Sinéad Murphy
Film & TV
Sinéad Murphy is a filmmaker and television director. She studied Art & Design at the University of Belfast specialising in video installation. From there, she completed several film courses including studying at the prestigious UCD School of Film before moving permanently to Dublin to work in the Film Industry. This led her to New Zealand where she worked for several years as an assistant director. She moved back to Ireland and in 2007 she crossed over to the television sector where she began directing full time in 2008. That same year she wrote and directed her first short film called ‘Love and Depth,’ produced by 925 Productions.
TV Director
Sinéad is currently Producing and Directing the Richie Sadleir documentary series for RTÉ called ‘Lets Talk About Sex,’ which examines the current sex education curriculum in Ireland. This will be broadcast in 2023.
In the television sector, Sinéad has been Series Director with writing credits on multiple series in Ireland and the UK ranging from factual to science to comedy. Most notably for RTÉ ‘Anonymous,’ series 3 and 4 (2008-2009), ‘The Model Agent,’ (2010) and Channel 4’s ‘Trojan Donkey,’ (2013).
Sinéad has directed the RTÉ science series ‘10 Things to Know About,’ since 2017. In 2020 during the pandemic, she produced and directed ‘My Uni Life,’ the year-long fly-on-the-wall documentary series about disadvantaged students.
In 2022 Sinead produced directed and filmed the documentary ‘Border Memories,’ which was part-funded by Northern Ireland Screen and Create Louth.
Film
In recent years Sinéad has gone back to her love of film.
In 2019 Sinéad produced, directed and co-wrote ‘Repossession,’ the short horror film set in the rural landscape of South Armagh. The award winning horror short had a successful run in Irish and International film festivals.
In 2020 Screen Ireland funded ‘Expulsion,’ a period horror, set in an orphanage. ‘Expulsion,’ was written and directed by Sinéad and completed in June 2020. It won the audience choice award at the Louth International Film festival in 2021 and was selected for numerous film festivals including, Galway Film Fleadh, Cork Film Festival, Dublin International Film Festival, The Big Apple Film Festival NYC and LA Shorts amongst others.
Sinéad is currently working on several documentary projects, Irish based and international including a feature-length documentary about musician Gerry O’Connor, ‘Fiddler of Oriel.’ She has also produced, directed and filmed a short documentary - ‘Mr Wilmer,’ about the legacy of an immigrant cabaret performer from Hells Kitchen NYC which will complete filming in 2023.
Sinéad’s passion is for writing is developing several feature film scripts; comedy horror ‘The Gash,’ and a dark Thriller, ‘SLUDGE.’