Bill Hughes and Bernadine Carraher set up Mind the Gap Films in 2001. The company specialises in television entertainment, music, documentaries and other factual programming. We regularly work on large-scale productions with budgets over €1 million, bringing them in on time and on budget.
We have vast experience of live and pre-recorded Outside Broadcast both on location and in studio. Our track record is strong in acquiring funding through the BAI’s Sound & Vision Fund and the Government’s Section 481 Tax Incentive Scheme.
Bill Hughes
Bill Hughes has been an independent producer since June 1985. In that time he has produced or directed over 1000 hours of television for the domestic market and for international cable, satellite, and terrestrial broadcasters. He wrote and produced “Hallelujah Broadway” and all three of the Irish Tenors TV specials, LIVE in Dublin, Belfast, and Ellis Island, for RTE, PBS, CBC Canada, ABC Australia, TV2 NZ, and SABC3 South Africa. Bill’s most recent production was feature-length documentary ‘After A Woman’s Heart’.
Bernadine Carraher
Bernadine Carraher has been an independent producer since 1990 and she has produced and directed award-winning television for Europe and the US. Since setting up Mind the Gap she has executive produced or produced all the company’s major productions. Most recently feature length documentary ‘After A Woman’s Heart’, three series of the Mind the Gap Films original formats Lords & Ladles and Brendan O’Connor’s Cutting Edge.
Jennifer Healy
Jennifer Healy has been working with Mind the Gap Films since 2008 and in that time has been closely involved in all productions. Jennifer produced lauded documentary ‘Vincent Hanley: Sex, Lies & Videotapes’, a deeply personal story fronted by Bill Hughes about the AIDS epidemic in Ireland in the 1980s and his friendship with legendary broadcaster Vincent Hanley. Jennifer also produced the acclaimed four-part bi-lingual series ‘My Tribe – Mo Threibh’. Series One revealed the underground worlds of some of music’s most defining youth culture movements – the Rockabillies, the Mods, the Skinheads and the Punks. Series Two explored the Hip Hop, Indie, Dance and Metal music scenes in Ireland and won Best Factual Entertainment at the Celtic Media Awards 2022. Jennifer produced ‘Division: The Irish Soccer Split’, a sports history documentary which revealed the story of how football in Ireland came to be divided in the midst of the War of Independence. Jennifer’s other productions include ‘Ireland’s Spelling Bee’ and ‘FAB! The Night The Beatles Came To Dublin’ – a nostalgic look at the night the most famous band in the world played in the capital. Jennifer was Assistant Producer on RTÉ Young People’s series ‘Pump Up My Dance’, TG4 music series ‘Glaoch an Cheoil’ and RTÉ Lifestyle series ‘Domestic Divas’. She also researched and assistant produced TG4 World War Two documentary ‘Glaoch ón Tríú Reich’.