After more than a decade working in the financial sector, Alberto shifts his career to pursue his true passion: the audiovisual industry, in all its forms—as the director of a film festival, through collaborations with industry associations, as an executive producer, and more recently, as the founder and CEO of Treboa.
His credits as executive producer include Lume (2024), A Diestra y Siniestra (2023), Chegar a Casa (2021), and O Sabor das Margaridas (2020 and 2018) which received the Mestre Mateo Award for Best TV Series and the Galician Culture Award.

Andrew joined the industry in 1990 as a production runner, after a few years he was sent to London by the BBC to train as a television drama Locations Manager.  He joined Northern Ireland Screen in 1997.

Andrew is responsible for the investment of Northern Ireland Screen’s £13m annual development, production and skills funds. He oversees the delivery of: physical production; project development; new and emerging talent and skills development schemes.

Andrew has a BA in Drama, Film and Television from St John’s York; an MBA from Queen’s University Belfast; is an alumni of Cass Business School’s Inside Pictures; a member of BAFTA and a founding member of the Irish Film and Television Academy.

Ann has worked in programme production for over 25 years, producing a range of music, arts and documentary programmes including Tacsi, Trusadh and Horo Gheallaidh for Mactv. Ann currently produces the company’s acquired documentaries, versioning 25 hours of international documentaries for BBC ALBA alongside being a company board member.

Annabel is a film, festival and cinema executive with more than 20 years experience working in independent film and screen culture.  Between 2025-26, she was one of the Executive Producers at Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, overseeing film seasons, festivals outreach, outdoors screenings and the production of exciting new narrative, non-fiction and immersive works. Before this, between 2022-2024, she was Managing Director of Sheffield DocFest, the UK's largest documentary film festival and a global market for non-fiction works.  Previously she has set up and managed international film & cultural funds, and produced large scale film & theatre events and festivals in the UK and Australia. She is a voting BAFTA member, BIFA voter and holds an MBA from Manchester University (2024).

Anne is a freelance Story Producer, Producer and Executive Producer. 

Most recently Anne was the Story Producer on Trespasses for Channel 4. This Irish novel was not yet published when Wildgaze brought her on to develop a 4-part TV series from the original material. Working with the screenwriter, Anne developed the scripts to production, oversaw Production amends, consulted throughout shooting and gave notes on all edits. Trespasses was nominated for Best Script at the Bafta Craft awards alongside Adolescence and Slow Horses. It was also nominated for Best Limited Series at the TV Baftas. 

Anne is currently working on another book adaptation, with a Welsh writer.
Previous freelance development work features Irish and Welsh projects, for both film and TV, including an Irish language project.

While at the BBC, Anne was the Head of BBC Writersroom (now BBC Writers), which finds, develops and champions new writers. She worked closely with BBC Commissioning and with programme makers. She was the Executive Producer on various BBC3 short film series featuring marginalised stories, including those from Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

Before joining BBC Writersroom, Anne produced, directed and developed an extensive body of work for both BBC radio and television over 25 years, including adaptations of novels and plays. 

Originally, she was a theatre director, writer and actor. 

Anne’s family are from Roche in mid- Cornwall. She is part of Screen Cornwall and set up a writers’ group to develop Cornish voices. 

Aoibhéann is an actor, writer and eco-activist. She studied French & Sociology in Maynooth University before training as an actor at the Oxford School of Drama. In 2020, she was awarded Best Actress at the Irish Times Theatre Awards and is a participant of Screen Ireland’s X-Pollinator 2024 (a cross-disciplinary professional development and networking initiative for female, trans and non-binary talent in the film industry).
 
She runs production company “Athrach” (weareathrach.com)– the focus is to make work as sustainably as possible and in 2023 they made the short film The Last Harvest. This production outdid the Albert calculator and worked with Native Events (their first film) to power the production off-grid with renewable energy. She recently wrote, directed and acted in short film “Step in Time” - it is currently in post-production and wrote and directed a short film for The All-Ireland Pollinator Plan which was launched last month.
In 2024 her theatre monologue "Humanitarian" was presented by Landmark's Theatre-For-One at Cork Midsummer Festival. This script was blind-chosen as one of 6 (by emerging writers) out of 500 entrants. She is working on the feature script of Humanitarian.
 
As an actor, she plays Geraldine in Blue Lights S1, 2, 3 & 4. Other recent acting screen credits are “Ellis” (Channel 5), Coast (Charmer Pictures) “Clean Sweep” (RTÉ), “Harry Wild” (Acorn), “Yield” (Out of Orbit). Her IMDB can be found here.
Recent acting theatre credits have been “Girl on an Altar” (Abbey Theatre), “Twinkletoes” (Abbey Theatre); Widow Quin, “The Playboy of the Western World”; Blanche DuBois, “A Streetcar Named Desire”.

Beryl directs Film, TV drama, documentary and comedy.  In TV, as lead director, she’s helped develop and then direct many popular UK teens and kids series, for which she has been awarded 5 BAFTA’s, and 4 Int. EMMY nominations. 

Beryl works for the European Broadcasting Union/Eurovision as Exec Producer on a worldwide series of kids drama and comedy shorts for public broadcasters.  She’s produced over 200 x 15 min shorts working with writers, producers and directors in 38 countries.  Many films appear in international festivals; two have won a BAFTA for the BBC and S4C.

Beryl is a former chair of Directors UK; served as the children’s rep on the BAFTA TV committee from 2017-2024; as an advisor to Screen Cornwall; and currently co-chairs Diverse City, a S.West disabled theatre company.  She lives between Falmouth in Cornwall and Killyleagh in N Ireland where her production company Strangford Pictures is based.

