Niamh Fagan Holmes

Biography

Niamh Fagan?Producer?Lunar Pictures?Biography Niamh started her film career as an editing trainee on Jim Sheridan’s Oscar winning film, In The Name Of The Father. She then continued her apprenticeship on films such as Pat O’Connor’s Circle Of Friends, Lewis Gilbert’s Haunted, John Cleese’s Fierce Creatures and Alan Pakula’s Devil’s Own.   Niamh then went on to become a first assistant editor and worked on Stuart Gordon’s Space Truckers, travelled to Los Angeles to work on Michael Caton-Jones’ remake of The Jackal, then from the USA to the wild west coast of Ireland’s, Achill Island to work on Cathal Black’s Love and Rage. Niamh then went on to work on Neil Jordan’s In Dreams and Angelica Heuston’s Agnes Browne.   Ready to brave the world of editing and after cutting over ten short films Niamh edited her first feature film, Peaches written and directed by award-winning playwright, Nick Grosso, and then edited H3 for Les Blair, for which she was nominated for an Irish Film and Television Academy Award.   Niamh decided to leave the days of dark rooms behind and concentrate on developing and producing projects in both feature film and television drama initially for Great Western Films and now for her company Lunar Pictures. In 2005 Niamh produced a six-part television drama series for RTE2 The Last Furlong starring Simon Delaney, Orla Fitzgerald & Domhnall Gleeson. In 2006 she produced the drama series, Trouble In Paradise starring Angeline Ball, Lorcan Cranitch & Brian Gleeson also for RTE2. She then produced TG4’s highly successful comedy drama and IFTA award winning Rasaí na Gaillimhe series one and series two starring Don Wycherly, Owen Roe & Carrie Crowley, winning a CIRCOM award in Malmö in 2012. In 2014 Niamh produced From Galway to Greenland, an adventure sailing documentary feature for TG4. Niamh was a participant on the EAVE Producers workshop 2013