Welcome to Camel Productions


		Welcome to Camel Productions, a film production company based in Dublin, Ireland

		Camel Productions are the people behind the award-winning arts documentary Harry Clarke – Darkness in Light (Harry Clarke – Dorchadas I Solas), (dir. John J Doherty), Frederick Douglass and the White Negro (Frederick Douglass agus na Negroes Bána), (dir. John J. Doherty) on the slave turned abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the dance film Buail (dir. Steve Woods in collaboration with the Irish Modern Dance Theatre), the innovative Deaf drama Babble (dir: John J. Doherty) a collaboration with the Irish Deaf Society), and award-winning short dramas such Blinder (dir. Eve Morrison) and Cruschen On…(dir. Catherine Lyons). We currently have a Development Slate of many creative documentaries of an international nature such as Looking for Sheela (the history and meaning of the Sheela na Gig), Bakunin - The Desire for Freedom, – as well as a drama feature Play, to be devised by drawing on the techniques of Michael Chekov (wri./dir. Michèle Manahan).

		Copies of the award-winning documentary (Best Arts Documentary Celtic Film & Television Festival 2004) Harry Clarke – Darkness in Light are available directly from us at: camel@ireland.com and you can pay online by Paypal or by post to: Catherine Lyons Camel Productions 12 Magennis Place Dublin 2 Ireland Tel: 353 (0)87 667 0760 Fax: 353 (0)1 491 4486

				Harry Clarke was born in 1889 on North Frederick St., Dublin and is one of Ireland’s greatest and most neglected artists. He created a stunning and often bizarre world in stained glass and book illustration. The work is a heady mix of the beautiful and the grotesque, the ethereal and the demonic, the romantic and the obscene. His tragic story represents a fascinating collision of Church, State and Art and one man’s battle for freedom of expression. The ‘Geneva Window’ was commissioned by the Irish Government to represent Ireland at the United Nations in Geneva until state censorship reared its ugly head.