Paul Duane

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Paul Duane is an Irish-born writer and director of television and film.[1]

Career[]

Has directed television programmes including:

He has also made several short films including LSD 73!, based on an original script by the Irish novelist Patrick McCabe.[2] More recently he co-created the ITV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl based on the well-known blog, Belle de Jour.[3] The Irish production company Screenworks was established by Paul Duane and Rob Cawley in 2008. Their first production, Barbaric Genius, on the life of the London-Irish author John Healy premiered in February 2011.[4][5]

More recent films include Very Extremely Dangerous and Natan, about the French producer Bernard Natan.[6]

In December 2013 he was listed by Variety magazine as part of their yearly 10 Directors to Watch feature.[7]

His latest film What Time Is Death? described as "his long-gestated study of new activities by the men who used to be KLF"[8] is a documentary charting Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty’s latest project to build a pyramid of hand-fired bricks, each containing the ashes of a dead person, a process dubbed MuMufication (referencing the KLF song Justified & Ancient).

What Time Is Death? featured at the 2019 Dublin International Film Festival.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ "Paul Duane". BFI.
  2. ^ "Crisis? What crisis ?". The Irish Times.
  3. ^ "The Secret Diary of a Call Girl[27/09/2007] (2007)". BFI.
  4. ^ Screenworks website,
  5. ^ IMDB page for Paul Duane, IMDb, accessed 28 March 2008
  6. ^ "Very Extremely Dangerous (2011)". BFI.
  7. ^ "Variety Announces This Year's 10 Directors to Watch". Variety. 2 December 2013.
  8. ^ Clarke, Donald. "As KLF they burned £1m. Now they're firing bricks of human ashes". The Irish Times.
  9. ^ "What Time is Death? - Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival". www.diff.ie.

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