Mia Mullarkey is an award-winning film director based in Dublin, Ireland. She directs drama, documentary and commercials. Mia worked as a behavioural psychologist before moving over to filmmaking.

Since then she has directed several successful short films, receiving over 60 awards and nominations globally, and screening at international short film festivals such as Palm Springs, Flickers’ Rhode Island, Aesthetica, São Paulo, Valladolid, Tehran and Helsinki. Her work has been shown on RTE, TG4, Virgin Media TV, France24, ShortsTV USA, Mubi, Discover.film and Together TV (Sky UK).

In 2018 Mia received the Discovery Award at Dublin International Film Festival for her body of work, and was made the 2018/2019 Filmmaker-in-Residence with Virgin Media DIFF.

Alongside directing Mia has devised and taught filmmaking courses, as well as participating in numerous panels and guest lecturing on filmmaking. Under the new Screen Skills Ireland mentorship scheme Mia is currently being mentored by director Lenny Abrahamson for one year. She is a host on the Film Network Ireland Wrap Chat podcast show and a member of Screen Directors Guild Ireland.

In 2020 Mia completed a masters in screenwriting at The National Film School in Ireland with a first class honours. She is currently in development with Screen Ireland on a feature documentary and a short drama, and is directing a 12 episode TV documentary show with TG4.