Bill is a Commissioning Editor at MG Alba with a special responsibility for scripted content. He’s helped bring several award-winning titles to the screen including the crime thriller An t-Eilean and the sitcom Glan Fhèin. Bill began his media career in BBC Scotland’s Gaelic Department where he was responsible for some of its most popular and critically acclaimed titles including Na h-Eilthirich (The Emigrants), Ran Dan and the multiple award-winning Gruth is Uachdar (Crowdie and Cream). He subsequently moved into producing and directing primetime TV drama including Holby City and River City, as well as working on landmark factual productions such as A History of Scotland. 

Cathy MacDonald is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio nan Gàidheal, presenting a daily magazine lunchtime show, as well as being one of the regular presenters on Radio Scotland’s Sunday morning programme, Sunday Morning With. She is also an experienced television presenter, appearing on BBC Alba’s Hogmanay Ceilidh, Cèilidh na Bliadhn’ Ùire, and various documentaries – the most recent, a profile of the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen. She runs her own production company Bùrach Productions.

After leaving school with stunning Leaving Cert results* in the early 90s, Darren spent eight years in the Irish music industry for a crime he didn’t commit. Since leaving music, he’s dedicated his life to providing entertainment to the people of earth. Mainly involving television but with a few detours into talent management, theatre production and mime**. He has either created, written, directed, produced or exec produced all of Kite’s output since setting it up in 2004.

In 2008, he co-wrote Dustin The Turkey’s hauntingly beautiful Eurovision losing “Irlandé Douze Pointe,” shortly afterwards he retired from songwriting.

*Not in a good way.

**Not true.

Dave is the founder and creative director of multi-award winning Edinburgh-based podcast and audio indie Bespoken Media. He also founded and now runs the Scotland Audio Network, a forum for audio creators to network and share opportunities. He is a former BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat politics reporter and North America reporter. He is also secretary of trade body AudioUK.

David Harron is Commissioning Executive, Factual at BBC Scotland.  Recent credits include Murder Case, Inside Barlinnie, Real Kashmir FC, Yes/No: Inside The Indyref, Murder Trial, Salmond & Sturgeon: A Troubled Union and Scotland 78: A Love Story.

EGG VFX is a Dublin based Visual Effects company that was an IFTA Winner in 2023, BAFTA Nominee in 2022 & Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards Nominee in 2024. They have a proven track record of leveraging the 32% Irish Tax Credit to make budgets go further. Late last year the Irish Government announced that this will rise to 40% for VFX spends of more than €1 million in 2026. Their primary focus is delivering FX, 3D environments & roto, paint, 2/2.5D Set extension and compositing for high-profile drama series and feature films. In the past couple of years EGG VFX has delivered shots for episodic series, including, but not limited to: Bad Sisters- Seasons 1 & 2 (Merman/ Apple TV); Bodies (Moonage/ Netflix); Dr Who (Bad Wolf/ Disney- BBC); The Forsytes- Seasons 1 & 2 (Mammoth Screen/ PBS); Good Omens 2 (Amazon- BBC Studios); How To Get To Heaven From Belfast (Hat Trick/ Netflix); The Rainmaker (Lionsgate TV/ USA Network0; The 12 Dates of Christmas (Dynamic/ Hallmark); World On Fire 2 (Mammoth Screen/ BBC- ITV Studios) And also the following feature films: The Apprentice (Briarcliff); Evil Dead Rise (Warner); Father, Mother, Sister, Brother (Animal Kingdom/ MUBI); Hallow Road (XYZ Films/ Universal); How To Divorce During The War (M- Films/ Kino Lorber & Zeitgeist Films); Power Ballad (Treasure/ Lionsgate); The Woman King (Sony) 

Eleanor Morton is a writer, actor and comedian who is perhaps best known for her viral sketches including Craig the dour Scottish tourguide. She has also appeared on and written for BBC Radio 4, BBC Scotland & BBC Radio Scotland where she is a frequent panellist for Breaking the News. Recently she has appeared on You’re Dead to Me, and her character comedy show Eleanor and Pals on BBC Radio 4. Her 2022 Fringe sell out show Eleanor Morton Has Peaked is available to watch on Next Up and ITV player. She is bringing a brand new show 'The Mermaid' to the 2026 Fringe.  ‘A rising star’ Time Out 'Belly Laugh Funny' Metr

Elham Ehsas is a BAFTA-nominated and Oscar-shortlisted writer and director working across film, television and theatre. He is drawn to stories about the quiet moments that split a life in two, and change everything. 

His short film Yellow was BAFTA-nominated and Oscar-shortlisted in 2024, and his debut feature Our Kind of Love is currently in development with the BFI. His most recent short, There Will Come Soft Rains, won Best Film at both Raindance Film Festival and Encounters Film Festival.

Elham has also worked as Second Unit Director on The Crown (Netflix). As an actor, his screen credits include The Agency (Paramount+), Shantaram (Apple TV+), Unforgotten (ITV) and Homeland (Showtime), as well as the stage production The Jungle in the West End and New York. 

He is a member of the Royal Court Writers’ Group and is currently developing a slate of original projects for stage and screen.

