Howard Linnane


Location: Dublin, Ireland

Credits

Year Job Title
Project Type		 Project Name
Director / Company		 Location
2012 role of Father of a suicide
Film 		'Inspirations' student short (dir Grainne Keogh); Dundalk IT
2010 role of Old Man
Film 		‘Missed’ short film; commercial production (dir Maureen O’Connell)
2008 role of Father
Film 		'Mother Nature's Son' TCD student short (dir Tom Rowley)
2018 role of Eamon, owner of rural roadside garage
Film 		'Pit Stop' graduation film (dir Rachel Smyth); DIT Media Arts degree
2017 lead role of Mr Bender
Film 		'Studio A' graduation film by students of Film, TV and Digital Media degree at Bath University
2015 role of Fr Michael (officiant at funeral Mass)
Film 		‘An Unlikely Obsession’ graduation film for Creative Digital Media degree, ITT (dir Alan O'Donoghue)
2014 role of husband Erik, at 42
Film 		'Denouement' NFS graduation film (dir Aaron Hennessy); National Film School (IADT-DL)
2011 role of Interviewer of job applicant
Film 		'Staff Wanted' student short (dir Emmet Dignam); Media Studies, Liberties College Dublin
2021 role of Wallace, who is murdered on screen
Film 		'Southbound Skulls', online feature film (dir Adam Smith)
2020 Browser in public library disturbed by lead characters
Film 		'The New i', pilot episode for TV series (wr/dir Oluwafunmilayo Ayibiow, for Lafunentertainment LEL)
2019 role of Father hugging his adult son
Film 		music vid for 'Someone Else' by Jackie Beverly (dir Siobhain Kehoe); TinyArk media agency
2006 lead role of Walker
Film 		‘Bongo Bong' short film; commercial production (dir Ken Wardrop, for Venom Films Ltd)
2016 role of Uncle Tom
Film 		'The Ladies' short film; commercial production (dir Jake McKone) for Alice Productions Ltd
2013 role of Judge
Film 		'Watch Her Disappear' short film; commercial production (dir George Hooker)
2022 lead role of Eamonn Doyle who, with his wife, runs a garden centre where strange things are going on
Film 		'Dead and Buried' graduation film (dir Michael Coady); Dundalk IT (DkIT)
2009 role of Doctor
Film 		'Off My Cock’ student short (dir Ged Murray); 2nd year BA Film & Television Production, NFS/IADT-DL
2016 role of Officiant at civil wedding ceremony
Film 		'Why I Married Karen' student short (dir Taofeeqat Olanlokun); 2nd year DIT Media Arts
2021 role of Coroner examining human remains at crime scene in dramatised reconstruction
Film 		'Bloodline Detectives' crime-doc series (Peninsula TV)
2020 role of Frank (the father of one woman character and grandfather of the other)
Film 		'Ballcourt' graduation film (dir Heidi Kivikallio); Ballyfermot College of Further Education (BCFE)
2012 role of Lecturer
Film 		'Zombie Holocaust’ student short (dir Max Ramsbottom); DIT Media Arts degree project
2010 role of Howard
Film 		‘The Holy Child of Oliver’ short film; commercial production (dir Craig C Kavanagh)
2009 lead role of would-be time traveller Mr Who
Film 		'Mr Who?' graduation film (dir Tadeusz Cantwell): BIFE
2018 role of Enda
Film 		'Carmella' graduation short (dir Roisin Lowry); DCU MultiMedia Masters postgraduate degree project
2014 role of TV reporter
Film 		‘News Remake’ commercial short film (dir Ciaran O’Donnell)
2011 role of Tramp/Van Gogh
Film 		‘Vincent’s Picture’ short film; commercial production (dir Thomas Quain)
2019 role of police detective in dramatised reconstruction
Film 		'Evidence of Evil' crime-doc series (Peninsula TV)
2018 role of Dr Murray
Film 		'I am Conor' graduation short (dir Miriam Fitzsimons); Maynooth University
2014 role of Doctor delivering diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome in a small boy, to his parents
Film 		'Benjamin' DIT student short (dir Michelle Duong)
2012 role of Jessica's Father
Film 		‘Even Secret Agents Have a Bad Day’ short film; commercial production (dir Robert Browning)
2019 role of plain-clothes cop in dramatised reconstruction
Film 		'Celebrity Obsession' documentary series (Peninsula TV)
2011 role of Ross (Manager)
Film 		‘Square Eyes’ TCD student short (dir Eoin Maher)
2010 role of the Laughing Pasta-eater
Film 		'The Meaning is in the Soup' short film; commercial production (dir Stephen Byrne)
2020 role of Newscaster
Film 		'News Story' graduation film (dir Conor Going); Bray Institute of Further Education (BIFE)
2011 lead role of Gangster
Film 		‘Grand Canal Docks’ (aka 'Shoes') TCD student short (dir Roxana Richters, Svea Haugwitz)
2010 lead role of Dr Freedman
Film 		‘Innocent Hand, Guilty Glove' student short (dir Martin Kilpatrick) for Digital Hub's Film/TV course
2012 role of Timmy (pub regular)
Film 		'No Messages' short film; commercial production (dir Cian McGarrigle)
2018 role of Referee in a soccer match
Film 		'Love Lane United' short film; commercial production (dir Jack Thornton)
2019 role of philanderer Kevin
Film 		'Burnt Out' student short (dir Rob Morton); Dun Laoghaire Further Education Institute (DFEi)
2018 role of Sam (sexually abusive secondary schoolteacher)
Film 		'Into the Fog' graduation short (dir Mia Queiroz); Bray Institute of Further Education (BIFE)
2019 role of member of small audience at concerto
Film 		'A Film', performance of Gluck's 'Melodie' (dir Bex Day, for Hot Potato Productions)
2012 role of Mordecai
Film 		‘President Jakobi (and the Unpopular Government Policy) student short (dir Alex Kavanagh); DBS Arts

