Film premieres globally with Dundalk's New Street setting the scene
Dundalk IT lecturer shines as Director of Photography in Troubles film
A lecturer in Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) was Director of Photography and Lead Editor on the recent released film ‘The Troubles a Dublin Story’. The opening scenes of the film were shot on New Street in Dundalk and used to recreate Belfast in the 1980's.
Colm Mullen is a cinematographer, visual artist, and educator who currently lectures in cinematography and screenwriting at Dundalk Institute of Technology (DKIT) and is a co-founder and artistic director of the Louth International Film Festival. He is also an invited member of the IFTA academy’s prestigious cinematography chapter.
His work is collaborative and immersive and seeks collective exploration of social phenomenon. He explores ideas connected with identity, memory, community, and place. He has designed arts and health-based recovery programmes through the medium of film, photography, and animation in collaboration with the HSE and other support agencies.
The Troubles a Dublin Story is a hidden history story, based on true accounts of those involved, it explores rarely discussed events during The Troubles from the perspective of two working class brothers growing up in North Dublin in the 1980s.
Far removed from the horrors of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, but shocked by the atrocities they witness on television, they are naively drawn into the complex world of republicanism, gangsterism, the inevitable hypocrisy of the cause and the personal and moral consequences that entailed.
Colm was cinematographer on writer/director Frank Berry’s feature drama film, ‘I USED TO LIVE HERE’ which was nominated for three IFTA awards including best film and won best first feature at the Galway Film Fleadh.
He was also a cinematographer and editor on ‘LAST BREATH’ a film artwork by visual artist Marie Brett which partnered with and exhibited at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, (2018). Colm was selected as Filmmaker in residence in An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk in 2022.
The Troubles a Dublin Story had its world premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh and its North American premiere at the prestigious Newport Beach Film Festival, where it secured worldwide distribution. The film that was recently released in Ireland and the UK through High Fliers Film distribution (UK) and MPX Distribution (US) and will be released across North America in early March.
The film is available on DVD and to view online on iTunes, Amazon, Sky, Vubiquity-Virgin, Google and Microsoft in Ireland and UK.