Judy Kelly: Documentary Director

Contact Judy

Screen Directors Guild of Ireland site: https://sdgi.ie/directors/judy-kelly/

Judy Kelly is an award winning Irish documentary director and camerawoman, with two decades of experience making impactful factual films in the UK and Ireland.

Her film on migrants attempting to reach Europe, 'The Crossing' received Special Commendation for Best Documentary at the Prix Europa, Berlin 2017, and also won the Celtic Media Festival's Best Documentary Award in 2018.

Other awards for her documentaries include IFTA Best Factual Series (for John Lonergan's Circus, 2013), Royal Television Society Award for best current affairs (for RTÉ Investigates - Inside Ireland's Covid Battle), and other Celtic Media Festival Awards (for The Rotunda), and the Irish Medical Media Award for her Prime Time Investigates film on health inequality in Ireland in 2005.

She has made films for RTÉ, Channel 4, and Virgin Media Ireland.

The Crossing

A month in the lives of the Irish Navy crew sweeping the southern Mediterranean, searching for migrants lost at sea.

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Keelin Shanley: Faraway,
Still Close

An intimate, poignant but ultimately uplifting look back at Keelin Shanley’s life, career and dealing with cancer

Inside Ireland's
Covid Battle:
RTÉ Investigates

Behind the scenes at St James's Hospital, Dublin as doctors and nurses of the Intensive Care Units fight to keep Covid patients alive.

Tony Ryan:
A Legacy

The life and times of Tony Ryan, the billionaire businessman who co-founded Ryanair, and kick-started Irish aircraft leasing through his launch of GPA.

Preview: The Last Nuns in IrelandWatch an extract from the new documentary

Dearbhail McDonald reflects on the causes and consequences of the seemingly terminal decline in religious vocations in Ireland.

Clerys

Documenting the controversial closure of the historic Dublin department store -and the fallout for the embattled staff.

Keeping Ireland Alive

One Day. 75 Cameras. The Irish health service as you’ve never seen it before.

John Lonergan's Circus

Former governor of Mountjoy Prison John Lonergan works with eight young people from disadvantaged communities around Dublin who have run away and joined the circus.

Trauma: Ireland's Medical Emergencies

Unprecedented access to Ireland's Emergency Department surgeons, nurses and intensive care specialists – a chain of people who deal with cardiac arrests, head injuries and road traffic accidents.

Until Death

Three part series on domestic abuse and femicide in Ireland

The Rotunda
24 Hour Baby Hospital

Multi-camera Fixed Rig series in Dublin Maternity Hospital, carried as 'The Rotunda' for RTÉ, and '24 Hour Baby Hospital' for Channel 4