about

Formed by Pat Collins and Sharon Whooley in 1999, Harvest Films have produced and directed over 40 films including feature films, feature documentaries, TV documentaries and short experimental films. That They May Face the Rising Sun based on John McGahern's novel premiered at the BFI London Film Festival in October 2023 and went on general cinema release in Spring 2024 to critical acclaim. It is released in selected cinemas in the US and Canada in April 2025.  Read more from Irish distributor Breakout Pictures https://www.breakoutpictures.com/movie/that-they-may-face-the-rising-sun-2022, UK distributor Conic Films https://www.conic.film/films/risingsun and US distributor Juno Films  https://facerisingsun.com/

FILMOGRAPHY: MAKING II (2025), MAKING (2024), Songlines (2023), That They May Face the Rising Sun (2023), Night Flight (2023), Songs of the Open Road (2022),  All That Is, Is Light (2021), Henry Glassie: Fieldwork (2019), Distance (2018), Song of Granite (2017), Twilight (2017), Imogen Stuart (2016), William McKeown (2016), 1916 (2015), Living in a Coded Land (2014), Tommy: To Tell You the Truth (2014), Ballade (2014), What Remains (2013), Fathom (2013), The Nettle Coat (2012), Silence (2012), Tim Robinson: Connemara (2011), What We Leave in Our Wake (2010), Lough Hyne (2009), Pride of the Parish (2009), Famine in Ireland: Remember Skibbereen (2009), Pilgrim (2008), Loch Dearg (2008), Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill: Taibhsí in mBéal na Gaoithe (2007), Na Duganna (2007), Ar Thoir Logainmeacha (2007), Rebel County (2006), David Marcus (2006), John McGahern: A Private World (2005), Cathair Corcaigh (2005), Domhnach in Éireann (2005), Beyond the Mountain (2005), Marooned (2004), Frank O’Connor: The Lonely Voice (2003), Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living (2003), Oileán Thoraí (2002), Idir na Línte (2001), Talking to the Dead (2000), Michael Hartnett: Necklace of Wrens (1999).