RIOGHNACH NI GHRIOGHAIR

SCREEN INTERNATIONAL RISING STAR 2023

AER LINGUS DISCOVERY AWARD 2022

IFTA NOMINATED FOR BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM 2023

BBC WRITERS’ ROOM VOICES 2023

Rioghnach Ní Ghrioghair is an award-winning writer, director and producer from Dublin, Ireland. She has an experienced career in film and TV script editing and development, having been a development executive for leading Irish companies Blinder Films and Samson Films.

Winner of the 2022 Aer Lingus Discovery Award, Rioghnach’s award-winning horror short film, Don’t Go Where I Can’t Find You, was selected for SXSW for its Midnight Shorts programme 2022, went to 40 festivals internationally and was nominated for the Best Live Action Short Film IFTA (Irish Film and Television Academy) Award in 2023.

She is also the writer and director of Break Us, which went to over 30 festivals internationally including Fantasia Film Festival. She produced and directed Do I Know You?, which was nominated for the Iris Prize, and written and directed Neon. All three films were supported by Screen Ireland.

In summer 2022, Rioghnach wrote and directed Balor Hall, a half hour whodunnit commissioned by RTE under their Storyland Scheme.

She is one of Screen International’s Rising Stars for 2023 and BBC Writers’ Room’s VOICES programme 2023.