Bertie Brosnan

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Bertie is the writer/director of the visionary tale 'Jacob Wrestling With The Angel' and the award-winning 'Sineater'.

Bertie started out working and training as an actor in Cork City with the Gaiety School of Acting and on some small independent films. He has also trained in the Stella Adler studio in Los Angeles, Lee Strasberg studio in West Hollywood and Improv Olympic Hollywood. Bertie worked his way up to bigger films such as 'Guerrilla' which was produced by Dunsany Productions and then he got his first role on TV with Sterling Productions on the hit show called 'Maru' which aired on TG4, Ireland. Bertie went on to work with Sterling Productions one more time before jetting off for America where he trained as an actor and filmmaker. He auditioned in LA for some big TV shows and got his break on a very successful independent Horror film called 'Chemical 13'. Bertie worked with mainly the same people throughout the rest of his stay in America and shot two more films in which he wrote one called 'Oh The Accent!' which aired on Planet 3 TV. Bertie returned to Ireland and was cast as the lead in 'Meteor commercial' which had a a lot of air time. He started writing another film called 'Jacob Wrestling With The Angel' in which he produced and directed also. He then got another decent cameo role in the RTE/Filmbase funded short film 'Empty' with was produced by Fastnet Films. Bertie reached several Irish festivals with his film Jacob Wrestling With The Angel receiving a nomination for 'Best Camera' at Limerick Film Festival, 2014. Bertie's life long dream of going to Cannes came true when Jacob was accepted as apart of the Short Film Corner in 2014. Bertie soon penned his next script 'Sineater' and decided to produce and direct it in his hometown of Tralee, Co. Kerry in Ireland. He cast Joe Mullins as 'The Driver' and made the film in a short space of time. After another successful fund-raising campaign, Sineater started distribution. The first festival submission - Cannes 2015, two days later they were accepted as apart of the short film corner for the second year running. Sineater has reached eight international festivals so far including the 60th Cork Film Festival and Limerick Film Festival. The film has gone onto win 'Best Camera' at Limerick Film Festival 2015 and the whole team is very proud especially Blaine Rennicks, our cinematographer. Bertie is currently in development for his feature film.