On Friday 30th – Saturday 31st January, Imbolg: Women Who Terrify Film Festival - in partnership with Griffith College Dublin - presents three blocks of murderous, blood-curdling and darkly unsettling short cinema, featuring local talent alongside shorts from around the world.
Expect cannibalism, betrayal, witchcraft, psychosis - and stories that will crawl under your skin and lay eggs there.
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Imbolg Shorts Block A
Friday 30th January, 18:30
Our first shorts screening comprises 11 international and Irish films, followed by a Q&A with the directors and writers in attendance in Griffith College Dublin Main Campus. Tickets €4 – €5. Book yours here.
Aicha
Wri/Dir: Sanaa El Alaoui
Morocco, 25:00
A 17-year-old girl struggles with an emotionally distant mother as her life takes a tragic turn. The mother joins a mystic ceremony to face her grief and the lost bond with her daughter.
Would You Rather
Wri/Dir: Sophie O'Donovan
Ireland, 11:20
After recovering from a mental breakdown, a young woman shows up uninvited to a friend’s gathering, where a game of Would You Rather threatens to push her over the edge.
LEECHES
Wri/Dir: Carla Linda Vitagliano
Italy, 15:00
In a small suburban town in the 1990s lives a family of only women: the mother, the elder daughter Giulia, and the younger daughter Lucia. One day, a mysterious young man, Andrea, moves to the town and begins to associate with the family. The three women become enamoured with him, each seeing him behind the others' backs.
We're Already Here
Wri/Dir: Mairead Dewar
Ireland, 3:20
We're Already Here is an autobiographical, experimental poetry film that explores the experience of being trans in the modern world from a personal perspective, through the eyes of a trans-nonbinary person in their mid-20s. It is a deeply personal and vulnerable look at how shame, public opinion, and the need for conformity shape self-perception and how we can break away and find freedom in a world that seeks to further marginalize trans people.
Devil’s Reflection
Dir: Kamran Mohammadi, Sahar Mirzaeianfar
Islamic Republic of Iran, 9:17
A school janitor who is hard of hearing is attacked and harassed by demonic spirits on a rainy night.
Rise of the Dead: Sluts vs Zombies
Wri/Dir: Emma Jacqueline
4:30
An aspiring porn actress is confronted by her religious sister—who happens to be on the cusp of turning into a zombie.
I Remember You (Muistan sinut)
Wri/Dir: Marjo Viitala
Finland, 10:00
A group of young friends arrives at a secluded beach for a weekend of camping. As night falls, strange events unsettle them. When a local man vanishes, they become suspects, questioned by authorities who believe they know more than they admit. But is the true darkness lurking in the shadows… or within?
Orange Tree (Оранжевое дерево)
Wri/Dir: Olga Baulina
Russian Federation, 16:00
Inspired by W. B. Yeats’ poem The Stolen Child, this animated short tells the story of Yolash, a lonely boy caught between his parents’ quarrels. One day he follows a mysterious bird-girl and enters a world of half-bird, half-human creatures, where he unexpectedly becomes part of their ancient ritual.
ShadowFable
Wri/Dir: Margaret Kane-Rowe
Ireland, 2:48
Not all who wander are lost, some are damned. A young woman wanders into a supernatural realm where evil feeds on fear.
Tabby Daly
Dir: John Doherty, Conor Kilkelly
Wri: Conor Kilkelly
Ireland, 16:00
As the potato blight tears through a rural community, a charitable woman helps young boys emigrate in search of a better life. But as quiet doubts begin to surface, questions emerge about her true intentions.
A Lobster Named Desire (Una Langosta Llamada Deseo)
Dir: Sol Moreno, Risseth Yanguez
Panama, 17:00
Conchita, a lively, spirited girl, is invited to her favorite restaurant by Renzo, a fastidious and somewhat simple-minded guy who intends to propose marriage.
Filmmaker Q&A
Marjo Viitala, Filmmaker
Marjo is a film director and media artist with an MA in Film from the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. She creates both narrative drama and conceptual art, with her films screening at festivals worldwide and her media works exhibited internationally. She also holds an M.Sc. in Engineering and Management from Aalto University and has worked at CERN and Nokia. Viitala lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Fun fact: She once played in the Finnish Champion League in football.
