Industry Sectors Music Video Directors - Screen Directors Guild of Ireland

Rory Bresnihan

Following the success of The Chameleon (Rory’s first film, which won best Irish Animation at the Galway film Festival.), Rory auditioned for and was accepted by Aardman Animations. He trained under four-time Oscar-winning Director Nick Park. He progressed to work on such projects as, “Chicken Run”, the BAFTA-award-winning “Robbie & the Reindeers”, Tim Burton’s “Corpse…

Ira Elshansky

Ira Elshansky is an animation director and storyboard artist with extensive experience in animation production. She has led and managed large creative teams, working as a director, storyboard artist, and animatic director on numerous projects. Alongside her directing work, she has been deeply involved in story development and writing — developing original scripts, leading writers’ rooms, and creating multiple synopses and story concepts. She has collaborated with…

Miles Davis Murphy

Miles Davis Murphy is an award-winning writer and director originally from Michigan, now based in Dublin. He holds a joint BA Honours degree in Directing and Producing, as well as an MA in Screenwriting, both from the National Film School in IADT. His most recent short film, Bestial Ones, has garnered acclaim on both national…

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…

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 Mann

Adam graduated from DBS College in 2016 with a BA in Film and Media Studies. His final-year film earned him the Spotlight Award for Best Student Director in 2016. Adam spent a year working on various projects in Ireland, notably as a focus puller and 1st Assistant Camera (A.C.) on the feature film Be Good…

Adam Rael

Adam Rael is an Irish director, writer and producer, and co-founder of Cassette Vision. Working across narrative, documentary, animation and commercial filmmaking, he develops original projects while directing campaigns for leading brands through Cassette’s commercial sister company, Conker Cuts. After studying directing at the National Film School Adam has gone on to produce and direct…

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…

Dónal Ó Céilleachair

Dónal Ó Céilleachair 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 writes that ‘Ó Céilleachair’s passion, rigour…

Lochlainn McKenna

Lochlainn McKenna started his filmmaking journey studying acting in his native Cork City before swiftly moving through a variety of roles from assistant directing and editing to casting and producing (one personal life-highlight was producing two episodes of The Real Housewives of Orange County) before he eventually stumbled upon directing in 2017. Adventurous and tumultuous…

Ciarán Hickey

An award-winning film director & writer and Honours graduate of the esteemed National Film School IADT Dún Laoghaire, Ciarán Hickey’s short film credits include The Boy Murder (2015), Terrible Things (2021) and Screen Ireland’s Callus (2023). With a penchant for imaginative genre storytelling focused on otherworldly elements mingled with searing reality-based drama, his work has…

Natasha Waugh

Natasha Waugh is an IFTA-nominated director and writer. Her most successful film, Terminal, was inspired by the women affected by the 8th amendment in Ireland which restricted access to abortion. It went on to critical acclaim, winning several awards at home and abroad including a Writer’s Guild of Ireland ‘Zebbie’ award for Best Short Film…

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…

Colm Sexton

Colm Sexton is an award winning film and TV director and producer based in Dublin. He works across TV, drama and music video in a variety of formats. He has recently joined the multicamera directing team at RTE Fair City soap opera. Coming from a background in the music business, over the last few years…

Patrick McDermott

Patrick McDermott is a writer / director from Sheriff Street, Dublin, Ireland. He is the founder of Headc8se Films, an Independent, Irish owned production company, established in 2020, specializing 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 corporate projects.…

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

John Kelly

John Kelly is an Irish director and producer with 5+ years of experience in the Irish film industry. John has worked as a writer, director and producer on a variety of projects ranging from short films to feature films. John established his production company Clap ‘n Load Studios in 2019, and has to-date produced 4…

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 is an IFTA-nominated writer, director and producer whose debut feature Verdigris was nominated for five Irish Film and Television Awards, including Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Director. Verdigris also won twelve festival awards, and is streaming in Ireland on the RTE Player and in Italy on CGTV. Patricia has recently begun directing continuing…

Kate Dolan

Kate is a Writer / Director hailing from Dublin. After cutting her teeth with no-budget shorts and music videos, she achieved international recognition for her horror short Catcalls (2018). Her debut feature, You Are Not My Mother, premiered at TIFF Midnight Madness 2021. The film enjoyed a successful festival run that culminated in six IFTA nominations, including Best…

Alan Holly

Alan Holly is an artist and animation filmmaker. He is founder of and maps and plans an artist led studio specialising in 2D hand drawn animation. As well as working as an animation artist he directs and produces for himself and others, his work continues to screen at festivals at home and abroad and has…

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…

Eamonn Murphy

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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”…

Janna Kemperman

Janna’s work is driven by morally complex, character-driven stories that blend dark humour with raw, emotional intensity. She loves discovering the personal in a fantastical world, especially the dark nooks and crannies of our minds. Janna brings a diverse set of influences to her work having worked in photography, theater and dance before finding her…

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…

Aidan McAteer

Aidan McAteer has worked in Dublin, London, Vancouver and Singapore as an animator, storyboard artist, writer and director for the past 20 years. He wrote and directed on the three time Emmy-nominated comedy series “Oddbods” and was nominated for a BAFTA for directing the recent CBBC reboot of “Danger Mouse”. Since then he has worked…

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…