{"id":81105,"date":"2023-11-14T20:48:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=81105"},"modified":"2023-11-14T20:48:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:48:15","slug":"friends-plea-for-help-to-find-missing-film-maker-ross-mcdonnell-in-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/friends-plea-for-help-to-find-missing-film-maker-ross-mcdonnell-in-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends plea for help to find missing film maker Ross McDonnell in NY"},"content":{"rendered":"
A talented Irish film maker has left friends desperate for news after he disappeared from his New York home and his bike was found on a beach.<\/p>\n
Emmy award winner Ross McDonnell, 44, was last spotted late on the night of Saturday, November 4 at Fort Tilden Beach near Roxbury, where his bicycle was found locked up three days later.<\/p>\n
Friend Gene Gallerano, told The Irish Times that McDonnell appears to have been on the beach but \u2018went out into the ocean\u2019 before disappearing.<\/p>\n
\u2018He was last seen last Saturday night. The alarm was sounded on Sunday. We don\u2019t know much more than that,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n
\u2018It\u2019s been a very, very emotionally heavy week.\u2019<\/p>\n
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Emmy award winning film maker Ross McDonnell has not been seen since leaving his home in Brooklyn, New York on the evening of Saturday, November 4\u00a0<\/p>\n
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His bicycle was found three days later chained up at\u00a0at Fort Tilden Beach near Roxbury<\/p>\n
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The talented photographer and film maker had worked extensively across the world including Afghanistan, Ukraine and Mexico<\/p>\n
Originally from Dublin he won an Emmy Award in 2021 for his camera work on the Showtime series The Trade, and had been living in Taaffe Place near DeKalb Avenue in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, where he was last seen at about 8.30pm on November 4.<\/p>\n
He had worked extensively across the world including Afghanistan, Ukraine and Mexico and was nominated for another Emmy in 2018 as director of the CNN Films documentary Eli\u00e1n.<\/p>\n
Friends have pleaded for his return and started spreading the word on social media including one who described him as a \u2018diamond who is in all our hearts\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u2018Ross and I worked together many times,\u2019 wrote Eoin Butler on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n
\u2018He\u2019s been missing for a week. We\u2019ve been given the go ahead to share this image today. Anyone in New York area\u2026 please share.\u2019<\/p>\n
‘He is an incredible human and his disappearance has caused indescribable anguish amongst his friends and family,’ added\u00a0Alexander Kellum.\u00a0<\/p>\n
McDonnell\u2019s first feature film, Colony, debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and won an Irish Film and Television Award Nomination.<\/p>\n
He is also a talented photographer and was shortlisted for the world\u2019s top photography award the Prix Pictet in 2019 for his work on the theme of \u2018hope\u2019.<\/p>\n
He was wearing a red puffy Northface vest, black Northface backpack, black and white sneakers, and dark colored khaki pants when he disappeared.<\/span><\/p>\n The New York Police Department appealed for people who may have found his belongings to get in touch.<\/p>\n \u2018You are not in trouble if you picked up his belongings, we just want to locate ASAP for clues to his disappearance,\u2019 they said.<\/p>\n McDonnell’s work as a cameraman, director and photographer\u00a0 has taken him across the world from Bolivia to Ukraine and Afghanistan to Mexico\u00a0<\/p>\n He won an Emmy Award in 2021 for his camera work on the Showtime series The Trade, and\u00a0was nominated for another in 2018 as director of the CNN Films documentary Eli\u00e1n<\/p>\n Friends have pleaded for his return and started spreading the word on social media<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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