O’Malley Creadon Productions is an award-winning boutique production company founded by filmmakers Christine O’Malley and Patrick Creadon. In addition to producing, directing and providing production services, Christine and Patrick act as consultants on a variety of projects. Our passion for storytelling encompasses documentary and fiction filmmaking. Inspired by sports, music, art and politics we’re moved by ordinary people achieving extraordinary things.
Christine O’Malley
Creative producer and showrunner, CHRISTINE O’MALLEY has a body of work that includes over two dozen documentaries. Recently, O’Malley reteamed with director Lana Wilson to produce Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields. After a world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, the two-part documentary will debut on Hulu. Previously, O’Malley collaborated with Wilson on Taylor Swift: Miss Americana. In addition to being a NY Times Critic’s Pick, it was the opening night film at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival prior to its global premiere on Netflix.
O’Malley has produced several films through her company O’Malley Creadon Productions, with her longtime partner, Patrick Creadon. Wordplay, the first film she produced through her company, was nominated for both a Critics’ Choice Award and a National Board of Review Award. O’Malley and Creadon’s follow up film I.O.U.S.A., premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was shortlisted for the Oscars. Other projects include If You Build It, Ski Bum: The Warren Miller Story, Hesburgh and most recently, The Loyola Project. Her work has screened at film festivals around the world and has been distributed by IFC Films, Roadside Attractions, HBO, ESPN, Netflix, Nat Geo and Hulu among others.
In addition to serving on panels and juries in the independent film community, O’Malley served as Festival Director for AFI DOCS during its transitional year in 2014. Currently, O’Malley is developing several projects both fiction and documentary and she is in post-production on a documentary series. She is a proud member of the Producer’s Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
She is married to and collaborates with director, Patrick Creadon. Christine and Patrick have three daughters and are based in Los Angeles.
Patrick Creadon
Patrick Creadon was born and raised in Riverside, IL. He's a 1989 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and received an MFA in Cinematography from the American Film Institute (1996).
Creadon began his career in Chicago as one of the youngest cameramen in the history of PBS ("The 90's" documentary series, 1988-1992). He spent over a decade working as a freelance cameraman in Los Angeles. His directorial debut Wordplay, a feature-length documentary about The New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was sold to IFC Films after an intense bidding war during the festival. The film went on to become the second-highest grossing documentary of 2006 and was the Best Reviewed Documentary of 2006 (according to rottentomatoes.com).
Other films include I.O.U.S.A. (short-listed for the Academy Awards for Best Documentary of 2008), If You Build It (Independent Spirit Award winner in 2014), and Catholics vs Convicts, a 2016 installment for ESPN's award-winning documentary series "30 for 30." His film Hesburgh was a New York Times "Critics' Pick" and was listed as one of the Best Documentaries of 2019 by Entertainment Weekly. Creadon has served on multiple juries for film festivals around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. He is a founding member of the DGA Documentary Committee and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
He and his wife, producer Christine O'Malley, live in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles where they are raising their three daughters.
