About Daire C.

Daire Collins is an Irish documentary filmmaker. He previously was based in the UK and worked for a number of news organisations as a shooting producer and editor, including; the BBC, Channel 4 News, Huffpost and Al Jazeera. He continues to work on short documentary content for the BBC. In 2019 he produced and directed the short documentary ‘For Emergency Use Only’ for New Yorker Magazine , which premiered at Galway Film Fleadh before an online release. Daire previously studied history and politics at Trinity College, Dublin. In 2019, he won the development award at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and went on to the Mediterranean Film Institute programme that year. He is a 2022 Documentary Campus Masterschool participant. Daire currently is based between Ireland and Portugal. More of my work is available at www.dairecollins.com

About Eoin ?.

I am a final year journalism student based in Dublin. I am originally from Carlow, Ireland and am a keen follower of current affairs and sport. I am the current station manager of DCUtv, the student run TV station in DCU. I founded DCUtv News last year, which now runs fortnightly news broadcasts with the latest news stories from around campus. Recently, I have completed video work at Web Summit 2015 and Storyful. I am currently working on a few projects for Conradh na Gaeilge, a charity that promotes the Irish language in Ireland.

About Padraig C.

Padraig became interested in live action filmmaking while studying animation in Dun Laoghaire, mainly the sub textual power of narrative filmmaking. He learned how to work with cameras doing corporate video jobs, while picking up the manners of filmmaking working on sets. He began to light and shoot short films as cinematographer, learning developing a sensitivity for composition, motion and lighting. 2010 onwards saw the introduction of High definition video into large sensor still cameras, giving filmmakers the tools to create quality images relatively inexpensive. Padraig wrote a feature length film and raised some funds using the crowd funding site fundit.ie, and began shooting the micro budget feature length film, No Party For Billy Burns. The film provides an unfiltered lyrical voice for young people in rural Ireland, a demographic that is usually pandered to national media and advertising Because of the self financed route of the film, the post production has become a long term process. The film premiered at this years Galway Film Fleadh in Ireland. Padraig began working with Philip Doherty of the Gonzo Theatre, and Finn Keenan on their winning entry in the RTE Storyland competition, The Begrudgers. Since then he has produced many colourful promotional videos for the The Gonzo Theatre and done lighting on various projects for Finn, including music videos for The Strypes and commercial projects for companies like Aer Lingus and No Nonsense.ie

About Sai K.

Sai has explored the film industry in various roles but mainly focuses on Producing, Directing and Cinematography. He has been working on his own projects since 2011 and gained several National and International awards for Short Film and Visual Effects. He continues to produce in his own unique style and has a clear eye on the creative. Sai is devoted to telling the story and is passionate about the ability of visual story-telling to unite, change, renew, shape, bring life and give hope. He lives in Lisburn with his wife Ally, son Eli and their bonkers Border Collie, Megatron. When not pointing a camera he can often be found climbing mountains, engaged in Airsoft battles and making sinister snowmen to scare his wife.

About Seoirse O.

Freelance Videographer/Photographer. Freelancing now out of Ireland now. Have worked on social media ad campaigns for programmes for Newstalk FM and supplementary social media campaigns for Dunnes Stores Supermarkets. Spent 2 years working for a major news channel (ForoTV) in Mexico City. Producing reports/interviews/capsules for a broad range of their different programmes, incorporating innovation, science, technology, culture, arts, city news, food and cookery. Prior to that I freelanced, producing corporate videos, doing event coverage, occasional press assignments.

About Jamie M.

Enthusiastic and amiable self shooter/editor with a passion for entertaining, creative, informative and thought-provoking visual content!

About Michael S.

Experienced, award-winning filmmaker with background in journalism and commercial production.