Macdara Kelleher is Managing Director of Fastnet Films. The company have been nominated for over twenty-five Irish Film & Television Awards. Previous films have premiered at the Cannes, Toronto, Berlin, Locarno, Edinburgh and Telluride as well as been nominated for the European Film Awards and long listed for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. Recent credits include Kisses, nominated for the Independent Spirit Awards 2011 alongside The King’s Speech - sold by Focus Features it became the highest grossing Irish film of 2008/9. Nothing Personal - European Film Award Nominee 2010. The Runway - starring Oscar nominee Demian Bichir; The Other Side of Sleep - Cannes Film Festival 2011; The F-Word starring Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan; Life's a Breeze - Winner of Bingham Ray New Talent Award at The Galway Film Fleadh 2013 and Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking - Foreign Film at the Newport Beach Film Festival 2014; Mammal starring Rachel Griffiths, Barry Keoghan and Michael McElhatton, winner of Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2016. Upcoming films include The Belly of The Whale and Black 47.
