Dr Ciara Chambers

Dr Ciara Chambers is Head of Film and Screen Media.
Department roles incl.: BA Course Director.

Her research interests include newsreels, amateur film and the recycling of archival images. She is a council member of the International Association of Media History and associate editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. She is also a member of the consultative board of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media and the board of advisors of Estudios Irlandeses. She was scriptwriter and associate producer on Éire na Nuachtscannán (www.irelandinthenewsreels.com), a six-part television series broadcast on TG4. She is currently working on the AHRC/IRC-funded Make Film History project in partnership with Kingston University, the BBC, the British Film Institute, Northern Ireland Screen and the IFI Irish Film Archive.

Link to profile here
Office: O'Rahilly Building, G27c
Tel: 021 490 5162
Email: ciara.chambers@ucc.ie 

Dr Abigail Keating

Dr Abigail Keating is Lecturer in Film and Screen Media.
Department roles incl.: 2nd Year Coordinator; Year Abroad/Erasmus Coordinator; International Students Coordinator.

Her main research areas include women and film/media, contemporary cinema, screen media culture, protest media, and pop culture, on which she has published widely. She has worked freelance as an editor and videographer for many local and national organisations, and has worked in collaboration with the Irish Film Institute a number of times, through projects and lecture series. She is currently working on a book on women and the contemporary screen.

Link to profile here 
Office: 2 Carrigside 2nd Floor 
Tel: 021 490-2656 
Email: abigail.keating@ucc.ie

Dr Barry Monahan

Dr Barry Monahan is Lecturer in Film Studies.
Department roles incl.: 1st Year Coordinator.

His main teaching and research interests are: the history and aesthetics of Irish and other national cinemas and film theory.

Link to profile here
Office: O'Rahilly Building
Tel: 021 490-2515
Email: b.monahan@ucc.ie

James Mulvey

James Mulvey is Lecturer in Film Studies.
Department roles incl: 3^rd Year Coordinator.

His main teaching and research interests include the essay film, the portrait film, fiction/non-fiction and film-philosophy. He is the Reviews Editor for Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media and the English Language Editor for Cinergie Journal. He is the Early Careers Researcher representative for the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) in the division of film studies. He is the features and documentary programmer for IndieCork film festival, with an emphasis on fostering independent, essayistic and art cinema, where he focuses on developing links between the academic and filmic communities.

Dan O'Connell

Dan O'Connell is Lecturer in Filmmaking.
Department roles incl.: Mature Students Coordinator; Industry Liaison Officer/Masterclass coordinator; Teaching and Learning Officer. (Semester 1)

He is a multi award-winning director and has written and directed dozens of short films and documentaries, which have been screened at film festivals both locally and internationally. He is Director at SUPEREGO, a high-quality video production company with large multinational clients, which aims to deliver promotional, fashion and event video to a growing online market. He is also founder of egomotion.net, Cork's online filmmaking hub with over 400 members, where filmmakers can share knowledge, participate in each other's projects and share resources. Egomotion have also hosted various screenings, workshops and meet-and-greets in order to promote local filmmaking talent.

Office: Kane B10D
Tel: 021 490-2237
Email: danieloconnell@ucc.ie
Website: www.superego.ie

Professor Laura Rascaroli

Laura Rascaroli is Professor in Film and Screen Media.
Department roles incl.: PhD Coordinator; Focus Convenor; Research Officer. 

Her research interests span European and World cinemas; experimental nonfiction, the essay film, and first-person cinemas; artist film and the post-medium moving image; film space and geopolitics; and the politics of form. She is the author of several monographs, including How the Essay Film Thinks (Oxford UP, 2017), The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film (Wallflower, 2009), and Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie (Wallflower, 2006), and coeditor of collections including Expanding Cinema: Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art (Amsterdam UP, 2020) and Antonioni: Centenary Essays (BFI, 2011). Her work has been translated into several languages. She is the General Editor of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media.

Link to profile here
Office: O'Rahilly Building 1.26
Tel: 021 490-2471
Email: l.rascaroli@ucc.ie

Dr Gwenda Young

Dr Gwenda Young is Lecturer in Film and Screen Media.
Department roles incl.: MA/MRes Coordinator; Industry Liaison Officer/Masterclass Coordinator; Library Officer.

Her research interests include: Silent Cinema, 1914–1927; Film History; Animals and Film/Media; Classical Hollywood Cinema; Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema; Genre Studies.

Link to profile here 
Office: O'Rahilly Building 1.83
Tel: 021 490-2776
Email: g.young@ucc.ie

Maximilian Le Cain

Maximilian Le Cain is Arts Council/UCC Film Artist in Residence.

