Gerard Barrett is an Irish filmmaker. He came to prominence when he
won the Rising Star Award at the 10th Irish Film & Television Awards
for his debut, Pilgrim Hill. His follow-up Glassland starred Jack
Reynor as a young man who tries to help his mother (Toni Collette).In
2015, Barrett filmed Brain on Fire based on the book of the same name,
starring Chloë Grace Moretz and Charlize Theron in New York City and
Canada. His television mini-series Smalltown was screened in Ireland
in September 2016. In 2017, his movie, Limbo premiered at the 29th
Galway Film Fleadh, and his hour-long drama, Honey, was sold to
FX.Barrett attended St Michael's College, Listowel. A graduate of
Tralee IT, where he studied Film, TV and Media. He was married on 2
January 2016.
won the Rising Star Award at the 10th Irish Film & Television Awards
for his debut, Pilgrim Hill. His follow-up Glassland starred Jack
Reynor as a young man who tries to help his mother (Toni Collette).In
2015, Barrett filmed Brain on Fire based on the book of the same name,
starring Chloë Grace Moretz and Charlize Theron in New York City and
Canada. His television mini-series Smalltown was screened in Ireland
in September 2016. In 2017, his movie, Limbo premiered at the 29th
Galway Film Fleadh, and his hour-long drama, Honey, was sold to
FX.Barrett attended St Michael's College, Listowel. A graduate of
Tralee IT, where he studied Film, TV and Media. He was married on 2
January 2016.
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