Connor Clements
Writer and director
Northern Ireland
Writer and director of James, an Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. His first feature, The Part We Played, is in development.
Raised in a house of secrets, James decides to tell one of his own.
- Sundance Film Festival, Official Selection, 2009
- Belfast Film Festival, Best Northern Irish Film
- Iris Prize Festival, Skillset Best UK Short
- Palm Springs International ShortFest, Jury Award, Best Student Short
Northern Ireland, the early 2000s. A young film student who has yet to make a film of his own falls for an older concert pianist, and for a world of music, grand hotels and Italian lakes he has only ever seen on screen.
Feature screenplay complete. Seeking an experienced producer.
Sundance 2009
James, Shorts Program IV
In January 2009 James was an Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. It screened in Shorts Program IV, one of eight films in a programme that included Next Floor by Denis Villeneuve, Short Term 12 by Destin Daniel Cretton and Sparks by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Shorts Program IV in the archiveThe 2009 Sundance Film Festival catalogue, page 66 (Scribd)
Selected work
- Child of the Dead End2009–10Irish-language feature documentary for TG4. Assistant editor and production manager
- Ribbons2011A short film made with twelve lone parents for Gingerbread NI, screened at the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast. Editor
- The Enigma of Frank Ryan2011–13Feature documentary for TG4. Additional director, and assistant editor to Nigel Galt; editor of the TG4 and cinema versions