BROKEN TAIL'S LAST JOURNEY
One man, one animal and a journey into the last days of the wild tiger 1x80 Min Feature Documentary & 1x52 min version / Format: HD Funders: Irish Film Board, RTÉ, CBC Canada,

One of the world's leading tiger cameramen travels through India on a personal pilgrimage, piecing together the last journey of Broken Tail - one of the planet's most famous wild tigers. Through this heartbreaking story of this charismatic tiger cub, he will uncover the trail of disaster stalking the last surviving tigers on Earth. This is not a wildlife film. It is about the personal obsession of an Irishman who has spent more time filming wild tigers than anyone on the planet. It is about his journey and quest for the truth about just what is happening to the world's favourite animal.

WILD JOURNEYS
3 x 52 Min Series / Format: HD Funders: BCI, RTÉ, ENFO / Department of the Environment, Heritage & Local Govt

A journey of discovery following some of the incredible migrations which animals make each year from Ireland's shores. From Bluefin tuna to Arctic terns to Leatherback turtles and Freshwater eels, each film will follow some of Ireland's most extraordinary travellers to the other end of the world… and back. The series will also explore the science behind these great migrations and look at how Irish scientists are teaming up with other scientists from around the world to try and shed light on these extraordinary journeys.

BLOOD OF THE IRISH
Who are the Irish and where did they come from? What blood flows in their veins? 2X52 Min Series / Format: HD Funders: BCI, RTÉ Presenter - Diarmuid Gavin.

The archaeological evidence currently shows that the first human settlement in Ireland was 9,000 years ago, but where did these people come from and are there traces of them still in us today? Going beyond traditional genealogy which can only take us back few hundred years, this series explores the genetic history of Irish going back into our distant past. Using groundbreaking studies from Trinity College Dublin and around the world as well as new research conducted especially for this programme, we follow the remarkable story of modern man who left Africa and the particular strands of humankind which ended up in Ireland. Journeying from Kenyan plains through Ice Age Europe and the remarkable cave art of Northern Spain, we explore the survival, adaptation and tenacity of our ancestors. What particular genetic traits are Irish? Who are the Irish genetically closest to? Where else does Irish blood flow beyond the shores of this island? 'Blood of the Irish' explores all we want to know about the Irish people and the story of the human colonisation of this island.

THE LAST OF THE IRISH ROVERS
1 x 70 Min Feature Documentary / Format: HD Funders: Irish Film Board, RTÉ

An intimate and deeply personal memoir of legendary folk singer Liam Clancy revealing all sides to his remarkable life, within and without the Clancy brothers. With exclusive access to his private archive film collection, this film will go full circle through his life's various chapters, from his childhood in Carrick on Suir to an utterly different type of Village life in New York, on tour with his brothers and then back to Ireland where he now resides. His journey down memory lane culminates in a very special concert in Greenwich village with musical legends and contemporary musicians all coming to pay homage to Liam and his legacy.

LIAM CLANCY & FRIENDS: LIVE AT THE BITTER END, NYC
1 x 70 Min Concert / Format: HD Funders: RTÉ, Culture Ireland

A unique staged event in New York's legendary club The Bitter End. Filmed in July 2008. Featuring Liam Clancy, Shane McGowan, Odetta, Tom Paxton, Eric Bibb, Gemma Hayes, Fionn Regan and members of Danú.

THE HIGH ROAD FROM DOLPO / ACROSS THE HIMALAYA
1x80 min Feature Documentary & 1x47 min TV Version / Format HD Funders: National Geographic International, TG4, Irish Film Board

On a breathtaking journey through the high Himalaya, this film follows a clan of Buddhist yak herders on a two-month odyssey unmatched anywhere on the planet. Starting from the nomad's tiny village close to the Tibetan border, viewers will shadow the group through a soaring landscape, traversing the highest mountain passes in the world, until the exhausted caravaneers eventually reach their destination - the lowland valleys of Southern Nepal. Here they trade their goods for supplies to see them through another savage Himalayan winter. The entire existence of the people known as the Dolpo-pa revolves around this journey.

