{{Short description|Irish filmmaker}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Leo Regan | image = Leo Regan(1a).jpg | occupation = Filmmaker | awards = Director's Guild Outstanding Directorial Achievement 2005, BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award 2001 }}
'''Leo Regan''' is an Irish filmmaker and author. Initially working as a photojournalist, Regan began his career with the book ''Public Enemies'' (1993).<ref name="abe">{{cite book |last1=Regan |first1=Leo |title=Public enemies |date=1993 |publisher=Andre Deutsch |location=London |isbn=9780233988306 |url=https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780233988306/Public-Enemies-Regan-Leo-0233988300/plp |access-date=16 March 2021}}</ref> He later became involved in documentary filmmaking, and in 2001 won a BAFTA for his documentary ''100% White''.<ref name="bafta2001">{{cite web |title=BAFTA Awards |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/2001/television/flaherty-documentary-award |website=awards.bafta.org |access-date=16 March 2021}}</ref>
==Early life and career== Regan was born in 1963,<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bc113e8c6 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210710233400/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bc113e8c6 |url-status = dead |archive-date = 10 July 2021 | website = bfi.org.uk | publisher = British Film Institute | title = Leo Regan }}</ref> and grew up in Dublin, Ireland.<ref>{{cite web|title=Leo Bags A Gong {{!}} Hotpress Magazine | url=https://www.hotpress.com/culture/leo-bags-a-gong-1317232}}</ref>
He began his career as a photo journalist with the book ''Public Enemies'',<ref name="abe"/> which explores the lives of British far-right skinheads in the 1990s.<ref>{{cite news|last=Wray|first=Daniel Dylan|title=Two skinheads counting the takings from a neo-Nazi gig: Leo Regan's best photograph|newspaper=The Guardian|date=25 February 2026|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/feb/25/skinheads-leo-regan-best-photograph-neo-nazi}}</ref>
In 2001, Regan turned his attention to documentary film making<ref>{{Cite web |title=Through a lens, darkly: capturing war, drugs and neo Nazis|publisher=BBC World Service|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5npz}}</ref>{{time needed|date=June 2024}} and won the BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award at the (2001) 54th British Academy Film Awards for his documentary ''100% White''.<ref name="bafta2001"/> A 2002 review in ''Modern Times'' credited Regan's "single crew films" as going "back to observational basics – a good lesson in the current British climate of gimmicky constructed documentaries".<ref name="moderntimes">{{cite web | title=Sheffield 2002: Attitudes and Ethics at Sheffield {{!}} Modern Review| date=21 January 2002 | url=https://www.moderntimes.review/sheffield-2002-atitudes-and-ethics-at-sheffield/ |access-date=30 June 2021}}</ref>
In 2005, he received an award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain for his TV drama ''Comfortably Numb''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Directors' Guild Honours Leo Regan {{!}} Broadcast |url=https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/directors-guild-honours-leo-regan/1021629.article |access-date=30 June 2021}}</ref>
In 2023, Regan released the last of a trilogy of films on his friend and collaborator Lanre Fehintola. The independent feature documentary "My Friend Lanre" premiered at Sheffield Docfest in 2023,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sheffield Docfest|date=17 June 2023 |url=https://www.sheffdocfest.com/film/my-friend-lanre}}</ref> and was later screened at Curzon Cinema,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.curzon.com/films/my-friend-lanre/HO00005088/ | website = curzon.com | title = My Friend Lanre }}</ref> Cork Film Festival,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Cork Film Festival 2023|url=https://corkfilmfest.eventive.org/films/651c582b80d86a02c086f95b}}</ref> and Docs Ireland (2024)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Docs Ireland 2024|url=https://queensfilmtheatre.com/Whats-on/My-Friend-Lanre}}</ref>
