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Writer / Director

Jesse Gilbert

Films

Gleann - Feature Documentary / 2023-24

Gleann is a love letter to a remote valley on the Beara Peninsula. Throughout a cycle of the seasons, we drift between its inhabitants as they talk about life, love, death and bees. From farmers to musicians, children to nonagenarians we accompany a year in the life of a place and its people.
Official Selection: Galway Film Fleadh, Cork Independant Film Festival, Kerry International Film Festival
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What Is The Case / 2022

Commissioned detailing the work of a sculptor. The exhibition was a posthumous retrospective of his last series before his death and was filmed in Bury Gallery, Manchester.
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Saltwater / 2022

Saltwater is a short film about grief, loss and the power of the Atlantic. It draws on Irish and Icelandic myth and folklore to imbue it with elements of magical realism. 
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Official selection: Cork International Film Festival, Fastnet Film Festival
Winner: Audience Award Beara Film Festival
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To The Sea / 2021
To The Sea follows two young brothers on a magical adventure to the beach.
Official selection: cork independant film festival, Dingle Film festival.
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Ballast / 2020
Ballast traces the life of Michael, a man consumed by grief who builds an Hot air Balloon out of tissue paper.
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Winner: Best Debut Short, Galway Film Fleadh
Winner: Best Cork Short, Cork International Film Festival
Winner: Stockholm Indépendant Film Festival
​Finalist: Sheffield Independent Film Festival

Official selection: Chicago Irish film festival, Fastnet Film Festival, Still Voices Film Festival, Waterford International Film Festival, Leeds International Film Festival, The Richard Harris International Film Festival.


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The Way / 2019
The Way ​is a dark comedy about two siblings, Candice and Artemus. They travel the country selling the cremated ashes of their semi-famous father.
Official selection: ​ Watford Film Festival
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Nominations & Awards

Nominated for the Bingham Ray New Talent Award 2024
Winner of an Irish Writers Guild award for scriptwriting.
Awarded the Canon-Nahemi emerging talent award 2020

Winner of the Éirí arts award in photography

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