DONALD TAYLOR BLACK - Producer/Director
IVAN MARTIN - Producer (Belfast)
JAMES HICKEY - Executive Producer

Poolbeg Productions, founded in 1982 by Donald Taylor Black and James Hickey, is one of Ireland's most well-respected independent film and television production companies. Our productions have been commissioned or transmitted by RTE, Channel 4, BBC, La Sept/ARTE, Ulster Television, PBS stations in the United States and many other international broadcasters. They have won a number of awards and have been screened at the Chicago, Melbourne, London, Hong Kong, Augsburg, Taormina, Sydney, Geneva, Wellington, Dublin, Cork, Foyle, and Celtic Film Festivals; at INPUT; and in retrospectives throughout the world. Our four-part series about life in Dublin's Mountjoy Prison, The Joy, received the highest ever ratings for any documentary series in the history of Irish television, when transmitted on RTE in January/February 1997. If You're Not In, You Can't Win!  was shortlisted for an ESB Media Award (TV Documetary) in Autumn 2004.

At the Cinema Palace - Liam O'Leary (1983);
Remembering Jimmy O'Dea (1985);
Sam Thompson - Voice of Many Men (1986);
Great Were Their Deeds, Their Passions, and Their Sports (1988);
Return to Paradise - The Belfast Celtic Story (1989);
In Flags or Flitters - Pictures of Dublin (1991);
The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit (1993);
Irish Cinema - Ourselves Alone? (1995);
Hearts and Souls (1995);
The Joy (1997);
Ballyponza (1998);
Down To The Bedrock (1999);
Dear Boy - The Story of Micheal Mac Liammoir (1999);
Clongowes - The Greater Glory (2001);
If You're Not In, You Can't Win! (2003);
   [in association with Red Lemonade Productions]
Rebel Frontier (2004).
   [in association with Asylum Pictures].

The Hunger Strike      (filming has already begun)
[with development funding from the Irish Film Board]