Paul Finan is an Irish artist primarily working with sound and film.
Paul has been a sound editor, designer and mixer across documentary, natural history and artist-led filmmaking, creating immersive and abrasive soundscapes for internationally broadcast productions while developing his own observational cinematic practice.
Awards & Recognition
Jackson Wild Media Award 2021– Best Sound
Jackson Wild Media Award 2019– Best Sound
Emmy Award Nomination 2021 – Best Documentary Sound
Selected collaborations
Listen to the Land Speak (2025)
Maurice O'Brien
Crossing the Line Productions
RTÉ; IFI premiere; 2 part series; Feature
Winner - best cinematography, Galway Film Festival.
Birdsong (2024)
Kathleen Harris
True Films
RTÉ, BBC, ARTE; Winner – Best Story, European Wildlife Film Awards.
Hell for Leather: The Story of Gaelic Football (2025)
Gerry Nelson
Crossing the Line Productions
RTÉ documentary series.
Tommy Tiernan's Epic West
Maurice O'Brien
Crossing the Line Productions
RTÉ. BBC
Void Eden
Alan Holly
And Maps And Plans (animation)
Winner – Best Irish Animation, Galway Film Fleadh 2026
Mismantler
Andrew Keogh, Stephen Stapleton
Bread And Circus, Nurse With Wound
International festival screenings. Anti Worlds publishing
Wild Cuba: A Caribbean Journey
John Murray
Crossing the Line Productions
Winner – Jackson Wild Media Award (Sound); News & Documentary Emmy Nomination (Outstanding Sound), 2021
PBS, Netflix, RTE, BBC
Big Bend: America's Wildest Frontier
John Murray
Crossing the Line Productions
Winner – Jackson Wild Media Award (Sound), 2021
PBS
How to Tell a Secret
Shaun Dunne & Anna Rodgers
Invisible Thread
RTÉ; Netflix.
Connemara
John Murray
Crossing the Line Productions
RTÉ, ARTE, ORF
The Game: The Story of Hurling
Gerry Nelson
Crossing the Line Productions
RTÉ.
Ireland's Wild Islands
John Murray
Crossing the Line Productions
RTÉ; international distribution.
The Burren
John Murray
Crossing the Line Productions
International broadcast.
Wild Ireland
John Murray
Crossing the Line Productions
RTE, BBC, PBS
Empty Little People
Alan Holly
And Maps And Plans (animation)
Festival screenings, RTE
Bardo(Music Mix)
Alan Holly
And Maps And Plans (animation)
Award-winning animated short.
Coda(Music Mix)
Alan Holly (animation)
And Maps And Plans
Award-winning animated short.