Brian J. Falconer

Academy Member

Producer Brian J. Falconer moved from shorts to features with his 2018 debut, The Dig, directed by the Tohill Brothers and winner of the Best Irish Film at the 2018 Galway Film Fleadh. His follow up feature, Normal People, is the debut screenplay by acclaimed Irish playwright Owen McCafferty, directed by Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn (co-directors of Good Vibrations) and starring Academy Award nominees Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson. He reuniting with director Michael Lennox, five years since their first project, the BAFTA winning and Oscar® nominated short Boogaloo and Graham, to develop the film adaptation of Lisa Harding’s award-winning debut novel Harvesting. Since this Brian has gone on to Produce International hit show Derry Girls which recieved the BAFTA for Best Scripted comedy in 2023 and A Wind and The Shadow which won an IFTA for Best Film in 2024.

Awards & Recognition

A Wind and the Shadow
  • IFTA Winner, Best Film (2024)
Derry Girls
  • BAFTA Winner, Best Scripted Comedy (2023)
Ordinary Love
  • IFTA Winner, Best Film (2020)
The Dig
  • IFTA Nominee, Best Film (2020)
Boogaloo and Graham
  • BAFTA Winner, Best British Short Film (2015)

Key Credits

  • Breathtaking (2024)
  • A Wind and the Shadow (2023)
  • Malcolm (2023)
  • Ballywater (2022)
  • Homebird (2022)
  • Derry Girls (2022)
  • Ordinary Love (2019)
  • The Dig (2018)
  • Boogaloo and Graham (2014)