TODAY IS BETTER THAN TWO TOMORROWS
Today is a good day to come of age. Today is better than two tomorrows. 1 x 80 Min Feature Documentary / Funders: Irish Film Board, CTL Films

Directed by Anna Rodgers, 'Today is better than two tomorrows' is a mindful observational film set in Laos, which takes us into the heart of a unique but fading culture, and brings us on a journey in a mysterious country slowly opening to the western world. It is a tale of both innocence and experience. In a remote and forgotten land, two boys must leave their village to undergo a rite of passage. One will go to school; the other will become a monk. Somewhere between Buddhist wishlessness and western dreams their paths will join again.

www.todayisbetterthantwotomorrows.com

CHARLIE BIRD GOES NORTH
2x40 Min Series / Format: HD Funder: RTÉ

Charlie Bird travels to the Arctic on a quest for insights into a region absolutely central to the whole climate change story - a part of the world already changing before our eyes and one now featuring in international headlines on an almost daily basis. On a 10 day adventure by dog sled through Ellesmere Island with an Inuit guide and a separate journey by Russian icebreaker to the North Pole, he explores the landscape, meets the people and experiences some serious adventures that push his endurance to the limit.

CRAICEAN GEAL, CROÍ MARBH (WHITE MAN, DEAD HEART)
4x25 Min Series / Format: HD Funders: BCI, TG4

Galway-man Robert O'Hara Burke was the first white man to cross Australia. He died on his return journey in remarkable and tragic circumstances. His story is one of the truly outstanding dramas from the Great Age of Exploration and exemplifies in so many ways the extraordinary experiences of 19th Century Irish emigrants. This is not a travel series. It is living history - a journey on the trail of an Irish man whose life reveals much of the Irish experience in Australia, their and our attitudes to opportunity, adventure and race issues. Racism is central to Burke's story and ultimately he died because he could not come to terms with the aborigines and their survival skills, regarding these remarkable people with scorn and contempt.

TREASURE FROM THE DARK AGES
1 x 52 Min / Format: HD Funders: BCI, RTÉ, History Canada, History UK

In July 2006, an ancient manuscript was recovered from a bog in the midlands of Ireland. After 1200 years submerged, this miracle of archaeological survival is the first early Irish manuscript to come to light in over 200 years. In this one hour film, the discovery and investigation of this ancient manuscript will bring viewers on a journey into the world of Ireland's early Christian monks and how they kept the fires of Christianity burning on the outer limits of the known world when much of Europe languished in the Dark Ages.

JOURNEYS TO THE EDGE
4 x 52 Min / Format: HD Funders: RTÉ

Four Irish personalities take on a true adventure of a lifetime - from climbing three of the Alps most ferocious mountains - the Eiger, the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc, to plumbing one of the world's greatest caves in Borneo, to crossing the high Himalaya on a journey to Tibet and the holiest mountain in the world. The adventures have been chosen to test the personality to the maximum - both physically and mentally and to bring viewers to some extraordinary places and into some high octane situations never seen before on Irish television.

ACROSS THE ROOF OF RUSSIA -
THE NORTHEAST PASSAGE
1 x 70 mins, 1 x 54 mins for RTE & History Canada

Adventure/history documentary telling the story of the infamous NorthEast Passage, one of the most challenging maritime journeys in the world. Following the adventures of an Irish crew as they attempt to sail their boat 'Northabout' from the notorious Bering Straits through the NorthEast Passage to Galway on the west coast of Ireland.

THIS NOTES FOR YOU -
SONGWRITERS AND THE SONGS THEY WRITE
6 x 25 mins series for RTE
High Definition/Digibeta

Presented by broadcaster and musician Tom Dunne, this series will go behind the stars and razzmatazz to explore with songwriters their experiences of writing and producing songs, hits that changed their lives or duds that never graced a radio wave. The series will explore the origins of their best-known work - how the idea or the melody came about, how the most unpromising tune suddenly clicked into place and turned a tuneless dirge into something people hum every day in the streets.
The series will also delve into the mechanics of pop, rock and roll. It will reveal some of the secrets of popular song writing, exposing the business and the technical skill and hours of work necessary for success and also how often the elusive elements of luck and coincidence come into play.

