Leo Regan | |
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| Occupation | Filmmaker |
| Awards | Director's Guild Outstanding Directorial Achievement 2005, BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award 2001 |
Leo Regan is an Irish filmmaker and author. Initially working as a photojournalist, Regan began his career with the book Public Enemies (1993). [1] He later became involved in documentary filmmaking, and in 2001 won a BAFTA for his documentary 100% White. [2]
Regan was born in 1963, [3] and grew up in Dublin, Ireland. [4]
He began his career as a photo journalist with the book Public Enemies, [1] which explores the lives of British far right skinheads in the 1990s.[ citation needed ]
In 2001, Regan turned his attention to documentary filmmaking [5] [ time needed ] and won the BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award at the (2001) 54th British Academy Film Awards for his documentary 100% White. [2] A 2002 review in Modern Times credited Regan's "single crew films" as going "back to observational basics – a good lesson in the current British climate of gimmicky constructed documentaries". [6]
In 2005, he received an award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain for his TV drama Comfortably Numb. [7]
In 2023, Regan released the last of a trilogy of films on his friend and collaborator Lanre Fehintola. The independent feature documentary "My Friend Lanre" premiered at Sheffield Docfest in 2023, [8] and was later screened at Curzon Cinema, [9] Cork Film Festival, [10] and Docs Ireland (2024) [11]