Alan Dunne

Alan Dunne is a Shooting Director/Producer and Cinematographer from Dublin with a particular interest in unusual stories and characters. Alan has a strong interest in social media, science, crime, comedy and is always up to date with current events worldwide, experience he brought to Newstalk as a creative videographer, organizing and shooting short documentaries on…

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…

Ingrid Serban

Ingrid Serban is a 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.  Ingrid has been a filmmaker in residence at San Francisco FilmhouseX, served…

Donal Scannell

Peter Murphy

Started in television in 1996 with a critically acclaimed four part documentary series, The Professionals, one of the first series produced by RTÉ’s IPU. Since then has worked as a TV director  for many of Ireland’s leading independent production companies.  Along with television work, has co written and directed 2 feature films with creative partner,…

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…

Bryony Dunne

Bryony Dunne is an award winning Irish visual artist and filmmaker who engages with the overlap between cinema, photography, and the natural world, she is currently based in Wicklow. Her work has been exhibited at the Mosaic Rooms (London), the Irish Film Institute (Dublin), DEPO (Istanbul), among other venues, and she has participated in a…

Gar O’Rourke

Gar is an award-winning Irish director. His work spans across documentaries, branded films, commercials, & art films. He has directed projects for clients such as Netflix, Paramount+,  Visa, Patagonia, Tesco, Sony, Dyson, CBS and Irish Museum of Modern Art. His film work has won awards and competed in some of the world’s top film festivals, along with having been acquired…

Dónal Ó Céilleachair

Dónal Ó Céilleachair Documentary + Film + TV Director Dónal Ó Céilleachair is a multiple-award winning filmmaker with 30 years of experience in cinema, broadcast television and the arts. His work has been shown in cinemas, museums, galleries, film festivals and on broadcast television and streaming services worldwide. Sunniva O’Flynn of The Irish Film Institute…

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, Circa Magazine, Irish Stage and Screen magazine and…

Maurice O’Brien

Maurice established Lifeblood Films in 2017 after 15 years of producing and directing critically acclaimed, award winning films for the BBC, RTE, Irish Film Board, Guardian Documentaries, Channel 4/Discovery, and Creative Scotland. Lifeblood is currently in production with a slate of TV and feature documentary projects. Maurice is also currently series directing ‘Epic West’ –…

Tomek Ciezki

Tomek is a Galway based documentary director with no official training. His adventure with filmmaking started in the early 2000s when he discovered the magic of editing while producing skate videos.  Learning from the best people from the industry, while working on film sets in Ireland and getting hands on experience, paved his way to establishing…

Padraig Trehy

Padraig Trehy has been working in film for thirty years, starting as a floor runner on WAR OF THE BUTTONS in the summer of 1993.  He worked with Hubbard Casting in Dublin, London and on location in the mid 1990s before returning to Cork to concentrate on writing and directing his own projects.  His first…

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…

Louis Marcus

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…

Garry Keane

GARRY KEANE – DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/WRITER Garry Keane embarked on his career by studying Journalism and Photography at the esteemed London College of Communication. He then honed his skills further by delving into the world of Film and TV at the Irish National Film School at IADT. Graduating in 1990, Garry moved between New York and London,…

Patrick McDermott

Patrick McDermott is a writer / director from Sheriff Street, Dublin, Ireland. He is the founder of Headc8se Films, established in 2020. Headc8se Films is an Independent, Irish owned production company, specialising in original, edgy content that breaks the status quo of storytelling and film-making convention. “I have directed short films, music videos, documentaries, adverts and…

Gavin FitzGerald

Born and bred in Dublin City, Gavin FitzGerald is an award winning director whose documentaries have featured on Netflix, BBC & ARTE and have premiered at prestigious international film festivals such as HotDocs. He is perhaps best known for making high profile celebrity biographies but has also directed IFTA nominated festival favourites, sporting docu-series and…