FRANKLIN'S LOST EXPEDITION
1 x 90 mins, 1 x 47 mins, 2 x 52 mins for TG4, Five UK, ZDF, ARTE, Irish Film Board
High Definition

One of the greatest stories in polar exploration and one of the greatest mysteries in maritime history that spawn the greatest manhunt ever mounted… this is the story of the Northwest Passage and of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition. A key part of this story is a major international initiative to find one of the world's most important shipwrecks under the ice of the Canadian Arctic. Directed by Emmy-Award winner Peter Bate (King Leopold's Congo, Station X) and shot over two years in the Arctic on High Definition, this film is a major international co-production involving Irish, UK, Australian, German and Canadian broadcasters with support from Media and Irish Film Board.

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WHITE MAN, DEAD HEART /
CRAICEAN GEAL, CROÍ MARBH
4 x 25 mins series for TG4 & BCI
High Definition

Galway-man Robert O'Hara Burke was the first white man to cross Australia. He died on his return journey in remarkable and tragic circumstances. His story is one of the truly outstanding dramas from the Great Age of Exploration and exemplifies in so many ways the extraordinary experiences of 19th century Irish emigrants. This is not a travel series. It is living history - a journey on the trail of an Irish man whose life reveals much of the Irish experience in Australia, their and our attitudes to opportunity, adventure and race issues. Racism is central to Burke's story and ultimately he died because he could not come to terms with the aborigines and their survival skills, regarding these remarkable people with scorn and contempt.

THE LEGEND OF LIAM CLANCY
2 x 52 mins, 1 x 70 mins Funders - RTE, Irish Film Board , Crossing the Line Films
High Definition

Liam Clancy is an icon. Irish people, thousands of whom pack out every concert he plays, believe they know where Liam has come from, and what he's about….they don't know the half of it. The Legend of Liam Clancy unveils the darker side of the man hailed by Bob Dylan as the greatest ballad singer of all time. Directed by acclaimed film-maker Alan Gilsenan, this biographical film reveals the true Liam Clancy and was a landmark programme in RTE's Arts Lives series.

FRANKLIN'S LOST EXPEDITION
The quest to solve the greatest mystery in Arctic Exploration 1x80 Min Feature Documentary & 1x47 Min / Format: HD Funders: TG4, Irish Film Board, ZDF, Five, ARTE, History Canada, History UK, MEDIA

One of the greatest stories in polar exploration and one of the greatest mysteries in maritime history that spawned the greatest manhunt ever mounted - the story of John Franklin's lost expedition. A key part of this story is a major international initiative to find one of the world's most important shipwrecks under the ice of the Canadian Arctic. Directed by Emmy-Award winner Peter Bate (King Leopold's Congo, Station X) and shot over two years in the Arctic on High Definition, this film is a major international co-production involving Irish, UK, Australian, German and Canadian broadcasters with support from Media and Irish Film Board.

THE CATALPA RESCUE / THE IRISH ESCAPE
The most daring escape in the history of Convict Australia 1 x 55 Min Drama Documentary / Format: HD Funders: BCI, RTÉ, ABC, Thirteen/WNET New York, NSW Film & Television Office

One of the great stories of the high seas - the daring rescue of six Irish rebels from a notoriously brutal penal colony in Fremantle, West Australia in 1876. The rescue plot took two years to accomplish, required the financial assistance and silence of over 7000 Irish Americans and depended upon the ingenuity of three pivotal characters to pull off one of the greatest propaganda coups in Irish nationalist history.

