Tim Duggan began working in Screen Scene post - production facilities in 2000, as an Assistant Sound Editor. Here Tim found his passion for film and moved to Windmill Lane pictures as a runner to the Editing and Special fx department gaining a more detailed working knowledge of the film making process. Since then he moved onto been a junior production co-ordinator for Toytown films, also directing and producing a pilot documentary for RTE and several t.v commercials.
From here Tim travelled to New York, to study film in The New York film academy for 6 months where he was lectured by such filmmakers as Dylan Kidd [ Roger Dodger] and Brian Norton [Today’s Bacon].On Tim’s return to Dublin, he started directing music promos and corporate film along with T.V commercials for such clients as the Irish pensions board government campaign, Fuji Film, Sony, Spar and Heatons.
Tim’s short film ‘Tempt’ won ‘Best art short in the Lower East Side Film Festival in New York beating off stiff international competition from established film directors such as Jim Jaramusch. He has also purchased the film rights, through his company, Mercury Boy FIlms to the critically acclaimed, theatrical play 'Monged', written by Gary Duggan, and it is slated to shoot summer 2007.Mercury Boy is currently represented by Toytown Films for multimedia and t.v commercial production in the low end of the market, producing viral commercials and music videos.
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