Nial Fulton
{{short description|Australian television producer}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Nial Fulton
| image = Nial_Fulton_-_Producer.jpg
| caption =
| birth_name = Nial William Fulton
| birth_place = Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
| occupation = {{hlist|Producer|Director|Writer}}
| nationality = Australian
| education = Portora Royal School, Enniskillen
Queens University, Belfast
}}
Nial William Fulton is an Australian film and television director, producer and writer. Focused on social justice issues, his works include investigative documentaries Revelation (Walkley Documentary Award), Hitting Home (AACTA and Walkley Documentary Awards), Borderland, The Queen & Zak Grieve and Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra (Rose d'Or, AACTA and Walkley Documentary Awards).{{cite web | url=https://www.impartialreporter.com/news/24006582.nials-film-making-shines-light-dark-subjects/ | title=Nial's film-making shines a light on dark subjects | date=26 December 2023 }}
In 2013 Fulton co-founded Sydney-based independent production company In Films.https://www.in-films.com {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}
Background
Fulton was born in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, attended Portora Royal School and earned his bachelor's degree from Queen's University, Belfast.
His late father Sandy Fulton, was capped for Northern Ireland in football.
Career
Fulton worked with Screen Ireland and Northern Ireland Screen on co-productions, features and television drama, including King Arthur, Band of Brothers, Freeze Frame, Blind Flight and Reign of Fire.
After moving to Australia in 2004, he developed and produced a slate of productions for domestic and international broadcasters. Between 2010 and 2014 Fulton developed and produced two ABC Television drama specials, both filmed on location in Tasmania.
The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2010) starring Adrian Dunbar and Ciaran McMenamin was nominated in the Best Drama category at the Irish Film and Television Awards and the Rose d'Or Awards.{{cite web | url=https://www.examiner.com.au/story/488400/top-award-for-alexander-pearce-film/ | title=Top award for Alexander Pearce film | date=19 November 2009 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/grisly-confession-of-a-cannibal-convict-20090122-ge7mvy.html | title=Grisly confession of a cannibal convict | date=22 January 2009 }}
The Outlaw Michael Howe (2014) starring Damon Herriman and Rarriwuy Hick and directed by Brendan Cowell, told the true story of a convict-outlaw who led a rebellion against the British authorities in Van Diemen's Land.{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/big-guns-behind-bushranger-series-20130222-2euvc.html|title = Big guns behind bushranger series|date = 24 February 2013}}{{cite web | url=https://www.screenhub.com.au/news/features/docu-drama-nial-fulton-goes-as-far-as-he-can-guns-blazing-while-horses-scream-in-the-night-242317-1389899/ | title=Docu-drama: Nial Fulton goes as far as he can, guns blazing while horses scream in the night | date=27 November 2013 }}{{cite news | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-11-21/pushed-to-the-edge-doco-reveals-tasmanias-cannibal/214416 | title=Pushed to the edge: Doco reveals Tasmania's cannibal past | newspaper=ABC News | date=21 November 2008 }}
In 2013, Fulton and Ivan O'Mahoney created In Films, an independent production company specialising in social justice documentaries. Their first collaboration was the critically acclaimed Borderland, one of three original series chosen to launch the Al Jazeera America network.{{Cite web|url=http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/al-jazeera-america-presents-borderland/multimedia/2014/3/how-the-directorsofborderlandusedamorguetellmigrantsstories.html|title=How 'Borderland' directors used a morgue to tell migrants' stories}}
In 2016, the company was nominated for the Screen Producers Australia Breakthrough Business of the Year. Fulton won the Walkley Documentary Award with Sarah Ferguson and Ivan O'Mahoney for their work on the critically acclaimed ABC series Hitting Home.{{cite web | url=https://www.walkleys.com/awards/walkleys/the-walkley-documentary-award/ | title=The Walkley Documentary Award }}
