Terry McMahon - Irish Writer/Director - Charlie Casanova and Patrick's Day

Published: March 18, 2015, 4 p.m.

Writer-Director\xa0Terry McMahon\u2019s\xa0controversial debut\xa0Charlie Casanova\xa0won Best First Feature at\xa0Galway Film Fleadh\xa0and was distributed by\xa0Studio Canal.\xa0

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His follow up feature,\xa0Patrick\u2019s Day, won\xa0The Directors Guild of America Finders Series Award, The Grand Jury Prize at\xa0Woodstock Film Festival, Best Film at\xa0Galway Film Fleadh\xa0and the\xa0Audience Award at\xa0Cork Film Festival.

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Patrick\u2019s Day\xa0is about a young man with mental health issues who become intimate with a suicidal flight attendant and his obsessive mother enlists a dysfunctional cop to separate them.