Dermott Petty

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Dermott Petty is an independent filmmaker from Lisdoonvarna, County Clare in Ireland.

Film career[]

In 1998 Petty won a Dramalogue Award for his stage direction of The Midnight Court. He produced a television pilot detailing his early experiences as an emigrant entitled , and a documentary about traditional Irish Ceilidh dancing called . He was a recipient of a grant from the Irish Film Board for his script, .

He wrote and directed a short film entitled which played at the Galway Film Fleadh and at film festivals worldwide. He also made a short documentary, , which won an award at the in Los Angeles.

Petty made the feature film Manband!, a comedy on ageism, boy-bands and bad dancing which played at the in Santa Ana, California,^[1] at Chapman University in Orange, California and at the in Ennis, Ireland.^[2][3]

He created the first Irish Spaghetti Western with Sean Nós Dancing with the short film 'The Good the Bad & the Sean Nós Dancer' as a media prototype for his MA In Creative Media at the Tralee Institute of Technology in 2013. The Good the Bad & the Sean Nós Dancer

He has written and directed Animation. Starting with 'Jesus of Limerick'(2009) The Man From Q web series (2013) and 'the Leprechaun & the Stripper'(2015) web series The Leprechaun & the Stripper.

Filmography[]

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External links[]

• Dermott Petty at IMDb