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Key Players
Tristan Orpen Lynch
With the production company he founded, Subotica Films Ltd, he produced the feature film production of Night Train starring John Hurt and Brenda Blethyn with J&M Entertainment, London completed in early 1999. Night Train, for which John Hurt won the best actor award at the Verona film festival, has screened to excellent reviews in many film festivals including Toronto, Cairo, Palm Springs, Brussels and Moscow and has been released in many countries worldwide
In 2000 the company produced David Caffrey's On The Nose, a comedy starring Robbie Coltrane, Dan Aykroyd and Brenda Blethyn. It also produced the eight part period drama Random Passage directed by John N. Smith starring Colm Meany. The company is has also completed a major documentary on Ireland's Abbey Theatre for the centenary in 2004. Subotica's latest feature is Song For A Raggy Boy starring Aidan Quinn and Iain Glen, which received an extended standing ovation at its world premiere in Sundance 2003 where it opened the World Cinema Section. It has been a major festival hit winning 9 awards internationally, including Best Film at the Copenhagen Film Festival. They were commissioned by RTE to produce a 4 hour TV drama, Proof, about human trafficking and high-level corruption in Irish society, which screened on RTE in January 2004 with exceptional audience ratings and which was sold to BBC and ABC in Australia. They were recommissioned by RTE to produce a second series of Proof, which aired in April 2005.
Subotica produced Small Engine Repair, a comedy drama set in the world of country music starring Iain Glen, Steven Mackintosh, Stuart Graham and Tom Murphy, which was released in 2007. They produced Damage in early 2007, a 2 part drama for RTE directed by Aisling Walsh and starring Olivia Williams and Natalie Press. In 2007/2008 the company completed three features - the psychological horror The Daisy Chain, starring Samantha Morton, Steven Mackintosh, Eva Birthistle and David Bradley; a romantic drama called Love and Savagery starring Sarah Greene and Allan Hawco; a tragic love story set in Spain, The Hanged Man, starring two young Spanish actors, Clara Lago and Alvaro Cervantes. Most recently Subotica produced La Mula, a period drama set in Spain directed by Michael Radford, and The Last Word, a romantic drama starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green.
Tristan was nominated Irish ‘Producer on the Move’ at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival by European Film Promotions. He has lead International Irish Film Industry trade missions in conjunction with Enterprise Ireland and is a member of the Film Makers Ireland film subcommittee. Tristan is also a board member of the Irish Film Board.
Aoife O'Sullivan
After completing an M.A. in Film Studies at University College Dublin, Aoife O'Sullivan joined the Irish Film Centre in 1995 as Research Officer, co-ordinating all of the research activities of the Film Institute of Ireland and educating visitors to the Centre on Irish film. She then went on to lecture in Film Studies and Media Analysis in Ballyfermot College of Further Education.
Aoife joined Subotica in 2000, working on all of Subotica's productions in both a creative and production capacity. These included David Caffrey's feature On the Nose starring Dan Aykroyd, Robbie Coltrane and Brenda Blethyn, and the eight part period drama Random Passage directed by John N Smith starring Colm Meany, which picked up two Gemini Awards in 2001. She worked on the multi-award winning Song For A Raggy Boy starring Aidan Quinn and Iain Glen and both of the two 4 part TV Dramas, Proof, which aired in 2004 and 2005 with unprecedented ratings for broadcaster RTE. They also produced Damage in early 2007, a 2 part drama for RTE directed by Aisling Walsh and starring Olivia Williams and Natalie Press.
in 2007 Aoife co-produced Subotica’s Small Engine Repair, a comedy drama set in the world of country music starring Iain Glen, Steven Mackintosh and Tom Murphy. She has also acted as co-producer on recent productions The Daisy Chain, a psychological horror called, starring Samantha Morton, Steven Mackintosh, Eva Birthistle and David Bradley; Love and Savagery, a romantic drama called starring Sarah Greene and Allan Hawco; The Hanged Man, a tragic love story set in Spain, starring two young Spanish actors, Clara Lago and Alvaro Cervantes.
Most recently Subotica produced La Mula, a period drama set in Spain directed by Michael Radford, and Perfect Sense, a romantic drama starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green.