THE HIGH ROAD FROM DOLPO / ACROSS THE HIMALAYA
1x80 min Feature Documentary & 1x47 min TV Version / Format HD Funders: National Geographic International, TG4, Irish Film Board

On a breathtaking journey through the high Himalaya, this film follows a clan of Buddhist yak herders on a two-month odyssey unmatched anywhere on the planet. Starting from the nomad's tiny village close to the Tibetan border, viewers will shadow the group through a soaring landscape, traversing the highest mountain passes in the world, until the exhausted caravaneers eventually reach their destination - the lowland valleys of Southern Nepal. Here they trade their goods for supplies to see them through another savage Himalayan winter. The entire existence of the people known as the Dolpo-pa revolves around this journey.

THE LEGEND OF LIAM CLANCY
1x70 min Feature Documentary & 2x52 Min Series / Format: HD Funders: RTÉ, Irish Film Board Winner Best Documentary Series Irish Film & TV Awards

Liam Clancy is an icon. Irish people, thousands of whom pack out every concert he plays, believe they know where Liam has come from, and what he's about… but they don't know the half of it. The Legend of Liam Clancy unveils the darker side of the man hailed by Bob Dylan as the greatest ballad singer of all time. Directed by acclaimed film-maker Alan Gilsenan, this biographical film reveals the true Liam Clancy and was a landmark programme in RTE's Arts Lives series.

NORTHEAST PASSAGE - ACROSS THE ROOF OF RUSSIA
1x70 Min Feature Documentary & 1 x 52 Min / Format: Digibeta Funders: RTÉ, History Canada

Adventure/history documentary telling the story of the infamous North East Passage, one of the most challenging maritime journeys in the world. The film follows the adventures of an Irish crew on their historic attempt to be the first to complete an East West circumnavigation of the Arctic - the last great voyage on Earth.

CHARLIE BIRD EXPLORES THE GANGES
Ireland's best known news correspondent explores one of the most enchanting rivers on the planet 2x40 Min Series / Format: Digibeta Funders: RTÉ

Charlie Bird heads for India and the mighty and sacred River Ganges. From sea to source, Charlie battles from the Bay of Bengal to the mighty Himalaya along a river that defines this wakening economic giant - a nation fast becoming one of the 21st centuries great superpowers. An explosion of colour, people, culture and history lies on his 2500km journey upstream. As he travels to the heart of India and the limits of his own endurance, Charlie seeks to uncover how the fabled mysticism of the Indian people marries with a country going through an explosive economic transformation.

CHARLIE BIRD EXPLORES THE AMAZON
1 x 52 Min / Format: Digibeta Funders: RTÉ

On a truly epic journey, Charlie Bird crosses South America from ocean to ocean, tracing the course of the world's mightiest river - the Amazon. En route he tells the story of the greatest wilderness on the planet and how more than ever before this region plays a pivotal role in the biggest challenge now facing human beings - global warming & environment change. The millions of square miles of Amazon rainforest are the most important real estate on earth - soaking up the gases spewed out by a world hell bent on consumption at all costs. After years of growing alarm, it is now recognised by most of the world's leading thinkers, that the environment will be the story of the 21st century.

LAST CHANCE JOURNEYS
The Journey of the Qashqa'i 1x47 Min / Format: Digibeta / National Geographic Version Funders: National Geographic International, TG4, Irish Film Board

With unprecedented access to one of the most secretive countries on Earth, this film follows Bezad, a charismatic Qashqa'i nomad on a spectacular journey across Iran. Iran once had the biggest population of nomads in the world, now Bezad is one of the very last nomads still living this extraordinary way of life. His life is hard, he walks the mountains all day, sleeps little and spends every nights under the stars, yet his good humour and supreme confidence never falter.

LAST CHANCE JOURNEYS
The Journey of the Nenets 1x47 Min / Format: Digibeta / National Geographic Version Funders: National Geographic International, TG4, Arte, Irish Film Board

This film follows the Serrotettas, a family of Nenet reindeer herders of Northern Siberia, on what is undoubtedly the greatest nomadic migration left on earth - a gruelling 1600 mile journey across the tundra to the shores of the Arctic Ocean. Shot over four months in northern Siberian this film gives rare insight into a difficult and ancient way of life now on the verge of extinction.

