Fine Point Films is helmed by award-winning producer/director and journalist Trevor Birney and specialises in producing high-end documentaries for international distribution. The company’s most recent success is the definitive, feature-length documentary Let the Canary Sing, on the life and music of Cyndi Lauper. The film, helmed by Alison Ellwood, charts the hard knocks Lauper endured during her rise to the top of the pop charts in the 1980s and the LGBTQIA+ advocacy which led to her receiving a UN Human Rights Award. The film was invited to Tribeca Film Festival 2023 where it was warmly received.

Alison Ellwood, also directed Fine Point Films’ 2020 feature documentary The Go-Go’s , which examined the iconic all-female band and premiered at Sundance Film Festival. This followed the success of the company’s 2019 Sundance premiere of Gaza, directed by Garry Keane & Andrew McConnell. 

In 2019, Fine Point Films also released Behind the Blood, which premiered at IDFA, and Bojayá: Caught in the Crossfire and Killing Patient Zero, which both premiered at HotDocs.

Fine Point’s extensive production slate also includes: Emmy nominated No Stone Unturned directed by Academy Award-winning Alex Gibney; Emmy-nominated Elián, directed by Ross McDonnell and Tim Golden for CNN Films; Bobby Sands: 66 Days, directed by Brendan J. Byrne which broke Irish box office records; Netflix Originals Mercury 13 , directed by Heather Walsh and David Sington; George Best: All By Himself , directed by Daniel Gordon for ESPN and BBC; One Million American Dreams and Hear My Voice, both directed by Brendan Byrne; HBO’s Emmy-winning Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, directed by Alex Gibney; Wave Goodbye To Dinosaurs , directed by Eimhear O’Neill in collaboration with Fork Films for the PBS series Women, War and Peace; and An Engineer Imagines, directed by BAFTA-winning Marcus Robinson.

With the premiere of KNEECAP at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival in 2024, Fine Point Films is moving into the world of Scripted Drama alongside the production of award-winning Documentaries for which we are known. Keep an eye out for Fine Point Films Drama Slate in 2024!