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Conor McMahon

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Conor McMahon

Born August 23, 1979 in Ireland12 films

Conor attended Dun Laoghaire National Film School between 1998 – 2001, where he specialized in directing and editing. He’s made numerous short films, music video’s and documentaries.

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He edited a 50-minute feature length documentary, Ma Filia Fa La Madonna. Furthermore,Conor directed and edited How to Make a Fresh Film, a 20-minute documentary, funded by the Arts Council for Secondary Schools. In 2004 Conor wrote, directed and edited his first feature film Dead Meat. The film was funded by the Irish Film Board and was the first horror film to be so. Since then, he has gone on to make Stitches (2012), From the Dark (2014) and most recently Let the Wrong One In (2021). He works predominantly as an editor.

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Stitches posterFirst watchStitches20126.2The clumsy and unfunny clown Richard "Stitches" Grindle entertains at the 10th birthday party of little Tom, but the boy and his friends play a prank with Stitches, tying his shoelaces.View film

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Filmography

12 films as director
  1. 2021Let the Wrong One InDirector
  2. 2018Ghost GaffDirector
  3. 2016Good DogDirector
  4. 2015Strangers in the NightDirector
  5. 2014From the DarkDirector
  6. 2012StitchesDirector
  7. 2009Hotel DarklightDirector
  8. 2009The DisturbedDirector
  9. 2008Dublin 26.06.08: A Film in 4 DaysDirector
  10. 2004Dead MeatDirector
  11. 20011902Director
  12. 2001The BraineaterDirector