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Martin Duffy is a Director and Writer Irlandais born on 25 august 1952 at Dublin (Irlande)
Martin Duffy (born 25 August 1952 in Dublin) is an Irish filmmaker and writer.
Starting as a film-editor at Radio Telefís Éireann in the late 1970s, he expanded into writing children's shows in the 1980s with the Lambert Puppet Theatre, Wanderly Wagon, Fortycoats & Co., Bosco and Scratch Saturday. He left Irish national television in 1989 to become a freelance editor and in 1995 found funding for his first feature film, The Boy from Mercury, a film set in 1950s Dublin about a young boy whose life revolves around the escapism of Saturday afternoon Flash Gordon serials at his local cinema. The film received international critical acclaim and several awards, but was a commercial dud. Martins book about the making of the film, The Road to Mercury, is an insightful look into the mechanisms of the Irish film industry.
He has since directed three feature films, continuing to work with young actors and creating family films, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, starring Elijah Wood, The Testimony of Taliesin Jones and Summer of the Flying Saucer, a family film about a UFO that crashlanded in rural Ireland in 1967. He continues to work as a freelance editor when he is not directing, and has written several books for children, as well as a travelogue and a family history. He now resides in Berlin, Germany.
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Martin Duffy
Starting as a film-editor at Radio Telefís Éireann in the late 1970s, he expanded into writing children's shows in the 1980s with the Lambert Puppet Theatre, Wanderly Wagon, Fortycoats & Co., Bosco and Scratch Saturday. He left Irish national television in 1989 to become a freelance editor and in 1995 found funding for his first feature film, The Boy from Mercury, a film set in 1950s Dublin about a young boy whose life revolves around the escapism of Saturday afternoon Flash Gordon serials at his local cinema. The film received international critical acclaim and several awards, but was a commercial dud. Martins book about the making of the film, The Road to Mercury, is an insightful look into the mechanisms of the Irish film industry.
He has since directed three feature films, continuing to work with young actors and creating family films, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, starring Elijah Wood, The Testimony of Taliesin Jones and Summer of the Flying Saucer, a family film about a UFO that crashlanded in rural Ireland in 1967. He continues to work as a freelance editor when he is not directing, and has written several books for children, as well as a travelogue and a family history. He now resides in Berlin, Germany.
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Summer of the Flying Saucer (2008)
Directed by Martin Duffy
Genres Science fiction
Actors Robert Sheehan, Lorcan Cranitch, Hugh O'Conor
Rating51%
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (2000)
, 1h36Directed by Martin Duffy, Martin Duffy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Elijah Wood, Rachael Leigh Cook, Janeane Garofalo, George O. Gore II, Joseph Perrino, Adam LaVorgna
Rating62%
Barney Snow (Elijah Wood) wakes up in a hospital with no memory of why he is there. All he has is his name and some vague recollections of a car crash. He assumes that he is in the hospital for his amnesia and settles in to try to recover. He quickly realizes that all of the other residents of the youth clinic are all suffering from terminal illnesses.
The Boy from Mercury (1996)
, 1h27Directed by Martin Duffy
Genres Fantasy
Actors Rita Tushingham, Tom Courtenay, Hugh O'Conor, Ian McElhinney
Rating71%
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The Boy from Mercury (1996)
, 1h27Directed by Martin Duffy
Genres Fantasy
Actors Rita Tushingham, Tom Courtenay, Hugh O'Conor, Ian McElhinney
Roles Writer
Rating71%