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James Morris (Chair)
James Morris is a graduate of Trinity College and trained as a Film Editor in London. He founded Windmill Lane Pictures and Recording Studios on his return to Dublin. He led the Windmill Consortium to win the television franchise for TV3 in 1989. In 1990 he founded The Mill – Film and TV Post Production Company in London. He was appointed non-executive Chairman of TV3 from 1998-2006 and joined the board of the International Dublin Film Festival in 2004.
Lesley McKimm
Lesley McKimm is an independent Producer who has been working in television drama, film and documentary production for the last 14 years. Her producing credits include the drama series Any Time Now for BBC 1 & RTE 1, No Tears for RTE 1, Relative Strangers for RTE & ZDF and the historical documentary series In Search of Ancient Ireland for PBS and RTE. She is a co-director in the production company Newgrange Pictures.
Tristan Orpen Lynch
Tristan Orpen Lynch has been involved in the Irish film and music industry since 1989. With his company Subotica Films, Tristan has produced a major documentary on the Abbey Theatre for RTE and the feature film Song For A Raggy Boy starring Aidan Quinn and Iain Glen. His most recent production has been the RTE TV drama Proof and the feature film Small Engine Repair.
Kevin Moriarty
Kevin Moriarty is Managing Director of Ardmore Studios. He is Chair of the Kerry Screen Commission and a board member of the Wicklow Film Commission and the Irish Film Institute. Kevin is also Chairman of Media Desk Ireland.
Kirsten Sheridan
Kirsten Sheridan is a writer, director and producer with Blindside Films. After graduating with a distinction from Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, design and Technology in 1998. Kirsten followed her award winning college short Patterns with an Irish Film Board/RTE short cut The Case of Majella McGinty. She directed her first feature, the critically acclaimed DISCO PIGS in 2001 and went on to co-write the Oscar and Golden Globe nominated IN AMERICA. Her most recent project is the feature film August Rush.
Barry Grace
Barry Grace is a composer and producer. As well as scoring a number of short films such as ZANZIBAR, he has provided the music to numerous television commercials both here and abroad including Guinness, Kellogg's and Cadbury's. He has scored a number of television dramas and documentaries such as 'Dear Daughter' and recently 'Grandfather, speak to me in Russian'. He is currently producing his first commercial album.
Johnny Gogan
Johnny Gogan founded Bandit Films in 1989 and has directed and produced over ten films for cinema and TV, including the award-winning features THE LAST BUS HOME and MAPMAKER. Founding editor of Film Ireland magazine in 1987 for Filmbase, more recent innovations have included the world cinema exhibitor Cinema North West, the organisation he chaired until 2007 and Adaptation, the Leitrim based festival which celebrates the relationship of literature and cinema.
