Kate McCullough

Movies

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Director of Photography
Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Until, one day – Harold learns his old friend Queenie is dying. Harold leaves home, walking to his post office to send her a letter. And out of the blue, Harold decides to keep walking, all the way to her hospice, 450 miles away.
The Quiet Girl
Director of Photography
A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.
Arracht
Cinematography
Ireland, 1845 on the eve of The Great Hunger. Colmán Sharkey, a fisherman, a father, a husband, takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. Patsy, a former soldier in the Napoleonic wars arrives just ahead of 'the blight,' a disease that eventually wipes out the country's potato crop, contributing to the death and displacement of millions. As the crops rot in the fields, Colmán, his brother and Patsy travel to the English Landlord's house to request a stay on rent increases that Colmán predicts will destroy his community. His request falls deaf ears and Patsy's subsequent actions set Colmán on a path that will take him to the edge of survival, and sanity. It is only upon encountering an abandoned young girl that Colmán's resolve is lifted. Just in time for the darkness of his past to pay another visit.
A Legacy of Horses
Cinematography
In 1996, John used to proudly ride around on his horse in Ballymun of Dublin. Now, 20 years later, the horse inheritance, that he received from his father, will be given to John's son, Daragh, who will soon be 16 years old.
Frida Think
Director of Photography
A woman walks into a party dressed as Frida Kahlo, only to find that her version of unique has mass appeal.
Users
Director of Photography
A single night. A chat app. A chance meeting. An algorithm couples us. A million-to-one chance. Time passes a bit differently here. An interesting question... how much can you live through in a single night? They say the Internet is the final sphere of true freedom. When anything goes, then where do we start? There’s only one rule; if I don’t like something, if you bore me, if you don’t come up to expectations... I’ll you. I want to feel something. Can something be felt here?
The Farthest
Camera Operator
The captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity's greatest achievements in exploration: NASA's Voyager mission.
The Moderators
Director of Photography
In an office in India, a cadre of Internet moderators ensures that social media sites are not taken over by bots, scammers, and pornographers. The Moderators shows the humans behind content moderation, taking viewers into the training process that workers go through in order to become social media’s monitors.
Loving Lorna
Director of Photography
Horses have been part of daily life for generations in the deprived Dublin suburb of Ballymun – and for 17-year-old Lorna and her family too. Her unemployed father finds structure and purpose in daily life by caring for his horses, while her sick mother wistfully remembers the days when she used to turn heads as she galloped through the town. These days it's Lorna who likes to spend all her free time in the stable or riding Bigfoot, her horse.
It's Not Yet Dark
Director of Photography
The story of Simon Fitzmaurice, a young filmmaker who becomes completely paralyzed from motor neuron disease but goes on to direct an award-winning feature film through the use of his eyes.
My Name Is Emily
Second Unit Director of Photography
Packed off to a foster home after her father is insti­tu­tion­al­ized, a rebellious young Irish girl resolves to bust her dad out of the hospital where he's been confined.
Mom and Me
Director of Photography
Mom and Me takes a look at tough guys and the even tougher women who raise them. Set in Oklahoma City, apparently voted the manliest city in the United States, this creative documentary from Irish director Ken Wardrop ("His & Hers") chronicles the relationships between ten sons and their mothers.
The Last Days of Peter Bergmann
Director of Photography
In the summer of 2009, a man calling himself Peter Bergmann and claiming to be from Austria arrived in Sligo Town. Over his final three days, Peter Bergmann would go to great lengths to ensure no one would ever discover who he was or where he came from.
Cluck
Cinematography
Feathers are ruffled when a new arrival upsets the pecking order.
Voices from the Grave
Director of Photography
The story of the Northern Ireland Troubles through the unflinching testimony of two men who played key roles on opposite sides of that bloody conflict. Nearly ten years ago the two paramilitary leaders told their stories on condition that they could never be revealed while they were still alive. The stories told by the Irish Republican Army's Brendan Hughes and Ulster Volunteer Force's David Ervine tell us of the motivations of the participants, the planning of campaigns of violence, the misery of a hunger strike, the tracking and killing of informers and the duplicity that ended a conflict that had lasted too long. It is also a narrative of the fate of combatants when their wars are over.
Jimmy Murakami: Non-Alien
Additional Camera
A documentary film about acclaimed filmmaker Jimmy T. Murakami and his emotional return to Tule Lake concentration camp in America.
His & Hers
Director of Photography
A documentary which chronicles a ninety-year-old love story, through the collective voice of seventy ladies.
A Simple Piece of Cloth
Cinematography
Two women from two different cultures are contrasted in their views on beauty and their beliefs. One keeps her beauty for herself and her husband under a veil, another puts on make up for the world but lives less glamorous inside her home.
Safe and Silent
Director of Photography