Inscéal

Inscéal is an Irish independent film production company established in 2012 by producer Cleona Ní Chrualaoi and writer/director Colm Bairéad. Operating from Ireland, the company develops and produces narrative feature films, with a particular focus on Irish-language cinema. Its most prominent production to date is the feature film An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl), which brought the company international recognition. An Cailín Ciúin, based on the novella Foster by Claire Keegan, was the debut feature film from Inscéal. It premiered to worldwide critical acclaim and became a landmark achievement for Irish-language film. The film was nominated for two BAFTA awards in 2023 — Adapted Screenplay and Film Not in the English Language — and secured an Academy Award nomination for International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards in 2023. This marked the first time in the history of the Academy Awards that Ireland was represented in the International Feature Film category. The film went on to win over 40 national and international awards and became the highest-grossing Irish-language film of all time. The company is led by its two founders. Cleona Ní Chrualaoi serves as producer. She began her career as a radio journalist before moving into television production and later narrative feature filmmaking. Her early work focused on documentary film, and as a freelance producer she produced many flagship programmes for Irish broadcasters, winning multiple Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) awards. Among these were the docusoap Connected and the docudrama Cumann na mBan - Women of the Revolution. She also produced the IFTA-nominated documentary series The Joy, about life inside Mountjoy Prison, and the feature documentary Lorg na gCos (Finding the Footprints), which won a FOCAL International award in 2012. Over the past decade she has worked with Colm Bairéad on developing and producing feature films. She won the Film & Drama Award at the Tatler Women of the Year Awards and was selected as one of Screen International's Stars of Tomorrow in 2022. Colm Bairéad serves as writer and director. Born in Dublin and raised bilingual, he has collaborated with Ní Chrualaoi on developing and producing feature films over the past decade. Together, the two founders have built Inscéal into a production company dedicated to bringing Irish-language stories to both national and international audiences. Inscéal remains a private, independent production company. Its work has been recognized at the highest levels of the international film industry, and it continues to be associated with prestige Irish-language filmmaking.

Inscéal was established in 2012 by producer Cleona Ní Chrualaoi and writer/director Colm Bairéad. The company was founded with the aim of developing and producing narrative feature films, with a strong emphasis on Irish-language storytelling. Over the past decade, the two founders have worked together on developing and producing feature films. The company's breakthrough came with its debut feature film, An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl), an Irish-language adaptation of Claire Keegan's novella Foster. The film garnered worldwide critical acclaim and became a landmark in Irish cinema. It was nominated for two BAFTA film awards in 2023 — Adapted Screenplay and Film Not in the English Language — and secured an Academy Award nomination for International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards in 2023. This was the first time in the history of the Academy Awards that Ireland was represented in the International Feature Film category. The film went on to win over 40 national and international awards and became the highest-grossing Irish-language film of all time. Prior to founding Inscéal, Cleona Ní Chrualaoi built a career as a producer in documentary and television. She began as a radio journalist before moving into television production and later narrative feature filmmaking. As a freelance producer, she produced many flagship programmes for Irish broadcasters, winning multiple Irish Film and Television Academy awards, including the docusoap Connected and the docudrama Cumann na mBan - Women of the Revolution. She also produced the IFTA-nominated documentary series The Joy, about life inside Mountjoy Prison, and the feature documentary Lorg na gCos (Finding the Footprints), which won a FOCAL International award in 2012. Her achievements include the Film & Drama Award at the Tatler Women of the Year Awards and selection as one of Screen International's Stars of Tomorrow in 2022. Colm Bairéad, born in Dublin and raised bilingual, serves as the company's writer and director. His collaboration with Ní Chrualaoi over the past decade has been central to Inscéal's development and production slate. Inscéal remains an active independent production company based in Ireland, continuing to focus on Irish-language and narrative film projects.

• 2023

  An Cailín Ciúin nominated for two BAFTA awards and an Academy Award for International Feature Film.

• 2023

  An Cailín Ciúin becomes the highest-grossing Irish-language film of all time.

• 2022

  Cleona Ní Chrualaoi selected as one of Screen International's Stars of Tomorrow.

• 2012

  Inscéal founded by Cleona Ní Chrualaoi and Colm Bairéad.

• 2012

  Cleona Ní Chrualaoi's feature documentary Lorg na gCos wins a FOCAL International award.

Independent Irish film production company specializing in Irish-language narrative features with international festival and awards appeal.

• 2022

  An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl)

  Irish-language feature film adaptation of Claire Keegan's novella Foster. Nominated for two BAFTAs and an Academy Award for International Feature Film. Won over 40 awards and became the highest-grossing Irish-language film of all time.

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