Ruairí was born in Dublin in 1978. That, at present count, makes him 27 years old. Unless you are reading this after February 15th 2006, and I haven't bothered updating this website by then. Anyway, Ruairi was found on the streets by a kindly fortune teller having been raised by wolves, she raised him some more as a circus trapeze artist. Upon discovering their evil plot for world domination, Ruairí vowed to use his powers for good instead of evil, and joined the Army, killing civilians in countries all over the world in the name of peace.

These Brutal slayings inspired in him his second greatest passion in life - working in advertising, which he’s been doing for some years now. In between genocide and directing tv ads with fluffy characters, Ruairí
also managed to make a short film which was nominated for an Oscar, and is currently doing his first live action short film, which funnily enough,
is about war. His greatest passion, by the way, is filmmaking, not brutally killing people. That’s just a hobby.

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Ruairí is known as an incredibly serious and self important genius, and he wants you to know that not only was he nominated for an Oscar, in case he hadn't made that clear already, he would also like to remind you that he was nominated for and Oscar, as well as being an Oscar nominee, having been to the Oscars, because he was invited to, on account of being nominated for one. When he was at the Oscars, as an Oscar nominee, he had a great time. A much better time than when he got refused into that shitty nightclub** in Dublin by some asshole bouncer who didn't know or care who he was, or just how damn important he is***

The least embarassing Photo I could find. That's because I'm tiny in it. Click for a highrez version, where's I'm still mercifully small.

Since his death in 2001, Ruairí has found success in the world of commercials, mostly of the animated variety. Although he is more interested in pursuing live action work in the future. He feels being dead has made it more difficult in some ways for him to be taken seriously as a director, particularly when it comes to dealing with actors, who generally prefer more feedback than Ruairí’s laid back open casket directing style.
Ruairí hopes in the future to direct feature films, and to be resurrected one day, either via modern technology or the occult. Whichever works.

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Ruairi Robinson - Director of live action and animation

Curriculim Vitae 2006

- Born 15/02/1978

- Education: Hons Degree in Visual Communications, 1996-2000, NCAD Dublin,

- Nominated for Academy Award Best Short Animated film 2002 for "Fifty Percent Grey"

- Also winner of numerous other awards at international festivals. such as The London Effects and Animation Festival, Empire state film festival, Dresden Filmfest etc. etc. Shown in over 70 international festivals from Sundance all the way to Hiroshima.

- Recently Directed an animated commercial for Thorntons Chocolatiers at The Mill in London. The ad has been nominated for 2 awards at the British Animation Awards

- Directed a series of 6 Milk Commercials for BC Dairy Canada. The ads were in competition at Cannes, as well as winning numerous awards, such as 7 SHARK awards, (including best director and best new director) and 3 ICADS (including best directing and the gold award for best campaign). They are also nominated in 2 categories in the O2 Digital media awards.

- Has worked on numerous television commercials, for varied clients such as Zanussi, Race Against Waste, Dairygold, 98FM, Move Over Butter, The Den, BPM, Advil, Boru Vodka, Meteor, Vodaphone, Carlsberg, Amigo Orange Juice, Ritz, and several music videos and feature film title sequences, including Disco Pigs, When the Sky Falls and Peaches.

- Winner of several Icad/Design Awards/02 awards for 3d animation and digital post production

- Has worked for over 8 years in professional 3d animation, post production, and more recently, directing commercials and music videos with the aim to write and direct feature films. Currently has several Live action feature film projects under development and is working in spare time to complete his first live action short film starring Cillian Murphy from 28 Days Later and Batman Begins

- Wears glasses, and is of average height, and slightly overweight. Is beginning to get grey hairs, and is inexplicably writing about himself in the 3rd person for his CV, like you don't know already that he wrote this himself.

- has a fake plastic Oscar on his living room shelf amidst his other awards in the hope that one day it can be replaced with a real one, and is painfully aware how pathetic this is

- Wishes not to bore you with any other uninteresting details, but instead would like to refer you back to bullet point 3, at which point he reckons he may still have had you fooled that he was cool.

- Reckons it was worth a shot anyway.

- Doesn't care what you think. Wonders who the hell you think you are anyway, looking down on him. Figure's he'll listen to what you say when you have more oscar nominations than him, so till then you can piss right off.

- Realises he may have overreacted a little, and hopes this little outburst didn't ruin the chances of our working together

- Wants you to know he doesn't meet people well, but is a swell guy when you get to know him, no really.

- Is going to stop talking now, before he makes things any worse.

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