Andrea Kelly, Lead Actor & Executive Producer
Andrea Kelly is an award winning actress for her role in short film Scope for which she won the Best Performance Award at Bolton Film Festival 2018 and Best Actress Winner at the 9th Underground Cinema awards 2018. She plays a lead in award winning, IFTA and London Critics Circle nominated short film Terminal. Other short films include Tabby Daly , upcoming sci -fi Shelter,comedy shorts Beyond the hedge and Mother, Cailín Álainn, The Dressmaker, Close to Nothing at all, Skint, and award winning short 'Joyriders' . Feature work includes indie features Bad Things in the Middle of Nowhere, Thursdays Child and South. Television experience includes Prosperity (Lenny Abrahamson, RTE) , The Clinic (Declan Recks, RTE) and Pure Mule (Declan Recks, RTE). Andrea has a background in theatre having trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College and has worked with The Gate, The Abbey, and Druid Theatre as well as other Irish theatre companies. Andrea is also a screenwriter and film maker.
Mairead Dewar, Filmmaker
Aoibhin Murphy, Producer
Sophie O'Donovan, Filmmaker
Sophie O’Donovan is a writer, director and cinematographer from Cork, Ireland. While studying at the National Film School at IADT, Sophie started her career as a director of photography. She has shot films supported by Screen Ireland, Virgin Media, Film 4 and the BFI.
In 2018 she won the Argento Award for Best Cinematography at the Austin Arthouse Film Festival for the experimental short SKIN HUNGER.
In 2021 Sophie was presented with an award for Best Cinematography by Kate McCullough at the Women in Film & Television Showcase for the short film DASH. Her latest cinematography work, IN HEAT, starring Ben Whishaw, premiered at London Film Festival last year. Sophie has directed music videos for acclaimed artists The Scratch, Lemoncello and Henry Earnest, working with Sony Music Ireland and Claddagh Records. Her videos are often stylised and punchy. Sophie has also been awarded a film Agility Award by the Arts Council to support the development of experimental film work.
Sophie was a 2024 participant in X-Pollinator, a talent development scheme for female, trans and non-binary filmmakers. She was a shadow director on the feature film Soulm8te, an Atomic Monster, Blumhouse and Wild Atlantic Pictures Production. The director, Kate Dolan, is her current mentor. Sophie’s debut narrative short WOULD YOU RATHER was funded by the National Talent Academy and Screen Ireland. The film critiques modern friendship through horror, humour and the absurd. It had its world premiere at Dublin International Film Festival 2025 beginning its festival run. Sophie is interested in directing psychologically engaging films with a weird undercurrent.
Aoibhín Murphy, Producer
Aoibhín Murphy is a queer creative producer from Kilkenny with a strong background in both scripted and commercial production. Aoibhín was previously a Development Assistant and Production Executive at Newgrange Pictures where she served as in-house Production Coordinator on Hardacres (2024) and produced Never Kill a Femboy on the First Date through the Virgin Media Discovers scheme. The film premiered on Virgin Media TV in 2024 and was recently nominated for an Iris Prize.
While at Newgrange, Aoibhín pitched the company’s slate at major international markets including Content London, Cannes, and Berlinale. She also collaborated with Malcolm Campbell (What Richard Did) on the Storyhouse Lab, supporting masterclasses with filmmakers such as Nia DaCosta (Candyman) and Lenny Abrahamson (Room).
In early 2024, she participated in the Boosting Ideas workshop with Le Groupe Ouest / LIM as a Creative Producer, helping directors develop early-stage feature concepts. Most recently, she produced Would You Rather with the National Talent Academies (funded by Screen Ireland), which premiered at the Dublin International Film Festival.
Aoibhín holds a Master’s in Broadcast Production from IADT, where she is also a guest lecturer. She is a graduate of Screen Ireland’s Advanced Producers Diploma and teaches Screen Acting, Script Analysis, and Drama & Performance at the Gaiety School of Acting. She is also a Script Editor with The Greenlight Screenwriting Lab.
Her previous commercial work includes a role as Creative Producer at The Tenth Man, where she produced campaigns for clients such as Champion Sports, Diageo, and Seachtain na Gaeilge. She recently shadowed Failsafe Films on Cooper and Fry (Channel 5) and is a current recipient of Screen Ireland’s Focus Shorts funding. Prior to becoming a producer, Aoibhín was a stage and screen actor who performed in films like End of Sentence, Crash Scene Investigates and Wolfwalkers.
