The HeadStuff Podcast

38. Richie O’Donnell (Atlantic)

By Alan Bennett

Richie O’Donnell is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. His previous documentary, The Pipe was released to great acclaim and has now been followed by ‘Atlantic’. The latest documentary is ambitious in scope with Ireland, Newfoundland and Norway as the locations and with an interactive website and social media campaign behind it. We talk about how he went from a degree in theoretical physics in Trinity College Dublin, to a film course in Griffith College, to making wonderful documentaries about oil, gas and fishing resources. To me, he’s an excellent example of just going out and doing stuff. He didn’t know how to make documentaries until he made one. Then it won awards and now he’s an award-winning filmmaker. So there you go, just go out and do that thing you want to do, (unless it harms someone else, then don’t do it).

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Alan Bennett 159 posts 15 comments

Alan Bennett was a stand-up comedian for a while and during that time he toured with David O'Doherty and Maeve Higgins and did well in some competitions and co-ran Schnitzel Comedy Club. Then he started writing fiction and it has been published in several literary magazines and anthologies including 30 Under 30 which Joseph O'Connor chose as one of his books of the year for The Irish Times. He received a Masters with first class honours in creative writing from UCD and a BA in fine art painting from LSAD. Now he's working on getting his novel on, and being in charge of HeadStuff.org.

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