Crossing the Line Productions are Emmy award-winning documentary producers based in Ireland making crafted films featuring powerful global and Irish stories on subjects ranging from wildlife to science to history.
In recent years we have won a Grierson Award for our acclaimed Wild Ireland series as well as best wildlife film in the world at the 'Oscars' of the genre – the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival in 2011 and Best of Festival again at both Jackson Hole & Wildscreen Film Festivals in 2013. Our film The Farthest has received universal praise globally & won the Emmy for Outstanding Science Documentary at the 2018 awards. We were nominated for three Emmy awards in 2021 and have previously been nominated for three other Emmy awards in 2018, three in 2015 and two in 2012 and have been also triple winners of best documentary series at the Irish Film & TV Awards over the years. Our films have broadcast worldwide in over 80 different countries on ORF, NDR, France TV, RTÉ, BBC, PBS, ZDF/Arte, National Geographic, Discovery and many others.
In our approach to both development and production, we are constantly striving to build on our previous experiences to create projects that push the boundaries of excellence in documentary film-making – always looking for the strongest stories, the best ways of telling them and the means of bringing them to the widest international audience possible.
RECENT NEWS:
'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 with the support of 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.