Daniel Frederick Ireland was an American-Canadian film producer and director.
13 Facts About Dan Ireland
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Dan Ireland was the co-founder of the Seattle International Film Festival.
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Dan Ireland made his feature film directorial debut with the drama The Whole Wide World, followed by The Velocity of Gary and Jolene.
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Dan Ireland was born in 1949 in Portland, Oregon, the second of four children of Rainsford and Betty Dan Ireland.
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When he was five years old, his mother moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where Dan Ireland spent the remainder of his childhood.
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Dan Ireland was awarded the Golden Calf Award for his contribution to advancing Dutch Films in 1983.
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Dan Ireland became the head of film acquisition for Vestron Pictures in 1986.
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In 1995, Dan Ireland made the transition from producer to director with The Whole Wide World.
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Subsequent films directed by Dan Ireland include The Velocity of Gary, Passionada, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, and Jolene.
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Dan Ireland worked with Zellweger again when she executive-produced Living Proof, the true story of oncologist Dr Dennis Slamon, who helped discover the cancer drug Herceptin.
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Dan Ireland directed two short films, Hate From A Distance, the story of racism as seen through the eyes of a child, made for the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act; and A Most Peculiar Man starring stage actor Alan Mandell, about the friendship of an elderly Holocaust survivor and a young man on the verge of suicide.
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Dan Ireland died in his Los Angeles home of a heart attack on April 14,2016.
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In September 2017, the inaugural Dan Ireland Scholarship was awarded to Louisiana singer-songwriter and musician David Jones II, whose stage name is JST DAVID.