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Jim Sheridan is an Irish playwright, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. Between 1989 and 1993, Sheridan directed two critically acclaimed films set in Ireland, My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father, and later directed the films The Boxer and In America. Sheridan has received six Academy Award nominations.
Michael Koch is a Swiss film director and screenwriter.
Austin Film Festival (AFF), founded in 1994, is an organization in Austin, Texas, that focuses on writers’ creative contributions to film. Initially, AFF was called the Austin Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference and functioned to launch the careers of screenwriters, who historically have been underrepresented within the film industry.
Peter Julian Robin Morgan, is a British screenwriter and playwright best known for his work on stage and film and television. He is known as the playwright behind The Audience and Frost/Nixon and the screenwriter of The Queen (2006), Frost/Nixon (2008), The Damned United (2009), and Rush (2013). Morgan is also known for writing the television films The Deal (2003), Longford (2006), and The Special Relationship (2010). He currently serves as creator and showrunner of the Netflix series The Crown (2016–present).
Fantastic Fest is an annual film festival in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 2005 by Tim League of Alamo Drafthouse, Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News, Paul Alvarado-Dykstra, and Tim McCanlies, writer of The Iron Giant and Secondhand Lions.
Andrew Timothy Birkin is an English screenwriter, director and occasional actor. He was born the only son of Lieutenant-Commander David Birkin and his wife, actress Judy Campbell. One of his sisters is the actress and singer Jane Birkin.
The Fresh Film Fest International Film Festival or Fresh Film Fest is an international student film festival held annually in August in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, first held in 2004.
Dana Adam Shapiro is an American film director, best known for his directorial work on the 2006 Academy Award-nominated documentary Murderball.
Shimon Dotan is an Israeli film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Edgar Morais is an actor, writer and filmmaker. He studied theater in Lisbon and began his film acting career with Catarina Ruivo's drama From Now On. Morais wrote and directed the award-winning short film We Won't Forget which had its premiere at 2021's Palm Springs International ShortFest. He has worked with such directors as Larry Clark, Victoria Mahoney, Tiago Guedes, Lucas Elliot Eberl, Miguel Nunes and Teresa Sutherland.
The Dublin International Film Festival, known for sponsorship reasons as the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival (VMDIFF), is a film festival held in Dublin, Ireland, since 2003.
The Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF) is a long-running, international film festival held in Atlanta, Georgia operated by the Atlanta Film Society, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Started in 1976 and occurring every spring, the festival shows a diverse range of independent films, with special attention paid to women-directed films, LGBTQ films, Latin American films, Black films and films from the American Southeast. ATLFF is one of only a handful of festivals that are Academy Award-qualifying in all three short film categories.
Christopher Jaymes is an American television and film actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and musician.
The Berlin International Film Festival, usually called the Berlinale, is a film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of the "Big Three" alongside the Venice Film Festival in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival in France. Since 2019, Mariette Rissenbeek serves as the executive director of the festival, while Carlo Chatrian is the artistic director.
Rüdiger Heinze is a film producer and Screenplay writer.
Chema Rodríguez is a Spanish filmmaker and writer.
Issa López is a Mexican producer, writer and film director. Eleven Spanish language features have been produced from her scripts, four of them directed by herself. She has won several literary awards, including the National Novel Award granted by Mexico's Institute of Fine Arts and Literature in 2007.
Nana Ekvtimishvili is a Georgian writer and director.
Radu Jude is a Romanian film director and screenwriter.
Carles Torrens is a Spanish film and television director, screenwriter, editor, and producer, known for his award-winning short films and his 2011 feature film debut Apartment 143 (Emergo).