Marc O’Gleasain

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…

Pauric Brennan

Pauric Brennan is an accomplished director with experience in both stage and screen and is a proud member of the Screen Directors Guild of Ireland (SDGI). Over the past several years, he has directed two feature-length films. His debut feature, Don’t Sell Me A Dog, written by Mark Hampton, is currently available on multiple VOD…

Kevin Hughes

I am a filmmaker living and working from my home in Kilkenny Ireland. I have screen credits on over 25 films so I must be doing something right. Our next film is “The Glass Girl” a super natural thriller set in a house deep in the Irish country side and even deeper in the mind…

Ronan Tynan

Ronan Tynan co-founded Esperanza Productions with Anne Daly during the genocide in Rwanda, and their first documentary together was RWANDA, NO JUSTICE, NO FUTURE. A consistent interest in human rights has informed his output over the years, especially stories about people, often at great cost to themselves, seeking to stand up for others. DROPPING THE…

Colm Bairéad

Colm was born in Dublin and raised bilingually through Irish and English. Over the past fifteen years he has directed a number of multi-award-winning short films and many hours of documentary television for RTÉ, TG4 and TV3/Virgin Media. These include the four-part IFTA-nominated series The Joy (TV3), the award-winning feature-length drama documentary The Maamtrasna Murders (TG4), the IFTA award-winning docudrama Cumann na mBan –…

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…

Sara Creta

Sara Creta is an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Dublin. She has spent the last decade bearing witness to the world’s most urgent humanitarian and human rights crises. Traveling to the most remote corners, she has captured through her lens not only war and injustice but also humanity, dignity, and resilience. Her recent bodies of…

Mary Brophy

Mary Brophy is a documentary filmmaker, producer and broadcaster with IWR Media who makes artful documentaries defined by characterful storytelling. Over the past two decades, Mary has produced and directed numerous short documentaries and series for television [Stradbally Hall Days RTÉ, Scread Asail TG4, ICA TG4]. In 2004, she directed the biography of political activist…

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…

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…

Neal Boyle

Director NEAL BOYLE is a documentary filmmaker and DOP.  Over the past two decades he has shot and directed TV feature documentary and series around the world for TG4, RTÉ and BBC Northern Ireland. Some of Neal’s recent Director credits include Celtic Torc nominated Son of Kerry, Son of Sam about the Kerry NYPD cop…

Bob Gallagher

Bob Gallagher is a multi award winning director, writer and cinematographer, described as a ‘good soldier of cinema’ by Werner Herzog, and as ‘one of the nation’s premiere creative forces in the visual arts’ by Totally Dublin. He has directed drama and documentary short films, award-winning commercials and has created some of the most iconoclastic…

Brian Lally

Brian has been working in the Irish film and television industry for over 25 years, initially as a screenwriter, but then as a director and producer when he set up his own production company Instigator Films in 2004. Most recently, he directed the critically acclaimed feature documentary “The Curious Works of Roger Doyle” which got…

Charlo Johnson

Charlo is an Irish filmmaker and has directed a number of short films and documentaries incuding Positive Discrimination, Gone Viral and Sober Minds.

Dónal Foreman

Dónal Foreman is an Irish filmmaker living between Dublin and New York City. He has written and directed three features and dozens of shorts, which the Criterion Collection has described as “searching, shape-shifting explorations of place, cultural memory, and national identity.” The Irish Times called him “one of Ireland’s most imaginative cinematic talents”, and his…

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…

Frank Berry

Frank Berry’s route to directing feature films came via ten years of community filmmaking and television. This work led to the feature documentary Ballymun Lullaby (2011) which won the Directors Guild of America’s ‘Directors Finders Award’, and chartered Berry on a journey of directing social engaged feature films. His first two feature film dramas I Used to Live…

Garret Daly

Garret Daly is an award winning director/producer. In 2001 he established the film and television company Mixed Bag Media. His extensive documentary and television career includes the award winning film ‘Who is Dervla Murphy?’ which focused on the unique Irish travel writer. Released in Irish cinemas in 2016 the filmhas also screened internationally at numerous…

