Jackie Larkin

Jackie Larkin is a highly experienced and sought after producer who has been involved in Ireland's film and independent television industry. Jackie is joint managing director of Newgrange Pictures a film company formed in December 2003 and was developing a slate of feature film projects for the international market. She started out as a line producer working with EMDEE Productions on documentaries such as Waterways IV (Broadcast on RTE, Channel 4, Discovery Europe), The Last Waltz (RTE, Channel 4) and From the Horses Mouth (RTE, The Travel Channel, Discovery Europe). She then joined COCO Television to produce successful series such as Our House and the award winning documentary series The Gap in the Mountain.

Jackie was particularly interested in the field of creative documentary and went on to produce one off projects such as Needle and the Damage Done (RTE), Ahakista (RTE, Vision TV Canada), When Peace Talks (RTE, UTV), and the specially commissioned millennium series Nation Building. She also produced the critically acclaimed drama documentary A Call to Arms.

Jackie's interest in drama started when she worked as line producer on the BBC 10 x 10 short film The Rope Trick. Since then she has clocked up a range of drama experience from television dramas such as Ballykissangel and the award winning factual drama No Tears (starring Brenda Fricker), to short dramas such as Before I Sleep (RTE, Irish Film Board), Waterloo Dentures (Irish Film Board) and the short film The First Television which has screened at many international film festivals and was distributed nationwide by Buena Vista. Other short films include The Family Tree and Last Night which screened at the prestigious Manhattan Film Festival.

Jackie's first feature film Kings, starring Colm Meaney was Ireland's first ever official entry to the foreign language category of the Academy Awards. The film has been screened at many international film festivals to include Toronto, Taormina, Pusan, Dinard and the Hamptons. Kings is one of Ireland's few bi-lingual films which was financed entirely within Ireland with funding coming from the Broadcast Commission of Ireland, TG4, The Irish Film Board & The Northern Ireland Film & Television Commission. She is member of ACE Producers Network and graduated from the Media Business School 2003.

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