Ivan Kavanagh

'Ivan Kavanagh' (qv) is a multi-award winning Irish Writer and Director best known for The Canal (2014) and Never Grow Old (2019). He was born in 1973, in Dublin, Ireland.Other work includes Tin Can Man (2007) and The Fading Light (2010) which picked up 'Best Irish Film' and 'Best Actor' for Patrick O'Donnell at the Dublin Film Critics Circle 'Awards' (qv) during the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2010, and screened in the World Cinema section of the Pusan International Film Festival 2010, Korea.Ivan's critically acclaimed psychological horror, The Canal (2014) produced by Park Films and financed by the Irish Film Board and Film Agency Wales, had its world premiere at the Tribeca International Film Festival 2014 in New York, and was subsequently released in cinemas worldwide to critical acclaim.In 2019, Ivan's western Never Grow Old produced by Ripple World Pictures, starring John Cusack and Emile Hirsch, was released in cinemas worldwide, also to critical acclaim.Ivan is in post-production on his new film Son (Park Films), which he wrote and directed, a psychological horror film, starring Andi Matichak and Emile Hirsch.He is attached to direct an adaptation of Jon Bassoff's acclaimed crime novel The Disassembled Man, and is in development on an eight part TV crime series The Vanishing Triangle (Park Films).Ivan is represented by Paradigm Talent Agency in Los Angeles.::Park Films