==Filmography== * ''My Friend Lanre''(2023)<ref>{{cite web|title=My Friend Lanre |publisher=EMU Films|url=https://emufilms.com/projects/my-friend-lanre}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=My Friend Lanre Trailer|date=17 January 2024 |publisher=EMU Films|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udGlk8l3UCk | via = youtube.com }}</ref> * ''A Very Dangerous Doctor'' (2011)<ref>{{cite web |title=A Very Dangerous Doctor {{!}} Channel 4 |url=https://www.channel4.com/press/news/very-dangerous-doctor |website=www.channel4.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=Cutting Edge: A Very Dangerous Doctor {{!}} The Guardian |website=TheGuardian.com |date=12 May 2011 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/may/12/inside-human-body-first-last |access-date=30 June 2021 |last1=Crace |first1=John }}</ref> * ''The Doctor Who Hears Voices'' (2008)<ref>{{cite web|title=TheDangerous Methods of Leo Regan in the Doctor Who Hears Voices {{!}} The Times | website=The Times | url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/the-dangerous-methods-of-leo-regan-in-the-doctor-who-hears-voices-svd3ssmhpbz |access-date=30 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Last Night's TV, The Doctor Who Hears Voices {{!}} The Guardian | website=TheGuardian.com | date=22 April 2008 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/tvandradioblog/2008/apr/22/lastnightstvthedoctorwho |access-date=30 June 2021 | last1=Banks-Smith | first1=Nancy }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Listen to the Wounded Healers {{!}} British Medical Journal|journal=BMJ |date=24 April 2008 |volume=336 |issue=7650 |pages=960 |doi=10.1136/bmj.39559.417106.3A |url=https://www.bmj.com/content/336/7650/960 |last1=Thomas |first1=Philip |pmc=2335210 }}</ref> * ''Scars'' (2006)<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Does Jason Isaacs feel typecast? His latest character is far, far scarier than Lucius Malfoy {{!}} The Observer |website=TheGuardian.com |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2006/nov/26/features.review27 |access-date=16 March 2021 |date=26 November 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Truly Great Parts Come Along So Rarely {{!}} The Telegraph |date=27 November 2006 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3656807/Truly-great-parts-come-along-so-rarely.html |access-date=30 June 2021}}</ref> * ''Comfortably Numb'' (2004)<ref>{{cite web |title=Comfortably Numb {{!}} British Council Film Directory | url=http://film-directory.britishcouncil.org/comfortably-numb |access-date=30 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Comfortably Numb Panel Review {{!}} BBC Newsnight |date=21 January 2004 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/3416577.stm |access-date=30 June 2021}}</ref> * ''Battlecentre'' (2001)<ref name="moderntimes"/> * ''Cold Turkey'' (2001)<ref>{{cite news |title=Junk bonds {{!}} The Guardian |website=TheGuardian.com |date=19 May 2001 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2001/may/20/life1.lifemagazine5 |access-date=30 June 2021 |last1=McCormick |first1=Neil }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=History As A Television Show {{!}} The Irish Times |newspaper=The Irish Times |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/history-as-a-television-show-1.310027 |access-date=30 June 2021}}</ref> * ''100 Per Cent White'' (2000)<ref>{{cite web |title=BFI Screenonline: 100% White (2000) |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/444722/index.html |website=www.screenonline.org.uk |publisher=Channel 4 |access-date=16 March 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=My Friends The Skinheads {{!}} The Guardian | website=TheGuardian.com | date=22 June 2000 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jun/22/features11.g22 |access-date=30 June 2021 | last1=Regan | first1=Leo }}</ref> * '' Don't Get High on Your Own Supply'' (1998)<ref>{{cite web |title=Don't Get High On Your Own Supply {{!}} British Film Institute|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b819412e4|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709185906/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b819412e4|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 July 2021}}</ref>
== Books == *''Public Enemies'' (1993)<ref>{{cite book |title=Public enemies |date=1993 |publisher=Andre Deutsch |isbn=9780233988306 |url=https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/public-enemies/author/leo-regan/ |access-date=16 March 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Letter: No Crime Exposing Neonazis {{!}} The Independent |website=Independent.co.uk |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letter-no-crime-exposing-neonazis-1502760.html |access-date=30 June 2021}}</ref> *''Taken Down In Evidence: Ireland From the Back of a Police Car'' (1995)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Regan |first1=Leo |title=Taken down in evidence : Ireland from the back seat of a patrol car |date=1995 |publisher=Gill & Macmillan |location=Goldenbridge, Dublin |isbn=9780717123285 |url=https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780717123285/Taken-Down-Evidence-Ireland-Back-0717123286/plp |access-date=16 March 2021}}</ref>
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