Portia A. Buckley

Portia A. Buckley is an IFTA winning writer and director. Shooting primarily on film, Portia’s work focuses on character-driven narratives centred around marginalised, strong-willed, female protagonists.  Her background as an artist influences her work, imbuing it with a strong visual aesthetic and bold, classical composition. Portia studied at Camberwell College of Art and the prestigious…

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…

Skye Mann

Skye Mann is an honorary graduate of the University of Wolverhampton, where she earned a 1:1 Distinction B.A. (Hons) in Video and Film Production. She graduated with the highest academic achievement award, officially recognized by the Transatlantic Academic Board. Her graduate film, La Doulour Exquise, was featured at the Kerry International Film Festival in 2017.…

Ingrid Serban

Ingrid Serban is a Romanian/American musician and filmmaker who began her film journey with an iPhone 4, a few friends and an idea. Four years later, her work is featured in The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Hollywood Reporter, and Egyptian Streets. She has spent the past decade as President of Goat Lips…

Lia Campbell

After graduating from the Irish National Film School (Dún Laoghaire Institute of Arts, Technology and Design) in 2020, Lia now works as a writer and director in fiction and documentary. Originally from Belfast, she has lived and worked in Dublin, Berlin and Cologne and is particularly drawn to stories surrounding identity. Her fiction short film…

Laoisa Sexton

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…

Deirdre Mulrooney

Deirdre is a writer/director and dance historian, who holds an honours BA in English and French; a first class honours MA, and a PhD in Modern Drama, from UCD.  Reclaiming the body in Irish cultural history, Deirdre’s film documentaries about forgotten Irish-German modern dance pioneer Erina Brady  “Damhsa na hÉigeandála” (TG4 Splanc!  2015), and “1943…

Natasha Waugh

Natasha Waugh is a multi-award winning director of numerous short films, and various commercial work.  Her films have gone on to success on the festival circuit, winning various awards and nominations along the way. Her most successful film, Terminal, was inspired by the women affected by the 8th amendment in Ireland which restricted access to…

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,…

Juanita Wilson

Eleonora Volpe

Eleonora is an Irish-resident of Italian origin, an award-winning film director and writer with a long experience in the film and advertising industries, as well as a visual artist. She has been involved as a unit director in Sergio Leone’s feature film project The Siege of Leningrad and wrote Winter, a script optioned by Ismail Merchant and developed…

Liz Gill

Vanessa Gildea

Aisling Conroy

Aisling Conroy is an artist and filmmaker. Aisling has worked in the audio-visual sector with animation companies on various TV and film productions since 2017. She has exhibited regularly both nationally and internationally.   Contact Information Website     LinkedIn     Instagram

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

Claire Dix

I work in fiction and documentary film. My first feature documentary Broken Song was nominated for an IFTA and won the Audience Award and Discovery Award at DIFF. Sunlight, my first feature length narrative film premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival in 2023 and won Best Film at the Austin International Film Festival and Best…

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),…

Cathy Brady

Cathy Brady is a two-time IFTA-winning director, having won Best Short in 2011 for her first film Small Change and again in 2013 for Morning, which was also selected for the BFI London Film Festival 2012 and won the Short Film Nominee prize for the European Film Awards at Cork Film Festival. In 2011, Brady directed the BIFA…

Teresa Lavina

Teresa Lavina is a Spanish filmmaker based in Galway, Ireland. Her work focuses on themes of human rights and social justice with a particular focus on under-represented groups such as the travelling community, victims of child abuse and people with disabilities. Her work has been screened both in Ireland- her latest film ‘Untold Secrets’ closed…

Norma Burke

My career started out in the press office of Shelter, the National Campaign for the Homeless, before working for nearly a decade for Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC in a commissioning and sales role covering specialised areas of finance; telecoms, real estate, internet, oil and gas, mergers & acquisitions as well as global growth strategies. Whilst…

Judy Kelly

Judy Kelly is an Irish documentary maker with two decades of experience directing highly impactful documentaries in the UK and Ireland. She made Keelin Shanley, Faraway: Still Close with Keelin’s husband Conor Ferguson and filmed and directed The Crossing, the 2016 documentary following the Irish Navy’s work rescuing migrants in the central Mediterranean. It received Special Commendation…

Antonia Campbell-Hughes

Antonia Campbell-Hughes is an award-winning actress, screenwriter, and director. Named a Screen Star of Tomorrow and a Shooting Star at the Berlinale, her acting credits include films such as Jane Campion’s BRIGHT STAR, KELLY+VICTOR, 3096DAYS, and most recently Colum Eastwood’s BLACK MEDICINE. TV acting credits include comedy LEAD BALLOON, BBC’s MY MOTHER AND OTHER STRANGERS, and new series DANGEROUS LIAISONS for Playground/Starz. As a writer/director Antonia has just finished…

