Demographics Diverse Directors - Screen Directors Guild of Ireland

Seán Leahy

Seán Leahy is an award-nominated Irish director and screenwriter developing drama-based projects across short film, feature, and high-end television. His films have screened at festivals including the Fastnet Film Festival, IndieCork, and the Catalyst International Film Festival. In 2023, he directed An Unnerving Realisation, followed by The Marina in 2024. He then wrote and directed…

Marissa Aroy

Maríssa Aroy is an Emmy award-winning director renowned for her impactful documentaries, including the celebrated PBS program “Sikhs in America.” Her work also earned her an Emmy nomination for “The Delano Manongs,” highlighting the pivotal yet overlooked contributions of Filipinos in the U.S. labor movement. A Fulbright Scholar, Aroy was awarded the inaugural Hatsuye Yamasaki…

Adam Mann

Adam graduated from DBS College in 2016 with a BA in Film and Media Studies. His final-year film earned him the Spotlight Award for Best Student Director in 2016. Adam spent a year working on various projects in Ireland, notably as a focus puller and 1st Assistant Camera (A.C.) on the feature film Be Good…

Oisin Mac Coille

Oisín Mac Coille is a prolific and versatile director whose career spans an impressive breadth of television, film, and educational content. With over a hundred credits in TV continuing drama and close to another hundred in children’s and educational programming, Oisín has established himself as a master storyteller, adept at crafting compelling narratives for diverse…

Nell Hensey

Nell Hensey is an Irish-Filipino director and screenwriter from County Clare. She is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Pure Divilment Pictures. Her work has been supported by Screen Ireland, The Arts Council Of Ireland / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, RTÉ, Virgin Media Television and more. Nell is passionate about stories that explores unique cultural identities, coming-of-age themes…

Kristina Yee

Kristina Yee is an award-winning screenwriter, director, and author, based in Dublin but originally from Northern California. She attended Harvard University where she studied Folklore and Mythology and was a cartoonist for the Harvard Lampoon. Kristina earned her MA in Animation Direction from the National Film and Television School in the UK. Her graduation film,…

Liza Bolton

Liza Bolton is an Irish Writer and Director. She studied film Kingston University and at Werner Herzog Rogue Film School in Munich. She has completed 3 Feature Films, 2 as Writer / Director. She has sold scripts and stories for Production and has just completed the feature film Ocean Deep starring Connie Nielsen

Jaro Waldeck

Jaro Waldeck is an award winning cinematographer, director and stills photographer. She earned a Bachelors Degree in Film and Video from Columbia College Chicago and a Masters Degree in Cinematography from FAMU Prague. She’s a member of Czech Society of Cinematographers since 2012. Jaro has shadowed Phedon Papamichael, ASC (on “W.” directed by Oliver Stone),…

Patricia Kelly

Patricia Kelly is a Dublin-based, award-winning writer/director/producer and she founded MnáMná Films in 2019. Her debut feature film, Verdigris, was nominated for five IFTAS, has won twelve festival awards and has just finished its Irish theatrical release. She currently has two feature films in funded script development supported by Screen Ireland. She won the 2024…

Geraldine Creed

Creed is a writer and filmmaker from Dublin, Ireland. She has written six screenplays and directed two of them. The Sun, Moon & Stars (1996) and Chaos/Deathgames (2001). Her experience in television production spans history and observational documentaries, current affairs, arts, social justice, entertainment and drama. Her most recent documentary Mercury 13 was commissioned by…

Zahara Moufid

Zahara a Film Director, Producer, Actress and Scriptwriter, known for, ‘Pappy’ (2019), ‘Shelter Me’ (2018), ‘Inside Apollo House’ (2017) ,‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ (2002), ‘11th Hour’ (2017) and ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2005). Zahara Moufid grew up in Morocco speaking Arabic and French. She first discovered her love of storytelling with her grandmother,…

Megan K. Fox

Megan K. Fox is an Irish writer/director working across TV and film. Her TV directing credits include 4 part thriller Too Good to be True (Channel 5), Eastenders, Fair City and comedy drama Video Nasty (BBC/Virgin Media/Boatrocker). Her award winning short films include Cailín Álainn (2019), Love in the Time of Corona (2020), The Shift (2018) and GIRL (2016). Megan is…

Mark Dollard

Mark Dollard is a writer and director, mainly interested in genre storytelling with a subversive twist. Mark graduated from the Film Production Degree course in Colaiste Dhulaigh in 2016. His graduate film, ‘MacCumhaill’, won best director and best film at the college’s graduate awards, earning Mark membership of the SDGI. Mark won a further award…

Laura Robinson

An experienced Director and Creative Producer of animated 2D and CG content. I have worked on productions for broadcasters such as RTE jr, Netflix, CBeebies, CBBC, BBC, Universal Kids, and HBO Europe, as well as YouTube.

Imogen Murphy

Imogen Murphy is an Irish film and television drama director. Her recent work includes directing a feature-length episode of crime thriller GRACE for ITV, starring John Simm and Catherine Walker. Previously she lead directed and executive produced thriller series THE VANISHING TRIANGLE starring Allen Leech and India Mullen. In 2021 she co-wrote and lead directed period mystery…

Finn van Gelderen

Finn van Gelderen is a Documentary Director, Director of Photography and Photographer. He is based in Dublin. He has worked on drama, documentaries , commercials, music videos and nature television over the last 30 years. He also teaches recovery in mental health and advocates nationally for both cinematography and mental health. He was the Programme…

Dylan Dreher

Dylan Dreher is an independent stop motion animation filmmaker from county Kerry. I have made festival selected work including ‘Subconscious Voyage’, ‘Fate’s Game’ and ‘Blossom’ to name a few. Festivals that my films have been selected in include Kerry International Film festival, 12th Underground Cinema, IndieCork and Galway Film Fleadh for which my graduation film…

Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas works as a Film Director, Film Producer, Screenplay Writer, Radio Producer, Presenter, and Journalist. His production company Bella Vision Ltd., trades as Dave Thomas Films, is located in Arklow, County Wicklow. Often working for Ireland’s biggest media companies—RTE Radio & TV, Newstalk 106-108FM Radio, The Irish Times, Sunday Times, Irish Independent, RTE Guide,…

Louise Ní Fhiannachta

Born in the Rebel County, raised in The Kingdom and now living wherever the work is, Louise was always destined to have an identity crisis, a theme that’s been strongly threaded through her work. Louise most recently received funding from Screen Ireland’s Director Conceptual Development Fund to develop her feature ‘Skinfull’—a blackly comic and visceral…

Mo O’Connell

A graduate of RADA, London, with a BA in Acting from Ballyfermot Film School, Dublin, with a Diploma in Film Production, Mo has made several award-winning shorts and an award-winning feature film. Her next short in 2022 is Kerry funded, ‘Haven’. Mo (or ‘Maureen’) O’Connell is a filmmaker and actor from Dublin, Ireland. She is…

Gilly Fogg

HEAD CREATIVE & DIRECTOR AT LIGHTHOUSE STUDIOS Gilly Fogg is a BAFTA winning director, head creative and one of the founding members of Lighthouse Studios in Kilkenny. In Lighthouse, Gilly oversees the development of the studio’s original slate, and directs projects in development and in productions such as Bug Diaries, and the El Deafo. Beginning…

Charlie McCarthy

Charlie McCarthy began his directing career in RTE where he directed a wide range of programmes from Glenroe to Nighthawks. Since going freelance he has directed both documentary and drama. The former has included much-praised portraits of writers Seamus Heaney, John Banville, Edna O’Brien, Hugh Leonard and Colum McCann; the latter has included dramas such…