Tristan Orpen Lynch has been involved in the Irish film and music industry since 1989.
With the production company he founded, Subotica Films Ltd, he produced the feature film production of Night Train starring John Hurt and Brenda Blethyn with J&M Entertainment, London completed in early 1999. Night Train, for which John Hurt won the best actor award at the Verona film festival, has screened to excellent reviews in many film festivals including Toronto, Cairo, Palm Springs, Brussels and Moscow and has been released in many countries worldwide.
In 1999 he formed Subotica Entertainment with partner Dominic Wright. In 2000 the company produced David Caffrey’s On The Nose, a comedy starring Robbie Coltrane, Dan Aykroyd and Brenda Blethyn. It also produced the eight part period drama Random Passage directed by John N Smith starring Colm Meany. The company also completed a major documentary on Ireland’s national theatre The Abbey Theatre for the centenary in 2004. Subotica’s feature, Song For A Raggy Boy, directed by Aisling Walsh, starring Aidan Quinn and Iain Glen, received an extended standing ovation at its world premiere in Sundance 2003 where it opened the World Cinema Section. It was been a major festival hit winning 9 awards internationally, including Best Film at the Copenhagen Film Festival.
Subotica produced Small Engine Repair (FKA In Like Flynn), a comedy drama set in the world of country music starring Iain Glen, Steven Mackintosh, Stuart Graham and Tom Murphy, which was released in 2007. Subotica also produced Damage in early 2007, a 2 part drama for RTE directed by Aisling Walsh and starring Olivia Williams and Natalie Press. Recent Features include Jimi: All Is By My side, a biography of Jimi Hendrix's early years, Gold starring James Nesbitt, Maisie Williams, David Wilmot,Miss Julie about a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, where a daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her and Unless, in which a writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and live on the streets. Based on the novel "Unless" by Carol Shields.
Tristan was appointed by the then Minister for Arts, John O'Donoghue, as a director of the Irish Film Board. He served on the board for eight years (2004-2012). He worked on the Irish Government’s Creative Capital Report into the development of the Audiovisual industries in Ireland. He is a Film and TV drama committee member of Screen Producers Ireland and was nominated Irish ‘Producer on the Move’ at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival by European Film Promotions.
