Stephen Gibson

Producer, Stephen Gibson, of Powerscourt Pictures is a dynamic, entrepreneurial individual with a 30 year proven sales, marketing and media career, building business through innovation; relationship & brand building for his own and for international FMCG and media companies. Brands and companies he held senior roles with include Pepsi, Kraft Foods International, Diageo, Newscorp and RCA Media Entertainment. Born in Dublin, Ireland and educated to degree level in sales and marketing, Stephen moved to and lives in Banbridge in Northern Ireland. He is married with three kids. His actress daughter Chloe Gibson www.imdb.me/chloegibson is known for 'A Midsummer Nights Dream' / 'Bridge to Kindness' and recently in the Andrew Lloyd Webber / Ben Elton West End Musical 'The Beautiful Game' (2018). She is already following in her dads footsteps writing, producing and directing her first short, the Cinemagic award short listed 'Bloom to Perish' in 2016 when she was 15. Stephen, having been involved with the famous Billie Barry stage school in Dublin as a young lad, and was the face of Birds Custard in an 80's TV Commercial; in 2008 with a desire to get back involved into film and entertainment, he completed further actor training at Film Base, Dublin and workshops including a 'Method Actor Training' workshop with Robert Castle, (Artistic Director of International Theatre New York). Deciding to merge a love for the stage and screen with a successful business career, Stephen moved naturally toward producing for film. In 2010 he produced his first short film 'Fallen'. It screened in numerous Irish festivals. Since, in the past number of years, Stephen, who believes in continuous training, completed further production training with Screen Training Ireland and Screen Producers Ireland and production workshops with award winning producers Arthur Lappin (In America' & ''My Left Foot) & Edwina Forkin (Zanzibar Films) to name just a few. Stephen's production credits include the historic Irish short 'An Tain'; the award winning short 'I am Spoon'; and the highly successful short 'Bridge to Kindness' which screened in festivals from Belfast to Bangladesh. He produced numerous shorts before producing Graham Cantwell's feature 'The Callback Queen' in 2013. It was picked up in Cannes in 2015 in a deal Stephen negotiated himself. The Callback Queen had a UK and Irish theatrical release, it had a short cinema run in the US with special thanks to George R.R. Martin, and is now available on Amazon in the US. The Callback Queen was recently sold to Sky in New Zealand, and was released in Germany, with other territories under negotiation. Stephen wrote, produced and directed the TV Pilot 'On Witches Hill'; he was the Irish producer on the US / Irish co-production 'Maidens of the Sea' in 2014, and he produced Paco Torres' feature film 'Saol' in 2014. Stephen was Production Manager on a number of Irish feature films including on the Irish feature 'The Gaelic Curse' directed by Jack Conroy (My Left Foot / The Field) and he was the Production Supervisor on the Zanzibar / RTE / Irish Film Board feature film 'Sanctuary' in 2016, directed by Len Collin. It won Best Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh (2017). Powerscourt Pictures Ltd was formed in Northern Ireland in 2015. They have offices in Banbridge and Dublin and have a slate of high end family IP's in development aimed at both TV & theatrical release, in association with their various strategic partners in London and Los Angeles.