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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.
Oct 6, 2022 · Eamon O’Rourke is a fixture at protests in support of NoDAPL, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the abortion-rights movement. Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series.
- Yitzi Weiner
Mar 4, 2022 · It feels like O'Rourke did a comprehensive viewing of the rape-revenge canon in preparation—there’s a moment in a parking lot near an old movie theater with “Thelma and Louise” among the titles listed on the marquee, for instance—but never did the deeper story work to understand the mechanics that make those stories actually tick ...
- Eamon O’Rourke: Demme’s Influence Remains A Constant
- O’Rourke Says Demme Inspired His Philanthropic Efforts
- Final Credits
“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...
Jun 18, 2021 · One of the many films to world premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival was writer-director Eamon O'Rourke’s Asking for It. Loaded with an awesome cast that includes Kiersey Clemons ...
Eamon O’Rourke is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker who spent the last 10 years working in different departments on numerous features, ghostwriting, doctoring scripts, and directing music videos. Asking For It is his directorial debut.
