Lee Moss

Lee Moss is a Dublin-based filmmaker from NYC. Their work has screened at Sundance, Tribeca, Rotterdam, and SXSW, and they were named one of Indiewire’s 10 LGTBTQ Creators On The Rise in 2023. Their feature debut, birth/rebirth, premiered in the Midnight section at Sundance 2023 and was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards. Their indie…

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…

James Wynne

James Wynne is an independent film maker based in Dublin, Ireland specialising in documentaries. Réalt na Mara, James’ documentary feature debut telling the story of a cross community football team torn apart by the Troubles, featured at the 2026 Galway Film Fleadh and has been selected for festivals in France and the UK. James has…

Adam O’Keeffe

Adam is an IFTA Nominated, multi-award-winning writer, director and producer based in Kerry. He is the co-founder of WaveWalker Films. Adam’s debut feature film (as writer, co-director and co-producer) HORSESHOE, was awarded Completion Funding by Screen Ireland and premiered in July 2025 at the Galway Film Fleadh where it won Best Irish First Feature and…

Gerard Barrett

Gerard Barrett is an IFTA-winning Irish writer and director known for emotionally grounded, character-driven storytelling. He wrote and directed the critically acclaimed feature Pilgrim Hill, which premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh and went on to screen internationally, including at Telluride, where it won the Great Expectations Award. Gerard also received the IFTA Rising Star…

Danny McCafferty

With over a decade of experience garnered in various roles, Danny directed for the first time when studying TV Production, where he picked up a National Student Media Awards for his short film Beans. Having worked as an Assistant Director for a number of years, so he could work closely with seasoned directors, he embarked…

Iain B MacDonald

Iain B. MacDonald is an Irish/British director and producer whose career spans over three decades, marked by a diverse range of projects across drama, comedy, and documentary.  MacDonald began his career in the early 1990s, initially focusing on arts documentaries. One of his notable early works is Gilbert & George: Day Tripping, which profiles the…

Michael Carolan

Michael Carolan is an Irish writer-director working across film and television, with recent broadcast work for RTÉ and Virgin Media and a slate of feature and television projects currently in development. Michael’s work blends grounded realism with elevated genre, using emotionally driven stories to explore themes of identity, secrecy and social expectation. His recent television…

Alan Hopkins

Alan Hopkins is a Dublin-based screenwriter, director, and founder of HAL Pictures. His work focuses on telling stories from the margins of society, often exploring themes of social justice, identity, and the lived experiences of those outside the mainstream. Alan’s most recent film the Screen Ireland focus short A Knock at your Door, will premiere…

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…

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.…

Donal Scannell

Conor Ferguson

Director/writer of award-winning short films ‘The Wednesdays’ (Park Films 2006. Co-written with Luke Clancy), ‘Atlantic’ (Park Films 2009) and ‘Un Peu Plus’ (Blinder Films/Keeper Pictures 2012). Co-director of RTS Ireland-nominated RTE documentary ‘Keelin Shanley: Faraway, Still Close’ (Scratch Films 2022). Creative Producer of RTE feature documentary ‘Bad: The Song that Saved My Life’ (Park Films…

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…

Peter Murphy

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 he has worked as a TV director  for many of Ireland’s leading independent production companies.  Along with television work, he has co written and directed 2 feature…

Laoisa Sexton

Jamie O’Rourke

An IFTA winning and Oscar longlisted director based in Dublin.  His films have screened around the world including Oscar qualifying festivals in Palm Springs, Melbourne, Clermont Ferrand, Busan, Brussels, Huesca, Galway, Tampere, Odense, Berlin, St. Louis, Calgary, Izmir etc. A Screen Ireland funded Focus short is due for release in 2025 and he is currently…

Oisin Mac Coille

Oisín Mac Coille is a prolific and versatile director whose career spans television drama, film, and children’s and educational programming. With over a hundred credits in TV continuing drama and close to another hundred in children’s and educational content, he has established himself as a confident and adaptable storyteller, working across a wide range of…

Tom Sullivan

Tom Sullivan is an accomplished actor, writer and director from Dublin. Tom’s first film Asal (2011), premiered at the Galway Film Festival and won the Tiernan McBride award for Best Short Drama, as did his second short Mechanic two years later. In the interim he directed Eoinín, a film for television. In 2014 he co-wrote…

Nell Hensey

Nell Hensey is an Irish-Filipino director and screenwriter from County Clare. She is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Pure Divilment Pictures. Her work has been supported by Screen Ireland, The Arts Council Of Ireland / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, RTÉ, Virgin Media Television and more. Nell is passionate about stories that explores unique cultural identities, coming-of-age themes…

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…

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…

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…

Mark Smyth

Mark Smyth is a multi award winning writer/director with a love for collaboration, visual storytelling and the element of surprise. Mark focuses on blending the magic of life with heartfelt realism through cinematic genre stories with diverse, empathetic and misunderstood characters who are compelled to explore their innermost desires and fears against a backdrop of…

Patrick McKnight

Patrick McKnight is a filmmaker based in Dublin.  Having grasped his craft with independent short films such as “The Seal” and “The Closet”, his debut independent feature film “The Irish Mob” (originally titled “Dredges”) was released in 2023 by 101 Films International on digital in both the UK and USA.

