Gar is an award-winning Irish director. His work spans across documentaries, branded films, commercials, & art films. He has directed projects with clients such as Netflix, Canon, BBC Storyville, Paramount+, Visa, Patagonia, Sony, Dyson, CBS, France TV and Irish Museum of Modern Art. 

His film work has won awards and competed in some of the world's top film festivals, along with being acquired by some of the biggest broadcasters in North America and Europe.

Gar's debut feature documentary, Sanatorium, had its World Premiere at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen in their main international competition, DOX:AWARD (in late March 2025).  The film was acquired by BBC Storyville for their Oscar-winning features strand, and was produced by Sundance & BAFTA winning Venom Films, MET Films and BBC Storyville. The film has subsequently gone on to compete in Visions Du Reel in Switzerland (early April 2025) and has been further selected to compete in a variety of international film festivals in 2025.

(As of spring 2025) Gar is now in pre-production on his second feature documentary, titled The Siege of Paradise, which takes place on the northern Italian Riviera. The project is a co-production between Venom Films and several European countries (including BBC Storyville in the UK), and will film across early summer to early autumn in 2025. He is also in development as writer & director on several other projects which will further develop in 2025/early 2026.

He is a member of the Screen Directors Guild Of Ireland and is represented for commercials in Ireland by Bodacious.

And finally, yes, Gar wrote this in the third person. 

CONTACT

gar@garorourke.com