Ivan Kavanagh

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Ivan Kavanagh is an Irish filmmaker, writer and director, best known for Son (2021) The Canal (2014) and Never Grow Old (2019). He was born in Dublin, Ireland. [1] [2]

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His second feature film "The Solution" won Best Drama at the Portobello Film Festival 2007 in London. His third feature Tin Can Man won Boundary Breaking Best Feature at the Sydney Underground Film Festival 2007 and Best Actor for Patrick O'Donnell. It also won Best Foreign Film, Best Foreign Actor for Michael Parle and Best Foreign Director at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival 2008 and Best Cinematography at the Strasbourg International Film Festival 2008.

His 2009 feature film The Fading Light won Best Irish Film and Best Male Actor for Patrick O'Donnell at the Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards during the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2010. Amongst many other festivals, it also played in the World Cinema section of the prestigious Pusan International Film Festival 2010, South Korea and at the Titanic Film Festival 2011, Hungary. [3] [4]

Ivan's critically acclaimed psychological horror, The Canal (2014) produced by Park Films and financed by the Irish Film Board and Film Agency Wales, had its world premiere at the Tribeca International Film Festival 2014 in New York, and was subsequently released in cinemas worldwide to critical acclaim. [1] [5]

In 2019, Ivan's western Never Grow Old produced by Ripple World Pictures, starring John Cusack and Emile Hirsch, was released in cinemas worldwide, also to critical acclaim. [1] [6]

2021 saw the release of Ivan's latest critically acclaimed film Son (Park Films), which he wrote and directed, a psychological horror film, starring Andi Matichak and Emile Hirsch, which won the Silver Raven Award at the 39th Brussels International Festival of Fantasy. [1] [7]

At the 2021 Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival Ivan was presented with the George Byrne Maverick Award by the Dublin Film Critics Circle. [1] [8] [9]

He is the creator, writer and executive producer of a six part TV crime series The Vanishing Triangle (Park Films, 2023) and has a number of feature film projects in the works. [1] [10] [11]

Filmography

YearTitle
2021 Son
2019 Never Grow Old
2014 The Canal
2009 The Fading Light
2008Our Wonderful Home
2007 Tin Can Man
2007The Solution
2002Bandage Man [12]

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