The 'Days of Trees'

Alan Gilsenan – Director, Cinematographer

Alan Gilsenan graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a First Class Honours in Modern English and Sociology. He was awarded the inaugural AJ Leventhal Scholarship and the Lennox Robinson Bursary (from the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s National Theatre).
Gilsenan is an award-winning writer, film-maker and theatre director. He wrote a stage adaptation of Mario Vargas Llosa’s epic novel about Roger Casement The Dream of the Celt.Prior to that, he wrote and directed a cinema drama-documentary entitled Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay, with Maria Doyle-Kennedy in the title role which premiered at the London Film Festival.
Most recent films include ‘The Ghosts of Baggotonia‘, ‘TheSeven Ages of Noel Browne’, ‘The United Irishmen’, ‘Paul Muldoon: A Life in Lyrics’ and ‘The Irish Question’. He has also directed an experimental life of WB Yeats A Vision: A Life of WB Yeats; as well as writing and directing the feature film Unless, based on Carol Shields’ novel and starring Catherine Keener (‘a gracefully crafted and acted piece…Gilsenan brings considerable skill to a challenging task’ – Variety), Meetings with Ivor a feature length documentary on the esteemed Irish psychiatrist, Ivor Browne, The Meeting, a powerful film on restorative justice,
The Great Book of Ireland , commissioned by UCC in 2020, Ulysses - James Joyce, commissioned by MOLI in 2020.