Esyllt Sears is a stand-up comedian, comedy writer and one of the presenters of the Comedy Club on BBC Radio 4 Extra. She has provided tour support to Elis James, Stuart Laws and Jen Brister, and co-hosts The Pod of Wales podcast with Kiri Pritchard-McLean and the multi award nominated I’m So Not Over It podcast with Gareth Gwynn. She has performed on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 Extra and BBC One Wales in English and on S4C in Welsh. She has also written for The News Quiz and The Now Show (BBC Radio 4); Elis James’ sketch series, and two of his stand-up specials (S4C); What Just Happened? (BBC One Wales); I Can’t Get Over 2024, and Welcome Strangers (BBC Radio Wales); and The Rest Of Us (BBC Radio 4).

Eugene has been working in the broadcast and film industry for over 30 years.

Eugene graduated as a broadcast engineer from Ravensbourne University UK in 1992 starting his career building the Post Facilities at Carlton Television London and after installation he graduated to an Online Editor position. He has worked at several post facilities over the years in London,Rome, Sydney and Dublin. He moved into colour grading 20 years ago. In January 2009, he set up Outer Limits.

He is responsible for Technology across Picture, Sound and VFX at Outer Limits where significant focus is put on assessing new software and developing innovative and efficient solutions in a constantly evolving environment.

Fiona Campbell is Director of Factual Television at the BBC.  Her wide-ranging remit encompasses all factual programming including Documentaries, Arts and Specialist Factual.
The documentary slate ranges from Murder 24/7, Ambulance and Sort Your Life Out to the international feature documentary strand Storyville, which won an Oscar in 2026 for Mr Nobody Against Putin.  
Specialist Factual is responsible for History, Science, Religion and Natural History output – covering a broad range of programmes including Digging For Britain and Lucy Worsley’s Victorian Murder Club to Michael Jackson: An American Tragedy, as well as the BBC's award-winning Natural History content such as Hamza’s Hidden Wild Isles and Attenborough’s Blue Planet. 
Previously, Fiona was Controller, Youth Audiences, BBC iPlayer and Digital Director, BBC News where she developed BBC News presence on third party platforms such as Apple News and  Jio in India. She began her media career in production as a researcher on the Money Programme and subsequently spent eight years at BBC’s Panorama specialising in investigations and documentaries in conflict zones such as Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Fiona is based in Belfast where she was born and grew up. 
 

Gavin is Northern Ireland Screen’s first Facilities and Sustainability Manager, responsible for the development of the local screen industry’s sustainability strategy and policies. Prior to this role Gavin worked across a variety of productions within in the Locations Department, including Game of Thrones, The Northman and Dungeons and Dragons.  These experiences heavily influenced his practical approach to Sustainability.

Heidi joined Northern Ireland Screen in January 2022 and is responsible for overseeing the Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund (USBF). Established in 2011, the USBF’s aim is to foster the Ulster-Scots independent production sector in Northern Ireland by funding high-quality TV, radio and digital content that reflects Ulster-Scots heritage, culture and language. The USBF also supports new entrant media trainees, many of whom have gone on to produce, direct and even star in USBF-funded productions. Heidi’s role involves engaging with key stakeholders including broadcasters, production companies and community representatives, and she is proud to have instigated USBF sponsorship of the Celtic Media Festival since starting her role.

John is Executive Creative Director of RTÉ, shaping the creative vision of Ireland’s national broadcaster and leading an in-house team that produces award-winning promos and campaigns across its genres and services. Recognised at ICADs, Promax, EBU Connect and the Irish Audio Awards, with multiple Grand Prix claimed along the way.
Before RTÉ, John spent nearly two decades at the helm of some of Ireland’s most celebrated agencies — including global networks TBWA and Publicis, and independent powerhouse Boys and Girls. His work for brands including Jameson, Aldi, Three, Cadbury, Bank of Ireland, Nissan and BMW has been recognised over a hundred times locally and internationally, across ICAD, Sharks, Promax and Cannes Lions to name a few.

Jordan Arnold is an award-winning radio presenter, hosting The Afternoon Pick Me Up every weekday 1-4pm on Q Radio. In the world of telly, she’s worked in front of the camera on shows like The Ranganation and behind the scenes, having recently joined BBC NI as a continuity announcer. Outside of broadcasting she’s a columnist for Local Women Magazine, a voiceover artist, event host and musical theatre performer. Everything she does is for her one true love: her cavapoo, Bumbles.

Justin is an executive producer for BBC NI with a range of experience across scripted and unscripted with notable credits in Feature Docs, Natural History, Specialist Factual, Sports Docs, Factual Formats and single TV Docs. Credits include: BAFTA nominated and Grierson winning Patrick Kielty: My Dad, The Peace Deal and Me, Grierson winner Wild Ireland,  Celtic Media Award winning A Different League-The Derry City Story and Road, Carl Frampton: Men in Crisis, Young Plato, Bobby Sands: 66 Days and Beauty Queen and Single (RTS). He also oversees BBCNI’s acclaimed single doc strand True North for Our Lives.

Kathy is a hugely experienced Executive Producer across multiple genres with a strong track record of delivering across RTÉ’s linear and on demand platforms. Most recently, in her role as Executive Producer in Documentaries and Features, Kathy has delivered some of our most high-profile documentary productions including Bad Nanny, Patrick: A Young Traveller Lost, The Case I Can’t Forget, The Skinny Jab Revolution and the upcoming six part series set inside CUH, Any Given Day: Cork University Hospital. She is also widely experienced on the features side of the slate, having been responsible, as Executive Producer for RTÉ, for a wide range of of prominent titles including Great House Revival, Raised By the Village, and the expansion of At Your Service from half hours to hours. Earlier this year, Kathy set up and managed the production of The Traitors Ireland Uncloaked, working with an in-house team and in close collaboration with Kite Entertainment, independent producers of The Traitors Ireland,  to deliver the series from RTÉ’s Limerick base.

