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.…

Adam Rael

Adam Rael is a commercial and narrative film director, who co-founded Irish film production company Cassette Vision. Starting out making videos in rural Ireland, Adam Rael refined his craft at the National Film School, IADT, specialising in directing drama under Rebecca Roper. After building his skills as a freelance creative, he co-founded Cassette Vision, where…

Eoghan Kidney

I studied in IADT, and I’m one of the founding members of the pioneering Irish animation collective, Delicious 9 (2001-2006). During five years working with this group I collaborated on over 50 different projects, ranging from video installations, design, live audio-visual performances, visual sets, curation, children’s workshops and 25 indie music videos. With multiple screenings…

Gary Kenneally

James Doherty

I’m an Irish-Mancunian writer/director making films about family, masculinity-in-crisis and characters living on the fringes of society. My television drama debut is Airing on Channel4 and on the Channel4 player now: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN for Channel 4’s 4Stories / OnTheEdge emerging talent strand  Nominated for BEST SINGLE DRAMA at the Broadcast Awards 2025  Nominated…

Kev Cahill

  Kev Cahill is a director who comes from a VFX background. His VFX credits include Star Wars VIII, Chernobyl and The Green Knight. He won an IFTA for his work on The Green Knight. He has directed 2 multi award-winning short films and a bunch of commercials. He currently has a feature film in…

Irina Maldea

Irina Maldea (Ireland/Romania) – film director, editor. Her works spans a variety of roles and genres. Irina worked as a film editor in the Romanian national film studios. In Ireland, she continued to edit drama and documentary and began directing documentaries for broadcast and cinematic distribution, working with the Irish language TV station TG4, the…

Alan Holly

Alan Holly is a Dublin-based artist and filmmaker. He has worked in various roles in the Irish animation industry for over 10 years, working at numerous different studios before the setting up of And Maps And Plans in 2010 where he works with a small group of like minded artists to create artistically driven and…

Darragh O’Connell

In 1994, at the age of 21, Darragh established Brown Bag Films with Cathal Gaffney and wrote and directed their first TV Series, Peig, for RTÉ. Darragh produced Give Up Yer Aul Sins which was nominated for an Oscar at the 74th Academy Awards in 2002 and went on to direct six new episodes in the series. Darragh also…

Fergal Reilly

Fergal Reilly is a director and longtime story/concept artist who is based in Los Angeles, California. He originally hails from Ardee, County Louth, Ireland. After studying Design Communications at D.L.C.A.D, now The National Film School at I.A.D.T he arrived in Hollywood at the age of nineteen to work as an animation apprentice for Walt Disney…

Jason Tammemagi

Jason Tammemägi is best known for his preschool children’s television work, creating and driving enriching content that is enjoyed across the globe. Positive entertainment with a fun spark that speaks to children and parents everywhere. Jason is Creative Director of MOOSHKU. A writer/director/producer of children’s content, he has written four children’s theatrical feature films, written 150…

Kealan O’Rourke

Kealan graduated from The National Film School, Ireland.  He went on to write and direct a series of award winning live-action and animation short films including Before Sunrise, the IFTA nominated The Lost Letter starring Kate Winslet and The Boy in the Bubble, narrated by Alan Rickman, which went on to win the IFTA for…

Simon Gibney

Simon is an award-winning director known for his work across the drama, comedy and multi-camera productions in the US, UK & Ireland. With over twenty five years experience, Simon works on an ongoing basis for many international productions. Currently, Simon is creative producer on comedy animation projects in the US with Bento Box / Fox…

Nora Twomey

Nora Twomey is one of the founding members of the studio Cartoon Saloon, an Academy Award nominated animation studio. Over the years Nora has directed award winning shorts like ‘From Darkness’ and ‘Cúilín Dualach’ (Backwards Boy). She also co-directed with Tomm Moore the Oscar nominated feature animation ‘The Secret of Kells’. Nora has also directed…

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…

Lorcan Finnegan

Lorcan is a multi award winning live action and animation director living and working in Dublin. He is signed as a commercials director with Blinder and directs films, music videos and other projects through his own company Lovely Productions.

Steve Woods

Steve Woods works in animation, documentaries and dance films. In 1989 he helped set up the Galway Film Fleadh and programmed the festival’s animation for many years. at the moment Steve is on the board of the SDGI. Steve’s company is Cel’ Division specialises in short films.  As well as producing his own work people…

Paul J Bolger

Paul J. Bolger is an award-winning artist, animator, designer, writer, producer and director. Paul began his film career in the late 1980’s at Sullivan Bluth Studios on animated movies such as ‘The Land Before Time’ and ‘All Dogs Go to Heaven’. He then went onto work internationally as a lead animator on Richard Williams’s classic…

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…

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.

Hugh O’Conor

A prolific, award-winning actor since childhood, Hugh has gone on to write and direct a striking Series of projects in a variety of mediums—live action, animation, opera—as well as experiencing great success as a still photographer. Hugh appeared in his first feature opposite Liam Neeson in ‘Lamb’ in 1985. He went on to play the…

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…

Aidan McAteer

Aidan McAteer is a classical animation graduate of Ballyfermot College of Further Education and has worked in London and Vancouver animating on such high profile TV shows as Peppa Pig, My Little Pony and The Secret Show. He is currently directing the animated preschool show “Wildernuts” for Kavaleer/RTE. Aidan has written and directed several award…

Richard Keane

Richard Keane is an award-winning filmmaker specialising in both animation and live-action as a writer, director, and producer. With a career spanning over two decades, Richard has worked at several high-profile studios in Ireland and the UK on numerous acclaimed projects for clients such as Amazon Studios, BBC, Disney Junior, Nickelodeon, RTÉ, and Screen Ireland.…

Tomm Moore

Co-founder and Creative Director of Cartoon Saloon Over Cartoon Saloon’s history, Tomm has worked as Director, Art Director, Storyboarder, Animator and Illustrator across a range of the studio’s projects . Tomm has directed 3 universally successful feature films. All three were nominated for Best Animated Feature at the ACADEMY AWARD® The Secret of Kells in…