Katie McNeice

Katie McNeice is a multi-award winning Writer Director and Editor who crafts thoughtful identity-films with a particular focus on sexuality and gender. She was recently nominated for an IFTA for Best Script Film for her debut feature project WHO WE LOVE, which she shares with Co-Writer and Director Graham Cantwell. Her debut short film IN ORBIT has received 57 awards including a Special Jury Mention at the Galway Film Fleadh and a ZeBBie nomination for Best Short Script from the Writers Guild of Ireland. Rural drama LAMBING is Ireland's first film on the experience of intersex babies and their parents, and recently made its World Premiere at the 2022 Galway Film Fleadh. This project is funded by the IMDb Script to Screen Award and the 2021 Kildare ShortGrass Film Bursary. Shorts also include Irish language project 'FOCAIL BAILE CROÍ (Words Home Heart), funded by Comórtas Fisín Pitching Competition and the 2022 Screen Kerry Short Film Bursary. FOCAIL BAILE CROÍ is produced by Maggie Ryan of Escape Pod Media and will be shot in September. Feature projects include WHO WE LOVE which she co-wrote with Graham Cantwell. This film earned her the Inaugural Rising Talent Award at the Kerry International Film Festival and was nominated for six IFTAs at the 2022 Irish Film & Drama Awards including Best Script and Best Film. She is currently developing a feature adaptation of award-winning LGBT children's novel THE DEEPEST BREATH by Meg Grehan from Little Island Books. Katie is also set to make her feature directorial debut next year with NORTH OF NOWHERE, a neo-noir thriller written by Sam Uhlemann and produced by Juliane Wothe of New Stage Films.