Keith qualified as a solicitor in 1995 and has, since then, worked with organisations across the cultural and creative sectors. He provides guidance and assistance on governance, intellectual property, business law, contracts, website regulations and charity law. He is Managing Director of multi-disciplinary law firm, ProArts Plus. As well as providing specialist legal advice, he contributes to workshops, planning days, talks, written reports and provides other bespoke guidance. Projects include professional services for national institutions, local authority services, umbrella cultural organisations and medial companies, theatres, museums and galleries of all shapes and sizes.

Kieran Doherty is a Writer, TV Format Creator and Executive Producer.  He is also the CEO and Co-Founder of Stellify Media, alongside his creative and business partner, Matthew Worthy. In 2014 they launched Belfast based production company Stellify Media as a joint venture with Sony Pictures Television.  It is an unscripted production company based in Belfast, produced Netflix’s very first game show Flinch!, and relaunched Millionaire with Jeremy Clarkson in 2017. It is the producer of 4-part docu-drama Titanic Sinks Tonight for the BBC, a reality reboot of Blind Date for Disney+, competition series The Big Deal for the BBC, Millionaire spin-off Hot Seat for ITV, and BBC daytime series Farm 999.  

n 1999 Larry Bass established ShinAwiL Productions Ltd.

Larry has Executive Produced the Irish versions of the multi award winning series’, The Apprentice that won 2 Irish Film and Television Awards, Dragons’ Den, MasterChef Ireland, The Voice of Ireland most recently the hugely successful Dancing with the Stars, Ireland. Other recent productions include Home of the Year, What are you Eating?, Meet the McDonagh’s and Tested on Humans.

The ShinAwiL development team is currently in development on original series’ for the Irish, UK and USA market, both scripted and non-scripted.

Previous credits include Popstars, You’re A Star, Charity You’re A Star, Test The Teachers, Charity Lords of the Ring, Fame The Musical and The Obesity Clinic.

In 2000, Larry was elected to the national Executive of Screen Producers Ireland (SPI), serving as deputy chairman from January 2003 to February 2004, and as Chairman from February 2004 to February 2005. He was reelected to the board in 2015. He also was the Irish member of CEPI from 2003 to 2006.

Larry is an advisory board member of FÁS Screen Training Ireland and Entertainment Masterclass. He has also sat on a jury for the Internationl Emmys, Rose d’Or, BANFF and Real Screen Television Awards.

Larry has guest lectured at DIT Dublin, IADT Dublin, MipTV and MIPCOM, SPAA Australia and Entertainment Masterclass.

Larry served on the Board of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland from 2010 to 2015.

Lisa's original comedy series DERRY GIRLS (Hat Trick/Channel 4) has been C4's biggest comedy launch since 2004 and has earned Lisa Emmy, BAFTA, IFTAs and RTS awards. The show ran for three series, concluding with an hour-long special  in 2022. Lisa wrote all episodes and was an Executive Producer on the show. Her latest series  HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN FROM BELFAST (Hat Trick/Netflix) launched in February  2026 to critical acclaim. She is  currently developing a new original series with a streamer.
 
She curated and wrote an episode of the BBC anthology series SKINT IN 2022. Her mini-series THE DECEIVED, co-created and co-written with Tobias Beer, aired on Channel 5/Virgin Ireland in 2020.  Her original six-part sitcom LONDON IRISH, produced by Company Pictures for C4, premiered in 2013.

Lisa has written episodes on series 1&2 of INDIAN SUMMERS for New Pictures/ C4  as well as  THE WHITE QUEEN for Company Pictures/BBC1/Starz. She was a writer on series 2,3 &4 of the BAFTA-nominated BEING HUMAN (Touchpaper/BBC3). In 2008 Lisa created  RAW, an original TV series for Ecosse/RTE, which ran for five series and  earned her both IFTA and Zebbie nominations.

Lisa is also a playwright. Her plays include JUMP! (later adapted for screen) and GIRLS AND DOLLS (Stewart Parker Award Winner; Susan Smith Blackburn Award runner up; Irish Theatre Award nominee) 
 
Lisa was the Writer on Attachment at the National Theatre London in 2006

Llion Iwan was appointed Chief Content Officer of S4C in March 2025. Llion brings extensive experience and creative vision to this key role.

Llion began his career as a reporter for local newspapers before joining the BBC as a journalist, where he worked for over a decade in various news and sports roles. During his time at the BBC, he produced and directed documentaries for BBC1, BBC2, and BBC4.

In 2012, Llion joined S4C as Commissioner for Factual and Sports Content, before becoming Head of Content Broadcasting. Later, he moved on to become Managing Director of Cwmni Da, where he led the company to financial success and increased turnover, pioneering the placement of Welsh content on Amazon Prime.

Llyr Morus started his career working in production over 30 years ago - working initially on Light Entertainment shows in studio and on location before moving into Children's Television.  25 years ago, he started working in Drama, working both in Welsh and English and working his way up from Runner to Production Executive and Executive Producer.  His career has seen him work in the independent sector as well as being a staff member at BBC Wales and BBC Studios for many years. His credits as Production Executive include Upstairs Downstairs, Wizards vs Aliens, The Game, Eric & Ernie and Under Milk Wood.  Llyr is a keen advocate of developing new talent within the industry and was the BBC representative on many development boards and Executive Producer on the It's My Shout short film scheme for 4 years - a scheme that has been successful in introducing many new diverse talents to the industry.  
 