Get your tickets for Strand A here.
Film Ireland Editor
Imbolg Shorts Block B
Saturday 31st January, 11:30
Our second shorts screening is comprised of 7 international and Irish films, followed by a Q&A with the directors and writers in attendance in Griffith College Dublin Main Campus. Tickets €4 – €5. Book yours here.
Play House (过家家)
Wri/Dir: Xinyi Cao
China, 20:00
Xiao Lin and Chuan Yu are lesbian lovers who work in the soft porn industry. One day, a man hires them to play as his wife and daughter. However, the relationship among the three gradually grows tense.
Stolen Sealskin
Wri/Dir: Sarah Lou Kinneen
Ireland, 7:12
Drawing from the Migratory Legend of the Seal Woman, or Selkie, this experimental short film reimagines an enduring tale that drifts between myth and memory.
The Cure
Wri/Dir: Sarah Grey
Ireland, 14:20
A young skeptic begrudgingly visits a faith healer to cure her migraines but ends up getting more than she bargained for.
Get Out!
Wri/Dir: Anne Marie Kelly
Ireland, 4:19
Experiencing anxiety, depression and self esteem issues? An ever increasing factor in emotional distress is... Social Media. Here, we dance with the theme, the Ancient Triple Goddess representing Social Media, and how it plays with our heads. Can the answer be as simple as our Leading Character decides?
Lamb
Wri/Dir: Sinéad O'Loughlin
Ireland, 15:00
An ordinary day takes a sinister turn for a woman and her child when a stranger walks into their isolated rural home.
Postpartum
Wri/Dir: Tania Notaro
Ireland, 13:58
Life takes a dark turn when a young woman is faced with the horrors of motherhood. The expectations of motherhood become spectres which haunt recent mother Mary, her psychosis rendered through warping visuals and an unnerving soundscape.
Clean Girl
Wri/Dir: Emily Kent
United States, 14:02
A TikTok-obsessed woman copes with a recent breakup, all the while something's lurking under her floorboards…
Filmmakers Q&A
Host: Patrizia Dahlia Thompson
The Q&A will be led by Patrizia Dahlia Thompson (she/they), a librarian, writer, and podcaster. Through her writing for Headstuff, she has brought a focus to emergent trans cinema, and through her “extreme horror” column has explored more extreme and subcultural content than had previously been covered there. She runs the 100% independent horror podcast The Horror, The Horror! with Patrizia Dahlia Thompson. Previous and upcoming guests include Louise Weard (Castration Movie Anthology), Fred Vogel (The August Underground trilogy), and Jörg Buttgereit (Nekromantik). Thompson believes the horror space is underserved in terms of trans voices, particularly within extreme horror.
Sarah Lou Kinneen
Sarah Lou Kinneen is a multi-disciplinary artist from Co. Wexford. She has recently graduated from Limerick School of Art of Design with a BA in Sculpture & Combined Media. Sarah has exhibited extensively in group shows around the country including Temple Bar Gallery and Studio, Dublin, The Hunt Museum, Limerick and Outset Gallery, Galway, and internationally in NowHere gallery in Lisbon. In 2024 she was awarded a Graduate Residency with National Sculpture Factory. She was winner of the Jane Anne Rothwell Award, for her installation 'Fruiting Futures' for Cork Midsummer Festival in June 2025. She was also awarded the Parallax Emerging Film Artist Award, which culminated in her first solo exhibition, Stolen Sealskin, in November 2025. Her practice draws from site and is rooted in the ritual of daily walks and slow looking, desiring to explore the connections between ecology and visual art. She engages in a collaborative dialogue with the natural world, using an embodied approach that incorporates alternative photography, site-specific sculpture, dance, and moving image. Through these mediums, she facilitates conversations between the diverse perspectives present in any given landscape.
Anne Marie Kelly
Anne Marie Kelly has two distinct, yet complementary current career paths, one as a player in the world of the arts with productions in film and music, and the other as an Integrative Psychotherapist with a special interest in trauma, anxiety, panic and stress.
Currently she is working on the video content for her singles NEW THING and STUPID LOVE SONG, with a short film reflection piece, MOMENT, in the sapling production stages. In early 2024, she released a Gothic style music video to accompany her single GET OUT. In the summer of 2023, she released the single, FOLLOW YOUR INSTINCT, which had a rich experience having been entered to the National Song Contest. In the same year, she released her short music video, RIB, as part of her album release of the same name.