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…

Hannah Quinn

Hannah started out as an assistant director in the early 90’s working on everything from indie films to blockbusters. She made the move to directing in 2014 with her first short film My Bonnie and soon after got to direct Red Rock, Eastenders and family thriller Blood. This led to directing three worldwide no.1 Netflix…

Keith O’Grady

Keith O’Grady was born in Derry in the North of Ireland. He graduated with a BA degree in Media & Cultural Studies from the University of East Anglia, and then trained as an actor in Dublin, and got work in theatre and film. He then did a Masters Degree in film production from the University…

Ross Whitaker

Ross Whitaker is a documentary filmmaker. He has developed, produced and directed a number of successful independent documentaries. His debut feature ‘Saviours’ was released in Irish cinemas in 2008 to critical acclaim. The Irish Times wrote, “Saviours packs as much of a punch as Champ, Raging Bull and all the Rocky films put together,” and…

Ruth Meehan

Ruth Meehan is a writer/director who has been creating multiple award-winning & nominated work for both film and television in Ireland and Britain since the early 2000’s. She is a graduate of the NFTS in London (MA in Screenwriting) where her short film Numb, received a special commendation at the Edinburgh Film Festival. Ruth’s first…

Seán Ó Cualáin

Seán Ó Cualáin’s first documentary, ‘Mé Féin’s Mo Mhéit’ (2002), based on two former boat racing champions, was acclaimed at the time as being the definitive TG4 documentary; understated, confident and visual storytelling. He has directed for TG4 and RTÉ, with his strengths being his commitment to the highest quality in storytelling and also the…

Pat Collins

Since 1998 PAT COLLINS has made over 30 films. That They May Face the Rising Sun based on John McGahern’s novel premiered at the BFI London Film Festival in October 2023 and went on general cinema release in Spring 2024 to critical acclaim. It is released in selected cinemas in the US and Canada in April…

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…

Neasa Ní Chianáin

Neasa Ní Chianáin, trained at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin, and worked as a freelance Art Director on Irish feature film and television projects, before switching to docs in 2001. She has directed 9 single docs (5 of which are feature length) and one tv series. The docs include ‘Frank Ned…

Morgan Bushe

Morgan Bushe is an Irish filmmaker whose films and series as a producer, writer and director, have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, the Berlinale, TIFF, Sitges, Locarno, Telluride, IDFA, Busan and Tribeca and has been long-listed for the Academy Award, three time EFA nominated and collectively received fifteen Irish Film…

Ruán Magan

Ruán Magan is an award-winning writer and filmmaker whose work has reached audiences of millions across the world. His work has won many awards including the Milan International Film Festival, the New York International Film Festival, the Celtic Media Festival, the International Black and Diversity Film Festival, and Doc LA. Recent projects include the feature…

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…

Shane Hogan

Shane Hogan directed countless segments of Fashion Television for over a decade. Shane also worked for Entertainment Tonight at Cannes Film Festival, World Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, Laureus Sports Awards and Tennis Channel during the French Open at Roland Garros. Together with Tom Burke, Shane was Co-Director of ‘The Liberties’ that screened at…

Pamela Drynam

Pamela Drynam lives in Dublin, Ireland and is originally from Scotland. She was lucky to produce two films, ‘Chancers’ and ‘Gutted’, that won two Scottish BAFTAs. Pamela worked with director Paul McGuigan on his feature documentary called ‘Little Angels’ and produced the award-winning series ‘Surgeons in Ireland’. Pamela comes from a theatrical background and enjoys…

Maya Derrington

Maya Derrington is a director and producer who has worked in television and film since 1999. She graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London in 1994 and worked at Bloomsbury Publishing until she moved to Dublin in 1997. Maya co-founded Still Films in 2006 and in 2010 she was nominated for an IFTA for her…