Currently Llyr holds the position of Managing Director and Producer at Cynyrchiadau Mojo Productions and is in post-production on a new S4C drama series ‘Y Streic Fawr’ other Mojo Productions credits include ‘Parc Glan Gwil’ *Cyw/S4C), ‘Yr Alwad’ (Hansh/S4C), Ganol Nunlla (S4C/TikTok), ‘Bro’ (S4C/YouTube) and ‘Mission: Cymru’ (S4C/YouTube). Previous to this he worked as Producer and Head of Production at Vox Pictures producing Un Bore Mercher/Keeping Faith 3, Cyswllt, Fflam, Dal y Mellt 1 & 2 and ‘Hafiach’.

Lucy Stone is the founder of Climate Spring, the global organisation funding and supporting scripted and unscripted storytelling that changes the way society sees the climate crisis. Climate Spring works with all stakeholders in the industry as a funder, advisor, convenor and facilitator. Lucy is a leading narrative change expert and climate innovator having set up many successful organisations and initiatives. Lucy has been a leader in philanthropy, in social enterprise, advising UN organisations and governments.

Marian has over 30 years’ experience in radio and television and has been a news, current affairs and general programmes producer.  In 2022 Marian trained as a Wellbeing Facilitator a role to ensure a happier and mentally healthier workplace in the television and film industry.  She is working on scripted and unscripted programmes and is pleased to observe that companies are increasingly recognising the importance of looking after the mental health of their workforce and contributors and realise the positive impact a WBF can have on individuals and their production. 

Mary Flanigan is a writer and stand-up comedian. She was nominated for the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2023 and was nominated for the Birmingham Breaking Talent Award 2019. She’s appeared on BBC Radio 4, BBC Ulster and BBC Northern Ireland, and She is a member of the BBC Northern Ireland Writersroom group ‘Belfast Voices’. She has provided tour support for Fern Brady. ‘Smart, pithy…sharp and astute’ Chortle

Mike has over 20 years experience developing and producing TV drama, working for leading production companies and in commissioning for the BBC. He has established talent and commissioner relationships throughout the UK and in Europe.

Before founding Freedom Mike was scripted Head of Development at Oscar winning Amy and Senna indie On The Corner and for Alex Rider and Safe House producers Eleventh Hour.

As a Development Executive at BBC Drama Mike was part of the team who developed green-lit BBC shows including Murder, Peaky Blinders, Case Histories, Wallander and Shetland. He also helped oversee Waterloo Road and went on to produce exactly 50 hours of River City.

At STV Mike script edited on Taggart, and Scottish BAFTA winning episodes of Rebus and High Times. He also developed green-lit show Fast Freddie for ITV.

Mike got his start in drama at World Productions thanks to legendary British producer Tony Garnett. 

Freedom delivered their debut drama Summerwater (6 x 60) to Channel 4 in 2025, written by John Donnelly adapted from the best selling novel of the same name by Sarah Moss. Directed by Robbie McKillop the show stars a host of Scottish and international talent including Valene Kane, Daniel Rigby, Shirley Henderson, Dougray Scott, Anna Próchniak, Arnas Fedaravicius and Jamie Sives.  The series premiers on Acorn in the US in May, and Summerwater’s score has just been nominated for the Ivor Novello, Best Television Soundtrack

The Glasgow headquartered drama indie is currently working on several original and adapted HETV drama developments as well as exploring co-developing for film. Details of the Freedom team can be found at: https://freedomscripted.com/team/

Freedom are part of the Channel 4 Creative Investment Fund group of companies.

Miriam O’Callaghan is one of Ireland’s most well-known and respected presenters in television and radio. A winner of many awards for her work including IFTAs, Celtic Media Torcs and Justice Media Awards, Miriam works today primarily as a Broadcast Journalist with RTÉ. 
Born and raised in Dublin, Miriam went to University College Dublin aged just 16 to study Law and qualified as a solicitor. She also holds a post graduate Diploma in European Law from UCD.  
 
After being interviewed by the BBC as a young lawyer in Dublin, Miriam got the urge to change career and to go into broadcasting. Her first job was in UK television working as a researcher on ITV's This is your Life.  In 1987, she joined the BBC as a BBC producer working on shows such as Kilroy and Family Matters. In 1989 she was headhunted by BBC Newsnight and became a reporter on that programme for almost 10 years. 
 
In 1996, Miriam began to present RTÉ's current affairs flagship programme Prime Time, while continuing to cover the Northern Irish peace process for Newsnight. In August 2000, Miriam co-founded Mint Productions, an independent production company that specialised in documentary with her husband Steve Carson. Mint won many awards for its documentaries including for landmark series such as Haughey, Bertie and Our Lady’s. 
Miriam anchored RTE’s coverage of the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland and also former US President Biden’s visit to Mayo. 
 
Miriam is also particularly proud of one moment in her career when she helped to win the accolade ‘Ireland’s Greatest’ for the incredible peacemaker John Hume by making a documentary for RTÉ on John and championing him in a public vote. 
 
Miriam also presents her own radio show on RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday with Miriam, which is one of the Top Ten of Ireland’s most listened to radio shows. Sunday with Miriam has also won a PPI award for best Speech Driven Magazine Show. For fourteen years, Miriam also presented the RTÉ One television summer chat show Saturday Night with Miriam. 
 
