Pat Collins7

Pat Collins is a film maker from West Cork who has made 30 films over the last 20 years. In 2012, the Irish Film Institute curated a mid-career retrospective of his work to date. That They May Face the Rising Sun based on John McGahern’s novel premiered at the BFI London Film Festival in October 2023 and went on general cinema & critical acclaim. He has made films on writer John McGahern, poets Michael Hartnett & Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, singer Thomas McCarthy, & writer/cartographer Tim Robinson.