Directing

TJ O'Grady-Peyton

Ireland

TJ O'Grady-Peyton first gained industry recognition in 2013 when he was shortlisted at the Young Director Awards in Cannes after graduating from the London Film School's filmmaking MA program. Since then, he has directed an array of commercial work all over the world for clients such as Under Armour, UEFA, Asics, Volkswagen, BMW and The European Union. TJ was awarded the Discovery Award in his home town of Dublin by the Dublin Film Festival. His short film "Wave" which TJ also starred in was picked up by The New Yorker after winning an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Short. Wave has played 75 festivals including BFI, Melbourne, Aspen and Clermont Ferrand after having its world premiere at Tribeca 2017. In 2020 he became a member of the Director's Guild of America. Last year his latest short film "Silence" had its world premiere at Tribeca 2021 and TJ was the recipient of the Bingham Ray New Talent Award at the Galway Film Fleadh. "Silence" was also nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award 2022.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Room Taken poster
6.9

When a man, new to Ireland, experiences homelessness and needs a place to sleep, he secretly takes up residence in the home of an elderly blind woman, which leads to them forming a unique bond.

Room Taken

2023

Sentinel poster
10.0

With his father’s dementia progressing, things quickly take a turn for the worse when Carl hears news that his dad is nowhere to be found in his new care home.

Sentinel

2021

Wave poster
5.5

A man wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognizable language baffling linguistic experts from around the globe.

Wave

2017

Stalker poster
7.5

A mentally unstable homeless man attempts to save his new and only friend from the world and drug dealers that make his life a living hell.

Stalker

2012

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NR

13 former missionary priests from rural Ireland reveal all in this telling documentary about why they joined and subsequently left the active ministry and their life in the Church. Raised as devout Catholics from infancy, these honest men now in their later stages of life open up about intimacy, faith, religion and life before, during and after the priesthood.

The Judas Iscariot Lunch

2016

Broken: A Lockdown Story poster
NR

A man plunges from the sky, a militia chase down two siblings, a woman weeps in a derelict house: vignettes from a surreal family breakdown, visions from an unreliable narration who speaks only in idioms.

Broken: A Lockdown Story

2021

Broken: A Lockdown Story poster
NR

A man plunges from the sky, a militia chase down two siblings, a woman weeps in a derelict house: vignettes from a surreal family breakdown, visions from an unreliable narration who speaks only in idioms.

Broken: A Lockdown Story

2021

A Runner poster
9.0

Every night, Fionn, a troubled teenager, evades questions of worth, as well as the dangerous atmosphere of his broken home, by going on gruelling night-time runs. Fionn routinely runs along the concrete path of his local beach. Running is his therapy.

A Runner

2022

Silence poster
NR

During the first lockdown a teenager wanders London’s streets at night, tagging buildings in his manor. One night, while creating a new artwork he hears music from a nearby abandoned building, and finds a girl dancing ballet, sparking a newfound curiosity and desire for dance, much to the dismay of his blokey father.

Silence

2021