Dave Perry
DOP // SHOOTING DIRECTOR //DRONE OP // FILMMAKER
Curriculum Vitae
My Credit list is too large to list but below are a few of my favourites,
RTE One Primetime Investigates DOP on IFTA award winner 'The Third Wave' based in Tallaght Hospital for three weeks highlighting the plight of Ireland's fractious healthcare system under the pressure from the pandemic.
BBC TV Princess Diana land mines campaign in Angola.
BBC TV Panorama 'Football hooligans' and 'Used Aircraft parts'.
ITV 'Come Dine with Me'. Over 1000 episodes to date, and still counting.
National geographic 'Polar Bears'
National geographic 'Reindeer'
BBC TV Blue Peter
BBC TV Newsround
BBC TV 'Close Up North' 12 series
RTE 'Off the Rails' 14 series (approx 100 half hour programmes)
RTE 'PrimeTime'
RTE 'Would You Believe,
RTE 'Scannal'
RTE 'Leargas'
BBC TV Catherine Cookson
Sony BMG 'Westlife' Behind the scenes Rockumentary
Countless corporate videos for Clients including Nissan, Standard Life,Goffs and National Trust.
and more recently.........
2024 RTÉ Primetime Investigates 'Sex for Rent'
2024 RTÉ Primetime Investigates 'Planning Permission'
2024 RTÉ Primetime Investigates 'The hidden Cosmetic industry'
2024 An gig Mhór. A documentary series for TG4 about up and coming Irish bands. Due to tx on RTÉ in 2025
TG4 Contractors. 2023+2024. Now in it's second series this fly on the wall doc series follows the lives and contours of the land belonging to our agricultural contractors.
RTE One 'Who's Buying Ireland'? A one hour doc about multi millionaire's buying Ireland's assets. I travelled worldwide for three months to film this one off documentary.
RTE Two 'Callan's Xmas Kicks' I was Director of Photography on this satirical look back on the years events. It was broadcast on New Years Eve.
RTE One 'The great Irish weather' I was both the lighting cameraman and the aerial cameraman on this three part documentary series featuring John Creedon unearthing the history and mystery of the Irish weather.
RTE One 'After Care' D.O.P
A sensitive three month shoot living predominantely with teenagers who had left the care system in Ireland and following their destiny.
ITV 'Piers Morgan' 'Michael Flateley'.
ITV 'Come Dine With Me' 2012 to date......
BBC One 'Getaways' May 2015 Holiday show in Florida.
RTE 'Taste of success' June 2015 Cookery show around Ireland.
RTE 'Francis Brennan Grand tour of India'
June 2016
RTE 'Francis Brennan Grand tour of Vietnam
May 2017
RTE 'Francis Brennan Grand tour of South Africa
May 2018
BBC 'Getaways' September 2016 Portugal.
Indie Pics 'Ear to the Ground'
Getaways Lanzarote. RTE and BBC holiday show. June 2018.
'The Man Who wanted to fly' DOP and creator. A feature doc studying the lives of two octogenarian bachelor farmers living in rural County Cavan. One brother chases his dream of flying whilst the other brother maintains 'it's dying he should be thinking about at his age, not flying'.
Aug 2018. Feature doc which world premiered to a sell out cinema in Galway Film Fleadh then went on to win the IFI audience award for best doc in Sept 18 and the journey continues.....
Countless other programmes and credits to list.
........And even more episodes of 'Come Dine With Me' for Channel 4!