Léirithe Sónta

Address: Loch Con Aortha
Cill Chiaráin
Conamara
Co na Gaillimhe
Telephone: +353 (0)95 33933 / 33943
Fax: 095 33008
Website: http:// www.sonta.ie
Email: eolas@sonta.ie

Personnel:
Eamonn Ó Cualáin: Producer/Editor
Deirdre Uí Chualáin: Administration
Seán Ó Cualáin: Producer/Director
Cathal Ó Cuaig: Development Officer

Company Description:

Léirithe Sónta is a production company in Conamara who specialize in Documentary's and commit to the highest quality in storytelling, be that documenting the everyday mundane, to the horrors of landslides, the demystifying of literary giants to the delicate tale of a bishop’s secret lovechild. Our honest attention to the story and more importantly to the integrity of storytelling sets us apart.

Genre:
Documentary/Animation/Sports

Facilities/Services:
2 Offline Suites
1 Online Suite & Picture Grade

Available Wet&Dry hire

Final Cut Pro

Languages:
Gaeilge, English, Italian

In Development:

Slí na Fírinne, Drama 25mins x6 A drama series in conjunction with writer Mícheál Ó Conghaile. Slí na Fírinne will be a dark comedy based in a Gaeltacht nursing home. It will incorporate many of Cré na Cille’s themes and the patients will be as harsh and as humorous as they were in the outside world as the acrimonious relationships they had with each other in their previous lives continue in their new home.

Documentary 25 mins x4 We are also developing a series based on notable Irish-Americans who left their mark on the world. Among those were such people as the film director John Ford, the car-maker Henry Ford, father of the 23rd American President, Joseph Kennedy, and the king of animation, Walter Disney. Few Irish people know much about these men, fewer still know how greatly their Irish roots influenced their lives.

Documentary 52 mins x1 We are presently develpoing a documentary based on the famous photograph entitled Lunch a top a skyscraper. It was widely believed that these men, who were taking a break from their work on the Rockerfeller Centre, were Italian. However, recent evidence that has come to light reveals that two of these men were Galwegians. Documentary 5

52 mins x1 HOW THE WEST WAS FRAMED

Cé leis thú Documentary 52 mins x6 Geneology series

Pre Production:

HYDERBAD: for TG4 25mins x1
SCRÚDÚ: for TG4 25mins x4

Current Production:

SEO SPÓIRT 2 For: TG4 Sports 35minsx24 Series of 24 interactive sports show on the major sporting events of the week S

SÍÓG NA RANN For: TG4/BCI Documentary/Animation 25mins x4 In partnership with Cartoon Saloon, where 11 of the best known Irish language songs that best portray the rich Irish Oral tradition will be sung by the best singers in the country, all under the musical direction of Iarla Ó Lionáird.

JOE & CHE For: TG4 Documentary 25mins X6 An engaging series that sees Irelands most articulate political activist Joe Higgins travel to South America where he examines if Che Guevara’s legacy still survives as he discovers a continent nearing a crossroads.

Previous Production:

Director: SEÓ MAN For: NEWDECADE/TG4/BCI 52 minute documentary profiling Niall Tóibín.

Director: JACK CHARLTON For: NEMETON/TG4 52 minute documentary profile on the life of Irelands favourite Englishman

AN MAOR for: TG4 26 minute documentary bluntly telling the story of the damage caused to Irish waters and fish-stocks as seen by Paddy O'Flaherty, an ex-fisheries inspector

SEO SPÓIRT 1 For: TG4/BCI Series of 16 interactive Sports show on the major sporting events of the week – football, hurling, soccer and rugby.

MÁIRTÍN Ó CADHAIN RÍ AN FHOCAIL For: RTÉ (Winner of Best Irish language at IFTA Irish Film Television Awards 2006) (Winner of Best Arts Documentary: Celtic Film Festival 2007) 52 minute documentarybased on the work of the talented writer Máirtín Ó Cadhain.