Between 2018 and 2020, Fulton directed and produced Revelation, a three part series with Sarah Ferguson on clerical abuse in the Catholic Church in Australia.{{Cite web|url=https://mediaweek.com.au/sarah-ferguson-leaves-four-corners/|title = Sarah Ferguson leaves Four Corners: TV special then China job|website=Mediaweek.com.au|date = 4 February 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.impartialreporter.com/news/18491028.we-wanted-something-no-one-ever-done-before/|title='We wanted to do something that no-one had ever done before'|website=Impartialreporter.com|date=2 June 2020 |access-date=17 November 2021}} The series took out the Walkley Documentary Award, the second time Fulton and Ferguson have won the award.{{Cite web|url=https://www.walkleys.com/awards/walkleys/the-walkley-documentary-award/|title=The Walkley Documentary Award|website=Walkleys.com|access-date=17 November 2021}}{{cite web | url=https://www.adnews.com.au/news/walkley-award-winners-2020 | title=Walkley Award winners 2020 - AdNews }} In 2021, Fulton and Ferguson were nominated by the Australian Directors' Guild for their work on Revelation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.screenhub.com.au/news/news/nominees-announced-for-2021-australian-directors-guild-awards-1477146/|title=Nominees announced for 2021 Australian Director's Guild Awards | ScreenHub Australia - Film & Television Jobs, News, Reviews & Screen Industry Data|date=5 November 2021|website=ScreenHub.com.au|access-date=17 November 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2021/11/australian-directors-guild-awards-2021-nominees.html/|title=Australian Directors Guild Awards 2021: nominees |website=Tvtonight.com.au|date=6 November 2021 |access-date=17 November 2021}}
In 2020, Fulton was asked to assist New Zealand's Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care and began working closely with investigators. Their work was focused on the Catholic religious institution Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God and the sexual abuse of vulnerable children in their institutions in Christchurch. During Revelation, Fulton and his production team interviewed Brother Bernard McGrath, one of the Order's most notorious sex offenders, and provided the Inquiry with evidence the leadership of St John of God had knowingly concealed child sex abuse allegations from police and protected sex offenders within their ranks.{{cite web |title=News: Nial Fulton & Sarah Ferguson thanked by NZ Royal Commission for their work on 'Revelation' |url=https://www.in-films.com/post/news-nial-fulton-sarah-ferguson-thanked-by-nz-royal-commission-for-their-work-on-revelation |website=In Films |access-date=8 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224125326/https://www.in-films.com/post/news-nial-fulton-sarah-ferguson-thanked-by-nz-royal-commission-for-their-work-on-revelation |archive-date=24 February 2024 |date=17 May 2022 |url-status=live}}
In February 2022, Judge Coral Shaw, Chairwoman of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care, recognised Fulton's work for the commission, personally thanking him on the final day of public hearings.{{cite web | url=https://www.abuseincare.org.nz/our-progress/library/v/385/documentary-clip-for-marylands-school-public-hearing | title=Document Library | Abuse in Care - Royal Commission of Inquiry }}{{cite web | url=https://www.in-films.com/post/news-nial-fulton-sarah-ferguson-thanked-by-nz-royal-commission-for-their-work-on-revelation | title=News: Nial Fulton & Sarah Ferguson thanked by NZ Royal Commission for their work on 'Revelation' | date=17 February 2022 }}
Filmography
- Folau (2023) Executive Producer{{cite web | url=https://iview.abc.net.au/show/folau | title=Folau }}
- Unseen Skies (2022) Executive Producer{{cite web | url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/unseen_skies | title=Unseen Skies | Rotten Tomatoes | website=Rotten Tomatoes }}
- Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra (2021) Executive Producer{{cite web | url=https://www.ausfilm.com.au/news/bbc-secures-abcs-firestarter-the-story-of-bangarra/ | title=BBC Secures Abc's Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra }}
- Bangarra's World (2021) Executive Producer{{cite web | url=https://www.bangarra.com.au/productions/firestarter/ | title=Firestarter – the Story of Bangarra }}
- Dubbo: Life of a Songman (2021) Executive Producer{{cite web | url=https://iview.abc.net.au/show/dubboo-life-of-a-songman | title=Dubboo: Life of a Songman }}