Maurice Sweeney

Maurice Sweeney is an award winning director as comfortable producing full scale drama as he is in documentary where he has pushed the boundaries of the drama doc genre. He has a number of large scale credits where he has developed a proven eye and ear for story and emotion. His most recent work includes Lead…

Maurice Linnane

Maurice has been working in film and television since leaving college. After several years as an editor he made his debut as the director of an MTV Rockumentary on U2, at the beginning of the band’s Zoo TV world tour. As a result Maurice spent two years on the road, ending up as the Artistic…

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,…

Martin Dwan

Martin is a graduate of University College Dublin with a BA in Economics and Politics and an MA in Film Studies. He has worked in the Irish television industry for two decades; producing, directing, scripting and editing a number of critically acclaimed documentaries. His latest production is ‘The Great Guide to the Future’, a six-part…

Malin Andersson

Documentary film director and photographer Malin Andersson lives in Ireland and Sweden and works internationally as well as nationally, pitching and filming/directing her own creative documentaries collaborating with international documentary producers. She works through her company Solas Productions in Newry as well as her Swedish company Malin Andersson Film, based in Malmo. A member of…

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,…

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…

Loic Jourdain

Growing up, Loïc was inspired by the flming of Stanley Kubrick’s “Barry Lyndon” in his childhood village in England. As a teenager, he began making short flms in Super 8 and later enrolled in a cinema program at his secondary school in France. He then spent three years studying at the “Conservatoire du Cinéma Français”…

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…

Ken Wardrop

Ken studied filmmaking at the National Film School, IADT. His short films have screened at many of the worlds most prestigious festivals including Sundance and Cannes. He has presented retrospective programmes at the Cork International Film Festival, and at festivals in the UK, Croatia, The Netherlands and in Scandinavia. In 2008, his work received the…

Frankie Fenton

Frankie is an award winning Irish film director/producer specialising in documentary to do with pressing social matters. He is a graduate of Dublin City University with an MA in Film and Television Studies. Frankie worked in post production in London for nine years before picking up the camera and coming back to Ireland for his…

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…

Ciaran Creagh

Ciaran Creagh is an award winning screenwriter and director from Dublin, Ireland who works in film and TV both in Ireland, Canada and the United States credits include ‘Ann’, a feature completed in 2022.  The world premiere of “Ann” took place at the “A” category FIAPF accredited Tallinn Black Nights International Film festival in November 2022…

Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley is an award winning Irish director working primarily in documentary as well as commercials and television drama. Alan won the Young Director Award for Documentary at Cannes 2024 and is the youngest director to hold a prime time RTÉ One documentary slot. He has been selected as ‘One To Watch’ 2024 by the…

Adrian McCarthy

Adrian McCarthy has been directing and producing documentaries for over twenty years. He is the owner of Curious Dog Films which was established in 2019 and was previously the co-owner of Wildfire Films. Raised in West Cork and living in Dublin, Adrian has made documentary films across a broad range of subjects; arts, sport, politics,…

Shimmy Marcus

Shimmy Marcus is a multi award winning filmmaker working across a variety of formats and genres. In 1999 he won the Miramax Script Writing Award for his feature script ‘Headrush’ which he also directed. The film won a variety of International awards including Best Feature at festivals in Michigan,New York, and the Braunschweig Film Festival…

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…

Trish McAdam

My films have a socio-political perspective, for big and small screens, in big and small places across feature and short, fiction, documentary and animation. Award winning filmmaker with fiction and documentary, feature, short and art installation screenings across the world—In Dublin, Cork, Galway, London, New York, York, Washington, Sundance, San Sebastian, Toronto, Hof, Seoul (Special…

A.W. Stevenson

I wrote and directed my debut short film ‘Not with a Bang But a Whimper’ in 2014, while studying for a Masters. The film played at the Fastnet Film Festival and the experience caused me to change my career path towards professional filmmaking. My second independent short film ‘Man to Man’ premiered at the Galway…

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…