Rising style expertise Clarke noticed her debut characteristic “The Satan’s Doorway” — a found-footage horror that tapped into the very-real controversies round Eire’s Magdalene Laundries — snapped up by IFC, which launched the movie in 2019. A lecturer in Artistic Writing and Movie at Queen’s College in Belfast, Clarke is presently in post-production on “Fréwake,” a few troubled palliative care nurse and billed as the primary ever Irish-language horror, whereas she additionally has tasks in improvement at Paramount and StudioCanal. 

Following a collection of shorts, Legge made a significant splash together with his debut characteristic “LOLA,” which premiered on the 2022 Locarno Movie Competition. A lo-fi found-footage sci-fi shot on 16mm and 35mm throughout lockdown, the movie — starring Emma Appleton and Stefanie Martini — went on to win quite a few awards, together with the 2023 Méliès d’or for the Finest European Unbelievable Movie of the yr. The Dubliner is presently working with manufacturing firm Cowtown Footage on the brand new musical characteristic.

Having made a reputation for herself as an actor and starring in quite a few movies and TV reveals — together with the likes of “Vibrant Star,” “Albert Nobbs,” “Beneath the Pores and skin” and Irish interval drama “Black ’47” — Campbell-Hughes unveiled her directorial debut “It Is in Us All” in 2022. The well-received thriller, starring Cosmo Jarvis and Claes Bang (and Campbell-Hughes in a supporting position) gained the extraordinary cinematic imaginative and prescient prize at SXSW, and was later nominated for 2 British Unbiased Movie Awards. Whereas she’s nonetheless busy appearing (she not too long ago performed Marie Antoinette in Starz’ “Harmful Liaisons” and performed the lead in psychological thriller “Cordelia”), Campbell-Hughes is presently in pre-production on “Diamond Shitter,” her subsequent characteristic as author/director with help from the BFI and Display Eire. 

Murphy has labored as a contract manufacturing designer throughout movie, TV, commercials and stage for a number of years, incomes three nominations for finest set designer on the Irish Theatre Awards and with display screen credit together with Irish options similar to “LOLA,” “The Different Lamb” and “Good-looking Satan.” He not too long ago stepped into the studio world as a manufacturing designer on Warner Bros.’ upcoming supernatural horror “The Watchers,” produced by style grasp M. Night time Shyamalan and starring Dakota Fanning. 

County Wicklow-based Jeffares-Hourie began out as a dressing up trainee on John Carney’s much-loved musical “Sing Avenue,” slowly working her approach up by means of the division till she designed her first characteristic 2019’s “Damaged Regulation,” adopted by “You Are Not My Mom” in 2020. Extra not too long ago, she’s stepped up even additional, serving as costume designer on the upcoming Nicolas Cage-starrer “Arcadian” and Common’s big-budget monster horror “Abigail.”

Having lower her tooth writing for hit Irish comedy collection “The Younger Offenders,” Cogan not too long ago labored on arguably the most important TV present to return in another country, “Unhealthy Sisters.” The Cork native was within the writers room and wrote on each the primary season of Apple’s BAFTA-winning darkish comedy and its upcoming second outing, whereas additionally co-writing and exec-producing ITV’s four-part “Holding,” primarily based on the novel by chat present icon Graham Norton, and seeing her script “Fled” — a darkly comedian drama involving a pregnant lady and a nun in Nineties Eire — prime the 2019 Brit Checklist. She’s presently growing tasks with Netflix, the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and Lookout Level. 

Dolan’s brief 2018 horror “Catcalls” — a revenge thriller a few sexual predator who will get what’s coming to him — marked the author/director out as a significant new expertise. Her debut characteristic, 2021’s “You Are Not My Mom,” one other horror, this time a few younger girl whose lacking mom returns with a radically totally different character, elevated the Dubliner to the following stage. The movie bowed in Toronto and was nominated for six awards on the Irish Academy Awards. Since then Dolan has directed episodes of hit Irish gangland drama “Kin” and the BBC thriller “The Vacationer.”

Since becoming a member of hand-drawn animation powerhouse Cartoon Saloon in Kilkenny, filmmaker and director Bagnall has labored on options similar to “The Breadwinner” and “Wolfwalkers,” each of which have been Oscar-nominated, served as assistant director on Nora Twomey’s “My Father’s Dragon, and landed an Oscar nomination herself for her brief “Late Afternoon.” With this expertise within the financial institution, she’s now working with the studio on her first animated characteristic as director, “Julián,” a few boy who desires to turn into a mermaid and primarily based on Jessica Love’s ebook “Julián Is a Mermaid.”

Primarily based within the West of Eire, Van Maele has shot characteristic movies similar to Kate Dolan’s “You Are Not My Mom” and Govinda Van Maele’s “Gutland,” each of which premiered on the Toronto Movie Competition, plus Ian Hunt Duffy’s “Double Blind,” Ross Killeen’s documentary “Love Your self Right this moment” and Ken Wardrop’s newest characteristic “So This Is Christmas.” Van Maele was additionally behind the lens on the brief movie “An Irish Goodbye,” which final yr gained an Oscar, a BAFTA and an Irish Academy Award.

After establishing Hail Mary Footage in 2018, Bolger has produced movies similar to 2020’s “Right here Are The Younger Males,” starring Anya Taylor-Pleasure, and “The Cellar,” which bowed in SXSW and was picked up by Shudder. However his 2024 is wanting busier than ever, with “The Cult Killer,” starring Antonio Banderas, Alice Eve and Shelley Henning having launched earlier within the yr, and upcoming titles together with Babak Anvari’s “Hallow Street,” starring Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys, and “Clear Up Crew,” starring Melissa Leo, Banderas and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. “Hallow Street” may additionally take Bolger to Cannes, with the movie having been submitted to the pageant.