Kevin McCann comes from a creative and musical family and community. Over the past 20 years, he has worked as producer, director, writer, actor and composer.
His first experience in film production was making home-made movies with his school-friends and screening them to local audiences. In 1995, he attended the first U.C.D. Film School and made a short film on 35mm called ‘Ar Chul An Ti’, which was singled out for commendation by director Jim Sheridan. After graduating, Kevin worked in production at Roger Corman’s Film Studios in the late 1990’s and then moved to television, working for Fr.Michael Melvin at Kairos Communications.
In 2005, he set up Maccana Teoranta to further creative productions in the Cavan-Fermanagh region. His short film ‘Testing Time, Teddy Boy’ had a successful run in film festivals and made its way onto RTÉ, TG4 and SKY and received much acclaim.
Kevin has written and produced for radio with productions as diverse as a comedy series for Newstalk radio called ‘The Maroon Brothers Good Time Radio’ and a documentary called ‘White Gypsy Boy, Black Gypsy King’. Show. His series of radio plays written by new local writers called ‘Tall Tales from the Hollows and Hills’ received awards for innovation and achievement in broadcasting.
Most recently he produced the documentary ‘The Boys of St. Columb’s’ (Director: Tom Collins) in association with Westpark Pictures, London with André Singer as executive producer. The documentary followed the lives of several great Irish figures, including Nobel Laureates Seamus Heaney and John Hume, who have helped transform modern Ireland and who all attended the same small school in Derry in the 1950s. The film received a very warm reception at many film festivals worldwide and was broadcast on RTÉ and BBC in early 2010.
Kevin is a participant in the EAVE producer workshops 2010 – attending week long co-production seminars in Luxembourg, Austria and Serbia along with 50 other producers from 28 European countries.