Miriam is a patron of many charities including Ireland’s only children’s Hospice for children Laura Lynn, Carers Ireland, Cliona’s Foundation and The NMH Foundation. Miriam also supports many other charitable causes throughout the year.

More than twenty years experience within the television business. Working for both, private and public, regional and national spanish TV stations.

Commercially oriented executive with experience in the media/entertainment industries.

Have been involved in product management, finance, marketing, rights acquisition and sales and content distribution activities.

Member of Television de Galicia´s Programming team since 2009. Deeply involved with the network programming strategy from different angles: looking for innovation, originality and talent when acquiring new content. Supervising development, production and scheduling when setting new programmes and formats to be  launched.

Responsible for dubbing coordination to galician language of any foreign content acquired by Television de Galicia, mainly animation, films and TV series.

Regarding new technologies and social media, working right now in a project to improveTelevisión de Galicia kids´ web and App with a 360º strategy to complete our children offer on traditional TV, in our secondary channel.

Always commited to explore new approaches to the exciting audiovisual business from a buyers’ perspective with a wide experience in international markets.

Niall Iain Macdonald is a Scottish Gaelic broadcaster best known for his work with BBC Radio nan Gàidheal and BBC ALBA. Born in Aberdeen and educated in Inverness, he joined BBC Radio nan Gàidheal in 1998 and soon became widely recognised as the presenter of the popular Gaelic music programme Rapal.
Over the years, he has presented a wide range of programmes across both radio and television, as well as hosting major live cultural events including the Belladrum music festival and Ceilidh na Bliadhn’ Uire, BBC ALBA’s much-loved Hogmanay celebrations. He currently co-presents Feasgar an-diugh, the weekday lunchtime programme on BBC Radio nan Gàidheal.
Niall Iain also fronted Mas Fhìor, BBC ALBA’s first high-energy studio gameshow. Mas Fhìor is a new home-grown Gaelic entertainment format produced in partnership with Glasgow-based BEEZR Studios and Screen Scotland. In recognition of his contribution to Gaelic broadcasting, he was named ‘Radio Personality of the Year’ at the Celtic Film and Television Festival in 2005.

Born in Denmark, 1981, Nikolaj Feifer graduated from National Film School of Denmark in 2007 as a director, with the acclaimed sci-fi short Junk Love. He has since worked on numerous Danish TV shows as a director/writer/showrunner. Among them Sjit Happens (Tv2), Enten/Eller (Xee), Sygeplejeskolen/The New Nurses (Tv2 Charlie), and Blå Bog For Evigt (Tv2).

He created (wrote and directed) the dark workplace comedy The Bank - New Normal, which ran for two seasons on Danish national TV (DR2), and the one-location comedy cop show Afhøring/Interrogation, for the streaming platform CMORE.

In 2022, he co-created the Netflix series Baby Fever, together with Amalie Næsby Fick. Baby Fever was a huge hit in Denmark, where both season 1 and 2, which premiered in august 2024, have held positions as the most watched series for 7 days straight.

The leading Danish film magazine Ekko, have just selected Baby Fever as the best streaming series ever made in Denmark (From a total of 34 titles, including The Chestnut Man, The Rain, Borgen, etc.)

Nikolaj Feifer is repped by CAA

Órfhlaith Ní Chearnaigh is an award-winning Irish producer and director, who also writes for screen and stage, primarily in Irish. Working across feature documentaries and drama features and shorts, Órfhlaith's current Irish language thriller Aontas premiered at Santa Barbara Film Festival and Dublin International Film Festival before screening at over 40 international festivals,
winning multiple awards. A former Puttnam Scholar and Women in Film and Television mentee, Órfhlaith has produced/directed documentaries such as Liam O'Flynn: Píobaire; Aonaracht; Tuilte and Eoin Mac Néill: Fear Dearmadta 1916 which won two Celtic Media Awards, as well as drama features and shorts such as Doineann, Mí-Ádh, Altar Girls
and Oyster. Right now, she is in development on her next feature, a CINE4 project filming in 2027; writing an Irish language short and directing an hour long documentary

Is léiritheoir a bhfuil duaiseanna bainte aici í Órfhlaith Ní Chearnaigh, a shaothraigh aitheantas as caighdeán a cuid saothair, go háirithe as ardchaighdeán na Gaeilge a thugann sí dá cláir agus scannáin, ag feidhmiú go rialta mar chomhairleoir teanga agus canúna agus mar aistritheoir ar chuid mhaith dá léiriúcháin. Tá ocht mbliana déag de thaithí faisnéise aici agus bhí sí mar léiritheoir agus
stiúrthóir ar léiriúcháin maoinithe ag an CCG agus Coimisiún na Meán le haghaidh TG4, BBC agus RTÉ. Le déanaí, tá Aontas, a léirigh sí do Púca Pictures agus a bhí le feiceáil ag os cionn 40 féile, tar éis 15 duais féilte a bhaint, agus 6 ainmniúchán IFTA a shaothrú. Bhí Órfhlaith ag obair ar an fhadscannán Doineann, léirigh sí an fadscannán
faisnéise Liam O'Flynn – Píobaire, Hammond: Duais an Dorais agus an clár faisnéise/dráma Eoin MacNéill: Fear Dearmadta 1916, a bhuaigh dhá dhuais ag Féile na Meán Ceilteach. Faoi láthair, tá sí stiúradh clár faisnéise, ag forbairt
fadscannán Cine4, a bheas á scannánú i 2027, agus ag scríobh script forbartha do thogra nua dhátheangach.

