Conan McIvor

The Dissenter (2013)
Film (short) by Carol Murphy (Drama) Miscellaneous Crew Through dramatic reenactments, meet Jan Hus, John Wycliffe, Martin Luther, and others who challenged established authority and often paid a high price. Their actions led to the Reformation, and its affect on the whole of Europe in the late Renaissance are dramatized, primarily in the devastations of the Thirty Years' War.

Motion Sickness (2012)
Film (short) by Jessica Kennedy (Drama and Musical) Editor A teenage marching band rehearses on a rooftop car park on a Saturday. A flock of crows lie dead in the wind. Three people sit in the back of a car waiting to move. Motion Sickness is a dance film exploring ideas of need, rejection and escape. The film is a collaboration between award winning choreographer Jessica Kennedy and award winning filmmaker John McIlduff. Written by Anonymous

The Bookseller of Belfast (2012)
Film by Alessandra Celesia (Biography and Documentary) Second Unit Director or Assistant Director The staircases of John Clancy's terraced house are filled with hundreds of unsold volumes like a Noah's Ark of Knowledge telling the stories of a city that has known stormier times. Accompanied by a dyslexic, opera-loving punk the Bookseller of Belfast treads a new path through the pages yellowed by time and cigarette smoke. Written by Anonymous

Mute (2011)
Film (short) by Conan McIvor (Drama) Editor, Director What do you do when words fail you? A silent young woman arrives in Belfast with a backpack, a set of index cards and no money for a bed. Frustrated by his latest composition an isolated composer, slave to his digital watch, retreats to the park. Can a written request and an act of faith change their lives? Directed by Conan McIvor and written by Lisa Keogh, Mute explores how a relationship can develop when you take the talk away. It stars Nick Lee and Colette Lennon with a soundtrack featuring Belfast-based artists Not Squares, Katie and the Carnival, Albrecht's Pencil, and Isobel Anderson. Written by Anonymous

The Man who Crossed Hitler (2011)
TV Movie by Justin Hardy (Drama and Period Piece) Editorial department In November 1930 brown-shirted storm troopers of Hitler's SA break into the Communist Eden Palace club,killing several members. Jewish lawyer Hans Litten prosecutes them and,at the suggestion of his boss Rudolf Olden,agrees to sub-poena Hitler,who had supposedly renounced violence yet who clearly supported the SA, to discredit him as a popular figure. Against the advice of his assistant Margot Furst Hans prepares his case,even involving Stennes, a rival Nazi to Hitler. At the trial Hans,the practised lawyer,runs rings round Hitler,who is frequently unable to answer his questions. The Brown Shirts are convicted but it is a Pyrrhic victory for two years later Hitler will become chancellor,Hans will be arrested and he will die in Dachau concentration camp. Written by don @ minifie-1