Lyme disease documentary set to be screened this Thursday on RTÉ
AFTER a six-year apprenticeship on the highways and byways of Kerry and Munster, local film-maker David Pembroke has moved his base to Dublin, and his name will be seen on our screens more often.
Also, David’s five-part environmental series ‘Call of the Wild’ will soon be broadcast on RTÉ. The recent move to Dublin and involvement in the film-making scene there has proved the right move as he positions himself in his ideal location.
“I’m 24 years old and from the heart of Kerry. I am now based in Dublin and enjoying every minute and part of it,” said David.
“I have six years’ experience working as a freelance, self-shooting producer / editor for independent production companies.
“I am a self-motivated individual with excellent communication, production and post-production skills who enjoys the challenge of taking an idea from concept to post-production,” he assures us.
David, a past pupil of St Patrick’s Secondary School, Castleisland, is currently producing a feature-length documentary and, in the course of 2017, he produced, filmed and edited the aforementioned environmental series.
You’ll also find his credits on an hour-long documentary, ‘Living with Lyme Disease’, which is due to come up on RTÉ One tomorrow night.
In the past couple of years, David has produced and filmed for broadcast a series of lifestyle programmes as well as documentaries, a feature film, studio shows and advertisements.
Keep an eye out, as the credits roll on home-produced news programmes, for the name David Pembroke.
The documentary ‘Living with Lyme Disease’, which was to have been broadcast this time last year, will now go out on RTÉ One on this Thursday night, October 4, at 10.15pm.
The programme examines how a tiny tick bite can dramatically change people’s health and wellbeing.
In conversation with a number of people in Kerry and beyond suffering with Lyme disease, the programme makers document the struggles around getting the correct initial diagnosis and then the appropriate treatment for a disease.
A number of politicians in Ireland have raised the issue of Lyme disease at local and national level, citing the need for a more reliable diagnostic test for sufferers and the need to create more awareness amongst the medical profession and the general public.