Terry Loane

Writer/Director

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Annie Shipton

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Biography

Terry Loane is an Irish writer and director whose debut feature film, MICKYBO & ME, starring Julie Walters and Gina McKee, has won numerous awards as well as nominations at Edinburgh Film Festival and the Irish National Film and Television Awards.

Terry is based in Belfast where he is currently developing a number of his own projects, as well as continuing to write and direct for TV and film.

Director

Terry is an award-winning screenwriter, producer and director who lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He completed his Masters Degree in Fine Art Photography in 1994. After years designing for theatre and film, he completed Mickybo & Me in 2004, his debut as feature film director and screenwriter for Working Title Films and Universal Pictures. It won numerous awards on the international festival circuit. His second feature as director was Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018), starring Ruth Bradley, Ralph Ineson and Tim McInnerny. In 2010, Terry and actress/producer Geraldine Hughes set up Prodigal Films Limited to develop and produce feature films and television drama in Ireland and beyond. In 2022, Prodigal Films Limited developed, co-wrote and produced Prodigal Films’ first feature – ‘In The Land Of Saints And Sinners’ – starring Irish Oscar-nominees Liam Neeson, Ciarán Hinds and Kerry Condon. It was the first time Terry and fellow Irishman Mark McNally collaborated as writers on a feature script. ‘In the Land of Saints and Sinners’ was selected for the Horizons Extra Competition in the Venice Film Festival 2023.

In 2023, Terry completed his third feature as director, The Last Rifleman, starring Pierce Brosnan, Clémence Poésy, Jürgen Prochnow and John Amos.

Awards for Mickybo & Me include:

• Shortlisted for Michael Powell Award for Best British Film, Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2004.

• Nominated for six IRISH FILM AND TELEVISION AWARDS 2005, including Best Film, Best New Talent, Best Screenplay. It won the IFTA for Best Costume Design.

• BEST IRISH FILM in the BIG BUZZ IRELAND ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS 2005 • BEST FEATURE FILM in the BOSTON IRISH FILM FESTIVAL 2005.

• AUDIENCE AWARD at the International Children’s Film Festival, Chemnitz, 2005

• CIFEJ Award for BEST FILM in the OULU INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2005

• Children’s Jury Award for BEST FILM in the OULU INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2005

• BEST CHILDREN’S FILM, TIBURON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, USA, 2006 • GRAND PRIX (International Jury) Buster Film Festival, Copenhagen 2006

• GRAND PRIX (Children’s Jury), Buster Film Festival, Copenhagen 2006

• BEST DIRECTOR, OLYMPIA INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL, 2006

• BEST FILM, OLYMPIA INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL, 2006

• AUDIENCE AWARD – BEST FILM, Titanic International Film Festival Budapest, 2007

Credits

Television

Production	Company	Notes
WRECK 2022	BBC3 / Euston Films	2nd Unit Director, Prod: Chris Martin
TOM JONES 2021	ITV / Mammoth Screen	2nd Unit Director, Prod: Ben Greenacre
AN IRISH HEARTBEAT 2019	Dover Street Entertainment	Writer
AGATHA AND THE TRUTH OF MURDER 2018	Channel 5 / DSP	Director
THE TRUTH OF MURDER 2018	DSP TV	Director
THE SECRET SEVEN 2017	Sixteen South Television	Writer
THE WOMAN IN WHITE 2017	BBC / Origin Pictures	2nd Unit Director, Prod: David Thompson, Sarah Curtis
MILLIE INBETWEEN 3 2016	Zodiak / Foundation	Director
KILLING JESUS 2015	Fox/ ScottFree / National Geographic	2nd Unit Director, Prod: Aidan Elliot Mark Huffman
ROBOT OVERLORDS 2013	Pinewood Studios	2nd Unit Director, Prod: Mark Huffman, Aidan Elliot
6DEGREES	BBC	Director
AT WATER'S EDGE 2011	BBC / Mammoth Screen	Director
MAC / SEAN BEAN PROMO 2010	Working Title Films / Universal	Director
GAMES OF THRONES (Season 1) 2010	HBO	2nd Unit Director, Prod: Mark Huffam, Frank Doelger

