Patrick McDonald

I am film & television producer, and screenwriter. I am based in Australia via Dublin Ireland

I started out in the Irish Film Board in 2000 working on over sixty film and television projects, such as Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass), Intermission (John Crowley), The Count of Monte Cristo, Reign of Fire, Ella Enchanted, and Disney’s King Arthur.

Following this I was an independent producer in Ireland making films such as The Mighty Celt (Robert Carlyle and Gillian Anderson) for BBC Films. The horror film Shrooms. Conor McPherson’s The Eclipse (Aidan Quinn and Ciaran Hinds).

I made the move to Australia and set up Wolfhound Pictures in 2011 . In 2013 I produced the multiple award winning sci-fi film Predestination (Sony) starring Ethan Hawke,

I have just finished a feature documentary called Only the Dead chronicling the story of CNN and Time Iraq war correspondent Michael Ware, it is being released in 2015 in the with HBO.

I am in prep on two movies. Snowball City a grounded character driven sci-fi with international sales being handled by XYZ Films. Also in early prep on my writing debut, a supernatural comedy called Versus Vampire, being directed by Jonathan King (Black Sheep) with intenational sales being handled by Salt Film Company.

I am also developing televsion projects with Nine Network and Stan in Australia and wiring numerous other screenplays.