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Eamon O’Rourke is a seasoned actor, writer, and director with more than 15 years of experience in the industry. Eamon has worked in theater, on music videos, on short films, and released his first feature film that he wrote and directed, “Asking For It,” in 2022. Asking For It (Trailer)
Oct 6, 2022 · Eamon O’Rourke is an up-and-coming director and activist best known for his debut film, Asking for It. Based in Brooklyn, New York, O’Rourke has previously worked as a ghostwriter,...
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“I was very lucky to get to know him a little bit,” Eamon O’Rourke says. “I was friends with a couple of his children and I got to meet him and he was actually the original producer, or he was going to be the producer of Asking for It.” O’Rourke is talking about his 2021 film, which was his big-screen directorial debut. He wrote and directedthe mov...
Eamon O’Rourke says he liked how Demme would find smaller, interesting ways to utilize his skills. In Demme’s downtime, he would use his lens for good, filming documentaries that shined a light on subjects ranging from the atrocities of apartheid to post-Katrina rebuilding efforts in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward. “[He] always wanted to try to use ...
The director points out Demme’s sets were typically a much larger version of a classroom with equal parts playroom added to the mix. He says that, in the wake of Demme’s 2017 death, he’ll always remember his humanist slant. That knack for discovering something that someone had love and joy for, and helping them amp up that passion. “He was always d...
Aug 25, 2022 · Stefan Junge • August 25, 2022. With over 10 years of experience in television and film, Eamon O’Rourke is an up-and-coming director and activist who’s best known for his debut film, Asking for It. He’s based in Brooklyn, New York, where he’s previously worked as a ghostwriter, scriptwriter, actor, and production assistant for some of ...
Mar 4, 2022 · It's so baffling that Eamon O’Rourke—a white man—would apply all the time and effort required of a debut feature to a story that culminates with its Black female protagonist giving a painfully heavy-handed speech about reclaiming her own narrative when this film is so very much not his own.
