Brendan is an internationally recognised filmmaker who last narrative fiction film as Producer, SKINTOWN won the Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence at the 2026 Edinburgh International Film Festival after its World Premiere screening. His previous narrative fiction title THAT THEY FACE THE RISING SUN won the Best Film IFTA (Irish Film & Television Awards) in 2024. Brendan’s documentary work includes GAZA (Sundance 2019) and IN THE SHADOW OF BEIRUT (Doc Edge 2023), both films selected as Ireland’s official entry to the Academy awards in the Best International Feature and Best Documentary feature categories in 2020 and 2024 respectively. Brendan’s other narrative feature films as producer include JUMP (TIFF 2012) and MAZE (2017). His debut feature documentary as Director / Producer was the internationally acclaimed BOBBY SANDS: 66 DAYS (Hotdocs 2016/BBC Storyville) which went on to become the most successful Irish documentary at the box office that year. Brendan followed up with ONE MILLION AMERICAN DREAMS (Hulu) and MY NAME IS BULGER (Discovery +). Brendan is preparing to direct his first fiction film next year, AMONGST WOMEN, based on the novel of the same name by celebrated Irish author, John McGahern. The script has been written by Owen McCafferty (ORDINARY LOVE) and is being produced by Rebecca O’Brien (Sixteen Films) and Tina O’Reilly (Metropolitan Films) Brendan’s career to date has spanned almost 40 years unbroken and he still doesn’t have any grey hair - yet!

A graduate of IADT, Dublin and the Royal College of Art (MA RCA) London, Kieron has directed for the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, SKY, Channel 5 and RTÉ including the hit series THE YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO BECOMING A ROCKSTAR (RTS award for Best Series) and his first feature WHEN BRENDAN MET TRUDY written by Roddy Doyle which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival. For ITV he directed WATERMELON based on the novel by Marian Keyes starring Anna Friel and Brenda Fricker. He has since directed KITCHEN, a drama starring Eddie Izzard for Channel 5, and the first series of RAW for RTÉ for which he was nominated for an IFTA for Best Director. The series went on to run for 5 seasons. In 2006 he co-founded Bl!nder Films where he co-devised and directed THE SAVAGE EYE which ran for 4 seasons. The show was twice nominated for an IFTA for Best Entertainment Series and won two Celtic Media Awards for Best Entertainment Series. He directed and co-wrote the multi award-winning feature film JUMP which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and subsequently won the Cinema Without Borders award at the Palm Springs Film Festival as well as being nominated for a number of IFTAs and a Zebbie for screenwriting. At Bl!nder films, Kieron developed and produced a number of feature films and television shows including CITADEL, SENSATION (with Domhnall Gleeson), LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (with Kate Beckinsale), COME ON EILEEN, EXTRA ORDINARY and STRIKING OUT. Kieron directed the TV movie THE PSYCHOPATH NEXT DOOR starring Anna Friel for SKY television, and the futuristic thriller web series RAPT for RTE which picked up awards at Raindance and Vancouver. In 2016 he made the black and white comedy MY LIFE FOR IRELAND for the centenary of 1916 rising. Recently he directed JAMES JOYCE: A SHOUT IN THE STREET - a documentary for BBC 2 about the life of James Joyce presented by Anjelica Huston and the first series of FINDING JOY starring Amy Huberman and Aisling Bea. His feature film THE RACER (co-written with Ciaran Cassidy) was selected to premiere at SXSW 2020 in March 2020, was the opening film of the 65th Cork International film Festival 2020 and screened at Tallinn Black Nights 2020 before going on general release. More recently he directed episodes of INSIDE No 9 for BBC 2 and the 6-part period drama THE HARDACRES for Channel 5 and Britbox. Kieron’s latest feature film SKINTOWN premieres at the the 79th Edinburgh International Film Festival and won the Sean Connery Prize for Filmmaking excellence and the audience award at the Dinard British & Irish Film Festival. It is currently travelling the festival circuit. He is represented by Olivia Gray at Independent Talent, London and Kevin Parker & Allen Fischer at Artists First LA.