2026 Puttnam Scholars

Directors Ross McClean, Peter Young, Adam O’Keeffe and Mia Mullarkey are among this year’s participants in the Puttnam Scholars programme. A cross-border initiative, the Atticus Education ‘Puttnam Scholars’programme is a series of interactive online seminars for early-to-mid career filmmakers with Oscar-winning producer David Puttnam run in conjunction with Screen Ireland and Northern Ireland Screen. The Puttnam Scholars…

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Ross McClean

We were delighted to support the Best Director Irish Short award at last month’s Cork International Film Festival, which went to Ross McClean for No Mean City. As the jury said, “We congratulate this director for taking a seemingly small subject to highlight – no pun intended – a much broader story about technological, environmental…

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