Cathal Black

Cathal Black was born in Dublin in 1952 and grew up in Phibsborough, where his father, who had joined the Guinness brewery as a young apprentice, rose through the ranks. He shot on eight-millimetre film from his teens, left school at sixteen and worked for sixteen months as a camera operator at Irish public television, which he left for independent cinema. Two of his early films, the adaptation of a short story and a docudrama about the Christian Brothers' schools, were long refused by that same television.

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• Feature filmPigsCathal Black · 1984Cinema