Shimmy Marcus

Shimmy Marcus
Born	1966 Dublin
Occupation	Film director, Sound engineer

Shimmy Marcus is an Irish filmmaker.

Marcus was born and raised in the Dublin suburb of Terenure, the son of Louis Marcus (twice Oscar nominated documentary film-maker). He was educated at Stratford College, and studied Business Management and Advertising in Dublin Institute of Technology.

After some years of traveling around the world, Marcus returned to Dublin in the early 90's to work briefly as a recording and live sound engineer before turning to stage lighting and design. He lit many of the popular Irish indie bands at the time including Engine Alley,LiR, Peach, The Unbelievable Children.

He wrote his first speculative screenplay Headrush over Christmas 1994 and it was optioned shortly after by Ed Guiney of Element Films. He made his first short film, 7th Heaven, in 1998 and picked up a variety of awards at various festivals around the world. In 1999, he won the Miramax Scriptwriting Award for Headrush.

In 2000 he released the feature documentary Aidan Walsh: Master of the Universe which he directed, produced, and co-edited about underground cult performer Aidan Walsh. The film went on to win awards and became the first documentary made on video to receive theatrical and video distribution in Ireland.

In 2003 he completed Headrush. Again Marcus received awards and positive reviews, but despite the praise of industry bibles such as Variety, the film failed to receive wide distribution. In 2005 he released the film himself across 10 screens in Ireland gaining a modest box office success.

Marcus continued experiment with different work, most notably his interpretations of three chapters from James Joyce's Ulysses in the feature documentary 'Imagining Ulysses' and his series of Limelight Shorts commissioned by the Dublin Theatre Festival to celebrate their 50th Anniversary.

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