Billy McCannon is a Dublin-based filmmaker, writer, and producer with over 35 years’ experience across drama, documentary, and participatory arts.

As Managing Director of Amulet Studios, his work spans fiction and non-fiction filmmaking, including a decade of participatory video work inside Portlaoise Prison and ongoing community documentary series such as Works On Screen. From 1992 to 1994 he served as Chairperson of Film Base, Ireland’s independent film resource centre, where he introduced professional screenwriting training to Ireland, developed an innovative Writer/Director/Producer support scheme for emerging feature filmmakers, and led the advocacy campaign that resulted in the re-establishment of the Irish Film Board. He is currently writer, director, editor, and producer of Everybody Knows, a feature-length artivist documentary tracing the architecture of state violence connecting Palestine, Ireland, Colombia, London, and New York — a kaleidoscopic journey through a world in the midst of genocide, funded by Ireland’s Basic Income for the Arts scheme and shot entirely on iPhone.