Bio

Ruth Meehan is a writer director who has been producing award winning work for both film and television in Ireland and Britain since 1998. She is a graduate of both Dublin City University (BA hons in Communications) and of the NFTS in Beaconsfield, UK (MA in screenwriting) where her short film Numb, received a special commendation at the Edinburgh Film Festival.

In 2002 Ruth wrote and directed the short film And The Redman Went Green for Universal Studios, London. The film has won five major prizes; the Special Jury Prize at the Tehran Film Festival, the Prix Canal+ at Brest and the DepicT! ’06 Award at the Encounters Short Film Festival in the UK and the Kodak Prize, Raindance festival, UK.

Over the past decade Ruth has directed award winning documentaries including the groundbreaking What In The World series for RTE which won a Radhard award in 2006 for her documentary on Child Labour in India. She was a co-director on Imagining Ulysses’, an RTÉ/Blueprint Pictures, feature length documentary which won the top prize, Gold Hugo Award for Arts and Culture, at the esteemed Chicago Intercom Film Festival.

Along with her documentary work, Ruth has also developed three feature films with development funding from the Irish Film Board; Music By Water, (2002), West Of Eden, (2005) and The Silent One (2010). In 2011 Ruth was commissioned to write the feature film Raven On The Wing for Bedlam Productions London (The King’s Speech). In 2012 she was a recipient of the Screen Director’s Guild Arri Alexa award writing and directing The Measure Of A Man and received the Film Offaly award in 2013 to direct and adaptation of Clare Keegan’s award winning short story Men And Women which is currently screening on RTE’s Shortscreenstrand.