A Meisner trained actor, she released GOD GIVEN OPPORTUNITY in 2020, which she wrote and directed. 2018 saw the release of her award-winning short film, MA, some months after the release of her exhibition VIRGIN MOTHER WHORE…WOMAN, which was accompanied by her boutique exhibition, ROOTS & WINGS. From VIRGIN MOTHER WHORE…WOMAN came the album of the same name. She featured in David Freyne’s THE CURED (2017) and in Baz David’s THE HISTORY OF THIS MOMENT (2016). A familiar face on Dublin’s Jazz Scene for twenty years, she has played with the cream of Irish and International talent. Her earlier years in music were spent in the Indie Rock community with SMOKED OAK, where she developed her craft as a singer/songwriter. With an early career in business and finance, she involved herself with the Irish Blood Transfusion Service as a guest speaker having received life-saving blood donations in 2006. In the mid-nineties she lobbied to raise awareness for the needs of those with learning disabilities through “Parents and Siblings Alliance”
Tania Notaro
Tania is an actor, screenwriter and director from Dublin. As an actress, she became incredibly disappointed with the lack of diverse roles for working-class and LGBTQ+ women so she wanted to create her own. She has a 1st class Master's degree in Screenwriting for Film & TV from The National film school, IADT, and Warner Brothers offered her a scholarship to do so inaugurating her into the Warner Brothers Creative Talent team as an exceptional artist and one-to-watch. Her first script Boxed won her the John Boorman Scholarship at Irish Film School and she got to direct with Boorman himself, and is the winner of The Ronan Phelan Writers Award at IndieCork, 2019. She is the recipient of the Dublin Artist Award from The Dublin Arts Council, The Artist Resilience Award, and The Agility Award from The Arts Council, 2022. She received a special mention for her script An Timire at the 2020 Comortas Fisin and another special mention for her script Postpartum at The Catalyst Internation Film Festival last year. Her feature screenplay Elephant earned her one of 10 places on the Nostos Screenwriting retreat in Italy and on X-Pollinatros’ Elevator scheme. Tania was one of the participants in Screen Ireland’s Spotlight Scheme for emerging TV writers for her TV show Cabaret Cartell. She was one of 12 writers chosen from all over Europe for the Series Mania Institute Eureka programme for TV writing created by HBO and spent last autumn studying in France. She is the recipient of the Actor As Creator award by Screen Ireland and Bow Street Acting Academy and recently made her directorial debut with her short film Glitterbug which she also wrote, starred in and co-produced. Postpartum is her second film which she wrote, directed, co-produced and starred in. She is hoping to make socially conscious films from a female perspective.
Sarah Grey
Sarah Grey is a writer and director from Co. Louth, Ireland. She has just completed her 4th and final year in the film and television production course in DKIT. During her time in the course she wrote and directed a number of projects including Saoirse (2024) a short coming of age drama and Ailurophilia (2023) a documentary about cats and the people who love them. She also has a background in SFX make up and has dabbled in producing, editing and production design. She has a passion for horror cinema and wrote her final year dissertation project on Irish horror cinema.
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Imbolg Shorts C
Saturday 31st January, 14:30
Our third shorts screening is comprised of 11 international and Irish films, followed by a Q&A with the directors and writers in attendance in Griffith College Dublin Main Campus. Tickets €4 – €5.
I Can’t Go On
Wri/Dir: Laoisa Sexton
Ireland, 12:40
A kid's party entertainer must go to extraordinary heights to escape a house of horror.
Voyeur
Dir: Maryam Hashempour
Wri: Mohammadreza Seif
Islamic Republic of Iran, 5:52
A girl enters a coffee shop while waiting for her friend. An unknown number sends her a photo of her, taken just before she enters the coffee shop. The unknown person sends the photo several times until…
you're not perfect
Wri/Dir: Mary O'Leary
Ireland, 11:33
This film demonstrates how societal expectations can influence one’s identity and to gain a deeper understanding of how certain aspects of societal norms shape our lives. This is my intense perspective on societal expectations from birth.
All Well. All Good. All Perfect.
Dir: Dubheasa Lanipekun
Wri: Dubheasa Lanipekun, Lara Agius
11:28
A visit to a peculiar fertility clinic becomes anything but routine for expectant mother Diana, as she is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child.
