Paul Duane is an Irish-born writer and director of television and film. His directing credits include

Ballykissangel ''Ballykissangel'' is a BBC television drama created by Kieran Prendiville and set in Ireland, produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland. The original story revolved around a young English Roman Catholic priest as he became part of a rural comm ...

(1999),

Casualty Casualty may refer to: *Casualty (person), a person who is killed or rendered unfit for service in a war or natural disaster **Civilian casualty, a non-combatant killed or injured in warfare * The emergency department of a hospital, also known as ...

(2001),

The Royal ''The Royal'' is a British period medical drama, produced by Yorkshire Television (later part of ITV Studios), and broadcast on ITV from 2003 until its cancellation in 2011. The series is set in the 1960s and focuses on the lives of the st ...

(2002), Small Potatoes (1999-2001), and

Footballer's Wives ''Footballers' Wives'' is a British television drama about fictional Premier League football club Earls Park F.C., its players and their wives. It was broadcast on ITV from 2002 to 2006. The show initially focuses on three very different coupl ...

(2003), ''

Secret Diary of a Call Girl ''Secret Diary of a Call Girl'' is a British drama television series that aired from 27 September 2007 to 22 March 2011 on ITV2, based on the blog and books by the pseudonymous Belle de Jour. It stars Billie Piper as Belle, a high-end call ...

'' (2007-2011), ''Barbaric Genius'' (2011), ''Very Extremely Dangerous'' (2012), ''Natan'' (2013), ''Welcome to the Dark Ages'' (2019), and ''All You Need Is Death'' (2023).

Career

Duane started his career directing episodes for television, credits include

(1999),

(2001),

(2002), Small Potatoes (1999-2001), and

(2003). He has also made several short films including ''LSD 73!'' (2003), based on an original script by the Irish novelist Patrick McCabe. He co-created the ITV series ''

'' (2007-2011), based on the blog, '' Belle de Jour.'' The Irish production company Screenworks was established by Duane and Rob Cawley in 2008. Their first production, on the life of the London-Irish author John Healy, ''Barbaric Genius'' (2011). More recent films include ''Very Extremely Dangerous'' (2012), and ''Natan'' (2013), about the French producer

Bernard Natan Bernard Natan (born Natan Tannenzaft; 14 July 1886 – 1942 or 1943) was a French-Romanian film entrepreneur, director and actor of the 1920s and 1930s. Natan worked in cinema from a young age, working his way up from projectionist and chemist ...

. In December 2013 he was listed by ''

Variety Variety may refer to: Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats * Variety (radio) * Variety show, in theater and television Films * ''Variety'' (1925 film), a German silent film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont * ''Variety'' (1935 film), ...

'' magazine as part of their yearly 10 Directors to Watch feature. ''Welcome to the Dark Ages'' (2019), originally called ''What Time Is Death?'', was described as "his long-gestated study of new activities by the men who used to be KLF". The documentary film charts

Bill Drummond William Ernest Drummond (born 29 April 1953) is a Scottish artist, musician, writer, and record producer. He was a co-founder of the late-1980s avant-garde pop group the KLF and its 1990s media-manipulating successor, the K Foundation, with wh ...

and

Jimmy Cauty James Francis Cauty (born 19 December 1956), also known as Rockman Rock, is an English artist and musician, best known as one-half of the duo the KLF, co-founder of the Orb and as the man who K Foundation Burn a Million Quid, burnt £1 million ...

Welcome to the Dark Ages Welcome to the Dark Ages was a three-day event organised by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (the JAMs; more widely known as The KLF), held in Liverpool in August 2017. The event heralded a revival of the creative partnership between Jimmy Cauty and ...

2017 festival in Liverpool, as well as their plan to build The People's Pyramid, a project to build a pyramid of hand-fired bricks, each containing the ashes of a dead person. The film featured at the 2019

Dublin International Film Festival The Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF; ) is an annual film festival that has been held in Dublin, Ireland, since 2003. History The Dublin International Film Festival was established in 2003. It was revived by Michael Dwyer (journalist), ...

. ''Best Before Death'' (2019) is a documentary film about Drummond's 25 Paintings World Tour. ''All You Need Is Death'' (2023), a folk-horror feature with soundtrack by Ian Lynch of Lankum, premiered October 2023 at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Duane, Paul Living people Irish film directors Year of birth missing (living people)