Adrienne Michel-Long

Adrienne Michel-Long works as a film director and writer. She has directed two short films. Her first was an RTÉ and Irish Film Board Short Cuts International award winning short film, which was called Bye Bye Inkhead (2001). Luka (2004), her second award winning short film which she also wrote, was an Irish Film Board…

Alexandra McGuinness

Alexandra McGuinness was born in Dublin and grew up in Wicklow. She moved to London at 17 where she worked as an actress and writer before attending the London Film School, she graduated in 2009. She has directed a number of short films and music videos, her debut feature film Lotus Eaters premiered at the…

Ann Marie Brennan

I am a director and scriptwriter with experience at all levels of broadcast from script to screen. Recent work includes inclusion in the Ridley Scott produced crowd sourced documentary Life in a Day 2020. My shot footage was chosen from 325,000 clips worldwide and was the only Irish footage included. Other broadcast work includes TV3…

Anna Rodgers

Anna Rodgers is a director and producer with Crossing the Line Films. She is producer on Alan Gilsenan’s feature documentary The Yellow Bittern – the Life and Times of Liam Clancy (IFB/RTÉ) which has been released theatrically in Ireland by Element Pictures. In 2008 she produced the concert film in New York Liam Clancy and…

Carmel Winters

Carmel is an award-winning writer and director for screen and stage. Her most recent Screen Ireland/BAI funded feature film Float Like A Butterfly premiered at Toronto International Film Festival September 2018 where it won the FIPRESCI Discovery International Federation of Critics Award before coming home to Cork International Film Festival to win the Audience Award,…

Carol Moore

Her first short film Gort an gCnamh (Field of Bones) won four awards in 1998 including Best First Time Director at the Celtic Film Festival and Foyle Film Festival. Carol received a NESTA fellowship in 2005 for two and half years to enable her to explore and develop her ideas surrounding cultural diversity in Northern…

Cat Little

Cat Little is an Irish TV content creator and director with experience in many areas of production including Series development, scriptwriting and directing.

Christine Molloy

Over the past 4 years, Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor have been working on a project called Civic Life. Civic Life involved local community groups in the production of nine high-quality short films for the cinema, shot on 35mm cinemascope making extensive use of the long take. The films can be likened to an intricate…

Dearbhla Glynn

Dearbhla studied fine art and graduated with merit from Limerick College of Art and Design. She went on to work as a freelance designer and scenic artist for theatre, television and film. Her debut documentary project involved her walking with her camera five hundred miles across the north of Spain filming the young Artist Corrina…

Dearbhla Walsh

Dearbhla Walsh is an Irish film and television director who has worked on drama series for several television channels in Ireland and the United Kingdom, including episodes of EastEnders, Shameless and The Tudors.

Emer Reynolds

Director Emer Reynolds is an Emmy nominated multi-award winning documentary director and feature film editor, based in Dublin, Ireland. THE FARTHEST, her feature documentary on the trail-blazing Voyager spacecraft, described by Screen Daily as “ cathartic and moving .. the right film at the right time”, made its debut at the Audi Dublin International Film…

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…

Kim Bartley

Writer, Director, Cinematographer Kim Bartley is one of Ireland’s best known documentary makers.   Based in Ireland with dual Irish/ US citizenship, Kim was raised in France and speaks fluent French & Spanish. She spent her early career filming off the beaten track, on frontlines and post conflict zones as part of an emergency response…

Oonagh Kearney

An alumna of University College Cork, Trinity College Dublin and the National Film and Television School in London, Oonagh is an IFTA-nominated writer and director who has made eleven short films, a feature documentary and a TV pilot with the support of Screen Ireland, RTE, TG4, Virgin Media, The Arts Council of Ireland, BRITDOC and Wellcome…

Ruth Meehan

Ruth Meehan is a writer and director who has been producing award-winning work for both film and television in Ireland and Britain since 1998. She is a graduate of both Dublin City University (BA honors in Communications) and of the NFTS in Beaconsfield, UK (MA in Screenwriting) where her short film ‘Numb’ received a special…

Vivienne Dick

Vivienne Dick began making films in New York in the late seventies where her work has been associated with the No Wave music movement. She lived in London for 15 years where she raised her son, continued making work and was a member of The London Filmmaker’s Coop. Her work has been screened widely at…

Paula Kehoe

Paula Kehoe is an award-winning filmmaker and writer whose work is informed by an interest in social justice, the environment, language and culture.  ‘An Dubh in Gheal: Assimilation’ won the Radharc Award in 2014. ‘Deargdhúil: Anatomy of Passion’ is a critically acclaimed creative portrait of the revolutionary Irish poet Máire Mhac an tSaoi. Paula created…