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…

Garry Keane

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, establishing himself as a…

Liz Gill

Liz is currently directing her third feature, an adaptation of Manchán Magan’s bestseller 32 Words for Field, funded by Ildána (TG4 + the Arts Council) and Screen Ireland for South Wind Blows. Previously, she directed the features Goldfish Memory and Gold in the Streets and the TV series Hardy Bucks, EastEnders, Raw, The Clinic, Written Off,…

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.…

James Doherty

I’m a Donegal 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…

Emer Conroy

Emer Conroy has just completed directing half the season of “outlander Blood of my Blood’ season 2. She had the honour of directing the season/series finale of ‘Outlander’ season 8, the rom com ‘Twelve dates ‘til Christmas, ‘outlander:Blood of my blood’ season 1 including the Bletaine festival ep 5. Harry wild Season 3, and Vikings…

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…

Paudie Baggott

Paudie Baggott is an award-winning filmmaker from Co. Limerick. Graduate of the National Film School at IADT (BA Hons in Film & Television Production and Direction).   Dublin International Film Festival 2025 Discovery Award Nominee. To date, he’s directed several comedy shorts all of which have screened or won at global Oscar and Bafta-affiliated film…

Bernadette Rowe

With a background in art, I gravitated to filmmaking and found that it provided the creative fulfilment I was looking for. I interned in a newly launched Sky TV channel where I progressed to series director and producer. Since leaving and after a period of freelancing, I have been focusing on pivoting into narrative writing/directing.…

Pauric Brennan

Pauric Brennan is an accomplished director with experience in both stage and screen. 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 platforms, including Apple TV, Tubi, and Plex. His most recent film, Am Fear…

Cathy Brady

Cathy Brady is a two-time IFTA-winning director, having won Best Short in 2011 for her first film Small Change and again in 2013 for Morning, which was also selected for the BFI London Film Festival 2012 and won the Short Film Nominee prize for the European Film Awards at Cork Film Festival. In 2011, Brady directed the BIFA…

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…

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…

Ciaran Donnelly

Ciaran is a multiple IFTA and BAFTA-winning filmmaker who has directed and produced on some of the world’s biggest shows. He most recently directed on the adaptation of Marian Keyes beloved novel GROWN UPS (See-Saw/Netflix) which is set to stream on Netflix early 2027. Ciaran has been at the forefront of ground-breaking television for nearly…

Dearbhla Walsh

Dearbhla Walsh is a renowned, international director whose work has been recognised with multiple awards wins and nominations during her career, including at the Emmys, BAFTA and IFTA awards. Dearbhla’s latest work, Margo’s Got Money Troubles, was nominated for an Emmy. Dearbhla’s recent directing credits also include the second series of the critically acclaimed BAD…

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…

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…

Jason Branagan

Jason is an award winning writer and director with bases in Ireland and the UK. His work is anchored in creating truthful performance and building characters that audiences can identify and engage with. He blends this with a considered, emotionally driven visual style to tell stories which involve the audience on a level of total…

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…

John Hayes

John is an IFTA nominated director based in Dublin, Ireland. He is currently in production on Amazon’s highly anticipated drama Boys of Tommen and has recently finished work on the final 3 episodes of season 2 of the BAFTA nominated BBC crime thriller This City Is Ours, having also directed 3 episodes of the first…

Kevin de la Isla O’Neill

Kevin de la Isla O’Neill is an Irish-Mexican film, television and multi-camera director, born in Mexico City to an Irish mother and Mexican father. He began his career as a theatre actor and appeared in the Mexican television series Carrusel de las Américas before moving behind the camera. After relocating to Ireland, he studied Media…

Oonagh Kearney

An alumna of University College Cork, Trinity College Dublin and the National Film and Television School in London, Oonagh is an IFTA-nominated writer and director who has made eleven short films, a feature documentary and a TV pilot with the support of Screen Ireland, RTE, TG4, Virgin Media, The Arts Council of Ireland, BRITDOC and Wellcome…

