Port Pictures Ltd
Martina Niland
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Founded by acclaimed producer Martina Niland, Port Pictures is an exciting and innovative production company based in Ireland. Martina is a well-established producer with over twenty years’ experience in the industry and has produced a vast and impressive number of critically acclaimed film & television projects.
Among Martina’s most successful productions are Academy Award winning Once (2007) and Golden Globe nominated Sing Street (2016), both by award-winning Writer/Director John Carney. Some of her other producing titles include Pavee Lackeen (Dir: Perry Ogden), which was selected as one of only seven films to screen at the International Critics Week sidebar section of the Venice Film Festival. Both Snap (Dir: Carmel Winters) and Run & Jump (Dir: Oscar nominated Steph Green), had their world premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival. In 2018 Float Like a Butterfly (Dir: Carmel Winters), won the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Martina also acted as producer and executive producer on three seasons of the BBC/RTE Rose d'Or nominated comedy series, The Young Offenders (Dir: Peter Foott) for Vico Films Ltd. In 2019 Martina produced the Canadian/Irish film Death of a Ladies' Man, starring Gabriel Byrne and directed by Matt Bissonnette. Celluloid Dream are acting as sales agents for the film. She is also a producer on Wild Mountain Thyme by John Patrick Shanley (‘Moonstruck’, ‘Doubt’), starring Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Christopher Walken and Jon Hamm. HanWay are handling international sales with Bleecker Street releasing in the US and Lionsgate in the UK and Ireland. In 2021 Martina acted as co-producer on episodes of Amazon Studios’ anthology series Modern Love, series two. Also in 2021, Martina produced Holding, a 4 x 1 hour drama for ITV Studios directed by Kathy Burke and based on the Graham Norton best-selling novel.
Martina is currently prost production on Four Mothers, with writer/director Darren Thornton (‘A Date for Mad Mary’) and starring James McArdle (Mare of Easttown) and Fionnula Flanagan (The Others, Lost). MK2 are attached as the sales agent for the film.
For a full list of credits please visit www.portpictures.ie
Productions
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2022Four MothersFeature Film
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2022HoldingDrama
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2021Modern LoveTV Series
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2020Death of a Ladies' ManFeature Film
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2020Wild Mountain ThymeDrama
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2018Float Like a ButterflyDrama
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2018The Young OffendersTV Series
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2016Sing StreetFeature Film
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2013Run & JumpDrama
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2012MiloFeature Film
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2012GrabbersFeature Film
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2010SnapDrama
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2007OnceFeature Film
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2005Pavee LackeenDrama