FÁISCTHE AS AN TALAMH For: TG4 (Nominated for Best Feature documentary; Celtic Film Festival 2006) 52 minute documentaryfollowing the life of a farming family over the period of a year – a time in which their connection with the land changes forever.

Director: MÍCHEÁL Ó HÉITHIR For: TG4/BCI 52 minute documentary based on the most recognised voice in Ireland for more than half a century – the voice of the GAA, Mícheál Ó hÉithir.

Executive Producer: AN TEACH GLAS For: TG4 Series of 6 x 25 minute programmes aimed at informing the public of the importance of energy conservation.

IS MISE JOE For: TG4 (Nominated for Best Feature documentary: Celtic Film Festival 2006) Documentary about one of the West of Ireland’s greatest social protestors, Joe Molloy from Corr na Móna.

Director: ORPHEUS NA NDÉISE For: TG4 Documentary about one of Ireland’s greatest ever singers, Nioclás Tóibín from an Rinn.

SAOL AR STÁITSE For: TG4 26 minute documentary based on the talented Galway actor, Diarmuid Mac an Adhastair Producer:

CÚILÍN DUALACH For: TG4, Bord Scannán na hÉireann (Winner of Best Animation at IFTA Irish Film Television Awards 2005) (Winner of Best Animation: Celtic Film Festival 2006) (Winner of Best Animation for Children: AniMadrid 2005) (Winner of Best Animation: Kerry Film Festival 2005) (Winner of Best Short Film: Cartoons on the Bay 2005) The funny but tragic story of Cúilín Dualach, a young boy with a special disability.

AN NOLLAIG THIAR For: TG4 40 minute documentary describing Christmas traditions in Connemara. Director/Producer:

SCANNALL. CASEY For: RTÉ 26 minute documentary about the scandal created by the Bishop of Galway, Eamonn Casey, and the effect it had on the Catholic Church.

Director/Producer: NA CEANNABHÁIN BHÁNA For: RTÉ 26 minute musical documentary based on two bachelors from Cárna who attract people from all over the world who come to listen to their music.

Director/Producer: POLL A TSÓMAIS. For: RTÉ 26 minute documentary made in the days following a landslide that devastated a Mayo Gaeltacht community.

Director/Writer: ROS NA RÚN…IS IOMAÍ RÚN FOR: TG4 40 minute docudrama celebrating 500 episodes of the soap Ros na Rún.

DARA BEAG FILE POBAIL For: TG4 52 minute documentary based on Dara Beag, poet and voice of his native island Inis Meáin.

Director/Producer: CRÍOCH NA CRUINNE THIAR For: RTÉ 26 minute documentary, presented by Páraic Breathnach, examining the customs and traditions that are associated with the island of Oileán Mhic Dara.

PADDY FITZ…FEAR AN HATA For: TG4 & RTÉ 26 minute documentary based on Paddy Fitzpatrick, the man who did not surrender.

MÉ FÉIN ‘S MO MHÉIT For: TG4 52 minute documentary telling the story of the changes that have happened to the small islands dotted around the Connemara coast over the past 50 years, as told light-heartedly by two old friends.

Awards:

MÁIRTÍN Ó CADHAIN RÍ AN FHOCAIL
(Winner of Best Irish language at IFTA Irish Film Television Awards 2006)
(Winner of Best Arts Documentary: Celtic Film Festival 2007)

FÁISCTHE AS AN TALAMH
(Nominated for Best Feature documentary; Celtic Film Festival 2007)

IS MISE JOE
(Nominated for Best Feature documentary: Celtic Film Festival 2006)

CÚILÍN DUALACH
(Winner of Best Animation at IFTA Irish Film Television Awards 2005)
(Winner of Best Animation: Celtic Film Festival 2005)
(Winner of Best Animation for Children: AniMadrid 2005)
(Winner of Best Animation: Kerry Film Festival 2005)
(Winner of Best Short Film: Cartoons on the Bay 2005)