LAST CHANCE JOURNEYS
The Caravan from Bilma 1x47 Min / Format: Digibeta / National Geographic Version Funders: National Geographic International, TG4, Irish Film Board

A magnificent journey along the most traditional camel caravan route left in the Sahara, an 800 mile trek across Niger. This one-hour film follows Al Haj Alhassan, an old Tuareg caravaneer on his last journey across the Sahara, travelling one of the last remaining desert trade routes in West Africa: the salt run of Bilma.

WILD TRIALS EXTINCT
Wildlife photography challenge series for well-known Irish personalities 6 x 25 Min Series / Format: Digibeta & HD / Funders: RTÉ Finalist - Best Factual Entertainment Series - Irish Film & TV Awards

For the fourth series of Wild Trials the series takes a more exciting and adventurous twist and goes back in time to look at some of the extraordinary animals that once roamed the Irish countryside. With little or no photographic experience, all have one week in some of the wildest areas of the world to track down and photograph some of our most spectacular and endangered wildlife. This years series sees Pat Spillane rambling the remote woodlands of Romania in search of the Brown bear, Des Cahill caving in Cork and camping in Kenya to find the Spotted Hyena, Lucy Kennedy setting sail to capture a shot of one of the world's rarest whales, Brian Kennedy travelling the fjords of Norway to photograph the majestic White-Tailed eagle and Mary McEvoy leaving the stage on the trail of the elusive and aggressive Wild Boar. The winner heads to South Africa to swim with Great White Sharks.

FRANKLIN: TÁSC IS TUAIRISC
2x52 Min Series / Format: HD Funders: TG4, Irish Film Board, ZDF, Five, ARTE, History Canada, History UK, MEDIA

Mountaineer and writer Dermot Somers travels to the Arctic and recounts the extraordinary story of the lost Franklin expedition and the remarkable Irish characters & connections to the polar regions.

TURAS I MBAOL- NEIPEAL
2x52 Min Series / Format: HD / TG4 Version Funders: TG4, National Geographic International, Irish Film Board

After travelling with Nenets reindeer people across the frozen plains of Northern Siberia and crossing the Sahara with one of the last true camel caravans, the fourth film in the 'Turas I mbaol' series sees presenter, Dermot Somers, follow a family of Buddhist yak herders on a breathtaking three month journey across the roof of the world, from their homes on the High Tibetan Plateau to the lowland valleys of Southern Nepal through Dolpo - a small and inaccessible kingdom which for centuries has remained almost entirely cut off from the outside world.

TURAS I MBAOL - AN TSIBÉIR
2x52 Min Series / Format: Digibeta / TG4 Version Funders: TG4, National Geographic International, Irish Film Board, MEDIA Winner - Spirit of the Festival Award Winner Celtic Film Festival 2003 Finalist - Banff Mountain Film Festival

Dermot Somers, travelling by reindeer sled with a family of nomads, heads deep into Northern Siberia on the greatest traditional journey left on earth. Every year, an irrepressible bunch of Siberian natives, the Nenets, travel by reindeer from their winter forest homes, 800 kms north to the Arctic Ocean and back. The journey is the last of its kind. Possessing the most intact culture left in the Arctic, the Nenets live in tents of reindeer skin, eat raw reindeer meat and travel on handmade wooden sleds.

TURAS I MBAOL - SAHARA
2x52 Min Series / Format: Digibeta / TG4 Version Funders: TG4, National Geographic International, Irish Film Board

Writer & climber Dermot Somers travels by camel across the Sahara with one of the very last remaining Tuareg caravans still trading in the desert. From the remote Oasis of Bilma, their extraordinary journey takes them across some of the most spectacular desert landscapes in Africa before reaching the colourful market towns that fringe the great desert. They are carrying a precious mineral that could once be traded for its own weight in gold...they are carrying salt.

