Her recent projects include ODDITY, written and directed by Damian McCarthy and starring Gwilym Lee, Carolyn Bracken and Tadhg Murphy, which premiered at SXSW 2024 and won the Midnighters Audience Award, and Claire Dix’s debut feature SUNLIGHT, written by Ailbhe Keogan and produced by Roisin Geraghty which premiered at Dublin International Film Festival and Glasgow Film Festival.
Current productions include the second series of THE GONE, a 6 X 1 hour crime drama currently in production, which will air on TVNZ and RTÉ, and is being sold internationally by Red Arrow Studios International, and Nick Pesce’s VISITATION, for eOne with Rumble Films, starring Olivia Cooke, Isla Johnston, Olivia Williams, Penelope Wilton, Stephen Rea and Alfie Allen.
Holly was a “Producer on the Move” at Cannes, a former board member of Screen Ireland and former co-chair and founding member of Women in Film and Television Ireland. She is currently a member of the Irish Film and Television Academy, BAFTA, BIFA and the European Film Academy. Holly is also founder and co-creative director of X-Pollinator, a cross-disciplinary training and networking initiative for female creative talent.
Ones that surprise me, & that make me feel: whether that’s laugh, cry or be angry: the most vivid movie memories I have are always down to this.
Making a couple of shorts as part of my Masters in Film Studies in UCD – having not really contemplated being a producer or truthfully really even knowing what a producer did, I realised it’s the perfect marriage of so many things I love &/or am good at: stories, music, visuals, building & working in a team and the business/deal side too. It was a light bulb moment!
One of the great pleasure of producing is where it takes you, the people you meet & the sheer magic you can help create, but a few highlights are bringing Panti Bliss home to Ballinrobe to do her show just a week after the Marriage Referendum (she brought the house down), being not only producer but also promoter of two iconic sold out Grace Jones shows at the Olympia Theatre, shutting down Merrion Square one weekend to recreate the 1998 Tour de France for The Racer which is still the biggest shoot day I’ve ever done, & getting to visit & work in beautiful Aotearoa (New Zealand) for our latest production The Gone. Grace meeting Panti after I showed her The Queen of Ireland is particularly memorable: two absolute Queens!
I’ll never choose!
