Ciarán Ó Cofaigh


Ciarán Ó Cofaigh, Irish Director and Producer.

Biography

A native of Ráth Cairn, Co. na Mí but now resident in Indreabhán, Co. na Gaillimhe, Ó Cofaigh has worked in the Irish film and broadcast industry for almost thirty years, and is co-founder and managing director of ROSG. He began by enrolling on a producer/director course established by Údarás na Gaeltachta and RTÉ. Following this he worked freelance on productions for RTÉ and BBC NI.
Ciarán is an experienced producer/director/animator, both in film and television. Amongst his award-winning productions are the feature film Cré na Cille ; the supernatural thriller series, Na Cloigne , the animate series Scéal na Gaeilge ,the thriller series An Bronntanas and the docu-drama feature Murdair Mhám Trasna . Ciarán is currently in production on the feature docu-drama, Avenger Ghaoth Dobhair .
He co-founded ROSG in 1998, a film and television company based in An Spidéal. ROSG has since produced a wide variety of films, drama, documentaries and even animations, winning national and international awards for their work.
He also co-founded and produced the Siol Scéal initiative of short films, a development scheme established by ROSG and Eo Teilifís to promote new talented writers and directors. From this scheme 24 half-hour short films have been produced and broadcast to date.
Ciarán has also tutored in Television and Broadcasting in University College Galway.
Ó Cofaigh produced an adaptation of the novel, Cré na Cille, by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, starring Bríd Ní Neachtain. It was viewed at a number of Irish and global film festivals such as the Shanghai International Film Festival.