Conor Horgan is an Irish photographer, writer and filmmaker.[1]
Horgan first trained as a photographer, before moving into directing TV commercials.[1] He has directed over 70 commercials and has won Best Director and Best Photographer at the Irish Advertising Awards. His first short film, The Last Time, starring Linda Bassett, received a nationwide cinema release in Ireland and was the recipient of the UIP Director Award and Best Irish Short at the Cork Film Festival.[2]
Horgan's first feature film is One Hundred Mornings, which premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2010, winning the Special Mention Award. One Hundred Mornings also won the Vortex Sci-Fi & Fantasy Award at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and the Writers Guild of Ireland Best Feature Film Script Award.
In 2015, his feature documentary The Queen of Ireland debuted in Ireland, breaking the record for an opening weekend for an Irish documentary.[3]
When 15 Horgan was a puppeteer on the Irish children's program Wanderly Wagon. He left school at 16 and spent several years travelling around Europe, working in Greece and Morocco as a geo-electrical surveyor for the University of Hamburg's Institut für Geophysik.
Horgan has a long-standing visual arts practice, most recently with Post-State,[4] a solo exhibition of photographs in the RHA Ashford Gallery. His work has also been shown in Highlanes Gallery[5] and many others.
