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Sea Fever Productions located in Lahinch on Ireland’s Atlantic seaboard.

We produce natural history, wildlife and creative documentaries.

After working for several years as a freelance underwater cameraman, Ken O’Sullivan set up Sea Fever Productions in 2006 with Katrina Costello to produce wildlife & creative documentaries.

We produced our first feature documentary film, ‘Sea Fever’ in 2007 (www.seafever.ie) to great critical acclaim, winning the ‘Best Cameraman’ award at the Moscow Sports Film Festival in 2009.

In 2018 we produced 'Ireland's DEEP ATLANTIC', a hugely ambitious ocean natural history series searching for blue whales and cold water coral reefs in the deep waters of the North Atlantic, documenting habitats and whale and shark behaviour for the first time ever.

In 2017 we produced The Silver Branch a creative feature-length documentary about Burren poet-farmer Patrick McCormack and our ancient connection with landscape in Ireland. The Silver Branch won the International Audience Award at HotDocs in Toronto in 2018, North America's largest documentary film festival.

In 2014 we produced ‘Ireland’s Ocean’ a four part Irish wildlife series for RTÉ documenting dolphins, sharks, stingrays and the myriad of wonderful and colourful creatures in the temperate seas around Ireland. One of the first documentaries in Europe shot with the RED Epic 5K camera underwater the series was also designed, mixed and mastered in full 5.1 surround sound.

In 2011 we completed ‘Farraigí na hÉireann’ a six part Irish Ocean Wildlife Series, the first of its kind ever produced in Ireland, for Irish language broadcaster TG4. The series won the ‘Special Jury Remi Award’ at the Worldfest Houston Film Festival in Oceanography / Marine Biology.

For further information email us at info@seafever.ie

Reviews Critically acclaimed by our peers

TG4

Some reviews of our work, for which we're very grateful 🙂

'Ireland's DEEP ATLANTIC'
Irish Examiner
“Captured the attention of the entire country last night with the first part of the eagerly-awaited documentary series, Ireland’s Deep Atlantic.”

Irish Independent
“… the footage Ken and his crew get of the deep ocean and its inhabitants is extraordinary, up there with anything to be seen in The Blue Planet or any other outstanding nature documentaries, and O'Sullivan's passion for his subject is both evident and admirable.”

Sunday Business Post
“... the nature documentary was a balm for tired eyes, an appealing vista of some of the most graceful creatures on the planet joyfully surging like huge grey torpedoes through oceans of the purest blue.”

UK Times
“Ken O’Sullivan, the Clare-born film-maker who fronted the series, is a welcome addition to the premier league of natural-born TV naturalists.”


THE SILVER BRANCH

IRISH TIMES
“Breathtakingly lovely. Costello’s rich images offer elegant underscores to the subject’s pastoral verse. The film does trust that we share its subject’s passion for nature, but it will win over even those agnostic about the philosophy.”

BRENDAN GLEESON
“Film making as it should be in Ireland, finding the universal in the local – with a sure footedness that is most unusual, magical … a unique and an important cinematic gift”

Chris Baldwin, European Capital of Culture 2020
” While the gentle, enveloping images of this film slow the heart beat the poetry and urgency of the narrative reminds us that some struggles are so continual, so universal, that they are not chosen by us but are a matter of the very meaning of our lives.”

Irish Film & TV Network
"The film’s great strengths are its endearing characters, poetic narration and sublime imagery… The characters affection for the place is contagious, particularly McCormack’s, who attaches an almost spiritual sense of importance to it."




IRELAND'S OCEAN - “Stunning … dreamlike … fascinating four-part ocean wildlife series explores the spell-binding diversity of the marine life living around the Irish coast and asks some thought-provoking questions about the wildlife that share our waters.”
- IRISH EXAMINER.