Recipe (Talunang Manok)
Dir: Marissa Aroy
Wri: Niall McKay
Philippines / Ireland, 11:00
Socorro, a domestic worker, heads home to the Philippines when her daughter goes missing, only to discover the bigger threat to her family's well-being is her husband's gambling addiction to cockfighting.
Repertoire of Death
Dir: Guadalupe Arellanes
United States, 5:35
A lucid dream leads to a dance with Death. Photographed on 16mm, Repertoire of Death blends found sounds with rarely heard music from the personal archives of Yma Sumac, "Queen of Exotica", in order to blur the boundaries between past/present, dead/alive, and dream/waking.
Hellwriting
Dir: Abril Garcia, Guilliana Ramirez
Spain, 0:59
Watch out for the bad handwriting.
on leaving you
Wri/Dir: Vanessa Gildea
Ireland, 9:09
on leaving you is a personal experimental short film that examines the cyclical nature of departure and memory, of death and rebirth, and personal complicity in the horror of living, suggesting that what we attempt to leave behind inevitably reappears in the places we arrive.
In the Season Thereof
Wri/Dir: Nadia Moosa
United States, 15:00
Thrown into a new town senior year, Mark has left Utah, the Mormon Church, and a two-parent household. He quickly falls for a local girl, but as religious guilt and obsession consume him, he's left with nothing but a lingering citrus stench.
Wrath
Wri/Dir: Suri Grennell
Ireland, 9:05
At the precipice of womanhood and plagued with foreboding dreams, Maria must confront the mistrust of her family as a strange epidemic sweeps through Ireland.
Exuviae
Wri/Dir: Anne Ciecko
United States, 2:35
The latest unexpected interspecies home "invasion" and resultant sleepless nights lead to recognition of the fragility of bodies, precarious existences and escape impulses, abject entrapments and perilous material accretions: the parallel and intersecting lives of humans and insects.
Filmmaker Q&A
Host: Máiréad Casey
Máiréad Casey is a Lecturer in Film & Television Studies with the Huston School of Film and Digital Media a post-doctoral researcher and project manager for the H2021 MSCA-funded Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures (REBPAF) doctoral network. Her research interests include representations of sexual violence onscreen, representations of feminist activism and networked misoyny as well as supernatural horror. She is an organising member of the Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies and moderates it's monthly online film club. She is a committee member for Irish Screen Studies Seminar series and an Editor-in-Chief of the forthcoming Irish Screen Studies Journal. Her upcoming monography Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema is scheduled for publication with the University of Wales Press in February 2026.
Nadia Moosa
Nadia is currently a sophomore at Wesleyan University studying film and government. She's from Long Island, NY and is excited to have created her first short film. She's passionate about screenwriting and hopes to work on more projects in the future.
Marissa Aroy
Marissa is an award-winning filmmaker whose work spans over two decades in documentary storytelling. She received an Emmy for her PBS documentary Sikhs in America and an Emmy nomination for The Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes of the United Farm Workers, which highlights the critical yet overlooked role of Filipinos in the American labour movement. A Fulbright Scholar, Aroy was honored with the inaugural Hatsuye Yamasaki Award for Visionary Leadership by the College of William and Mary, where she also served as the Asian Centennial Distinguished Film Fellow in Residence.
Her work extends beyond filmmaking to teaching and mentorship, having taught film at Trinity College Dublin, Berkeley City College, and The New School in New York and now teaching New Media Studies at IADT in Dún Laoghaire. She has also contributed to Irish cinema through her leadership roles with Irish Screen America, the San Francisco Irish Film Festival, and as a board member of Women in Film and Television Ireland. She served as producer on the award-winning short film, The Ferry that was shown on RTÉ and long-listed for the Oscars. Aroy's projects reflect her commitment to amplifying marginalized voices and cultural heritage. She was commissioned by the Smithsonian Museum of American History in the U.S. to create short films for the exhibition “How Can you Forget Me: Filipino American Stories.”
Her short film, Recipe, previously titled (Losing Cock/Talunang Manok) is a suspenseful short film shot in the Philippines and edited by award winning editor John Murphy, (The Quiet Girl). This film will be shown at Imbolg: Women Who Terrify, film festival, in Strand C at 2:30 pm on Saturday January 31st at Griffith College. She has another short film called The Parting that she directed which will be in the Dublin International Film Festival on February 20th. And is currently working on another short film called Birthday Swim for which she received funding from Dun Laoghaire Rathdown’s First Frames.
