin Farrell and Keira Knightly. The film is based on a novel of the same name by Galway writer Ken Bruen.

The Galway Film Fleadh will screen The Butcher Boy, Quadrophenia and Alfred the Great as part of its Irish tribute to Redmond Morris.

Redmond Morris will take part in an “In Conversation with Redmond Morris” which will take place in the Cinemobile at 4pm on Saturday July 11 and will be chaired by Lelia Doolan.