Director's Works
The Scratch, Gladrags Colin Peppard
Colin Peppard is a director from Monaghan, Ireland, known for bold, character-driven work across music videos, commercials, and short films. In 2023, Colin was selected by Brendan Canty and the Youth Music Video Competition to direct Inhaling for Ailbhe Reddy, shortlisted for the Berlin Commercial Awards 2024 and screened at DIFF 2025. His short film Mile 24, screened at Belfast Film Festival, Fastnet, Louth, Disappear Here, and the BIFA-qualifying Sunrise Film Festival, and was shortlisted for the 1.4 Awards.
His recent music video work with ‘Chalk’ won a Kinsale Shark Award for Best Rock Video, screened at Kerry International Film Festival and DIFF 2026, and won at the Shiny Award Showcase Dublin. He directed his first online commercial for CitizenM to launch their Dublin opening.
Colin has wrapped shooting on Muscle Bound and is now in post-production, alongside a new music video for The Scratch and another short doc, My Friend, Kev, about an old friend and the distance time creates.
The Scratch came to me with a starting point: the sheer weirdness of 80s/90s snooker: the photoshoots, the boozy players, the heightened drama. That rabbit hole pulled me in and led to John McIntyre: a fictional snooker champion and recovering alcoholic, played by long-time collaborator Roy Gilmore, who brought real nuance and restraint to the role.
Visually, our DOP Daniel Sedgwick leaned into the era by shooting on a vintage broadcast lens he’d previously used on a documentary we made together. It gave us that unmistakable old-TV texture: soft, imperfect, and strangely beautiful. The energy and thumping nature of the song pointed me in the direction of slow-zooms mixed with a quick, shaky handheld. We also drew from the pace and pressure of Marty Supreme and other Safdie brothers’ films, aiming for something propulsive but character-led.