Film

Production	Company	Notes
IN THE LAND OF SAINTS AND SINNERS 2023	Prodigal Films Limited / Facing East	Producer / Writer
THE LAST RIFLEMAN 2023	Wee Buns Films / Sky / Universal	Director
AFTER TOMORROW 2022	Jouska Enertainment / Palindrome Productions	Writer
JUST JOHNNY (Short) 2021	Doyen Pictures	Best Short Film, Giffoni Film Festival 2021 o Best Short Film – Children’s Film Festival Seattle, Audience Award o KINDER FILM FEST, KYOTO, Grand Prize – Best Short Film o Providence Children’s Film Festival, Audience Choice – Best Short Live Action o Giffoni Film Festival, Giffoni Experience Award – Best Short Film
NO FREE MAN 2021	Wee Buns Films	Writer
THE LAST LETTER 2018	Wee Buns Films	Director
SISTERS 2018	Cineman Films / Sleeper Films	Writer
THE FIRE GOSPEL 2016	Palindrome Productions	Writer
MORGAN 2016	Fox/ ScottFree	2nd Uni Director / Prod: Mark Huffman, Aidan Elliot
GEORGIE 2015	WB Films Limited	Writer
HALO: NIGHTFALL 2014	Scott Free/ Microsoft / Generator	Second Story Writer
BIGGER THAN JESUS 2012	Birdland Films	Writer
THE UPSIDE 2011	Prodigal Films Limited	Writer
THIS BEAUTIFUL FANTASTIC 2009	Constance Media	Writer
SUNRISE 2009	Generator Films	Writer
GODSPEED	Hudson River Entertainment	Writer
VANILLA GORILLA 2008	Generator Films	Writer
ALL OF IT	Shadowcatcher Entertainment	Writer
FORSAKEN 2007	Heaven's Gate Films	Writer
GOAL II: LIVING THE DREAM	Walt Disney Pictures	Writer Producers Matt Barrelle, Mike Jeffries
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS	Beacon	Writer
MICKYBO & ME	Working Title Films	Writer/Director Produced by Mark Huffam and Mike McGeagh With Julie Walters, Susan Lynch and Gina McKee * Shortlisted for the Michael Powell Award for Best British Film, Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2004 * Winner Best Irish Film in the Big Buzz Ireland Entertainment Awards, 2005 * Winner Best Feature Film in the Boston Irish Film Festival, 2005 * Winner Lichtenauer Audience Award at the Schlingel International Children’s Film Festival, Chemnitz, 2005 * Winner The Children’s Jury Award for Best Film in the Oulu International Film Festival, 2005 * Winner The CIFEJ Award for Best Film in the Oulu International Film Festival, 2005 * Nominated for six Irish Film and Television Awards, including Best Film (Jury and People’s Choice), Best New Talent and Best Screenplay. It won the IFTA for Best Costume Design, 2005 * Winner Best Children’s Film, Tiburon International Film Festival, USA, 2006 * Winner Grand Prix, International Jury, Buster Film Festival, Copenhagen, 2006. * Winner Grand Prix, Children’s Jury Buster Film Festival, Copenhagen, 2006 * Winner Best Director Olympia International Youth Film Festival, 2006 * Winner Best Film, Olympia International Youth Film Festival, 2006 * Winner Audience Award, Best Film at the Titanic International Film Festival, Budapest, 2007

In Development

Production	Company	Notes
SISTERS 2023	Sleeper Films	Writer/Director
THE UPSIDE	Prodigal Films	Writer/Director.
AN IRISH GIANT	Prodigal Films	Director/Producer
FARAWAY HOME	Powerscourt Pictures	Director.

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