​Gerard F. Tierney set up Octopoid for his work as facilitator and consultant - mostly in film, sometimes in music and art.

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​​Gerard originally set up Octopoid to co-produce Chongyan's short film After All, which was produced by Le Fresnoy, the French national studio of contemporary art. However, Octopoid is not now functioning as a full-on production company. Sometimes, Octopoid helps directors get deserving projects to the starting line; at other times, Octopoid helps directors complete and market their films.

 

Gerard is only working with a small number of directors, two of them recent graduates of leading European institutions. ​As a result, Octopoid is only involved in a limited number of features and shorts in production and post-production, with Gerard attached as Consultant or Executive Producer. The films are variously creative documentaries, hybrid films and fictions. 

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​​​​​​Octopoid is also a close associate of film festival strategists Random Headache, set up by Chongyan Liu and Thomas Moore. The link below leads to the Random Headache Instagram page (the most reliable way to find out about them):

https://www.instagram.com/randomheadache/

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​​​​​​Octopoid is a successor to Projectile Productions. Octopoid has taken on Projectile's completed work, continuing to help artist / filmmaker Deborah S Phillips and supporting Ali Schmahl with his feature documentary Privileg (now on Amazon Prime and TUBI in a number of territories, and with German theatrical distribution).

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​​Gerard is a member of: ​

DAE, Documentary Association of Europe https://dae-europe.org/ 

DFC, Documentary Film Council https://documentaryfilmcouncil.co.uk/  

RFN, Radical Film Network ​https://radicalfilmnetwork.com/

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The octopus drawing? Kudos to Deborah Phillips for that one. This link leads to her website:

https://deborahsp.wordpress.com/

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