Éamon Little
Independent Filmmaker
Other Roles: Director, Producer, Editor
Areas of Focus: Documentaries, Feature Films, Shorts
Organization: LittleVision
Biography
Éamon Little is a filmmaker, screenwriter and radio documentary maker who has been in the business since 1993.
Currently he is making Born That Way, a documentary film on the late Patrick Lydon, an inspirational figure of the Camphill Movement, sharing life with and championing the rights of people with disabilities.
He is also making The Bow, an international feature documentary on the amazing story of all that goes into a top class violin bow.
His previous feature documentaries include Living Colour (Wildfire Films 2011), Red Mist (Wildfire Films 2007 – nominated for an IFTA Award in 2008), and An Domhnach in Éireann [Sundays West] (Harvest Films, 2005).
Short documentaries include Camphill – The Essence from Within (2009), Nimble Spaces – An Introduction (2013) and Nimble Spaces – Enabling Space (2015) and Nimble Spaces – Inclusive Neighbourhoods (2016) Nimble Spaces Films.
His eponymous screen adaptation of John McGahern’s final novel That They May Face the Rising Sun, is currently in post-production (South Wind Blows, Cyprus Avenue Films and Harvest Films, director Pat Collins).
In the past decade Éamon has made seven radio documentaries, the most recent being No Ordinary Joe, a monologue by a 102-year-old Holocaust survivor and Resistance fighter from Slovakia who has lived in Ireland for 72 years. His radio documentary on the violin bow, If the Stick Dances, was runner up at the New York Documentary Festival, 2017.
Films
Living Colour (2011)
Role: Director
Living Colour is an 83-minute observational documentary film exploring the world of an extraordinary artists’ collective in Callan, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, which focuses on the artists’ abilities and not on their special needs. It is an often hilarious, intimate portrayal of charming and vibrant characters and as it takes us further into their unique world, it throws up questions about the deeply human need to make art. Living Colour is, in itself, a celebration of what it is to be human. Here’s what some other people had to say after the Dublin Film Festival screening in February 2011: “Living Colour is a wonderful documentary … its moments of humour, insight and joy come together to define this uplifting and enlightening piece of cinema and its extraordinary tale of people communicating through art.” FILM IRELAND (for full review see filmireland.net/2011/02/22/ jdiff-living-colour/) “… the opening scene led us into a world rarely expressed so truthfully on screen..” Megan Special, Connector.TV (for full review see connector.tv/blog/2011/02/22/ jdiff-film-review-living-colour/) “…something special has been achieved with Living Colour, by its formal assuredness and sophistication and its profound understanding of the significance of its characters’ lives, which for me places it with ‘Être et Avoir’ and ‘Tishe’ and those very, very few documentaries which really warrant watching in the dark with a couple of hundred other humans. ” David McKenna, Executive Producer Cross-media, RTÉ.
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