Lisa Mulcahy is an award winning feature film and television director. She has just completed work on 12 episodes of the critically acclaimed TV3 drama series Red Rock and is about to return to direct the final four episodes of Season 1.
She is in development on several feature films including Stolen, a remarkable true story of a woman who enters war torn Syria alone to rescue her 6-year-old daughter. Her award winning second feature film The Legend of Longwood will be released in cinemas in Holland in June 2015 and has sold to many territories worldwide including Australia, Brazil and the USA where it will be released by Shout Factory, also in June. The film will be released in cinemas in Ireland and Germany later in 2015.
The Legend of Longwood has been screened at many festivals worldwide and was the runner up in the 10+ category at the 2014 Giffoni Film Festival, the largest children’s film festival in the world. It continues to travel the festival circuit and will be next seen at the inaugural Bentonville Film Festival set up by actress Gina Davis in Arkansas in May.
Previous Work
Her first feature film Situations Vacant, a comedy shot in Dublin, was released nationwide in Ireland in December 2009.
Lisa’s Hallmark movie Gift of the Magi was broadcast several times over the 2010/2011 Christmas season in the US.
Her short movie Coming Home, made in 2011, about a woman coping with the news that she has breast cancer, has been seen by many thousands of viewers on the internet and has recently been remade for other territories.
She was the lead director on the award winning RTÉ drama series The Clinic, directing four episodes in season one and twelve episodes in total over five seasons. She also directed episodes of On Home Ground, another RTÉ drama.
She has directed several documentaries, which have screened on television in both Ireland and Europe including the deeply personal and highly acclaimed Dan, Dan, Dad and Me.
Lisa’s short films have screened in competition in many festivals including Clerment Ferrand, Hamburg, as well as on TV in both Europe and The United States.
She has also made numerous commercials for television and cinema.
In a previous existence she was a first Assistant Director on many films and television dramas in Ireland and abroad and began her career in the industry as an assistant film editor in Dublin and then London.
French Speaker.