Now based in Wicklow, Ireland, with her husband and filmmaking partner Niall McKay, Aroy continues to develop independent projects including the radio drama The Morrigan, a fictional radio drama about Ella Young that combines fantasy and history in early 20th century Ireland which was broadcasted on Dublin FM. They’re also developing a historical documentary on the Philippine-American War. Her work reflects her passion for storytelling that bridges her Filipino, Irish, and American identities. "I want someone to see our brown faces on the screen or behind the scenes and feel proud of who we are as a people," she says, underscoring her dedication to creating art that inspires, entertains and empowers.
Laoisa Sexton
Laoisa won the flagship Award Focus short funding from Screen Ireland to make this film and was co-produced by Pale Rebel Productions in Ireland.
Her previous short film, THE LUCKY MAN premiered at Galway Film Fleadh and won multiple awards at the BAFTA recognized LOCO ( London Comedy Film Festival) in 2023 including BEST Short and BEST Script. It also picked up Special Jury Award at the Richard Harries Film Festival and was broadcast on RTE/ Shortscreen ( Irish National TV).
Her debut short film I DIDN'T...I WASN'T...I AMN'T starring Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones) won several awards including BEST International Short at Nottingham Film Festival, and BEST Actress at Wexford Film Festival, and was nominated for the prestigious ZEBBIE AWARD for Writer's Guild of Ireland. the film enjoyed a long festival run and is still enjoying select screenings internationally.
Vanessa Gildea,
Vanessa is an award winning Filmmaker and Lecturer in Film + Television at the National Film School, IADT. A former Head of Department Film + Media and The National Film School, she holds an MA Screenwriting (1st class hons) and is currently studying the Creative Futures Academy Level 9 Cert in Radio & Podcast Production from the NFS IADT, and holds a BA in Media & Communications and English from the University of Limerick. She has worked since 2008 as a Lecturer in Film and at the NFS IADT since 2013, working across disciplines such as Documentary, Scriptwriting, Production, Direction and also the History of TV Drama and Digital Storytelling in the Dept. of Humanities at IADT.
Vanessa has received five IFTA (Irish Academy) nominations including as writer / director of The White Dress, as producer in the Feature Documentary category for Dambé – The Mali Project , John Ford – Dreaming the Quiet Man, as Producer / Director of The 34th – A history of Marriage Equality in Ireland and as part of the team that made the IFTA winning 1916 The Irish Rebellion narrated by Liam Neeson. She is a former Vice-Chair and board member of Women in Film & TV Ireland, and co-founder and documentary programmer of the Catalyst International Film Festival that celebrates diversity in the film industry.
Vanessa’s credits as writer / director include I AM IRELAND - an art dance commission film for Culture Night and RTÉ Arts & Culture 2020. The Lunch experimental short film recipient of the SDGI ARRI ALEXA TAKE Award. Feature documentary The 34th - (Netflix). The Arts Council Project Award film and multi award winning The Abandoning, Keeping the Beast at Bay – a short documentary made for Venom Films. The documentary O Béal go Bhéal um Nollaig for RTÉ, and the drama The White Dress, winner of numerous best short film festival awards and an IFTA nomination. Vanessa was the first recipient of the Tyrone Guthrie Film Bursary award and has received two Arts Council Film Bursaries & an Arts Council Film Project Award. She has worked freelance as a producer and director with a variety of companies including Loopline Film, COCO TV, Harvest Films and RTÉ Arts & Culture.
Vanessa’s industry experience spans 25 years and has offered her the opportunity to travel the world both in production and exhibition. She has filmed in locations as diverse as the Sahara Desert, Germany, Gibraltar, France, Spain, New York, California and Timbuktu. This experience has offered her the opportunity to film and work with great stalwarts of the industry including Martin Scorsese, Maureen O’Hara, Albert Maysles, Peter Bogdanovich, Jimmy Murakami, John Boorman, Gabriel Byrne, and Dearbhla Walsh. Her work has screened at festivals worldwide and at MoMa, New York. Vanessa’s experimental film practice increasingly focuses on building soundscapes for her work from scratch . She harbours unrealistic dreams of being a Foley Artist.
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