TURAS I MBAOL - IRAN
2x52 Min Series / Format: Digibeta / TG4 Version Funders: TG4, National Geographic International, Irish Film Board

Irish writer and mountaineer, Dermot Somers, travels with a group of nomads on a spectacular mountain journey across Iran. Dermot's hosts are a family of shepherds and they travel 400 kms on foot across a forgotten corner of this extraordinary country. Stunning landscapes and a forgotten tribe reveal aspects of Iranian life almost never seen in the west. To shoot this series, the film crew had almost unprecedented access to one of the most secretive countries on Earth.

THIS NOTE'S FOR YOU
Songwriters and the Songs they write 6 x 25 Min Series / Format: Digibeta / Funders: RTÉ

Presented by broadcaster and musician Tom Dunne, this series goes behind the stars and razzmatazz to explore with songwriters their experiences of writing and producing songs - hits that changed their lives and duds that never graced a radio wave. The series explores the origins of their best-known work - how the idea or the melody came about, how the most unpromising tune suddenly clicked into place and turned a tuneless dirge into something people hum every day in the streets. The series delves into the mechanics of pop, rock and roll and reveals some of the secrets of popular song writing, exposing the business and the technical skill and hours of work necessary for success and also how often the elusive elements of luck and coincidence come into play.

SWING TALKING
1 x 5 Min Short / Format: HD Funders: RTÉ Dance on the Box

With stunning dance scenes, dramatic lighting, and a dream like narrative on love and dance, this film captures the beauty of Swing in a breathtaking 5 minute Jazz whirlwind

WILD TRIALS SERIES III
Wildlife photography challenge series for well-known Irish personalities 8 x 25 Min / Format: Digibeta & HD / Funders: RTÉ Finalist - Wildscreen 2006 Finalist - Best Factual Entertainment Series - Irish Film & TV Awards

Celebrities have one week to become a wildlife photographer. This third series sees rugby pundit and broadcaster George Hook off to Glenveagh National Park to photograph the magnificent Golden Eagles, singer Johnny Logan goes camping on the islands of Donegal in search of badgers, Newsman Charlie Bird is on the tracks of wild mink on Galway's Lough Corrib, TV Presenter Shauna Lowry chases fallow deer bucks up the mountains in the rutting season, Actress Rosaleen Linehan is up all night getting pictures of elusive barn owls, Retired politician and bookmaker Ivan Yates spends a week cruising the Shannon photographing dragonflies and actress Sheila McWade is driven nuts trying to photograph very nifty and agile red squirrels. The best photograph sees the winner travel to Yellowstone National Park to photograph wolves in the wild.

EXPLORER: A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING

This documentary follows a team of Irish and international scientists as they head out 300 miles into the North Atlantic on a pioneering mission to survey the dark and mysterious world of the deep oceans. Its mid-February and the Irish research vessel the Celtic Explorer battles in mountainous seas to the outer edges of the continental slope, where weird and unknown creatures live at depths of over 1000 metres. The expedition attempts a first for Irish science, launching a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) to a depth of over 1000 meters to shed light for the first time on seabed which has lain unmapped and unchanged for thousands of years. The images from the ROV are astounding and reveal an immense and multicoloured coral reef lying in the cold and dark depths of the mid-Atlantic. The deep sea is one of the last great unknowns on the planet and this is truly cutting edge science… this deep water coral reef may be supporting hundreds if not thousands of species completely new to science.

BEZAD'S LAST JOURNEY
An nomad's odyssey through the mountains of Iran 1x70 Min Feature Documentary Version / Format: Digibeta Funders: Irish Film Board, TG4, National Geographic International Grand Prize Winner Premio Lessina Festival 2007 Grand Prize Winner Tergensee Mountain Film Festival 2007

The Qashqua'i are native Iranian nomadic herders who spend their lives on a gruelling migration across the Zagros mountains. With unprecedented access to one of the world's most insular and secretive countries, this film follows Bezad, a charismatic & highly articulate Qashqa'i shepard on his spectacular 500km migration across the mountains of Iran.

