Biography
Cathy Brady is an award-winning writer and director from Northern Ireland. Her debut feature, Wildfire, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival before screening at the BFI London Film Festival, where it won the IWC Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award. The film went on to earn Cathy an IFTA for Best Director and a BIFA for Best Debut Screenwriter. Her earlier short films, Small Change and Morning, both won IFTA Best Short Film, with Morning also receiving a European Film Award nomination.
Cathy has also directed television drama for RTÉ, Channel 4 and Paramount+. She is currently developing her next feature films, Dirty Score and The Method, and is due to direct a new BBC Three drama series in 2027.
Alongside her filmmaking, Cathy is Development Tutor on the MA Directing Fiction course at the National Film and Television School (UK). She has also designed and facilitates original directing and acting programmes, including Beyond Shorts and Finding the Moment.
Areas of Expertise for Mentoring
- Director for TV and feature
- Script development
- Workshopping/devising with actors
- Teaches Directing Fiction at Master level at NFTS
- Designed and Facilitated courses for directors working with actors and long form