Industry Sectors Music Video Directors - Screen Directors Guild of Ireland

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…

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…