From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Brendan Foley is an Irish writer film producer and director He grew up in Belfast Northern Ireland and has written feature scripts for companies in UK USA Canada South Africa and Thailand He wrote and produced the 2005 thriller Johnny Was starring Vinnie Jones Eriq La Salle and Patrick Bergin The film won awards including Audience Awards and Best Feature Awards from six film festivals He wrote produced and directed The Riddle 2007 film in 2006 starring Derek Jacobi Vinnie Jones and Vanessa Redgrave In September 2007 The Riddle became the worlds first feature film to be released as a dvd premiere by a national newspaper The UKs Mail on Sunday bought UK DVD rights and distributed 26 million copies making the film one of the most widely watched independent films in the UK In 20067 Foley wrote and directed Legend of the bog a satirical horror film set in rural Ireland starring Vinnie Jones Jason Barry Titanic and Nora Jane Noone The Descent It was released by Lionsgate in USA on DVD in 2009 He then cocreated and was a writer on Shelldon a childrens environmental animated series on NBC 2010 He has also written books for US and UK publishers and journalistic work includes feature assignments in 55 countries worldwide covering people business and conflict Journalism ranged from features on bomb disposal in Angola West Africa to the cleanup operations that followed the Exxon Valdez oilspill in Alaska His book Under The Wire a World War II POW escape drama which he wrote along with its subject William Ash which was published by St Martins Press New York and Transworld Publishing Random House London in 2005 in hardback and 2006 in UK paperback becoming a bestseller topping Amazon UKs rankings for World War II and Biography at the time of its launch He is a member of the Writers Guild GB a Fellow of the British Association of Communicators in Business and was made an honorary life member of the National Union of Journalists in June 2006 Description above from the Wikipedia article Brendan Foley licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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