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EXCLUSIVE: Eternity writer-director David Freyne, The Rachel Incident writer Caroline O’Donoghue and exec shaper Matt Jordan Smith and All About The Money director Sinéad O’Shea person been confirmed arsenic speakers for nan 3rd version of Storyhouse, Element Pictures’ Dublin-based screenwriting festival.
They will subordinate antecedently announced speakers including Brady Corbet, Abi Morgan, Will Tracy, Audrey Diwan, Eva Victor, Harry Lighton, Ava Pickett, Jack Rooke, Suhayla El-Bushra, Brendan Canty and Nicôle Lecky.
The two-day event, which kicks disconnected tomorrow (April 17) astatine nan Light House Cinema, will big a raft of panels and in-depth discussions and hosts group to guideline nan conversations include: Aurelie Godet, Festival Programmer for nan Cork International Film Festival; Charlene Lydon, Festival Programmer astatine nan Galway Film Fleadh; The Rachel Incident and September Says producer Chelsea Morgan Hoffman; Pillion and Normal People producer Emma Norton; You Are Not My Mother writer-director Kate Dolan; writer and journalist Patrick Freyne; Constellations writer Sinéad Gleeson; playwright and screenwriter Sonya Kelly; and Bodkin writer Ursula Rani Sarma.
Storyhouse is simply a not-for-profit inaugural backed by Element Pictures and spearheaded by Academy Award nominated shaper and Co-CEO of Element Pictures, Ed Guiney. It’s supported by Screen Ireland, Fremantle and Element Pictures and is produced successful relation pinch nan Light House Cinema.
The show is positioning itself arsenic a hub for caller and established writers and manufacture professionals to use from in-depth interviews, panels and lawsuit studies from immoderate of nan astir established world creators of stories for nan screen. Panels tally alongside its Storyhouse Lab, a five-day inaugural that connects 15 emerging screenwriters pinch manufacture figures nether nan mentorship of What Richard Did and 500 Miles writer Malcolm Campbell.
“We are truthful looking guardant to nan 3rd version of Storyhouse complete nan coming days and are truthful grateful for nan generosity of our unthinkable guests and moderators,” said Guiney. “Thanks to nan Storyhouse squad and each our sponsors and backers for supporting and wrangling this unthinkable lineup.”
Storyhouse takes spot connected April 16-17, 2026, successful Dublin’s Light House Cinema.
