Maeve Murphy
| Maeve Murphy | |
|---|---|
| Born | Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK |
| Occupation | Writer/Director |
| Website | www |
Maeve Murphy is an award winning screen writer and film director.
She was born in Belfast in Northern Ireland. Educated at Cambridge University, while there, she was the secretary of the Cambridge Footlights. After graduating Maeve worked in theatre where she was a co-founding member of "Trouble and Strife" theatre company. She then worked in film at Parallax Pictures.
Maeve’s first short Amazing Grace starring Aiden Gillen and Clare Cathcart and was screened at the London Film Festival and the Edinburgh Film Festival before being screened on Channel Four and bought by Film Four. Her second short Salvage, starring Orla Brady, premiered at the Cork Film Festival and was shown on UTV (Northern Ireland) and RTÉ in Éire and was released by the BFI.
Her first feature film Silent Grace, a prison drama, starring Orla Brady, Cathleen Bradley, Cara Seymour, Patrick Bergin and Conor Mullen, premiered at a market screening at Cannes and screened at the Galway, Moscow Film Festival, Taormina and the Hamptons Film Festival, USA, where it was nominated for the Conflict and Resolution Award in association with Nobel Peace Laureates Foundation. The film was positively reviewed by Ronnie Scheib in Variety and by Michael Dwyer in the Irish Times. Silent Grace was based on a play/screenplay that Maeve co-wrote with other members of Trouble and Strife called Now and at the Hour of our Death and inspired by Nell McCafferty's The Armagh Women. Tara Brady, of the Dublin Hot Press, said of the film, "Wonderfully humane, Maeve Murphy must be something of a genius, Orla Brady is magnificent." Silent Grace is a fictional drama based on real events, covering the largely untold story of Republican women prisoners’ involvement in the Dirty Protests and first Hunger Strikes of 1980/1981. Guerilla Films released it via UGC cinemas in London, Belfast and Dublin in 2004, and it was supported by the Irish Film Board. Maeve went on to win the Soka Art Award.
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