Bertie Brosnan

Bertie Brosnan is an Irish screenwriter, film producer, actor, director, and popular social media video creator. He was born in Tralee, the capital of County Kerry, in the Republic of Ireland. Bertie started part-time theatre performance training with the Gaiety School of Acting in late 2008 and went on to take classes in screen acting with the school in 2009. He continued his screen acting training in 2010 with Company D Theatre Company and David Scott in Dublin. Bertie also trained with Improv Olympic in Hollywood and renowned coach Doug Warhit while visiting the United States in 2011.

Bertie made his acting debut on TG4's television program Marú in 2010 and landed acting roles in various films, such as Chemical 13, a horror short film from producer Guillermo Arredondo at Garredondo Productions. Bertie was cast in another horror short film, Prey, written and directed by the award-winning director Randal Plunkett, the current Lord Dunsany. Next was a dystopian war feature film titled Guerrilla, produced by Lord Dunsany and directed by Blaine Rennicks, the award-winning cinematographer for Bertie's film Sineater. Later, Bertie gained roles on an RTÉ/Filmbase-funded short film, Empty, and he landed other cameo roles throughout the years, including a Horror feature film, Brackenmore, produced by Caragh Lake Films and distributed by Amazon's Prime Video.

Bertie began writing screenplays early on in his career, and his script Oh, the Accent! came to fruition in 2012, with Bertie starring in the lead role. Bertie's professional directorial debut came with his short film Jacob Wrestling With The Angel in 2013. The following year, he wrote and directed his second short film, Sineater. Both films were screened at international film festivals in Ireland and overseas. Sineater & Jacob Wrestling With The Angel went to the market at the Cannes Short Film Corner and gained worldwide deals with Shorts TV & SoFy.TV. After that success, Bertie won a film bursary from Cork City Arts in 2016 and produced two more arthouse short films, Forgotten Paradise & Last Service. Mark Ziobro, a famous online critic from The Movie Buff, said of Bertie's films, "Brosnan has presented a series of films that do what independent films do best - they make us think, they make us feel, they make us question."

In the summer of 2016, production began on Bertie's feature film Con, which premiered at the Kerry Film Festival in 2018. The Dublin Inquirer said, "Con is a view into a potential filmmaking disaster. Brosnan's film shows the unmaking of a documentary alongside the descending fortunes of its subject." From here, Bertie began branching out as a producer into new genres with other collaborators. He co-produced an RTÉ-funded short film by the famous comedy troupe Cahoots Productions in 2017. In 2018, he won a Kerry Arts Writing Grant, for which he penned an Irish History TV Pilot based on the career of Brian Ború. Next up, Bertie was drafted in by Locked In The Attic Productions to help develop and produce the Award-Winning feature film Misty Button. Also in 2019, Bertie became an associate producer of the controversial documentary Troll Inc., highlighting the birth of internet trolling as we know it today.

Between 2022 and 2023, Bertie gained much attention on Social Media, especially on TikTok, for his candid and entertaining Irish History, Mythology, and Folklore videos. His popularity expanded into Facebook and later onto YouTube and Instagram. Gaining millions of views almost overnight and over 50k followers, he proved that there was a thirst for Irish History stories and a need for them on the screen, especially of ancient Ireland. He plans to use his new production business 'Bertie Brosnan Films' and create Irish History stories for the screen.