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Blindboy Boatclub makes longlist for 2025 Grierson Documentary Award
Blindboy Boatclub makes longlist for the prestigious 2025 Grierson Documentary Award.
Limerick’s Blindboy Boatclub has been longlisted for the 2025 Grierson Awards for his work presenting ‘Blindboy: The Land of Slaves & Scholars’
Blindboy Boatclub has been announced on the 2025 Grierson Awards longlist for Best Documentary Presenter, recognising the Limerick writer and podcaster’s work on ‘Blindboy: The Lands of Slaves & Scholars’, putting him beside many distinguished documentarians, including Louis Theroux.
Known for his earlier work with the Rubberbandits, Blindboy has become a voice in many homes thanks to the Blondboy Podcast with many listeners and fans tuning in for his sharp wit, on the nomination, Blindboy wrote to his audience of more than 250,000, “Very honoured for my production company Connlas Well, to be nominated for another award this year. We won an RTS award for “Did you read about Erskine Fogarty”, and now our second piece of work has been longlisted for a Grierson Trust award. The combined efforts of lots of hard working people who care about creativity above all else. Dog Bless.”
“Blindboy: The Land of Slaves & Scholars” explores the origins and evolution of early Irish Christianity, hermits, saints and monasteries, to try to find out who these people were who had such a profound influence, not just on Irish culture, but on the whole of medieval Europe.
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Announcing this year’s longlist, The Grierson Trust highlighted that this year’s nominees sees one of the most competitive and diverse in the trust’s history. The longlist for Best Documentary Presenter recognises a mix of well-known names alongside newcomers, covering issues such as crime and justice, mental health and international affairs.
Blindboy has been nominated alongside Poppy Jay for Young, British and Anti-Abortion; Rose Ayling-Ellis for Rose Ayling-Ellis: Old Hands, New Tricks; Stacey Dooley for Stacey Dooley: Rape on Trial; Bruce Parry for Tribe with Bruce Parry; Chris Packham for Inside Our Minds; Mobeen Azhar for Small Town, Big Riot; Louis Theroux for Louis Theroux: The Settlers; and Matt and Emma Willis for Swiped: The School that Banned Smartphones.
Lorraine Heggessey, Chair of the Grierson Trust said, “At a time where many freelancers are struggling, this year’s Griersons longlist highlights the incredible creativity of so many talented documentary filmmakers. The breadth and quality of entries are as strong as ever. From powerful explorations of contemporary history, to uplifting personal stories and beautifully filmed natural history, the films and series featured in this year’s longlist all demonstrate the power of factual filmmaking to inspire, educate and entertain.”
This year’s ceremony will take place on November 18, the longlisted entries will now be reviewed by the category juries who will select four nominees with one going on to be announced as winner at the event.
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