Aidan Duffy is a screenwriter-director based in Dublin.

His 2019 sketch Father/Son/Time screened at the 50th and final edition of Dublin’s Firehouse Film Contest.

Duffy’s 2015 short The Observation Level starring Florence Ordesh (Hokum, TV’s Departure) won the Jury Award at the 2nd Pink City International Film Festival in Jaipur, India and was a semi-finalist at the Global Short Film Awards. It was broadcast as a “Movie Of The Week” selection on Shorts HD, the world’s most popular short film channel.

His 2014 short Nostalgia.exe starring Craig White (The Good Father) and Hannah Mamalis (The Drummer and the Keeper, TV’s No Worries If Not!) premiered at the 67th Festival de Cannes’ Short Film Corner and competed for the Grand Prix Irish at the 59th Cork International Film Festival the year that event joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ list of Oscar-qualifying festivals. It competed at the 2nd Courts des Îles Festival, Tahiti, French Polynesia which highlights films whose directors have island homelands, and was broadcast on RTÉ’s Shortscreen.

Duffy played the lead role in his 2011 short Mirrorman opposite Rachel-Mae Brady (Christmas Perfection, TV’s Vikings) which premiered at the 64th Festival de Cannes’ Short Film Corner and won the L.A. Diversity Film Festival’s Ichi-Go Ichi-E award “for the film which encapsulates supreme uniqueness, creativity, and innovation”. Mirrorman was also nominated for Best Screenplay at that year’s Underground Cinema Awards in Dún Laoghaire and broadcast on RTÉ’s Shortscreen.

In addition to his short films, Duffy has directed the music videos “Creep” and “Bellend” for i am niamh, and served as Casting Director and Script Supervisor on the Filmbase feature film The Randomer, written by Gerard Stembridge. He has also served as a juror for Dublin’s Firehouse Film Contest, CreActive International Open Film Festival Bangladesh, and Paris International Cinefest.