Paddy Hayes is an acclaimed Irish producer and director, celebrated for his extensive contributions to Irish and English-language cinema and television in both drama and documentary. Over a career spanning decades, Hayes has played a pivotal role in originating compelling dramas and documentaries and has garnered awards and critical acclaim at home and abroad. Recent career standouts as producer or director include: Obituary for Hulu/RTE (2025) an IFTA, Celtic Media Festival and RTS Award winner: 2 seasons, 12 x 1 hour; Focla ar Chanbhás for TG4/Arts Council (2025) Docs Ireland Award Winner: feature documentary; Aillte for TG4/Screen Ireland (2026) 2 part documentary; Foscadh for TG4/Screen Ireland (2021) feature drama and Ireland’s entry to the international academy awards.

Pádhraic Ó Ciardha is a native speaker of Irish, former Chair of the Celtic Media Festival and Leascheannasaí (Deputy CEO) of TG4.   He was a central figure in the establishment of the TG4. He has extensive experience in broadcasting policy and journalism.  His previous  background had been in academics.    

Paul is Head of Creative for the BBC in Northern Ireland, leading an in‑house team that delivers campaigns across the full range of BBC output, from drama and factual to sport and entertainment. His team works across video and audio production, large-scale promotional shoots, audio and visual design, out of home advertising, and public-facing activation moments.

Alongside his BBC role, Paul is a Board member of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Chairs the Acquisitions and Collections panel, overseeing the development of the Arts Council’s national collection.

After a long career as a producer and executive producer in the Drama department at the BBC, responsible for shows such as ‘Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit’, ‘Our Mutual Friend’, ’North and South’, ‘Jane Eyre’, ‘Emma’, series 1-3 of ‘Luther’ and Silent Witness, Phillippa set up Bandit Television, based out of Cornwall, in 2019 and made three series of ‘Delicious’ with Emilia Fox and Dawn French for Sky TV and ‘Rillington Place’ for BBC1. It was the experience of filming down in Cornwall, where she has now lived for the past 15 years, that led her to get together with Laura Giles to create Screen Cornwall which she now chairs.  

Proinsias Ní Ghráinne is responsible for commissioning documentaries, arts, culture and music programming for TG4. She oversees a huge range of output from high impact single docs to primetime factual series, landmark arts, culture and music documentaries and music performance content for digital and TV platforms. She was executive producer on numerous award-winning projects, Gradam Ceoil TG4 and TG4’s biggest live output outside of sport – Fleadh Cheoil. Proinsias initiated the highly successful ilDÁNA (Arts Council) and AMHARC (BBC, ILBF), IGNITE schemes and has brought numerous international co productions to TG4. She sits on the EBU Factual group, Global Docs and represents TG4 on many other international and Irish fora and markets.

Rebecca Speer is an experienced bilingual Producer-Director and Executive Producer across documentary, entertainment and factual programming. She has worked with Tyrone Productions for over ten years, contributing to a wide range of projects from development stage through to production and delivery. 
Rebecca is the Executive Producer of ‘An Deis’, the Irish-language version of ‘The Dice/Y Deis’, a format owned by Slam Media and developed by Gavin Cox. ‘An Deis’ was produced by Tyrone Productions for TG4 initially as a 10-part series. It has subsequently been recommissioned as a 22-part second series.

Rob Keane is the Promos Supervisor for Virgin Media Television. Overseeing the promo output across the broadcaster's four linear channels; Virgin Media One, Two, Three & Four and streaming platform; Virgin Media Play. With more than a decade of experience in television promos, he has worked across a wide range of campaigns, developing creative that connects audiences with content across broadcast, streaming and digital platforms.

Robert is currently in production on his adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel TREASURE ISLAND for Playground Entertainment/MGM+. He wrote and created the detective drama MCDONALD & DODDS which ran for four season series for Mammoth/ITV. Previous credits include creating and show running the long running series DCI BANKS (Left Bank/ITV), MURDER CITY (ITV) and CAPE WRATH (Ecosse, Showtime, C4). He has also written for various series such as GEORGE GENTLY, VERA, SHETLAND, STRIKEBACK and REBUS. 

Robin Moore is an Innovation Consultant for Media Cymru, a £50m programme to support innovation across the Cardiff Media Cluster, and Director of SHWSH Limited, a creative technology consultancy. He is the former Head of Innovation at BBC Wales and has developed and piloted the use of new tools and platforms for many of the BBC's biggest brands, from iPlayer to BBC News, the Six Nations to Doctor Who. He currently focuses on the use of Generative AI, Virtual Production and XR in the media sector, and is a Visiting Professor at the University of South Wales.

Sinéad Stimpfig is the Head of Commissioning at Virgin Media Television.  She is responsible for shaping and implementing VMTV's commissioning strategy across all genres for all platforms.  Since joining VMTV in 2020, she has commissioned international drama co-productions, such as Dead & Buried and Faithless. She has championed new Irish formats, including The Clinic for Well People and Help Me Buy a Home and delivered groundbreaking factual series, such as The Guards and The Brain Doctors. Before joining VMTV, Sinéad worked as a freelancer for over 15 years, producing hit series, such as Operation Transformation, Daniel and Majella’s B&B Road Trip and Super Garden.

