Brendan Muldowney


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
YearTitleDirectorWriterProducer
1994The Blind Lemmings Story
1999The Message
2002Innocence
2003Church of Acceptance
2003The Honourable Scaffolder
2004Beauty Queen
2004The Ten Steps
2006Final Journey

Feature film
YearTitleDirectorWriterExecutive
Producer
1998Retribution in the Year 2050
2009[Savage (2009 Irish people|Irish film)|Savage]
2013Love Eternal
2017Pilgrimage
2022The Cellar
2025Three Quick Breaths