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"After Dark in 1988 Don Coutts is a Scottish filmmaker best known as the director of the 2003 feature film American Cousins and for bringing the world of Katie Morag to the screen. The successful translation of the characters from the books of Mairi Hedderwick has won nine awards - including a US Peabody, 3 BAFTAs, a Royal Television Society Scotland Children's Award, a Scottish BAFTA and a Kidscreen award. He is also a documentary and music filmmaker who has worked on numerous current affairs and entertainment productions,See: including the late night discussion programme After Dark. He was recognised for his achievements and contributions at the 2015 Scottish BAFTA Awards where he won the Best Director Award. ==Biography== Don Coutts left school in 1967, and began work with the Simon Community before moving to London. Soon afterwards he was employed by Columbia Pictures as a clerk. Following work in Columbia's laboratories, he got a job in the studio's cutting rooms and worked on several films as an assistant film editor. Subsequently, Coutts was employed by Anglia TV and BBC East as an assistant film editor. As director of After Dark, Coutts developed an innovative televisual language of big close-ups, pulled focus and a panning system that was new to British talk show programming.Television Week, 24 November 1988. See also: After Dark: Direction ==Film & Television drama== *Katie Morag (2013) *Dear Green Place (2007) *American Cousins (2003) *Rose (1998) *Dead Sea Reels (1996) *St Antony’s Day Off (1995) ==Selected documentaries== *Mac Musical: 3 × 1 hour following the creation of a new Scottish musical for the opening of Eden Court Theatre. Endemol for BBC Scotland *True North: Celebrating the 60th birthday of Aly Bain BBC Scotland *This is Mackay Country: Profile of Craig Mackay. Ex-S BBC Scotland *When Summers Were Longer: Huts at Carbeth Ex-S BBC Scotland *Welcome to The GoGo: Arena film on the go- go music scene in Washington for Island Records / BBC Network. *Cowboys in Skirts: The making of feature film Rob Roy. United Artists/ ITV Network. *Clarissa & the Countryman: Series two (x3) and three (x4) Clarissa Dickson Wright and Johnny Scott travelling around Britain. BBC Network. *Fly Me To Dunoon: The story of jazz singer Suzanne Bonner. BBC Network. *Tacsi: 18 x 30-minute Music Arts programmes - STV/Grampian *A Kiss To Build A Dream On: Profile of Hollywood director Michael Caton-Jones. BBC Scotland. *My Name is Albert Watson: Profile of stills photographer Albert Watson. BBC Scotland. *The Trainer Wars: A film about Nike, Reebok & Adidas. BBC Scotland. *Tracks of my Tears: Documentary about men and crying. BBC Scotland. *Victims of The Village: Expose of rural Child Abuse. BBC Scotland. *The Power List: 50 Minute documentary presented by Jon Snow looking at changes in Power in Britain. ==Awards== *Best Director – Milan International Film Festival *Best Director, Comedy – Newport Beach Film Festival (USA) *Best Film – Milan International Film Festival *Best Film – Sunday Times Bowmore Awards *Best Film – Newport Beach Film Festival (USA) *Best Comedy – Newport Beach Film Festival (USA) *Audience Award – Milan International Film Festival *Audience Award – BAFTA Scotland *Special Jury Prize – Savannah Film Festival (USA) ==References * *Move on Up Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:Scottish documentary filmmakers Category:Scottish film directors Category:20th-century births "
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"Donal Hughes with fellow broadcaster Rich Beem at the 2016 Irish Open Dr. Donal Hughes is a well-known Irish golf personality, blogger, broadcaster and satirist. Although qualified as a Ph.D. chemist, Hughes turned a hobby as a humorous golf writer into a successful alternative career firstly as the golfing “SpinDoctor” with the Irish Examiner and since as head of the popular satirical golf website GolfCentralDaily.com. He also curates social media for several companies in the golf industry and is the golf equipment reviewer with Golfbidder, with over 6.6 million views on his videos to date on YouTube. ==Biography== Born in 1974, Hughes grew up in Ballinrobe, County Mayo in the West of Ireland. He completed a degree in Applied Chemistry in Dublin City University winning the AGB gold medal for highest final year exam results. He went on to be awarded a Ph.D. in 1999. Hughes returned to Mayo, was married to Deirdre and is now a father of four. ==Sporting career== Hughes early life was defined by elite sporting achievement; he represented his county Mayo in Gaelic football at all underage levels and achieved regional honours in squash, badminton and rugby. He received a DCU “Sportstar Of The Year” award in 1993 from the then Irish Minister for Sport, Liam Aylward. Following a career ending leg injury aged 21, Hughes took up golf, which he played to three handicap. He made a return to endurance sport in 2010 and now competes in Ironman events. Hughes made headlines in the triathlon world at the Hurricane Matthew-shortened 2016 Ironman North Carolina by running through the finish line and cycling an extra 62 miles along with one other competitor to ensure they completed the full Ironman distance on that day. Having been invited back to the US in 2017, Hughes completed the 2017 Ironman Panama City Beach event. ==Charity work== Ireland Captain Donal Hughes with Kelly Tidy And England Captain Mick Hill at The Druh Cup 2015 In 2007 Hughes devised and undertook a record breaking challenge for charity entitled The Round Ireland Golf Challenge. Along with fellow golfer Michael Nolan, Hughes completed 32 rounds of golf, in each of Ireland's 32 counties, over 32 consecutive days finishing on 6 September 2007 at The Heritage Golf Club. During the challenge, the pair walked every course and covered a driving distance of over 5,000 km. The achievement raised €100,000 for children's and cancer charities in Ireland including Playing For Life, The Friends of St. Lukes, Barretstown Castle,http://barretstown.org/ and The Jack and Jill Foundation. Hughes retains his charity involvement as a West Of Ireland envoy for an anonymous donor to rural and social development projects. ==Golf writing career== Donal Hughes on the 18th green in Valderrama whilst reviewing the course for the Irish Examiner. In preparation for his Round Ireland Golf Challenge, Donal Hughes came to the attention of the Irish golfing community and was commissioned by the Irish Examiner newspaper to write a log of his adventures. Following the project, Hughes was retained by the Irish Examiner's sports editor Tony Leen to write a weekly golfing column in the paper. His humorous approach to golf writing lead to him becoming a reader favourite and in 2008 Hughes was promoted to a full page each Tuesday in the sports section of the paper with an average readership of 238,000.Joint National Readership Survey 2007/2008; www.jnrs.ie/survey Known as the “SpinDoctor”, Hughes's page featured until 2012. Hughes now owns and runs GolfCentralDaily.com and is the golf equipment reviewer and interviewer for UK based golf retailer Golfbidder. He also curates social media for several golf related companies. ==Food safety career== On completion of his Ph.D. Hughes worked as a food industry technical manager before forming his own company, AbSolutions Food Safety in 2001. AbSolutions Food Safety services ranged from consultancy to training, HACCP system development, cleaning chemicals, calibration to premises design. Hughes created food safety systems for hundreds of Irish companies including Jacob Fruitfield and has worked as an independently contracted trainer for the Food Safety Authority of Ireland. He retired from food safety in 2009. ==References== Category:1974 births Category:Living people Category:Alumni of Dublin City University Category:Irish Examiner people Category:Irish sportswriters Category:Mayo inter-county Gaelic footballers Category:Sportspeople from County Mayo "