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…

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…

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…

Liza Bolton

Liza Bolton is an Irish Writer and Director. She studied film  Kingston University and at Werner Herzog Rogue Film School in Munich. Her  first feature film The Wandering screened in festivals  around the world. Her films are inspired by and set in landscapes and contain elements of Sci fi – fantastical as well as magical…

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),…

Paudie Baggott

Kate Dolan

I graduated with an Honours Degree in Film & Television Production from the National Film School, IADT in 2012. There, I majored in Directing and minored in Editing. My graduate short Breathe In was selected for a number of Irish and international film festivals. I then worked as a Broadcast Producer in TBWA Dublin for almost 2 years after graduating. Then for a…

Eamonn Murphy

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Hannah Quinn

Hannah Quinn is a film & tv director who recently won the IFTA Director Drama award 2022 for Vikings:Valhalla.  Hannah is currently on post production of family crime thriller North Sea Connection (RTE) and this summer she’ll direct season 3 of Vikings:Valhalla.  Previously directed 2nd Unit of Disenchanted (Disney), Vikings:Valhalla (S1) for Netflix/MGM,  Fate – The Winx…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Seán Breathnach

Seán’s debut feature film, “Beyond the Woods”, picked up awards for Best International Feature Film in Montreal and London and is being distributed globally by Left Films. It was Empire Magazine’s DTV “Must See” in June 2018 and was nominated for “Best Thriller” at the National Film Awards in London in 2019. Seán has directed…

Loic Jourdain

After working for many years in Paris as assistant-director and assistant-producer, Loïc Jourdain began making his own films in 1997 with the prestigious Marin Karmitz’s MK2 company in Paris. Loïc Jourdain was born in France in 1971. After working for many years in Paris as assistant-director and assistant-producer, Loïc Jourdain began making his own films…

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…

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…

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…

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…