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25 New Mentorship Pairings Announced by Screen Ireland

Congratulations to all the selected participants for the Screen Mentoring Scheme, which features some extremely talented writers.

Congratulations to all the selected participants for the Screen Mentoring Scheme, which features some extremely talented writers.

Full details here.

The full list of selected mentees and their respective mentors are as follows: 

  • Ayla Amano (Writer/Director) – Frank Berry (Writer/Director, Aisha, Michael Inside, I Used to Live Here
  • Sam Atwell (Chief Creative Officer) – Catherine Magee (Producer, Small Things Like These, Normal People, Bad Sisters
  • Kelly Campbell (Writer/Director/Producer) – Patricia Rozema (Director/Writer, Mouthpiece, Into the Forest, Mansfield Park, I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing
  • Tomek Ciezki (Director/Producer) – Larry Bass (Producer, The Miracle Club, The Faceless Lady, Miss Scarlet & the Duke, Clean Sweep, Dancing with the Stars
  • Katie Davies (Animation Writer & Script/Story Consultant) – Alix Wiseman (Senior Vice President Distribution & Acquisitions, 9 Story Media Group/Executive Producer, Dasher, Shaun the Sheep
  • Molly Furey (Director) – Rachel Lysaght (Producer/Writer/Director, Testimony, Pure Grit, Herstory Ireland’s Epic Women, One Million Dubliners, Patrick’s Day
  • Nathan Griffin (Producer/Director) – Martina Niland (Producer, Four Mothers, Sing Street, The Young Offenders, Once
  • Kate Haley (Writer/Director) – Lone Scherfig (Writer/Director, The Girl with the Needle (Exec Producer), Their Finest, The Astronauts Wives Club, An Education, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
  • Lorraine Higgins (Producer) – Teresa McGrane (Chief Operating Officer, Wild Atlantic Pictures
  • Patricia Kelly (Writer/Director) – Neasa Hardiman (Director/Screenwriter, Untamed, Sea Fever, The Power, Hit and Run, Jessica Jones, Happy Valley
  • Mary Kirwan (Screenwriter) – Kate Dolan (Writer/Director, Soulm8te, You Are Not My Mother, The Tourist, Kin
  • Stephen Lally (Director/Writer/Concept Artist) – Lucile Hadžihalilović (Writer/Director, The Ice Tower, Earwig, Evolution, Enter the Void (Writer), Innocence)
  • Lochlainn McKenna (Director/Writer) – Paddy Breathnach (Director, The Dry, Rosie, Viva, I Went Down
  • Jake Morgan (Producer) – Stephen Fagan (Producer, Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire, Epic Eric, Agony Ant
  • Patrick McGivney (Director/Co-Founder) – Ed Guiney (Producer, Bugonia, Poor Things, The Favourite, The Room, The Lobster
  • Ged Murray (Screenwriter) – Lee Cronin (Director/Writer, The Mummy, Evil Dead Rise, The Hole in the Ground
  • Adam O’Keefe (Screenwriter) – Malcolm Campbell (Writer/Executive Producer, Herself, What Richard Did, Shameless, Ackley Bridge
  • Audrey O’Reilly (Writer/Director) – Dearbhla Walsh (Director, Bad Sisters, Fargo, The Handmaid’s Tale
  • Michela Orlandi (Script Editor) – Lena Byrne (Producer/Writer/Script Editor, Becca’s Bunch, Louise Lives Large, Jessy and Nessy
  • Allyn Quiqley (Writer/Director) – Aisling Walsh (Director/Writer, Maudie, Song for a Raggy Boy, Elizabeth is Missing, Fingersmith
  • Dee Roycroft (Writer) – Chelsea Morgan-Hoffman (Producer, The Lost Children of Tuam, The Listeners, September Says
  • Áine Ryan (Writer) – Aileen Docherty (Founder, Emerald Films. Writer, Holby, Waterloo Road, Eastenders
  • Rian Smith (Screenwriter) – Peter McKenna (Writer, Hidden Assets, Gangs of London, Kin
  • Stephen Staunton (Film Editor) – Walter Fasano (Editor, Suspiria, Call Me By Your Name , A Bigger Splash, I Am Love, Pino (Director/Writer/Editor)) 
  • Emma Wall (Writer/Director) – Cathy Brady (Director/Writer, The Doll Factory, Wildfire, Can’t Cope Won’t Cope, Glue

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