Mad Cow Signs Dave Tynan

Mad Cow Films is proud to welcome Dave Tynan to its directorial roster.

Dave was hatched in Dublin and went to The National Film School where he started writing and directing shorts that played in a heap of festivals. He's into words, whether that's treatments, scripts or the text for his friend Luke's art project www.4bothies.com

Dave loves work that requires an eye for detail, whether that's in visuals or performance. ‘Just Saying’ was written and directed by Dave and got 250,000 views the week it went online at Christmas 2013 and people started crying in airports. 

It won him a Kinsale Shark in the ‘New Director’ category. Last summer he shot his latest test spot for ‘Levi’s’ everywhere from Donegal to Brixton, using 3 stylists, 3 models, 11 pairs of Levi’s, a 200 year old Byron poem and loads of mates. 

His new short film entitled "Rockmount"  recently won Best Short Feature at the Galway Film Festival and is up for a lot more at various festivals around the world. Football aficiando's may know that Rockmount was Roy Keane's first club and the film is a fictional and humorous look at his early days. Starring Craig Keane Harrington as Roy & shot entirely in Cork, Dave reveals that the legendary intensity of the man started in boyhood. 

Along side Rockmount, Dave has also just finished 'The Red Line', an adaptation of a short story written by Charlie Higson & ‘Poxy’, an RTÉ/Filmbase short.