Motion timelapse cinematography captured in Teide National Park, Tenerife

For decades, Catholic Ireland locked it's children into institutions if they were conceived out of wedlock, punishment for their sinning mothers. Revealing the children's perspectives, and including powerful archive, this short documentary offers a painful yet cathartic insight into the cruel business of Mother and Baby Homes.

Best Short Documentary - Cork Film Festival 2017

Best Irish Short - Dublin International Film Festival 2018

Discovery Award - Dublin International Film Festival 2018

Audience Award - São Paulo International Short Film Festival 2018

Audience Award - Irish Film Institute International Documentary Festival 2018

Finalist - Goldentree International Documentary
Film Festival 2018

Best Short Documentary - Irish Film Festa, 2019

Jury Award - International Short Film Festival of
Radio City, 2019

Best Short Documentary 2nd Place - Paleochora Lost World Short Film Festival 2019

Finalist - Firenze FilmCorti Festival 2019

Official Selection - Palm Springs International ShortFest 2018

Official Selection - Tehran International Short
Film Festival 2018

Official Selection - Galway Film Fleadh 2018

Official Selection - Helsinki International Film Festival 2018

Official Selection - The Smalls Film Festival 2018

Official Selection - Margaret Mead Film Festival 2018

Official Selection - Fastnet International Short
Film Festival 2018

Official Selection - Clare Island International
Film Festival 2018

Official Selection - Semana Internacional de Cine
de Valladolid 2018

Official Selection - In-Short Film Festival 2018

Official Selection - Barquisimeto International
Film Festival 2018

Official Selection - Muestra Internacional de
Cine de Palencia 2019

Official Selection - Chicago Irish Film Festival 2019

Official Selection - Medina del Campo Film Festival 2019

Official Selection - Capital Irish Film Festival 2019

Official Selection - Lisbon Film Rendevous 2019

Official Selection - Paleochora Lost World
Short Film Festival 2019

Official Selection - Festival Internacional de
Cine Lanzarote 2019

Official Selection - Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes
“La Cruz y el Mar” 2019

Official Selection - Firenze FilmCorti Festival 2019

Official Selection - Festival Internacional Cine
Independiente Cosquin 2019

Official Selection - Euro East Africa Film Festival 2019

Official Selection - Chagrin Documentary Film Festival 2019

Official Selection - British & Irish Film Festival in
Luxembourg, 2019

Director: Gavin Kelly
Producer: Emily Brady
DOP: Aidan Maguire
Editor: Damien McDonnell
Compositors: Gavin Kelly & Arron Inglis
Tracking: Gavin Hoffman
Agency: Owens DDB
Agency Producer: John Gildea
Creatives: Donal O’Dea & Adrian Cosgrove
Sound: Avondale

Director: Richard Chaney

Producer:  Emily Brady

Editor: Damien O’Donnell

DOP: Aidan Maguire

3D: Eric Dolan

Rigging: Sam Boyd & Mark Shaw

Animation: Mark Shaw

Additional Animation (Sick Girl): Teemu Auersalo

Additional 3D: Darren Cullis & Cormac Kelly

Compositor: Pedro Santos

Grade: Gary @ Outer Limits

Agency: Publicis Dublin

Executive Creative Director: Ronan Nulty

Creative Director: Carol Lambert

Art Director: Neil Hanratty
Agency Producer: Niamh Skelly

Sound: Mutiny

Director: Gavin Kelly
Producer: Emily Brady
DOP: Aidan Maguire
Editor: Damien McDonnell
Compositors: Gavin Kelly & Arron Inglis
Tracking: Gavin Hoffman
Agency: Owens DDB
Agency Producer: John Gildea
Creatives: Donal O’Dea & Adrian Cosgrove
Sound: Avondale

Director: Gavin Kelly
Producers: Aileen Heavey & Emily Brady
DOP: Aidan Maguire
Editor: Damien McDonnell
3D Animation: Sam Boyd
Illustrations: Chris Judge
Compositing: Gavin Kelly & Arron Inglis
Agency: DDFH&B
Art Director: Conor Swanton
Copywriter: Orla Doherty
Agency Producer: Aisling O’Dwyer
Sound: Number 4

Production Co: Maxtron Media
Director: Sean Herbert
DP: Aidan Maguire
 

Director: James Doherty
DOP: Aidan Maguire
Editor: Damien McDonnell
Agency: Javelin
Agency Producer: Sinead Ni Ghaora
Copywriter: Chris Kennedy
Creative: Cathal O'Flaherty
Finish: Arron Inglis
Colourist: Gary Curran @ Outer Limits
Sound Mix: Noel Storey
Client: Pieta House / Aviva

Production Co: Maxtron Media
Director: Sean Herbert
DP: Aidan Maguire
 

Director: Gavin Kelly
Producer: Emily Brady
DOP: Aidan Maguire
Editor: Damien McDonnell
Compositors: Gavin Kelly & Arron Inglis
Tracking: Gavin Hoffman
Agency: Owens DDB
Agency Producer: John Gildea
Creatives: Donal O’Dea & Adrian Cosgrove
Sound: Avondale

Director: Gavin Kelly
Producer: Emily Brady
DOP: Aidan Maguire
Editor: Damien McDonnell
Compositors: Gavin Kelly & Arron Inglis
Tracking: Gavin Hoffman
Agency: Owens DDB
Agency Producer: John Gildea
Creatives: Donal O’Dea & Adrian Cosgrove
Sound: Avondale

Client: Eddie Rockets
Agency: Bonfire
Managing Partner: Sean Hynes
Managing Partner: Ian Doherty
Production Company: Filmular
Director: Andy Sherman
D.O.P.: Aidan Maguire
Food Stylist: Johan van der Merwe

Production Company - Ishka Films
Writer/ Producer/ Director - Mia Mullarke & Alice McDowell
Director of Photography - Aidan Maguire
Sound Recordist & Mixer - Simon Murph
Additional Sound Recordist - Rory O'Flyn
Composer - Anna Mullarke
Recorded at Forge Studios, Galway
Synth - Anna Mullarkey
Fiddle - Alice McDowell
Double Bass - Sam Wright
Harp - Hazel Collins
Sound Engineering and Mixing - Liam King
Mastered by Fergal Davis
Animation Company - Small Fry Animation
Animation Director/Animation - David Blanche
Animation/CG Layout - Tess Atkins
Visual Development - Hubert Forgeot
Storyboard/Animation - Rosemary Andrews
Film Editor - Whitney Eddison
Colourist - Sophia Tamburrin

Needle Exchange tells the story of Spencer and Glenn, two best friends who helped each other swap their heroin habits with a passion for tattoos. Ink is their link, but their bond is tested when a new romantic relationship threatens the friendship.

Winner - Best Short Documentary, Galway Film Fleadh 2011

Official Selection:

Winterthur International Short Film Festival 2013
Tampere International Short Film Festival 2011
Sheffield DocFest 2011
Worldwide Short Film Festival Toronto 2011
Bristol Encounters International Film Festival 2011
International Competition, Cork Film Festival 2011
AFI/Discovery Channel Silverdocs, Washington DC 2012
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2012

“The touching and brilliantly-named documentary, Needle Exchange, featured two recovering drug addicts and best friends who have taken up tattooing. Honest, heart-breaking and very, very funny; this wonderful Reality Bites piece was masterfully put together by director Colm Quinn.”

- Film Ireland review from Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2011

Director - Colm Quinn (@colm_quinn) 
Producer - Andrew Freedman
Director of Photography - Aidan Maguire
Editor - Maeve O'Boyle
Music - Denis Clohessy