John Carney

John Carney's most recent feature film credits as writer/director include Begin Again and Casting The Runes while previous film credits include The Rafters, Zonad, Once, On The Edge and November Afternoon.

Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue is an award-winning Irish writer who lives in Canada. Her debut feature Room, based on her own best-selling novel, has garnered her Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations.

Simon Fitzmaurice

Simon Fitzmaurice is an award winning writer and film director. His short films have screened at film festivals all over the world and won prizes at home and abroad. In 2008 director Simon Fitzmaurice was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. In 2014 he wrote My Name is Emily using eye gaze technology and he later directed the film with just the use of his eyes.

Mark O'Halloran

Mark O'Halloran is an Irish scriptwriter and actor who has written award-winning screenplays for the films Adam & Paul (in which he co-starred) and Garage and the RTE mini-series Prosperity.

Johnny O'Reilly

A graduate of Russian at Trinity College, Johnny worked as a journalist in Moscow and Dublin in the 1990's before making his first short film in New York in 1997. From there, Johnny has worked as both writer and director of docs, commercials and films, being shortlisted for an Oscar in 2003. Most recently he co-wrote and directed Russian-language thriller The Weather Station.