Connor Clements
Writer and director
Northern Ireland
His short film James was an Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. He is now developing his first feature, The Part We Played.
A fifteen-year-old, raised in a house of secrets, decides to tell one of his own.
- Sundance Film Festival, Official Selection, 2009
- Cannes Film Festival, Short Film Corner, 2008
- Belfast Film Festival, Best Northern Irish Film
- Iris Prize Festival, Skillset Best UK Short
- Palm Springs International ShortFest, Jury Award, Best Student Short
- St. Louis International Film Festival, Best International Short
- Grand OFF, Warsaw, Scriptwriting award
Sundance 2009
James, Shorts Program IV
In January 2009 James was an Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. It screened in Shorts Program IV, alongside films including Choices by Rashaad Ernesto Green, Next Floor by Denis Villeneuve and Short Term 12 by Destin Daniel Cretton.
Shorts Program IV in the archive2009 Sundance Film Festival catalogue (Scribd)
Now in development
The Part We Played
Northern Ireland, 2005. A closeted film student falls for a silver-haired concert pianist who seems to offer everything. The pianist is a fraud. The love is real.
Since James
- Child of the Dead End2009–10Irish-language feature documentary for TG4. Assistant editor and production manager
- Ribbons2011A short film made with twelve lone parents for Gingerbread NI, screened at the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast. Editor
- The Enigma of Frank Ryan2011–13Feature documentary for TG4. Additional director, and assistant editor to Nigel Galt; editor of the TG4 and cinema versions
- South Eastern Regional College, Film and Television School2014 to nowLecturer in creative media production, teaching film and television production from pre-production to delivery
- DFK Performing Arts Academy2018–19Film school coordinator
- The Part We PlayedNowFirst feature, in development. Writer and director