WILD TRAILS SERIES II
Wildlife photography challenge series for well-known Irish personalities 6 x 25 Min / Format: Digibeta / Funders: RTÉ Finalist - Best Factual Entertainment Series - Irish Film & TV Awards

Celebrities have one week to become a wildlife photographer. This series sees TV Presenter Liz Bonnin wreck-diving off the North coast of Antrim in search of conger eels, Senator David Norris is put to the test photographing Dublin's urban foxes, Kathryn Thomas goes snorkling around Achill island to swim with the world's second largest fish, the basking shark, singer/songwriter Mickey Harte goes climbing around the sea-cliffs of Co. Kerry to try and get near to Ireland's largest seabird colony, the gannet colony of the Skelligs and finally actress and singer Bronagh Gallagher is camping out in Clew Bay to photograph one of Ireland's most elusive mammals, the otter. For the winner the prize of a lifetime is a trip to central India and the chance to photograph some of the last wild tigers in the world.

NORTHWEST PASSAGE:
ON FRANKLIN'S TRAIL
1x70 min Feature Version & 1x54 Min Documentary / Format: Digibeta Funders: RTÉ, History Canada Winner: Best Adventure Doc - Banff Mountain Film Festival

A spectacular journey through the Arctic, as an Irish expedition shadows one of most tragic stories in polar history... the extraordinary Franklin expedition which sailed into the Arctic in search of a Northwest Passage and disappeared without a trace.

LAST CHANCE JOURNEYS:
SAHARA

A magnificent journey along the most traditional camel caravan route left in the Sahara, an 800 mile trek across Niger. This one-hour film follows Al Haj Alhassan, an old Tuareg caravaneer on his last journey across the Sahara, travelling one of the last remaining desert trade routes in West Africa: the salt run of Bilma.

WILD TRIALS SERIES I

Wildlife photography challenge series for well-known Irish personalities 6 x 25 Min / Format: Digibeta / Funders: RTÉ Finalist - Best Factual Entertainment Series - Irish Film & TV Awards

Celebrities have one week to become a wildlife photographer. Actor Don Wicherley camps on the windswept Inishkea islands off County Mayo to photograph grey seal pups in mid-November, Government Minister Conor Lenihan stalks the majestic red deer of Killarney National Park during the rutting season, Radio DJ and broadcaster Ray D'Arcy spends a week at sea off the south coast of Ireland photographing the world's second largest whale, the fin whale, TV presenter and actress Carrie Crowley spends many late nights in the Burren pursuing the elusive pine marten and finally Climber & Explorer Pat Falvey is hanging out in the caves and souterrains of Kerry to photograph bats in flight. The final programme sees the winner off on the trip of a lifetime to Rwanda where they have one week to photograph some of the last wild mountain gorillas in the world.

IFTA Nominee Best Factual Entertainment

THE GHOST OF ROGER CASEMENT
1x70 min Feature Documentary & 2x52 Min Series Format: Digibeta / Funders: RTÉ Winner - Best Documentary Series - Irish Film & TV Awards Winner - Best Feature Documentary- Celtic Film and Television Festival

Roger Casement served the British Government, was knighted, turned Irish rebel and was executed all within the space of just ten years. His life and reputation was destroyed by a set of homosexually explicit diaries which many claim are British forgeries. This film tells Casement's extraordinary story and features the only modern forensic investigation of the 'Black Diaries', which was co-funded by Crossing the Line Films.

ANTARCTICA'S FORGOTTEN HERO
TOM CREAN
1x52 Min / Format: Digibeta Funders: History Canada, History UK, RTÉ International, Irish Film Board. Winner - Best Adventure Film Winner Graz Film Festival, Austria

One of the most indestructible heroes in the history of Antarctic exploration. Crean's astonishing life story is told using a wealth of photographic and film archive and interviews with family members and leading polar historians, including Reinhold Messner and Ranulph Fiennes.

LAST CHANCE JOURNEYS:
SIBERIA
Winner of the Spirit of the Festival Award at the 2003 Celtic Film Festival.

This film follows the Serrotettas, a family of Nenet reindeer herders of Northern Siberia, on what is undoubtedly the greatest nomadic migration left on earth - a gruelling 1600 mile journey across the tundra to the shores of the Arctic Ocean. Shot over four months in northern Siberian this film gives rare insight into a difficult and ancient way of life now on the verge of extinction.

