Nial Fulton

Fulton was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, and was educated at Portora Royal School and Queen's University Belfast. His late father, Alexander 'Sandy' Fulton was capped for the Northern Ireland international football team in 1960–61.

Nial Fulton is a Walkley [1] [2] and AACTA award winning producer [3][4] and writer. His films have been recognised with many major awards and nominations in Australia and internationally.

Fulton worked extensively with the Irish Film Board and Northern Ireland Screen on a diverse range of co-productions, features and television drama. After moving to Australia, he worked with some of the countries leading producers, developing and producing a diverse slate of international productions for major international broadcasters, including BBC, Channel 4, ABC, RTÉ, National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, Arte, France 5, SBS and Al Jazeera.

In 2013, Fulton joined forces with film-maker Ivan O'Mahoney to create In Films, a Sydney-based production company specialising in high-end documentary and fact based drama. The company was nominated for the Screen Producers of Australia Breakthrough Business of the Year 2016.

Between 2018 - 2020, Fulton produced Revelation, a three part series with Sarah Ferguson on clerical abuse in the Catholic Church in Australia.[5] [6] The series took out the prestigious Walkley Documentary Award, the second time Fulton and Ferguson have won that award. [7]

• Five awards for Enniskillen man Nial Fulton's hard hitting TV documentary – Impartial Reporter – 1 January 2017
• ABC TV TALENT SHINES AT THE 2016 AACTA AWARDS – ABC Media Room – 8 December 2016
• Amnesty International Announces 2016 Award Winners – Amnesty International – 21 November 2016
• ABC's Sarah Ferguson on Hitting Home – The Guardian, 25 November 2015\
• AACTA Finalists Announced – The Australian Academy of Cinematic and Television Arts, 2016
• Meet the filmmakers behind Borderland – Al Jazeera America, 7 March 2014
• Walkley Awards 2016 – The Walkley Awards
• We need to teach young girls to say 'no' – Jenna Price, Daily Life, November 2015
• AACTA Nominations Announced – Inside Film, October 2016
• In-Depth, Not Imbedded: Al Jazeera America's Docs Eschew Points of View – International Documentary Association – July 2014
• The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce nominated for Rose d'Or – IFTN – June 2010
• Docu-drama: Nial Fulton goes as far as he can, guns blazing while horses scream in the night – Screenhub, David Tiley – 23 November 2013
• Grizzly confession of a cannibal convict – The Age – 22 January 2009
• Pushed to the edge: doco reveals Tasmania's cannibal past – ABC – 21 November 2008
• A priest, a confession and a conscience – BBC News, Fiona Murray – 20 February 2009
• Ciaran's Art of Darkness – Belfast Telegraph – February 2009
• Internet Movie Database Listing for Nial Fulton