Address:
6 Warrington Place, Dublin 2
Telephone:
+353 1 611 4989
Fax:
+353 1 611 4986
Email: info@blueprintpictures.ie
Personnel:
The key personnel are producers David Blake Knox and Hilary Fennell.
Company Description:
Blueprint Pictures is a new independent television production company, based in Dublin.
Prior to forming Blueprint Productions in 2002, David Blake Knox worked in RTE and the BBC as an award winning writer, producer and director. In 1990 he was appointed Head of Drama and Entertainment and subsequently Director of Production in RTE. In 1998, he was appointed Executive Producer, Special Projects, Drama and Entertainment with BBC Television. While in RTE, he devised and produced the innovative late-night series "Nighthawks"; wrote and produced "A Song For Europe" - which won a Jacobs Award and a Torc at the 1991 Celtic Film Festival; produced "Gold In the Streets" which won a Prix Nikki in 1992; produced "A Mother's Love's A Blessing", which won a Torc at the 1994 Celtic Film Festival; was Executive Producer of "Family" - which won the Royal Television Society's Best Television Drama Award in 1995, and the European Television Programme of the Year in 1995; was Executive Producer of the drama series "The Hanging Gale" which won a BAFTA Award in 1996; produced "Hell for Leather" - which won a Silver Rembrandt Award in 1998; and was Executive Producer on the feature film "A Love Divided" in 2000 - which won a Silver Rembrandt Award, a Torc at the Celtic Film Festival and a Silver Nymph at the Monte Carlo TV Festival, all in 2000.
Since qualifying as a barrister, Hilary Fennell has spent the last twelve years working in television, both for RTE and in the independent sector - as well as working in radio and print journalism. During this time she has worked mainly in the area of documentaries and arts programming - as a series producer, broadcaster, journalist and editor.
Genre:
Documentary, music/arts, lifestyle, drama, entertainment
Languages:
English
Previous Production:
Blueprint Pictures is a Dublin based company, founded in 2002 by David Blake Knox. Blueprint has produced a wide range of TV programmes in the fields of entertainment, documentary and drama. Recent work includes: "Imagining Ulysses" - a critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning feature-length documentary about James Joyce’s novel. Like the originalbook, "Imagining Ulysses" comes in 18 different episodes - each of which relates to one of the episodes in Joyce's work. Blueprint has also produced other major arts documentaries – such as “Telling Stories to Ourselves”, made to mark 40 years of RTE’s television drama output, and “Waiting for Colgan”, a profile of one of Ireland’s leading theatrical producers. Blueprint also produces “Ryan Confidential” – a series of intimate profiles of leading figures in the world of arts, politics, sport and entertainment – which is about to commence its sixth season on RTE. In 2007, Blueprint produced “Limelight” – a series of short films written by some of Ireland’s major dramatists, to mark the 40th anniversary of the Dublin Theatre Festival