Siobhán is a TV drama producer and executive producer. She and Kathryn Lennon set up Saffron Pictures in the late 90s. Their early TV work includes the RTÉ series Love is the Drug, 6*30 mins, written and directed by Darren Thornton (Best Drama IFTA 2005); Whistleblower, a 2 part fact based drama for RTÉ based on The Lourdes Hospital Inquiry (Best Drama IFTA & Celtic Media Festival 2009). In 2014, Saffron Moon was established, as a joint venture with Soho Moon led by James Mitchell, initially developing international crime dramas: Acceptable Risk (2017) and the successful spin-off series Hidden Assets set in the world of the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau and co-produced with Potemkino Port, Belgium.

Hidden Assets was developed and co-written by Peter McKenna alongside writers: Morna Regan, Mary Fox & Marty Thornton, Sinead Collopy, Susan E Connolly and Cara Loftus and directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan, Kadir Ferati Balci and Mia Mullarkey. Commissioned by RTÉ, the series received production support from Screen Ireland, and grant-aid from Creative Europe Online TV Content scheme. Filmed in Dublin and Bilbao, the third series aired recently on RTÉ One/Player, and will be broadcast over the next few months by co-production partners Acorn TV (US and Canada) BBC(UK) and EITB Spain. Siobhán is currently developing drama projects including Hidden Assets season 4.

Siobhán is especially interested in talent development, new writing and models of arts and cultural production in national and international contexts. Prior to working full time in TV drama, Siobhán had a distinguished career in the arts sector. In Irish Theatre Institute (ITI) she co-lead on Speak Up and Call it Out which subsequently developed into the Safe to Create initiative. Her contribution to Irish theatre has been acknowledged. In 2017, she and ITI Co-Director Jane Daly received the Special Tribute Award from the Irish Times/Irish Theatre Awards and more recently in 2025, were awarded the ‘Outstanding contribution to Irish theatre’ award by the Irish Society of Theatre Researchers (ISTR).

Sioned Wiliam comes from Barry and began her television and radio career at the BBC, before becoming an independent producer. Her credits include Tonight with Jonathan Ross, Game On, Big Train and Yonderland. She also produced iDot and exec produced Rhestr Nadolig Wil for Boom/S4C for which she won a Children’s BAFTA Award. She has been nominated for a BAFTA award three times and won a British Comedy Award and a Bronze Rose at Montreux for BIG TRAIN in 1999. She has also worked as a Commissioning Editor for ITV and BBC Radio 4 and recently worked as the Interim CEO of S4C. She is a fellow of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth,  is a non executive director of Cwmni Da and on the board of Literature Wales. She is also a novelist and has just published her 5^th book.

Born and brought up in Northern Ireland, Steve joined the BBC in 1990, working initially in Youth and Entertainment Features before becoming a producer/director in London on BBC flagship current affairs programmes Newsnight and Panorama.
He returned to Ireland in 1997 and later established the independent production company, Mint Productions, which supplied the major broadcasters in the UK and Ireland.
His awards as a programme-maker include those from the Royal Television Society and the Irish Film and Television Academy.
In February 2009, Steve was appointed as Director of Programmes, RTÉ Television, with responsibility for commissioning in-house and independently made content on RTÉ One and Two. He re-joined the BBC in 2013 as Head of BBC Northern Ireland Productions.
Steve moved to BBC Scotland as Head of Multiplatform Commissioning in 2017, where his priorities included launching a dedicated channel for Scotland. In this role, Steve led BBC Scotland’s Commissioning, Scheduling, Marketing and Communications, Audience Research, Presentation and Archives teams.
In October 2020 Steve was appointed Director of BBC Scotland, where he led more than over a thousand staff across 13 bases and was responsible for two national TV channels, two national radio stations, dedicated online and social media platforms and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. During his time as Director, BBC investment in Scotland reached record levels. 
In October 2024, he returned to RTÉ as Director of Video, with responsibility for RTÉ Player, RTÉ.ie, RTÉ One, RTÉ Two, RTÉ Jr. and the RTÉ archives.
Steve is a former vice-president of the European Broadcasting Union’s Television Committee and chair of RTS Northern Ireland.

Stuart Laws performs sketch comedy and stand-up comedy. He has supported James Acaster on his UK tours and has appeared on and written for Radio 4, BBC, Prime & UKTV, has two specials on NextUp Comedy, one on American label 800 Pound Gorilla Media and has written a play “The Journey” that debuted at The Edinburgh Fringe at The Pleasance in 2018. In 2021 he was nominated for Leicester Comedy Festival Best Show and in 2022 he was nominated for Comedians Choice Best Show. In 2023 his show was awarded 4.5⭐️ by Chortle and was filmed as a special after a national tour. In 2026, he is touring the UK and US.

Attenborough played the lead role in Jeremy Herrin's production of Another Country in the West End, and starred opposite Nicole Kidman.  He has had roles in Sam Mendes-produced The Hollow Crown, Channel 4's Utopia, Home Fires, Denial starring Rachel Weisz, and the Oscar-winning Dunkirk. Attenborough won The Moth London Grandslam in 2018. In 2019, he played Ed Faulkner in The Outpost, based on Jake Tapper's book on the war in Afghanistan. He stars in BBC One's Our Girl as Oliver Hurst.

As a campaigner for 350.org, Attenborough helped secure mayor of London Sadiq Khan's commitment to shift City Hall's £5bn pension fund out of fossil fuel investments.Attenborough also launched a campaign with actors Leila Mimmack and Mark Rylance that successfully moved Equity's pension investments out of fossil fuels and into clean energy.

In 2023, he co-founded the Green Rider campaign, which enables actors and film workers to take action on climate change within the screen industry.