Bread&Circus is a Dublin based film & media production company producing feature films, documentaries and media campaigns to a cinematic standard. Bread&Circus have produced over 20 short films and two feature films that have exhibited internationally and been broadcast nationally.
We specialise in innovative viral campaigns to promote these projects, most recently to support the feature documentary ‘The 4th Act’ about the largest housing regeneration project in Europe.
B&C’s most recent safeTALK project for the HSE won the National Mental Health Award in the Irish Healthcare Centre Awards and was selected for the NOSP Innovation Project 2021.
Creative Director Andrew Keogh is an artist, writer and independent film-maker. He has fifteen years experience in film production and has written, directed and produced numerous award-winning short films with the Dogmedia Collective that have exhibited internationally.
With Bread&Circus, Andrew is a producer and creative director responsible for developing a slate of international co-productions, features and documentaries. Andrew has a degree in Visual Communication from NCAD, Dublin and a Masters in Interactive Digital Media from Trinity College Dublin.
His MSc thesis probed the relationship between quantum physics and metaphysics and how they collide in cinema and film making technologies. Andrew has also previously worked as a manager and a buyer of eclectic arthouse and world cinema DVD titles for renowned Irish chain Laser Film Specialists. Andrew has also worked as a youth worker and is currently an assistant lecturer in Digital Games in Youth Culture at LIT. He recently published his first book 'Children of the Stale Chocolate.'
Link here to Andrew's art projects.
Jeff has worked as a Youth Worker consistently for 16 years. He is currently in the 10th year of his current employment with Ballymun Regional Youth Resource.
Some of the duties he is responsible for in this role are the Development, Implementation and Evaluation of specific theme-based programs for young people in Ballymun and the surrounding areas. The young people participating would range from 10-25. Interagency collaboration is a pivotal role in this position and through his employment Jeff has collaborated with many other agencies including HSE, Spun Out, Headstrong,Youth Theatre Ireland.
In his own personal time Jeff was the founder of the Award Winning Jobstown Safetalk Program. As part of this program, Jeff arranged a community response to the high suicide rate in his locality of Jobstown,
Tallaght. Jeff was responsible for arranging Safetalk Training for over eighty members of the community and a further seventypeople in the greater Tallaght area.
This community response was well received and has been recognised nationally, with similar programs run with Jeff’s assistance and several more due to commence in the near future.