Address:
Ashlawn, Wynberg Park, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
Telephone:
+353 1 280 3957
Mobile:
+353 87 239 6746
Fax:
+353 1 280 3957
Website: http://
www.anynewsinc.com
Email: blackrockpictures@gmail.com
Personnel:
Jerry O'Callaghan - Producer/Director
Jack Sutton - Cameraman
Denis O'Callaghan - Technical, web design, sales
Company Description:
Black Rock Pictures (t/a Any News Inc) is a film and television production company based in Dublin, working mainly on international documentaries.
Jerry O'Callaghan tooks a Masters degree in Agricultural Science from University College Dublin. He spent twenty-two years as a current affairs journalist wtih RTE, Irish Television, covering political, social and economic issues in Ireland and elsewhere - "Landmark", "Today Tonight", "Marketplace", "Prime Time". In 1994 he produced a feature film, "Broken Harvest". In 1999 he left RTE to set up Any News Inc and since then has travelled widely making television documentaries.
In 2007 he incorporated Black Rock Pictures (t/a Any News Inc) for mainly domestic productions.
Jack Sutton began his photographic career with Any News Inc in 1999 and has worked on all its projects since then.
Denis O'Callaghan took a degree in Electronic Engineering from University College Dublin, 2002. Prior to that he had worked and travelled in the US, Australia, SE Asia, and acquired a variety of experience. Since qualifying in summer 2002 he has worked in sales and web design
Genre:
Documentary, feature
Languages:
English, Irish
In Development:
'Hebron'
Observational documentary on life in the West Bank city of Hebron.
"Mannix"
Coproduction with Flaming Star Films, Australia. The extraordinary life of Daniel Mannix (1864 - 1963), President of Maynooth College, Ireland then Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia for fifty years.
"More Important Than Oil"
How the Anatolia Water Project in Turkey will control the water supply to the Middle East.
"The Untouchables"
Meeting the Interahamwe (now FDLR), the Hutu extremists who did most of the killing in Rwanda in 1994.
"Who Triggered the Rwanda Genocide"
The plane carrying President Habyarimana of Rwanda was shot down on 6 April 1994, setting off the 100-day Rwanda genocide. Who ordered the attack?
Previous Production:
"The Silent People" 1999
RTE. The story of East Timor's battle for independence. (33:08)
"The Pinochet Legacy" 2000
RTE. General Pinochet's attrocities in Chile. (34:06)
"Living With Fear" 2000
RTE. The life of Fr Brendan Forde in Columbia. (25:00)
"China - Behind The Great Wall" 2001
RTE. Life for one in every five human beings. (34:18)
"Seven Days in Tibet" 2001
The last battlefront between God and Mammon. (37:03)
"Beneath the Burqa" 2002
UNFPA. Women of Afghanistan and Pakistan grappling with the Taliban legacy. (33:05)
"Poland, Heart of Europe" 2002
EU. Poland's case for EU membership. (27:00)
"Congo, Heart of Africa" 2003
RTE. The forgotten war in Democratic Republic of Congo.
"Chechnya" 2005
RTE. Russian licence to kill behind the media blackout in Chechnya.
'Russia, Bright Picture, Dark Shadow'
Winners and losers in Russia's transition from communism to capitalism.
'On Another Man's Wound, Sceal Ernie O'Malley' 2008
TG4. The life of Ernie O'Malley (1898 - 1957) legendary action man from the Irish War of
Independence and the Civil War, also author, intellectual and art collector in later life.