Lenny Abrahamson was born in Dublin in 1966. He studied physics followed by philosophy at TCD where he won a foundation scholarship. While at university he directed short videos with the Trinity Video Society which he co-founded with Ed Guiney. He graduated in 1991 with first class honours (gold medal). After graduating, he directed the 16mm short film "3 Joes (1991)", which won the Best European ... show all
Lenny Abrahamson was born in Dublin in 1966. He studied physics followed by philosophy at TCD where he won a foundation scholarship. While at university he directed short videos with the Trinity Video Society which he co-founded with Ed Guiney. He graduated in 1991 with first class honours (gold medal). After graduating, he directed the 16mm short film "3 Joes (1991)", which won the Best European Short Film award at the Cork Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Galway Film Fleadh and the Organiser's Award at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, and which has been seen on television and at festivals all over the world. After a period of post-graduate study in philosophy at Stanford University in California he returned home. Since then, he has directed commercials for television in Ireland and worldwide. Several of his commercials have won international awards. He has just directed his first feature film, "Adam & Paul (2004)", which won the Best First Feature award at the 2004 Galway Film Fleadh, was shown at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado and has been selected in the Panorama section of the 2005 Berlin Film Festival. His work on "Adam & Paul (2004)" won him the Best Director award at the recent Irish Film and Television Awards. After graduating from college, he was torn between his love for film and Philosophy. He did both by making 16mm films and studying at Stanford University in California in 1991. Abrahamson, Lenny hide
Genres:Drama Countries:Ireland Directors:Leonard Abrahamson Actors:Pat Shortt | Anne-Marie Duff | Conor Ryan | Tommy Fitzgerald | Andrew Bennett | Denis Conway | George Costigan | Tom Hickey | John Keogh | Jason Nelligan | Don Wycherley | Una Kavanagh | Suzy Lawlor
Tragi-comedy from the margins of contemporary Irish life. Regarded by his neighbors as a harmless misfit, eliciting idle kindness, benign tolerance and occasional abuse, Josie has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of a crumbling petrol station on the outskirts of a small town in the mid-west of Ireland. He is limited, lonely, yet relentlessly optimistic and, in his own peculiar way, happy. But then over the course of a summer, Josie's world shifts. A teenager, David, comes to work with him. David likes him. They open up to each other and suddenly the lonely adult is drinking cans down at the railway tracks with the local kids. He is awakened to needs in himself that have never been met. And Carmel, from the local shop, who has always been kind to him, stirs feelings within him that he struggles to name. And then one thoughtless moment unravels the threads of faltering friendship. Events spiral. Josie's life is changed, forever. Download:
Genres: Drama