Katie Holly is an Executive Producer on period horror VICTORIAN PSYCHO, directed by Zachary Wigon and starring Maika Monroe, Thomasin McKenzie, and Jason Isaacs, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes 2026, as well as THE INCOMER, written and directed by Louis Paxton, starring Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin, and Grant O’Rourke, which premiered in Sundance 2026 and took the Midnighter’s Audience Award, and the television series THE GONE, an Irish New Zealand co-production for RTE, TVNZ & Red Arrow International Studios, written by Anna McPartlin & Michael Bennett, starring Richard Flood, Achusla Tara Kupe, Carolyn Bracken and Michelle Fairley.
Recent releases include ODDITY, a co-production with Nowhere, written and directed by Damien McCarthy (CAVEAT), and starring Gwilym Lee, and Carolyn Bracken, which premiered at SXSW 2024 and won the Midnighters Audience Award; and the second series of THE GONE, a 6 X 1 hour crime drama, which aired on RTÉ Fall 2024, and is being sold internationally by Red Arrow Studios International.
Upcoming releases include Nick Pesce’s VISITATION, for eOne with Rumble Films, starring Olivia Cooke, Isla Johnston, Olivia Williams, Penelope Wilton, Stephen Rea and Alfie Allen, WHITETAIL, directed by Nanouk Leopold, which premiered at TIFF 2025, feature documentary LESBIAN LINES, directed by Cara Holmes, and SKINTOWN, directed by Kieron J Walsh and adapted by Ciarán McMenamin from his novel of the same name, starring Jack Rowan, Chris Walley, and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, produced alongside Brendan Byrne of Cyprus Avenue Films, THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO UTOPIAS, the final film in Sophie Fiennes’ trilogy about philosopher and psychologist Slavoj Žižek, and Saorise Ronan’s directorial debut PAPER PLANE, a short film which premiered in Venice 2026.
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!
