Brendan Muldowney is an Irish screenwriter and film director, and graduate of the National Film School of Ireland at the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology.
Career
After graduating from the National Film School of Ireland, Muldowney wrote and directed 9 award-winning shorts. "Innocence" won the Tiernan McBride Award for Best Fiction Short at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2002 among many others, while "The Ten Steps" has won multiple awards including Best Short at the Sitges Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival.
His 2009 debut feature film Savage was nominated for 6 Irish Film and Television awards and he was nominated for the IFTA ‘Rising Star’ award. His second film, 2013's Love Eternal, has played at over 80 festivals worldwide and was winner of the ‘Dublin critics circle’ award for best Irish film at the 2014 Dublin Film Festival. His 2017 film Pilgrimage starring Tom Holland, Jon Bernthal and Richard Armitage, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and sold to multiple territories, including the United States and the United Kingdom.
He will direct the horror movie The Cellar, starring Elisha Cuthbert and Eoin Macken.
Filmography Short film Year Title Director Writer Producer 1994 The Blind Lemmings Story 1999 The Message 2002 Innocence 2003 Church of Acceptance The Honourable Scaffolder 2004 Beauty Queen The Ten Steps 2006 Final Journey
Feature film Year Title Director Writer ExecutiveProducer 1998 Retribution in the Year 2050 2009 Savage 2013 Love Eternal 2017 Pilgrimage 2022 The Cellar 2025 Three Quick Breaths
References
External links
Interview with Brendan Muldowney about Savage for meg.ie
SPFilms Official Website Galway Film something savage the movie
https://variety.com/2025/film/global/danny-dyer-three-quick-breaths-film-thriller-1236294975/