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Alan Gilsenan
Alan Gilsenan is an Irish writer, filmmaker and theatre director. His most recent work include the award-winning cinema documentary The Days of Trees, the feature film Unless, based on a novel by Carol Shields and The Meeting, which he wrote and directed and premiered at the 2018 Dublin Film Festival.
Gilsenan is a former chairperson of the Irish Film Institute. He also served on the Irish Film Board, and on the board of the International Dance Festival Ireland. Between 2009 and 2014, Gilsenan served on the board of Raidió Teilifís Éireann, where he chaired the Editorial and Creative Output Committee. He is currently on the Board of Fighting Words, a creative writing centre for young people founded by Sean Love & novelist Roddy Doyle.
Born in County Meath in Ireland, Gilsenan grew up on Raglan Road in Ballsbridge in Dublin, where he attended St. Conleth's College.
A graduate of Trinity College Dublin – he won First Class Honours in Modern English and Sociology – Gilsenan received the inaugural A.J. Leventhal Scholarship. He was also editor of Piranha magazine while at Trinity.
Gilsenan's grandfather was James John O' Shee (3 November 1866 – 1 January 1946), usually known as J.J. O' Shee was an Irish nationalist politician, solicitor, labour activist and Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons representing the constituency of West Waterford from 1895 until 1918.
Having made an acclaimed film of Samuel Beckett's TV drama, Eh Joe, Gilsenan came to note with his controversial, award-winning documentary for the U.K.'s Channel 4 The Road to God Knows Where in 1990. With producer Martin Mahon, he formed Yellow Asylum Films and made a number of documentaries on challenging aspects of Irish life. These include The Asylum (a four-hour portrait of Portrane Psychiatric Hospital), The Hospice (inside St Francis Hospice), The Home (about old age), I See A Darkness (about suicide in Ireland), and A Time to Die (on euthanasia).
Gilsenan's Other major documentary work includes
Gilsenan's earlier film career includes the short thriller Zulu 9 as well as two experimental feature films All Souls’ Day and Timbuktu.
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Alan Gilsenan
Alan Gilsenan is an Irish writer, filmmaker and theatre director. His most recent work include the award-winning cinema documentary The Days of Trees, the feature film Unless, based on a novel by Carol Shields and The Meeting, which he wrote and directed and premiered at the 2018 Dublin Film Festival.
Gilsenan is a former chairperson of the Irish Film Institute. He also served on the Irish Film Board, and on the board of the International Dance Festival Ireland. Between 2009 and 2014, Gilsenan served on the board of Raidió Teilifís Éireann, where he chaired the Editorial and Creative Output Committee. He is currently on the Board of Fighting Words, a creative writing centre for young people founded by Sean Love & novelist Roddy Doyle.
Born in County Meath in Ireland, Gilsenan grew up on Raglan Road in Ballsbridge in Dublin, where he attended St. Conleth's College.
A graduate of Trinity College Dublin – he won First Class Honours in Modern English and Sociology – Gilsenan received the inaugural A.J. Leventhal Scholarship. He was also editor of Piranha magazine while at Trinity.
Gilsenan's grandfather was James John O' Shee (3 November 1866 – 1 January 1946), usually known as J.J. O' Shee was an Irish nationalist politician, solicitor, labour activist and Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons representing the constituency of West Waterford from 1895 until 1918.
Having made an acclaimed film of Samuel Beckett's TV drama, Eh Joe, Gilsenan came to note with his controversial, award-winning documentary for the U.K.'s Channel 4 The Road to God Knows Where in 1990. With producer Martin Mahon, he formed Yellow Asylum Films and made a number of documentaries on challenging aspects of Irish life. These include The Asylum (a four-hour portrait of Portrane Psychiatric Hospital), The Hospice (inside St Francis Hospice), The Home (about old age), I See A Darkness (about suicide in Ireland), and A Time to Die (on euthanasia).
Gilsenan's Other major documentary work includes
Gilsenan's earlier film career includes the short thriller Zulu 9 as well as two experimental feature films All Souls’ Day and Timbuktu.