IRELAND'S OCEAN - “Beautifully shot, deftly structured four-part series about the marine eco-system ... while this show lacks David Attenborough’s scope and budget, it is by no means shamed by the comparison to BBC’s Blue Planet.”
- SUNDAY TIMES

FARRAIGÍ NA hÉIREANN - "... to be seen and savoured...every shot of it was extraordinary in its strange, indeed surreal, beauty.”
- IRISH INDEPENDENT

IRELAND'S OCEAN - "... arrestingly filmed by series director Ken O'Sullivan"
- IRISH INDEPENDENT

FARRAIGÍ NA hÉIREANN - ".. stunning underwater series .. It looks superb, with dreamy shots of astonishingly beautiful jellyfish, giant basking sharks and hundreds of dolphins.
- IRISH TIMES

FARRAIGÍ NA hÉIREANN - "A remarkable documentary series."
- IRISH EXAMINER

SEA FEVER - “The definitive Irish surf film.”
- Surfer Magazine USA

SEA FEVER - "Forty years of Irish surfing ... rootsy, hardcore and full of devotion."
- Surfing Magazine USA

SEA FEVER – “The film is steeped in dedication and reverence, highly entertaining and O'Sullivan's love for his subject shines through beautifully in this relaxed romp around the coast of the Emerald Isle, past and present.”
- Surfer's Path

SEA FEVER – “Beautifully shot and slickly edited .. two years work have produced an epic production worthy of bigger budgets and the quality of footage is tantamount to O'Sullivan's skills and dedication.”
- Pitpilot surf mag

SEA FEVER - "Slickly edited independently made movie complete with jaw-dropping footage of Irish surfing ..”
- Irish Independent IRISH INDEPENDENT

FARRAIGÍ NA hÉIREANN - ".. stunning underwater series .. It looks superb, with dreamy shots of astonishingly beautiful jellyfish, giant basking sharks and hundreds of dolphins.
- IRISH TIMES

FARRAIGÍ NA hÉIREANN - "A remarkable documentary series."
- IRISH EXAMINER

FARRAIGÍ NA hÉIREANN - "..spectacular footage of undersea life around Ireland.."
- SUNDAY BUSINESS POST

IRISH EXAMINER

Farraigí na hÉireann - ".. stunning underwater series...It looks superb, with dreamy shots of astonishingly beautiful jellyfish, giant basking sharks and dolphins."

Ireland's Ocean - “Beautifully shot, deftly structured four-part series about the marine eco-system ... while this show lacks David Attenborough’s scope and budget, it is by no means shamed by the comparison to BBC’s Blue Planet.”
Sunday TimesIRISH TIMES

Farraigí na hÉireann - "...spectacular undersea life around Ireland..."SUNDAY BUSINESS POST

Nature programmes usually aren’t our thing, especially those that are in Irish, but we’ve fallen for Farraigí na hÉireann on TG4 ... it features the most incredible underwater shots and is filmed within metres of our shoreline.SUNDAY WORLD

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The Silver Branch

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Multi Award winning film immerses us in the exquisite textures of the natural world, bringing us a rare glimpse of a disappearing way of life with all its richness and roguery, and leading to a deep connection with the Earth and our ancestral wild spirit, drinking deep at the well of one man’s story, one family’s joy and heartbreak.

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Farraigí na hÉireann

Farraigí na hÉireann

TV Series

Six half hour programmes from the TG4 Irish Ocean Wildlife series.

Sorry this DVD set is no longer available.

Sea Fever

Sea Fever

Feature Length Documentary

Our first film produced in 2007 telling the story of surfing in Ireland from the 1950s pioneers to the big wave men...

€9.99 (plus P&P) - PAL region


$13.99 (plus P&P) - NTSC region


For Hire Cameraman & Equipment Hire

 

 

Freelance cameramen / underwater cameraman and equipment available for hire.

We have produced TWELVE natural history documentaries for TV for Irish national broadcasters RTÉ & TG4.

We have produced two creative, feature-length documentaries for Irish Film Board and others.

We have worked as freelance camera / director for the BBC Natural History Unit & CBC Canada & ITV UK.

We have worked as underwater / water camera for a host of TV commercials, Drama and short films.

EQUIPMENT

  • RED Epic Dragon 6k with full RED DSMC & accessories kit
  • RED Raven 4.5k with full RED DSMC & accessories kit
  • Set of Canon Cinema T1.3 prime lenses
  • Marshall field monitor

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    • Gates Deep Epic Dragon underwater housing with selection of ports and extension rings
    • Custom Surf / surface housing for RED Epic Dragon, RED Raven
    • Keldan Luna 8 - 6000 Lumen underwater lights
    • HUMBER 8 metre rib with 2 x Honda 100HP outboard engines

      • Email info AT seafever.ie for rates and further information.

       

       

       

       

       

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    Sea Fever Productions located in Lahinch on Ireland’s Atlantic seaboard.

    Info@seafever.ie
    Tel. +353 (0)65 707 2334
    Mob. +353 (0)87 245 0699

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