Peter Foott

Peter Foott is an award-winning director with vast experience in the Irish television industry. His first short, ‘The Carpenter & His Clumsy Wife’, was screened on RTE and Canal+ and at over fifty international festivals, winning the ‘Best Comedy’ Gong at LA International Film Festival, as well as a Special Mention at Venice. Since then,…

Rob Burke

Originally from Dublin, Rob and Ronan Burke grew up in the United States, Australia and Sweden. While they have collaborated on many crazy ideas since childhood, the short film JELLYBABY was their first as co-directors and proved to be a great success. Screening at over 60 film festivals worldwide, the film picked up numerous awards. In…

Robert Quinn

Robert Quinn is an highly experienced director for television with credits including: The Bay (Tall Story Pictures/ITV Studios), Bancroft (Tall Story Pictures/ITV Studios), No Offence (Abbottvision/Ch4), Ackley Bridge (The Forge/Ch4), Endeavour (Mammoth Screen/ITV), Home Fires (ITV), DCI Banks (Left Bank/ITV), Jekyll & Hyde (ITV), amongst many others. Rob originally cut his teeth in Irish TV, directing the award-winning documentary Cinegal Paradiso and the TV series The Clinic and Legend. Rob is currently…

Ronan Burke

Originally from Dublin, Ronan and Rob Burke grew up in the United States, Australia and Sweden. While they have collaborated on many crazy ideas since childhood, the short film JELLYBABY was their first as co-directors and proved to be a great success. Screening at over 60 film festivals worldwide, the film picked up numerous awards. In…

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…

Orla Walsh

Orla was born in Dublin in 1968. She studied English literature and then got smitten with the idea of working in film. She has written and directed a Series of four award winning short films, directed an IFTA winning comedy Series for RTÉ. Orla writes screenplays but also collaborates with other writers. Interested in challenging…

Neasa Hardiman

Neasa is a BAFTA-winning Director and Writer for film and television drama. Born in Dublin, she began her creative career with a First Class Honours degree from the National College of Art and Design Ireland, winning a scholarship to the Universität der Künste Berlin. Her unique engagement with art and politics led to a Master’s…

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…

Thomas Hefferon

Thomas Hefferon is an innovative Director/Writer who’s short films across various genres have screened and won several awards at over 150 international festivals, including Oscar Qualifiers Tribeca Film Festival, Galway Film Fleadh, and Aspen Film Festival. He has previously received funding from Screen Ireland, Filmbase and the Galway Film Center. His short comedy “THE CONFESSION” got over…

Tom Hall

Tom Hall is a writer and director based in Dublin. He has been active in film and television for over twenty-five years. Films include NOVEMBER AFTERNOON (Irish Times Film of the year 1997) and SENSATION (2010) starring Domhnall Gleeson. For television his best known work is BACHELORS WALK (2000-06), a comedy/drama which won the IFTA…

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 is a co-founder of Areaman Productions. 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…

Seamus Moran

Although better known as an actor, Seamus Moran has long been interested in directing. He did his first course in IADT with Ken Wardrop and Andrew Freedman (His and Hers) and went on to do an intensive, residential Documentary Filmmaking course at the Film Farm in Poland, run by DFG, London in 2006. In 2007…

Paddy Breathnach

Paddy Breathnach co-founded Treasure Films with Robert Walpole in 1992. In the intervening time Breathnach (director) and Walpole (producer) have completed numerous projects including shorts, TV series, documentaries and award-winning features. Breathnach progressed successfully from his first fiction short, ‘A Stone of the Heart’ which won the Special Jury Prize at the Cork Film Festival…

Maya Derrington

MAYA DERRINGTON is a director who has worked in film and television since 1999. She directed observational IFB feature doc Pyjama Girls in 2010 and wrote and directed SI Short Frida Think in 2018.  In 2024 she devised, wrote and directed RTÉ One Clarachta Gaeilge’s The Irish For Sex documentary.  Between 2017 and 2026 she…

Lorna Fitzsimons

Lorna is a photographer and filmmaker with a passion for capturing the human condition through both film and still images. She is known for her dynamic image-making, open and inclusive collaboration, quirky sense of humour and her creative problem-solving. Lorna partners with brands, designers, production companies, creatives, agencies and actors to create impactful work that…

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,…

Tom Hopkins

Tom Hopkins is an award-winning director, working in film, TV, commercials, theatre, video and animation. Tom is the founding director of SeeOne Originals, producing film and TV content, and One Productions, which produces screen and interactive content across all channels. Tom is a narrative, documentary film and TV director producing media for international audiences. Tom’s…

Sinéad Walsh

Visionary, versatile & inventive director who works in both drama and documentary formats. In the 1990’s I made short films & visual poetry whilst undergraduate at Trinity College Dublin, followed by engagement in RTÉ & Screen Ireland Director training programme. I apprenticed as Director under Louis Lentin after being awarded Arts Council funding for short…

