Dermott Petty is an independent filmmaker from Lisdoonvarna, County Clare in Ireland.
In 1998 Petty won a Dramalogue Award for his stage direction of The Midnight Court. He produced a television pilot detailing his early experiences as an emigrant entitled Dot Ave, and a documentary about traditional Irish Ceilidh dancing called A Gathering. He was a recipient of a grant from the Irish Film Board for his script, The Prodigal Dancer.
He wrote and directed a short film entitled Paddy Takes a Meeting which played at the Galway Film Fleadh and at film festivals worldwide. He also made a short documentary, The Last Chance Saloon, which won an award at the VOV Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Petty made the feature film Manband!, a comedy on ageism, boy-bands and bad dancing which played at the Rat Powered Film Festival in Santa Ana, California,[1] at Chapman University in Orange, California and at the Glor Music Center in Ennis, Ireland.[2] [3]
He created the first Irish Spaghetti Western with Sean Nós Dancing with the short film 'The Good the Bad & the Sean Nós Dancer' as a media prototype for his MA In Creative Media at the Tralee Institute of Technology in 2013. The Good the Bad & the Sean Nós Dancer
He has written and directed Animation. Starting with 'Jesus of Limerick'(2009) The Man From Q web series (2013) and 'the Leprechaun & the Stripper'(2015) web series The Leprechaun & the Stripper.
| Year | Film | Capacity | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dot Ave | Television pilot | |||
| A Gathering | Documentary | |||
| The Last Chance Saloon | ||||
| 2002 | Paddy Takes a Meeting | Director and writer | ||
| 2006 | Manband! | Director and writer | ||
| 2009 | Jesus of Limerick (Short) | |||
| 2011 | Waits in Love (Short) | |||
| 2012 | For Goth & Country (Short) | |||
| 2012 | The Man from Q (Short) | |||
| 2013 | The Good the Bad & the Sean Nós Dancer (Short) | |||
| 2014 | 1916 a form of Revolution (short) | |||
| 2015 | The Leprechaun & the Stripper (short) | |||
| 2016 | The Good Ship Delirous (Video short) | |||
| 2018 | The Waiting is Over? (Short) |