Crossing the Line Productions are Emmy award-winning documentary producers based in Ireland making crafted films featuring powerful stories on subjects ranging from wildlife to sport, science to history. We have been nine times nominated for Emmy awards and won best natural history film in the world three years running at the 'Oscars' of the genre – the grand prizes at the Jackson Wild US and Wildscreen UK Festivals. Our film ‘The Farthest’ has received universal praise globally & won the Emmy for Outstanding Science Documentary. Our series 'The Game' on Ireland's unique sport of hurling - helped its successful application for World Heritage status with UNESCO. Our series ‘Wild Ireland’ won the UK’s top documentary prizes the Grierson & Royal Television Society Awards among many others. We are constantly striving to make high quality ambitious content for Irish and international audiences.
RECENT NEWS:
HELL FOR LEATHER, A 5-PART DOCUMENTARY SERIES ON THE HISTORY OF GAELIC FOOTBALL, OUT JUNE 9th
Over 5 years in the making, the series is the first major television histoy of the game exploring the evolution of Gaelic Football from its inception to the modern day, and the incalculable contirbution which the sport has made to Irish life.
Filmed in cinema-quality 4K, the series also features the final television interviews conducted with GAA icons, Micheál O'Muircheartaigh, Kerry's Seán Murphy and Mick O'Dwyer, Dublin's Jimmy Gray and Mayo's John O'Mahony.
Produced by Crossing the Line Productions, the series was commissioned by RTÉ's Head of Specialist Factual Content, Colm O'Callaghan and produced in partnership with Coimisiún na Meán and made with support of incentives for filmmaking prodvided by the Government of Ireland and the generous sponsorship of Collen Construction.
'IRELAND'S WILD ISLANDS' HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR ONE OF CHINA'S TOP TELEVISION AWARDS
Crossing the Line are honoured to have Ireland's Wild Islands nominated for the Magnolia Award for Best Series at the internationally renowned Shanghai Television Festival, one of the largest and most prestigious festivals in East Asia. The winners will be announced during the festival taking place between June 23 - 27.
Three years in the making and shot in cinema quality 4K, Ireland's Wild Islands is hosted by Corkman Eoin Warner sailing a stunning 140 year old Galway Hooker out into the Atlantic to showcase the extraordinary wild magic of Ireland’s western islands.
Ireland's Wild Island has already won Best Specialist Factual at the Royal Television Society ROI Awards and Best Series at the International Wildlife Film Festival, and was noimated at the Wildscreen, Jackson Wild and Green Screen Awards.
The series was produced in coproduction with RTÉ, Love Nature and ARTE, with the support of incentives for the Irish Film Industry provided by the Government of Ireland, with the support of Tourism Ireland and the Western Region Audiovisual Producer’s Fund / WRAP Fund.
'IRELAND'S WILD ISLANDS' WINS BEST SERIES AT THE INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE FILM FESTIVAL
Crossing the Line have had the privilage of our series, Ireland's Wild Islands, win Best Series at the 2025 International Wildlife Film Festival that took place in Missoula, Montana from the 19th to the 24th of April. This is one of the world's largest and most prestigious willdife film festivals, and it is an honour to take home this award.
The Jury said of the series "This series transported us to windswept and wild islands, where ancient monasteries cling to cliffs and wild seas harbour secrets both mythical and ecological. What stood out to us most was the enchanting blend of history, folklore, and rare widllife behaviour - a hallmark of the genre, but here delivered with an especially distinctive voice."
The series was produced in coproduction with RTÉ, Love Nature and ARTE, with the support of incentives for the Irish Film Industry provided by the Government of Ireland, with the support of Tourism Ireland and the Western Region Audiovisual Producer’s Fund / WRAP Fund.
'IRELAND'S WILD ISLANDS' NOMINATED FOR REALSCREEN AWARD
Crossing the Line are thrilled to announce that our three-part series, Ireland's Wild Islands has been nominated for a Realscreen Award in the Non-Fiction: Environmenal & Natural History category. The winners will be announced on February 4th, 2025 at the Realscreen Summit in Miami.
Ireland's Wild Island has already won Best Specialist Factual at the Royal Television Society ROI Awards, and was noimated at the Wildscreen, Jackson Wild and Green Screen Awards.
The series was produced in coproduction with RTÉ, Love Nature and ARTE, with the support of incentives for the Irish Film Industry provided by the Government of Ireland, with the support of Tourism Ireland and the Western Region Audiovisual Producer’s Fund / WRAP Fund
'WILD TRANSYLVANIA' GETS HONOURABLE MENTION AT MOUNTAINFILM GRAZ FESTIVAL
Crossing the Line's recent film, Wild Transylvania: Dracula's Hidden Kingdom, was awarded an honourable mention at the 2024 edition of the Mountainfilm Graz Film Festival in Austria. Mountainfilm Graz is a festival that celebrates films about mountains and adventure, so the company were particulary delighted for Wild Transylvania to take part, showcasing the amazing Carpathian Mountains in Romania.
Wild Transylvania was filmed over three years in the Transylvania region of Romania. This blue-chip natural history special narrated by Jeremy Irons reveals one of Europe's last true wild places, home to wolves, bears and lynx.
'IRELAND'S WILD ISLANDS' NOMINATED FOR AWARDS AT TWO PRESTIGIOUS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALS
Crossing the Line Productions’ recent series Ireland’s Wild Islands has garnered international acclaim with nominations at two of the world’s leading wildlife film festivals, Wildscreen in the UK and Green Screen in Germany.
At the Wildscreen Festival, series presenter Eoin Warner has been nominated in the On-Screen Talent category for his extraordinary voyage around the coast of Ireland in a Galway Hooker. This deeply personal journey, which aired over three parts on RTÉ One in April and May 2023, was undertaken in memory of Warner’s late father, who first introduced him to the wonders of the sea before he tragically passed away.
Often referred to as the ‘Oscars of the natural history film world’, the Panda Awards at Wildscreen celebrate excellence in Natural History storytelling
The Green Screen festival, taking place in Germany, stands as Europe’s most significant event for natural history filmmakers, drawing the world’s top wildlife documentarians. Ireland’s Wild Islands has been short-listed as Best Marine Film.
Three years in the making, the spectacular three part series features the wildlife wonders of Ireland’s Atlantic islands.
The series was produced in coproduction with RTÉ, Love Nature and ARTE, with the support of incentives for the Irish Film Industry provided by the Government of Ireland, with the support of Tourism Ireland and the Western Region Audiovisual Producer’s Fund / WRAP Fund.
RTS AWARDS WIN FOR CROSSING THE LINE TWO YEARS IN A ROW
Crossing the Line were thrilled and humbled to have won Best Specialist Factual at the RTS Awards Ireland two years in a row.
A Note for Nature took home the award in 2023 while three-part series Ireland's Wild Islands scooped the prize in 2024.
A Note for Nature is both a love song to wild Ireland and a cry for help. On a journey across the island, some of Ireland’s most talented performers from Christy Moore to Tolü Makay, highlight a precious wild place with a performance close to their hearts, while a host of leading wildlife conservationists reveal the precarious state of Ireland’s natural world and what we can do to preserve it.
Three years in the making and shot in cinema quality 4K, Ireland's Wild Islands is hosted by Corkman Eoin Warner sailing a stunning 140 year old Galway Hooker out into the Atlantic to showcase the extraordinary wild magic of Ireland’s western islands.