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About me

I began in filmmaking in 2004, having changed career direction in order to realise my original ambition from my student days to write and direct films after working as a lawyer both in practice and in legal education, research and training. Going the practical route to garner as much film-making experience as I could in different crewing positions in as many departments involved in the making of a film as possible, I worked on more than thirty film and tv productions - mainly short films - while doing over a dozen part-time courses in different areas of film production along the way and several courses in screen acting - initially only in order to help prepare me for directing actors later and to get on more sets, but I've since come to actually enjoy acting in interesting film projects and I've acted in over sixty so far including five in 2018, five in 2019, three in 2020, two in 2021 and one so far this year.

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  • I began in film-making in 2004, having changed career direction in order to realise my original ambition from my student days to write and direct films after working as a lawyer both in practice and in legal education, research and training. Going the practical route to garner as much film-making experience as I could in different crewing positions in as many departments involved in the making of a film as possible, I worked on more than thirty film and tv productions - mainly short films - while doing over a dozen part-time courses in different areas of film production along the way.
    My most recent crewing job was in mid-August 2020 when I worked as the AD on a pilot for a proposed TV series 'The New i' (wr/dir/pr Oluwafunmilayo Ayibiow, aka La'Fun) being made in Dublin for Lafunentertainment LEL, her own production company.

    I've attended the following p/t training courses in film-making:
    ‘Film and Video Production’ course at the National Film School in Dun Laoghaire IADT- this Portfolio Preparation Course ran every Saturday from 9 October 2004 to 5 March 2005 – principal tutors Ken Wardrop and Andrew Freedman, assisted by other recent graduates of its BA degree course in Film & TV Production;
    ‘Legal Issues for Filmmakers’ one-day course - tutor Mark Byrne, lawyer, at Filmbase, April 2005;
    ‘Screenwriting for Beginners’ course (6 week/1 eve) at Filmbase, April/May 2005 – tutor Lindsay Sedgwick;
    ‘DV Production and Online Broadcasting’ ) City & Guilds course (8-week/1-eve) at New Media Technology College, January-March 2006 – tutors Sarah Arnold et al;
    ‘Camera and Lighting Nightclass’, (6-week/1-eve) at Filmbase, February-March 2006 - tutor Ivan McCullough;
    'Advanced Screenwriting’ course (6 week/1 eve) at Filmbase, May/June 2006 – tutor Stephen Walsh;
    ‘Sound for Film’ course (one-weekend) at Filmbase, 10/11 June 2006 – tutor Noel Quinn;
    'Directing for Screen’ course (6-week/1-eve) at Filmbase, 25 July-29 August 2006 – tutor Vinny Murphy;
    ‘Producing a Short Film’ course (one-weekend) at Filmbase, 2/3 September 2006 – tutors Conor Barry and Brendan Culleton;
    ‘Assistant Director’ course (one-weekend) at Filmbase, 31 March/1 April 2007 – tutor Charlie Endean;
    ‘Heritage Documentary Filmmaking’ (five days) at the Heritage and Digital Media School, NorthernVisions/NvTv media centre, Belfast, Nov 2009;
    ‘Directing Short Films’ course (one day) at Northern Visions/NvTv media centre, December 2009 - tutor Hugh McGrory;
    ‘The Art of Editing’ course (one day) at Northern Visions/NvTv media centre, 8 March 2011 – tutor Brian Philip Davis.
    'Video Art & Film-making' course (10-week/1-eve) at Rathmines College and The MART Gallery & Studios, January-April 2016 - tutor Matthew Nevin. 'Experimental Film-making' course (10-week/1-eve) at Rathmines College and The MART Gallery & Studios, January -April 2017 - tutor Matthew Nevin.
    'Best Practice for Production Co-ordinators', an online course given by Screen Skills Ireland over 5 mornings in July 2020: tutors Sinead Barry and Kathy Tynan.
    (Full Crewing CV available on request.)