- Revelation (2020) Director | Producer | Executive Producer{{cite web | url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/stuff-to-watch/300847194/revelation-now-on-netflix-this-aussie-docuseries-is-a-brilliant-accomplishment--and-a-difficult-watch | title=Stuff }}
- Making Muriel (2017) Executive Producer{{cite web | url=https://iview.abc.net.au/show/making-muriel | title=Making Muriel }}
- The Queen & Zak Grieve (2017) Executive Producerhttps://binge.com.au/shows/show-the-queen-zak-grieve!7802 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}
- Matilda & Me (2016) Executive Producer{{cite web | url=https://www.abc.net.au/contentsales/programsandgenres/matilda-me/13930124 | title=Matilda & Me | website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation | date=15 June 2022 }}
- Caged (2016) Executive Producer{{cite web | url=https://thewest.com.au/entertainment/tv/sbs-documentary-shines-spotlight-on-cage-fighting-ng-ya-112298 | title=SBS documentary shines spotlight on cage fighting | date=20 July 2016 }}
- Hitting Home (2015) Producer | Executive Producer{{cite web | url=https://www.aacta.org/our-news/media-room/first-winners-of-the-6th-aacta-awards-announced-at-industry-luncheon/ | title=First winners of the 6th AACTA Awards announced at Industry Luncheon }}
- Borderland (2013) Producer | Executive Producer{{cite web | url=http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/al-jazeera-america-presents-borderland/multimedia/2014/3/the-executive-producersbehindborderland.html | title=Meet the filmmakers behind 'Borderland' }}
- The Outlaw Michael Howe (2010) Producer | Executive Producer{{cite web | url=https://m.imdb.com/name/nm1755276/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 | title=Nial Fulton | Producer, Director, Writer | website=IMDb }}
- Miracles (2009) Series Producer | Writer
- The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2008) Producer | Writer{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hvsng | title=BBC One - the Last Confession of Alexander Pearce }}
- Solo (2008) Development Producer{{cite web | url=https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/solo-lost-at-sea/ | title=Solo: Lost at Sea }}
- Miracle on Everest (2007) Producer{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1019938/ | title=Miracle on Everest | website=IMDb }}
- Policing The Pacific (2007) Producer{{cite web | url=https://shop.nfsa.gov.au/policing-the-pacific | title=Policing the Pacific - Film Australia }}
- The Bridge (2007) Line Producer{{cite web | url=https://shop.nfsa.gov.au/constructing-australia-the-bridge | title=Constructing Australia: The Bridge - Film Australia }}
- The Choir (2007) Line Producer{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0929735/ | title=The Choir | website=IMDb }}
- Ten Pound Poms (2007) Producer{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896575/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2 | title=Ten Pound Poms | website=IMDb }}
- The Catalpa Rescue (2007) Line Producer{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0961200/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 | title=The Catalpa Rescue | website=IMDb }}
Selected awards
- Walkley Documentary Award - 2021, 2020, 2016
- AACTA Awards (Best Documentary) - 2021, 2016
- Rose d'Or Awards (Best Arts Program) - 2021
- Amnesty Awards (Best Television Award) - 2016
- Asian Academy Creative Awards (Best Documentary Series) - 2020
- Kennedy Awards (Most Outstanding Online Film) - 2017
- Screen Producer Australia Awards (Feature Documentary Production of the Year) - 2022
References
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External links
- {{official website|https://www.in-films.com |In Films}}
- {{IMDb name|1755276/}}
- [https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/abc-news-specials Revelation Podcast]
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Category:Australian television producers
Category:Television producers from Northern Ireland
Category:Journalists from Northern Ireland
Category:People educated at Portora Royal School
Category:Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
Category:People from Enniskillen
Category:Walkley Award winners
Walkley Award winners, Australian
Walkley Award winners, Australian
Category:Australian people of Irish descent