THE QUEER CASE OF THE IRISH CROWN JEWELS
1 x 52 Min / Format: Digibeta Funders: RTÉ, History UK, History Canada

The story of 'the greatest single blow against British Imperialism of its time'. A cocktail of jewel thefts, cover-ups and a Royal gay scandal that threatened to rock the British Monarchy to its foundations. The Irish Crown Jewels were stolen by Frank Shackleton, brother of famous polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and this film is a wonderful historical who-dunnit, investigating the evidence, theories, conspiracies and hoaxes surrounding the theft.

SCOTT AND SHACKLETON -
RIVALS FOR THE POLE
1 x 54 Min / Format: Digibeta Funders: TG4, History Canada, RTÉ International, MEDIA

This is the "behind the scenes" story of the two greatest figures of polar exploration - Robert Falcon Scott & Ernest Shackleton "Rivals For The Pole" digs deep into the bitter rivalry which existed between these two fascinating personalities and explores the jealousies, intrigue and adventure that marked the final chapter in the great age of exploration. marked the final chapter in the great age of exploration.

Finalist - Best Documentary - Irish Film & TV Awards

THE SEMINARY
1 x 52 Min Observational Documentary Format: Digibeta / Funders: RTÉ Nominated for an Emmy

Directed by Banff Rockie Grand Prize winner Donnacha Ó Briain, this intimate and revealing documentary follows a year in the life of three student priests at Ireland's biggest priest training school.

TURAS FEASA
7 x 25 Min / Format: Digibeta Funders: RTÉ

Setting out on foot through some of the remoter recesses of Ireland, author and climber Dermot Somers goes on the trail of seven journeys from ancient Irish history and mythology.

ACROSS THE LINE 2:
ALASKA TO ARGENTINA
Alaska to Argentina 8 x 25 Min / Format: Digibeta Funders: RTÉ, Travel UK, National Geographic, BSkyB

Alaska to Argentina was the challenge that attracted over 14000 Irish & British applicants - to rough it on $25 a day through 15 countries and feature in an 8 part television series about their journey.

WILD IRELAND / BEALACH Ó DHEAS

6 x 25 Min / Format: Digibeta / Funders: TG4

Filmed through an Irish summer, this six part walking series follows author and climber Dermot Somers on a 400 mile journey from Ireland's northernmost tip, Malin Head, to its southernmost tip, Mizen Head, taking in the finest scenery in the country along the way.

ESCAPE FROM ANTARCTICA

1 x 52 Min / Format: Digibeta Funders: RTÉ, TG4 Broadcasts Worldwide

This absorbing film tells the story of one of the most famous chapters in the history of exploration, as recreated by a team of Irish adventurers who retraced Shackleton's epic journey from Antarctica's Elephant Island to South Georgia.

ABOVE THE CLOUDS
6 x 25 Min / Format: Digibeta Funders: TG4, Travel UK Winner - Best Documentary Celtic Film Festival

Award-winning six part series of world mountaineering challenges set on the Eiger, Mt Kenya and in Nepal, Yosemite, Scotland and Peru. Each programme sees writer and Everest climber Dermot Somers taking a different guest climbing in some of the world's most stunning mountain wilderness

ACROSS THE LINE:
DUBLIN TO DARWIN
8 x 25 Min / Format: Digibeta Funders: RTÉ, Travel UK, National Geographic, BSkyB

Eight part travel series following two members of the public travelling overland from Dublin to Australia on a budget of $25 a day.

EVEREST,
THE NORTHERN EDGE
1 x 52 Min / Format: 16mm Funders: RTÉ

A remarkable one-hour documentary on the successful first ascent of the formidable and seldom climbed north-east ridge of Mount Everest by an Irish team.

MANASLU, SUMMIT OF SOUL 1 x 52 min

1 x 52 Min / Format: 16mm Funders: RTÉ

Film of the very first Irish expedition to one of the world's highest peaks Manaslu.