Lorcan Finnegan
{{Short description|Irish film director and screenwriter}}
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Lorcan Finnegan is an Irish filmmaker, writer, producer and director. He is most notable for directing the film Vivarium (2019), which won the 2019 Cannes Film Festival Gan Foundation Support for Distribution award.
Education and career
Lorcan Finnegan graduated with a Master's degree in Graphic Design from his studies in Dublin.{{cite web|title= Vivarium un film de Lorcan Finnegan |date=2019|work=thejokersfilms.com|url=https://www.thejokersfilms.com/_files/ugd/33a7fd_a4e9f057c4bd4f26bf02e25f6c8bf4e1.pdf |access-date= December 1, 2023}}
He began his professional career in London, joining Charlie Brooker's production company Zeppotron, which created the television series Black Mirror, where he worked as a designer, editor, and then director.
Returning back to the Irish capital in 2004, he set up his own company Lovely Productions, and began to write and direct advertising films, music videos and short films. His transition to feature films was with the film Without Name (2016), a horror-tinged mystery, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2016.{{cite magazine|last=Kay|first=Jeremy|title='Vivarium' director Lorcan Finnegan taking Cannes meetings on dystopian project 'Goliath' (exclusive)|date=May 22, 2023|magazine=Screen Daily|url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/vivarium-director-lorcan-finnegan-taking-cannes-meetings-on-dystopian-project-goliath-exclusive/5182420.article|accessdate=November 15, 2024}}
He directed the film Vivarium (2019), which starred Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg, and won the 2019 Cannes Film Festival Gan Foundation Support for Distribution award.{{cite web|title=Vivarium 2019|work=ciffcalgary.ca|url=https://www.ciffcalgary.ca/films/2019/vivarium/|accessdate=February 22, 2025}}{{cite web|last=Nemiroff|first=Perri|title='Vivarium' Director's Yonder Explanation Makes the Movie Even More Chilling|date=April 3, 2020|website=Collider|url=https://collider.com/vivarium-explained-lorcan-finnegan/|accessdate=November 15, 2024}}
He next directed Nocebo (2022){{cite web|last=Mahler|first=Matt|title=Exclusive: Nocebo Director Lorcan Finnegan on the Politics of His Horror Movie|date=November 3, 2022|website=MovieWeb|url= https://movieweb.com/nocebo-lorcan-finnegan-interview/|accessdate=November 15, 2024}} and The Surfer (2024),{{cite magazine|last=Bleasdale|first=John|title='The Surfer' Director Lorcan Finnegan on Why Nicolas Cage Kept a Rat in His Pocket, and Why You Shouldn't Tickle a Snake|date=July 20, 2024|magazine=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2024/film/global/the-surfer-lorcan-finnegan-nicolas-cage-rat-snake-1236079129/|accessdate=November 15, 2024}} which starred Nicolas Cage, and was featured in the Limelight section of the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam.{{cite web|url= https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/films/the-surfer |title=Limelight: The Surfer|work=International Film Festival Rotterdam|access-date=7 January 2025}}
Filmography
Short film
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Title ! Director ! Writer |
|---|
| rowspan=2|2007
| Defaced | {{yes}} | {{yes}} |
| Changes{{efn|Also editor}}
| {{yes}} | {{yes}} |
| 2012
| Foxes | {{yes}} | {{no}} |
Feature film
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Title ! Director ! Executive |
|---|
| 2016
| {{yes}} | {{no}} |
| 2019
| Vivarium{{efn|Also story writer}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} |
| 2022
| Nocebo | {{yes}} | {{no}} |
| 2024
| {{yes}} | {{yes}} |
Ref.: {{cite web|last=Ortiz Garcia|first=Eric|title=VIVARIUM Interview: Director Lorcan Finnegan On His Thought-Provoking Sci-Fi Horror Allegory Of Suburban Life Monotony|date=March 28, 2020|website=ScreenAnarchy|url=https://screenanarchy.com/2020/03/vivarium-interview-director-lorcan-finnegan-on-his-thought-provoking-sci-fi-horror-allegory-of-subur.html|accessdate=November 15, 2024}} {{cite magazine|last=Balaga|first=Marta|title=Director Lorcan Finnegan Talks 'The Surfer': 'You Can't Surf if You Don't Suffer'|date=May 18, 2024|magazine=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2024/film/global/nicolas-cage-the-surfer-lorcan-finnegan-1236008822/|accessdate=November 15, 2024}}
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External links
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Category:Irish horror film directors
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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