About Harp Media

With over a decade of experience, Harp Media is an energetic, fresh and vibrant team offering creative talent, industry knowledge and extremely high standards.

Meet the team,

behind the screen!

Harp Media was founded in 2018 by Robert Higgins and Patrick McGivney, two filmmakers from the midlands with a passion for storytelling.

Combining their creative expertise and dedication to the craft, they established Harp Media as a multi-discipline film production company committed to producing captivating films, showcasing emerging talent, and shining a light on new stories in Irish cinema.

Founded in 2018, Harp Media is a multi-discipline film production company based in the midlands.

We develop short and feature length films for general audiences, create corporate videos for brands and companies and provide training initiatives in all areas of filmmaking. We cover all aspects of production from idea generation to post production.

Our debut feature film ‘Lakelands‘ was filmed on location in Granard, Co. Longford, and stars Éanna Hardwicke (Normal People, Vivarium), Danielle Galligan (Netflix’s Shadow and Bone), Lorcan Cranitch (Bloodlands, The Dig), Dafhyd Flynn (Michael Inside), Dara Devaney (Arracht), and Gary Lydon (Calvary). It won Best Irish Film at Galway Film Fleadh and Kerry Film Festival. It won the Bankside Award at the Galway Film Fleadh for best marketplace project and has been acquired for UK and Ireland release by Wildcard Distribution.

Our most recent short film ‘Drifting’ star Bafta winner Paul Mescal (Normal People), IFTA nominee Dafhyd Flynn (Michael Inside) and IFTA nominee (Lorcan Cranitch (The Dig). The film premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh last summer and has been acquired for worldwide distribution with Oscar-winning distributor Network Ireland Television. It has recently screened at a number of Oscar and BAFTA qualifying festivals over the last number of months and will screen at the Dublin International Film Festival in March 2021. It has been profiled in the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, NME, Dazed magazine and more. The trailer has been viewed over 400,000 times on all platforms.

Our first film ‘Angels Guard Thee’ stars Brian Fortune (Game of Thrones) and John Quinn (Love/Hate) and was released in 2018. The short was completed with the assistance of the Longford Arts Office and has toured to fifteen festivals thus far including Cork Film Festival, Dublin International Short Film Festival, Queens Film Festival, Switzerland Film Festival, Southampton Film Festival and more. It won Best Cinematography at the Queens Film Festival in New York. The film was sold to RTÉ and was broadcast as part of their Shortscreen programme in 2019.

Harp Media was awarded runner-up in the Best Idea category of the Longford final of Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur in 2018 and Best Start-up category in 2019. Harp Media has received funding from bodies such as the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Creative Ireland, Arts Council and Longford Arts Office.

Our team at Harp Media is made up of passionate and skilled professionals who bring diverse sets of expertise to every project.

From producers and writers to cinematographers and editors, each member plays a vital role in delivering high-quality productions. We also have an extensive list of freelance creatives ensuring that no job is too big or too small. Together, we share a commitment to storytelling, creativity, and proving quality, ensuring every project is crafted with care and innovation. Check out some of the awards we have received for our work.

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Longford Tourism have worked with Harp Media on a number of projects. The team are very nice and easy to work with and deliver a very high standard product. If you wish to see some of their work, videos produced by them are available on the Longford Tourism YouTube Channel. I highly recommend considering Harp Media for your project.

Harp Media brought their expertise to Westmeath in June 2024. Rob, Paddy and Chris ran a week long summer camp for teenagers who were interested in film & drama. The course was hugely successful and left a lasting impression on the participants. We would love to work with them again in future.

Longford Community Resources worked with Patrick and Robert in Harp Media to create and deliver a short video showcasing the successes of the LEADER programme. They delivered an excellent level of customer service and the end product was a slick and highly professional product, delivered on time which met every element of the brief. I would definitely recommend them!

I had the pleasure of collaborating with Rob and Paddy from Harp Media to create video content for a theatre project I was working on recently. A really positive experience - their knowledge, dedication, and professionalism ensured the video was delivered to an extremely high quality. I'd work with them again in a heartbeat. Highly recommend!

We were delighted to have Robert Higgins from Harp Media into Backstage to give a Film-Making workshop as part of Lasta Festival 2024. The workshop was really informative and engaging and so inspiring for young people to see filmmakers from Longford producing contemporary, exciting work at such a high level

The team at Harp Media were professional, enthusiastic and highly creative in their approach to filming a promotional video for our business EZxploring. They delivered on all aspects of our brief and made the entire process very easy for us.

Harp Media were a pleasure to work with. Professional in all aspects of the brief and flexible to client needs, they delivered high quality video content on time with easy communication throughout the process.

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With over a decade of experience, Harp Media is an energetic, fresh and vibrant team offering creative talent, industry knowledge and extremely high standards.

Meet the team,

behind the screen!

Robert Higgins

Patrick McGivney

Founded in 2018, Harp Media is a multi-discipline film production company based in the midlands.

Our team at Harp Media is made up of passionate and skilled professionals who bring diverse sets of expertise to every project.

Chris Higgins

Where creativity meets

award-winning excellence

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