We work closely with RTÉ Young People’s to provide fun, action-packed and kid-centric content.

Here’s a selection from 2011 …

Show Off or Get Off– elev8 (RTÉ 2)
Kids from all over Ireland show off their amazing talents.

Swapsters– elev8 (RTÉ 2)
Kids swap a day of their life for someone else’s. How do the boys fare in an all girls’ world for the day? What’s it like being the owner of a toy store?

One Minute Wonders – elev8 (RTÉ 2)
Kids reveal their thoughts on everything - bite-sized!

An hour long documentary feature about Barack Obama’s long lost cousin, Henry Healy, and his efforts to bring the American president to the village of Moneygall.

Filmed with great empathy and full-access over the course of nearly four years by Ed Godsell, this is the story of how the most famous man of the 21st century came to the village that time forgot.

RTÉ broadcast this programme in 2011.

Having each made a film about themselves, it was decided to bring the film clubs of Buckingham Street and Tory Island together to see what would happen.

So the inner city girls took a bus, an airplane, a minibus and a boat to spend a weekend with the girls of the island.

RTÉ broadcast this programme on Christmas day, 2010.

Arising from the success of the original On the Block, the BCI and RTÉ commissioned Macalla to produce On the Block – The Series, a year-long film project where kids from Adamstown, Buckingham Street, Drommohane and Tory Island made documentaries about their lives.

This series was broadcast by RTÉ in 2009.

On the Block - Tory Island won the IFTA award for Children's/Youth Programme in 2010.

Since its inauguration in 1998 Gradam Ceoil TG4 is acknowledged as the premier awards scheme for the traditional musicians of Ireland.

Macalla was excited to be commissioned to produce the televising of the awards ceremony in 2008. After selecting the INEC in Killarney as the most suitable venue for the awards, we assembled the best team in direction, design, sound and lighting to produce the 90' tv show.

Macalla was honoured that the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese accepted our invitation to launch Gradam Ceoil 2008 and to present the lifetime achievement award.

Through a community arts initiative founded by The Ark Children's Cultural Centre in Dublin, kids from Fatima Mansions were taught basic camera and sound skills by Katie Lincoln. This film club met every Saturday morning.

Macalla was commissioned by RTÉ to produce a television programme from this raw material. That programme followed some of the children of Fatima Mansions in Dublin over the course of about 18 months.

The Unbearable is a film for anyone who has ever wondered what bored Irish bachelor farmers who live with their mothers get up to on those long winter nights, involving a ping pong and a rocking chair.

This short film was written and directed by Ed Godsell and produced by Jane Farley for Macalla.

The Unbearable was the winner of the “Made in Cork” Award at the Cork Film Festival.

Aqua was written as Ireland was entering the Celtic Tiger period. It is a cautionary tale about two entrepreneurs who plan to sell the sound of Irish rivers to Americans.

This short film was written by the late Nina Fitzpatrick and directed by Edel O’Brien.

Aqua was funded by The Irish Film Board and TG4 under the Oscailt award scheme.