Shane Osullivan

Background

About Shane Osullivan

I am the Head of Department for Film and Photography at Kingston School of Art, London and the UK Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded Make Film History project, supported by the BFI, BBC Archive, Northern Ireland Screen and the IFI Irish Film Archive, which opens up the archives to young filmmakers across the UK and Ireland: My book Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate and the CIA was published by Skyhorse (New York) in 2018, alongside an updated paperback edition of my first book Who Killed Bobby? The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy, first published in 2008. I have also written extensively on Watergate and the Mueller investigation for The Washington Post. I have written and directed three feature documentaries. The most recent, Killing Oswald, was released in UK cinemas on the fiftieth anniversary of the JFK assassination in 2013 and had its world premiere at the Texas Theatre in Dallas where Oswald was arrested: It is now available on Amazon Prime. My previous feature documentary Children of the Revolution was made with German broadcaster WDR and the Irish Film Board. The film premiered at IDFA and has been broadcast worldwide. It was released in 30 cinemas across Japan in 2014. My first feature doc RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy was released in the UK and US in 2008 and has been broadcast worldwide, most recently by WDR in Germany and Amazon Prime. Other films include Jean-Luc Cinema Godard, a 24-minute documentary for the Sundance Channel and a one-hour TV documentary on Cambodian dictator Pol Pot.