Shaun O’Connor

Director Shaun O’ Connor’s work has screened all over the world and won awards at various festivals including the DC Shorts Film Festival, the Corona Cork Film Festival, the Fastnet Short Film Festival, the Kerry Film Festival, the Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival and the Irish Music Television Awards. Most recently, Shaun’s new short film ‘Mary’,…

Mia Mullarkey

Mia Mullarkey is an Irish writer-director whose work examines relationships and behaviour under pressure, often through an intimate psychological lens. A former psychologist, she was named one of Screen International’s Rising Stars Ireland (2023) and is an IFTA-nominated director (2026). Her recent work includes Hidden Assets (Season 3), The Gone (Season 2), and the TG4…

Megan K. Fox

Megan K. Fox is an Irish writer/director working across TV and film. Her TV directing credits include 4 part thriller Too Good to be True (Channel 5), Eastenders, Fair City and comedy drama Video Nasty (BBC/Virgin Media/Boatrocker). Her award winning short films include Cailín Álainn (2019), Love in the Time of Corona (2020), The Shift (2018) and GIRL (2016). Megan is…

Lisa Mulcahy

Lisa is currently in Post Production on Season 2 of WAR, a new legal drama created and written by George Kay and produced by New Pictures for SKY/HBO. Season 1 will air in October 2026 and Season 2 in 2027. Previous to this, she was the lead director on season 1 of THE ASSASSIN, produced…

Leticia Agudo

Leticia Agudo is a screen writer and director. She first directed theatre in Ireland, after studying drama at Queen Mary University in London and Theatre Directing at UEA. She later took a Masters in Film Production at TU Dublin to fulfil her inclination towards visual storytelling. She first wrote and directed documentaries, returning to drama…

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.

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…

Jason Butler

I’m a writer, director and producer specialising in scripted comedy and drama. I’ve directed, co-written and produced 4 Series of sitcom ‘Bridget & Eamon’ for RTÉ—the first ever RTÉ scripted comedy Series to be sold internationally (to UKTV GOLD, Amazon Prime US and Hulu). I won two Irish Film and Television Academy awards for the…

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…

Imogen Murphy

Imogen Murphy is an Irish film and television drama director. Her recent work includes directing a feature-length episode of crime thriller GRACE for ITV, starring John Simm and Catherine Walker. Previously she lead directed and executive produced thriller series THE VANISHING TRIANGLE starring Allen Leech and India Mullen. In 2021 she co-wrote and lead directed period mystery…

Ian Power

Ian Power is an award winning writer / director of features, short films, and commercials from Dublin, Ireland. Graduating with a first from the Masters in Film at DIT, Ian began directing short films with Buskers, which won Best Short Film awards at the Galway Film Fleadh, the Cork Film Festival, and the Foyle Film Festival.…

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…

Fiona Ashe

Fiona Ashe is an award-winning Irish director and journalist who creates social issue dramas and thrillers.  With these socially-impactful films, she aims to bring awareness to important global issues to generate discussion and action. She is currently in development on her debut feature film ‘Beneath The Surface’ and is attached to direct ‘The Gorge’, written…

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…

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…

Dermot Tynan

Dermot Tynan studied film in Northern California after emigrating from Galway in 1982. While at De Anza college, he wrote and directed the short film The Biscuit Eaters, and adapted the Walter Macken short story A Talk in the Dark for the screen. A Talk in the Dark went on to play in festivals in…

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,…

Daniel O’Hara

Daniel is an experienced and collaborative director from Dublin. He has directed television projects for a wide range of international broadcasters and streamers, including Netflix, Amazon, Fox, BBC, ITV and Sky on shows including BEING HUMAN, DOCTOR WHO, THE STRANGER and SKINS. He has worked with a range of top international talent including Dominic West, Michael C.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Siobhán McMahon

Siobhán McMahon graduated from NUIG in English and Philosophy. She left teaching to pursue her love of film. She worked as Trainee Editor on “Reign of Fire” followed by “In America”. She has since written and directed award winning shorts. Siobhán’s first short film script, ‘The Consolation of Orion’, was shortlisted for FilmOffaly Award 2011…

Declan Recks

Declan is a graduate of Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design (Dublin), and UCLA Extension (Los Angeles), where he studied film and television. His early short films won several awards and played at numerous festivals worldwide. They include BIG SWINGER (1989) winner Best Short at the Galway Film Fleadh, Best Short at the Fuji…

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.…

Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Abrahamson has no formal training in film. He studied physics followed by philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin where he won a foundation scholarship. Graduating in 1991 with first class honours (gold medal). While at college he began playing around with video through the Trinity Video Company – a video making student society he set…