Speaker
Speaker
Speaker
Speaker
Dr Seán Murray
Relapse Pictures
Film Maker
Speaker Biography
Dr Seán Murray is an award winning film/documentary maker and director of Relapse Pictures, a Belfast based production company specialising in a range of work including Documentary, Drama and commercial/promotional videos. His work focuses on post-conflict / testimony documentaries that address legacy issues pertaining to the recent conflict in the north of Ireland.
He also holds a PhD in documentary film, a project that researched the role of documentary in supporting victims of political violence. This work demonstrated through both a critical and creative methodology how film can address, investigate, and act as an advocate in the issues and debates that are simplified and marginalized by mainstream film and broadcast media.