Sharon Lawless

After studying TV and Film production, Sharon became a reader and assistant to a feature film producer in the early 1990s. Films lead to commercials, and she started an advertising, PR and production company where she produced, directed and wrote campaigns for national and international clients. In 2011, she founded Flawless Films to tell stories…

Martina Durac

I have been a filmmaker for over 20 years. I have made many documentary films during this time on a huge variety of subjects. I have a particular interest in art and community and how people organize themselves in groups and have looked at this in many of my projects, whether through exploring coastal communities,…

Louise Bagnall

Louise Bagnall is an Irish filmmaker and director at the animation studio Cartoon Saloon in Kilkenny, Ireland. Louise wrote and directed the Oscar® nominated short animated film Late Afternoon. She has also directed several other shorts including Cúl An Tí, Loose Ends and Donkey.  Besides directing, Louise has worked as a character designer on Puffin…

Lorna Fitzsimons

Lorna is a photographer and filmmaker with a passion for capturing the human condition through both film and still images. She is known for her dynamic image-making, open and inclusive collaboration, quirky sense of humour and her creative problem-solving. Lorna partners with brands, designers, production companies, creatives, agencies and actors to create impactful work that…

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,…

Sinéad O’Loughlin

Sinéad O’Loughlin is a Cork based writer and director. She is in development with Copper Alley Productions on her first feature ‘Vocation’, and in post production on her short film ‘The Lamb’ (2021), a Screen Ireland Focus Short. Sinéad O’Loughlin is a Cork-based director and writer. She has a B.A. in English, Media & Cultural…

Mia Mullarkey

Mia specialised in behaviourism and neuropsychology, working as a behavioural psychologist with children in Ireland and Sri Lanka. This inspired her shift to filmmaking, where she directed the award-winning neuroscience documentaries Feats of Modest Valour and Mood Atlas. She also directed the award-winning short documentaries Mother & Baby and Throwline, delving into national issues of…

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…

Maria-Elena Doyle

“As a director and artist, the journey towards making a film is in part a journey towards self-discovery, giving me the opportunity to delve deep within and reveal a part of myself and express that through my unique creative vision for a film. I am excited about the power of film to unite people and…

Lisa Mulcahy

Lisa is in Post on the new, 4-part BBC/PBS/STUDIO CANAL drama, RIDLEY ROAD, written by Sarah Solemani, based on the book by Jo Bloom, and being produced by Red Productions. Prior to that she directed the final 2 episodes of YEARS AND YEARS for BBC/HBO, written by Russell T Davies. She was lead director on…

Leticia Agudo

Since directing for the stage in my school in Seville (including, amongst others, a painstakingly reproduced version of West Side Story, where I had to take the role of Bernardo due to the shortage of male pupils and discovered the joy of acting in drag), I remained faithful to my first love through drama school…

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.

Janna Kemperman

Janna Kemperman is a filmmaker and artist based in Dublin whose work concentrates on the dynamics between people, social structures, and the interplay between the real and surreal. She directed the 2018 STORYLAND film Everything Not Saved. Her short films HEN and Waiting on a Train have been officially selected for leading film festivals and…

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…

Fiona Ashe

Fiona Ashe is an award-winning Irish director and journalist who creates social issue dramas and thrillers with a Film Noir influence.  With these socially-impactful films, she aims to bring awareness to important global issues to generate discussion and action. She is currently in development on her debut feature film ‘Beneath The Surface’. PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS  Diploma…

Claire Frances Byrne

Claire Frances Byrne, a Dublin native and award-winning Irish filmmaker, is set to premiere her feature directorial debut at this year’s Dublin International Film Festival 5 years on from winning the festival’s prestigious Discovery award in 2020. READY OR NOT, written by Lynn Ruane is produced by Ruth Coady for Gaze Pictures. The film is…

Ais Brady

Ais Brady is a Director and Graphic Designer based between Dublin and Berlin. Recently Ais was nominated as ‘Best New Director’ at the Kinsale Shark Awards 2021. She is also nominated as ‘Rising Star’ at the Underground Cinema Awards 2021. Her debut short film ‘Shells’ received the honour of ‘Special Mention’ in the Emerging Director…

Karolina Kraus

Karolina is an award winning director and writer. Her shorts and documentary have screened worldwide. Karolina graduated from TV and Media Production at Carlow IT in 2013 as well as Carlow College of Music in 2012. She is a trained pianist and an original score composer. She has also worked as a Production Manager and…

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…

Siobhán McMahon

Siobhán McMahon graduated from NUIG in English and Philosophy. She left teaching to pursue her love of film. She worked as Trainee Editor on “Reign of Fire” followed by “In America”. She has since written and directed award winning shorts. Siobhán’s first short film script, ‘The Consolation of Orion’, was shortlisted for FilmOffaly Award 2011…