Leo McGuigan

Leo McGuigan

History

Leo McGuigan is an Irish film actor, producer, director and writer. In 2012, McGuigan and Margaret McGoldrick co-founded McGoldrick/McGuigan Productions. Two years later, the company rebranded as What's Next Films.

Profile

Leo McGuigan

Movies

Bad Vibes
Producer
A young married couple resolve to repair their relationship with a visit to a Belfast sex shop.
This Town Still Talks About You
Editor
In the barren west coast of Ireland, a rusted, iron cable car connects Dursey Island to the mainland, hanging precariously over a wild Atlantic Ocean. Between the waves and the wind, storms and secrets brew - dividing or reuniting family. For years, Ciaran has kept a relationship with his estranged father hidden. Following the death of their mother, his older brother Padraig returns to the island. Everyone knows everyone here, and secrets have a talent at getting out - This Town Still Talks About You is a universal story of human connection against a stark landscape, an atmospheric exploration of the Irish family identity.
Ruthless
Producer
In 1970’s Northern Ireland, a young boy, bereft of his mother, defies his father to get the Glam Rock album he so desperately wants. It’s Belfast - early 70’s… BOOM! Something’s in the air and it’s not a bomb, it’s a revolution. Glam Rock is drowning out the noise of armoured cars. As British soldiers patrol the streets, kids are glued to Top Of The Pops, entranced by Marc Bolan, the androgynous, satin-clad, glitter-god. In a high-rise flat lives a recently bereaved father and his ten-year-old son PJ, who is desperate to get his hands on the new T. Rex album Electric Warrior. The problem is he’s skint and his Da is on the dole. PJ comes up with a cunning plan to get the dough, involving a sock, a prosthetic leg and a pawnbroker. Ruthless is a humorous, heartwarming story of how a prosthetic leg and a T. Rex album become the conduit for overcoming grief.
Wishbone
Producer
Three young women break bread - and possibly each other - over a late supper at the Fleadh.
Limbo
Producer
Brendan’s mother Eilis reveals a dark secret on her deathbed, one to which Brendan must find the answer – what happened to her lost child?
The Invention
Writer
In 1960s Belfast, a boy comes of age while devising a plan to steal cigarettes.
The Invention
Director
In 1960s Belfast, a boy comes of age while devising a plan to steal cigarettes.
Braxton Butcher
Producer
Every town has a devil. For the small community of Braxton, that devil is Tommy Miller. A bullied and tormented teen who finally snapped, killing his friends and family at the annual Braxton town hall party, Miller escaped into the woods, never to be seen or heard from again. Until now. Ten years later, a group of fresh-faced teens find themselves targeted by a masked man in a hooded cloak. It's up to Detective Ryan Fenton and his fish-out-of-water partner to protect the town from Miller's clutches; there's just one issue - Ryan himself is a survivor of the original massacre. Is Miller opening up a new chapter, or has he returned to attend to some unfinished business?
Braxton Butcher
Editor
Every town has a devil. For the small community of Braxton, that devil is Tommy Miller. A bullied and tormented teen who finally snapped, killing his friends and family at the annual Braxton town hall party, Miller escaped into the woods, never to be seen or heard from again. Until now. Ten years later, a group of fresh-faced teens find themselves targeted by a masked man in a hooded cloak. It's up to Detective Ryan Fenton and his fish-out-of-water partner to protect the town from Miller's clutches; there's just one issue - Ryan himself is a survivor of the original massacre. Is Miller opening up a new chapter, or has he returned to attend to some unfinished business?
Braxton Butcher
Writer
Every town has a devil. For the small community of Braxton, that devil is Tommy Miller. A bullied and tormented teen who finally snapped, killing his friends and family at the annual Braxton town hall party, Miller escaped into the woods, never to be seen or heard from again. Until now. Ten years later, a group of fresh-faced teens find themselves targeted by a masked man in a hooded cloak. It's up to Detective Ryan Fenton and his fish-out-of-water partner to protect the town from Miller's clutches; there's just one issue - Ryan himself is a survivor of the original massacre. Is Miller opening up a new chapter, or has he returned to attend to some unfinished business?
Braxton Butcher
Director
Every town has a devil. For the small community of Braxton, that devil is Tommy Miller. A bullied and tormented teen who finally snapped, killing his friends and family at the annual Braxton town hall party, Miller escaped into the woods, never to be seen or heard from again. Until now. Ten years later, a group of fresh-faced teens find themselves targeted by a masked man in a hooded cloak. It's up to Detective Ryan Fenton and his fish-out-of-water partner to protect the town from Miller's clutches; there's just one issue - Ryan himself is a survivor of the original massacre. Is Miller opening up a new chapter, or has he returned to attend to some unfinished business?