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Dathaí Keane

Dathaí Keane

Director, editor, producer and writer

Dathaí Keane is a director and writer from Ireland. He began his career as an editor and worked for over a decade cutting projects for both TV and film. His first projects as writer and director were documentaries and he has written and directed a number of award-winning documentary series for Irish television. In 2015, he created and directed a bilingual Western Drama series called An Klondike that ran for two seasons on TG4. The series has been distributed internationally and is available on Netflix under the title Dominion Creek. Dathaí was awarded the IFTA for Best Director Drama at the 2017 Irish and Film Television Awards for his work on the second season of An Klondike. In 2018, he co-wrote and directed his first feature film, the Irish-language fantasy drama Finky. The film was supported by the Cine4 scheme and premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2019 where it won the award for Best Cinematography. He has recently directed all three seasons of hit TV-drama Smother, a noir thriller made for RTE/BBC Studios. Smother has sold worldwide including sales to NBCUniversal's Peacock in the United States, ABC in Australia, CANAL+ in France, and Alibi in the UK. Dathaí is in post-production on a new six-part crime drama series for RTE/BBC Studios called Blackshore which is scheduled for broadcast in early 2024.

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Works as
Director, editor, producer and writer
Titles
5 on MovieCove
Links
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Known for

What are Dathaí Keane's films like?

Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.

Themes

share of theme weight
Bonds
35%
Self
20%
Morality
18%
Society
14%
Survival
13%
Family bonds3 titles, browse their movies with this themeMemory2 titles, browse their movies with this themeJustice2 titles, browse their movies with this theme

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
5
Dread
4
Melancholic
3
Cold
1

How their films linger

Thought-provoking4 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteUnsettling3 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHaunting2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end

  • Bittersweet2
  • Ambiguous3

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Dathaí Keane's films?

As of October 24, 2026, all 5 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on AMC+ (3).

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Dathaí Keane's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

5 credits, 5 with a MovieCove page.

  • Blackshore(2024)

    Show Director · Producer

    Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all shows

  • Sanctuary: A Witch's Tale(2024)

    Show Director

    Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all shows

  • The Gone(2023)

    Show Director

    Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all shows

  • Smother(2021)

    Show Director

    Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all shows

  • Dominion Creek(2015)

    Show Director · Editor · Writer

    Midcredits score: 18th percentile of all shows

Career shape

Across their 5 MovieCove titles from 2015 to 2024.

Highest rated

The Gone (2023)

Midcredits 53rd

Most popular right now

Smother (2021)

By role

only this rolewith another role
Directing5 of 5: 3 only directing, 2 with another role · typical Midcredits score33rdWriting1 of 5: 0 only writing, 1 with another roleProducing1 of 5: 0 only producing, 1 with another roleEditing1 of 5: 0 only editing, 1 with another role

By decade

2010s1 · crew2020s4 · crew

Counts over their MovieCove titles; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles, shown from 5 scored.

Who does Dathaí Keane work with?

People who share at least 2 of Dathaí Keane's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Marcus Fleming shares the most, 3.

Directors

Writers

Actors

Composers, cinematographers and editors

Producers