Roisin Kearney

10th July '19 Roisin has worked in Theatre, Film and TV for over 20 years. Her writing career started when asked to rewrite female characters for pilots produced by RTE in the mid-'90s. After a successful 10 years working in theatre helping bring productions to stage from writers including Roddy Doyle, Pat Mc Cabe, and John Banville. She continued on the periphery working in script development and report on new talent for producers and production companies including Emmy Nominated BeActive Media while taking time with her three children. She returned to Film in 2014 with her short film The Love Agency and since has worked on a number of short films as producer, writer and director including The Family Way (writer/producer) No Dogs (writer/director) Algorithms (writer/director) Prodigy (producer) We Have Each Other (producer) The Ferry (co-producer) Her latest two films The Ferry (producer) and RUN (writer/director) will premiere at Galway Film Fleadh'19 She is currently working on the feature script Remembrance, (6x1/2H) TV comedy based on the short film The Family Way, (4x1H) thriller The Well, (6x1h) comedy Rest In Peace, as well as a number of short film scripts. She is also writer under the pseudonym Grainne on mock problem page Ask Grainne for Head Space online magazine and has a number of spec TV formats developed. Roisin regularly acts as reader and supplies development notes for writers and post-production edit notes for directors. Nominee - New Voice Awards - Edinburgh TV Fest '19 Winner - Best Film Award - Toronto FFF '19 Winner - Audience Award - Chicago Irish Film Festival '19 Winner - Best Comedy - Dublin Independent Film Festival '18 Nominee -Best Female Director -Indie Cork Film Festival '18 Finalist - Palm Springs International Comedy Festival '18 Finalist - Inroads Screenwriting fellowship '18 Winner - Best comedy writing - Top Indi Film Awards '18 Winner - Best short screenplay Waterford Film Festival '17