I have been shooting and directing documentaries since the late 90s and am now in post with 🍋 LEMONADE 🍋 my first live action feature as writer & director, starring Screen Rising Star Lewis Brophy & Barry Keoghan.

It’s always been my goal to make thought provoking, memorable docs. I focus on developing open & trusting relationships with the people I film with and finding ways to translate their emotions and their stories into compelling, creative films with grit and heart. These same core values lie at the heart of the script for LEMONADE a work of fiction that is rooted in my documentary experience.

I grew up in Paris but I’m now based in Ireland where I run Frontline Films a small documentary production company.

In 2003 “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” a documentary I co-directed and shot with Donnacha O’Brien, chronicling the failed coup against Venezuelan President Chavez from inside the presidential palace, premiered at SXSW, scooped up dozens of international awards and continues to be used in media courses across the world.

I have won multiple international awards including the Grierson and IDA awards for Best Documentary & Banff’s Global Television Grand Prize. In Ireland I have twice won Best Documentary Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh and have been nominated for six IFTA awards for Best Documentary.

In 2023 I was selected for the X-Pollinator writer/ director residency lead by director Aisling Walsh with LEMONADE, my first screenplay, which I further developed with support from Screen Ireland.

In 2024 I was lucky enough to shadow director Dearbhla Walsh (Fargo, The Handmaid’s Tale) on APPLE’s BAD SISTERS S2 and to be mentored by writer/ director Frank Berry (Aisha, Michael Inside, I Used to Live Here) under Screen Ireland’s mentoring scheme.

Through The National Talent Academy I was also fortunate to receive support and funding for my first low budget short film STRAY, starring Eva Birthistle & Isabelle Connolly, the film premiered at DIFF 2025 and screened at the Fastnet Film Festival in May 2025..

I also work in the Oberstown child detention campus where I run a podcast and drama workshop for teenage detainees.

I am a board member of SDGI the Screen Director’s Guild of Ireland.