Maximilian Le Cain has created a prolific and acclaimed body of moving image work including features, shorts, installations and film-related performances. His filmmaking proposes a personal relationship with cinema as a site of haunting. Accepted visual and storytelling codes are encouraged to collapse into a more personalised system that approaches moving imagery as an experiential construct open to possession by multiple claims of memory and interpretation.
Le Cain is currently completing Solitaire (2023), a feature made with the support of an Arts Council Project Award. Recent works include Daughter of the Sun (2021), a short based on the Irish legend of the Cailleach Beara that screened at the 2022 Cork International Film Festival; and Blissed (2022), a feature presented at ECRÃ Festival, Brazil. He created an expanded cinema performance, Two Times in One Space, for Oberhausen Film Festival 2022 in collaboration with Léa Lanoë. 
Le Cain is affiliated with Experimental Film Society (EFS), a Dublin-based company dedicated to the production and distribution of experimental cinema. His work featured in an exhibition and event series at Project Arts Centre, Dublin in May/June 2021 to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of EFS. He frequently works in partnership with Vicky Langan. Their decade-long collaboration has created an intimate but unsettling personal universe in film and performance. He is also a programmer and writer on cinema.

Lord David Puttnam

Lord David Puttnam is Adjunct Professor of Film and Screen Media and Digital Humanities at UCC.

David Puttnam spent thirty years as an independent producer of award-winning films including The Mission, The Killing Fields, Local Hero, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express, Bugsy Malone and Memphis Belle. His films have won ten Oscars, 25 BAFTAs and the Palme D'Or at Cannes. From 1994 to 2004 he was Vice President and Chair of Trustees at the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) and was awarded a BAFTA Fellowship in 2006. He retired from film production in 1998 to focus on his work in public policy as it relates to education, the environment, and the 'creative and communications' industries.

Webpage: http://www.davidputtnam.com/index.cfm

Dr. Laécio Ricardo

Dr. Laécio Ricardo is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Film and Screen Media, University College Cork.

Laecio Ricardo de Aquino Rodrigues holds a PhD in Multimeios (Cinema and Photography) from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp - Brazil), and since 2009 has served as Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE - Brazil). A former journalist with a master degree in Sociology, he has published several articles and papers on documentary film, with an emphasis on modern and contemporary practices. Recently, he edited the book Pensar o documentário – textos para um debate(Editora da UFPE), which is available for download here. His research areas are: Cinema Studies, Film Theory, Modern and Contemporary Documentary, First Person Films. His current project, "Documentary and self-writing – shared intimacy and subjective overflow", is mentored by Prof. Laura Rascaroli. It is a long-term investigation about the emergence and consolidation of the “first person” in the contemporary documentary, assumed mainly by the filmmaker in the enunciative work. 

Link to profile here

Dr. Paolo Saporito

Dr. Paolo Saporito is IRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Film and Screen Media, University College Cork.

He has a PhD in Italian Studies from McGill University, where he also taught courses on Italian culture and cinema and eco-cinema. His research focuses on how films, online forms of expression and literary texts, as cultural productions, contribute to the development of viable political ecologies and sustainable ethics. The title of his current project, mentored by Prof. Laura Rascaroli, is “Positively Modern: Michelangelo Antonioni and Affirmative Cinematic Ecologies.” The project brings contemporary philosophical definitions of alienation to bear on Antonioni’s films to study their (non)human ecologies from a post-anthropocentric perspective. His preliminary steps in this project include the essay “New Materialism, Female Bodies and Ethics in Antonioni’s L’avventura, La notte and L’eclisse,” published in the edited collection Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film (2020) and the article “Cinematic Excess and Sustainable Ecologies in Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point” (forthcoming). At McGill University, he organised the event series “The Long 1950s: Popular Culture and the (Un)Making of Italian Identity” and conferences on diversity issues and the environmental humanities. He also co-organized the 38th edition of the Festival International du Film sur l’Art (Montreal, 2020).  

Research areas: art cinema; ethics and politics of cultural production; cultural activism; transmediality; material eco-criticism and eco-cinema.       

Link to research profile: https://paolosaporito.academia.edu/

Dr Anna Viola Sborgi

Dr Anna Viola Sborgi is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Department of Film and Screen Media, University College Cork. 

Her research focuses on screen representations of the home and housing in Europe, and on London and gentrification. Her current project, MEDIAHOMES: Housing Precarity on Screen in Ireland, Portugal and the UK from the 2008 crisis to COVID-19, mentored by Prof Laura Rascaroli, investigates transnational mediations of housing inequality in Europe, their production and circulation. She was previously Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Genoa, Italy, where she worked on post-2000 representations of high-rise and tower-block living within the London skyline. She holds a PhD in Film Studies (King’s College London) and a PhD in Comparative Literature (University of Genoa). She has recently published on contemporary British documentary and the housing crisis in Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe (EUP, 2020) and on the mediations of the Grenfell Tower Fire in After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response (Pluto, 2019). She is an editorial board member at Mediapolis: a Journal of Cities and Culture and co-chairs the Space and Place Workgroup at NECS-European Network for Cinema and Media Studies. 

e-mail: asborgi@ucc.ie

Ms. Linda Murphy

Linda Murphy, Executive Assistant.

Office: O'Rahilly Building 1.26
E-mail: film@ucc.ie
Tel: 353 021 490-3863 

Barry Reilly

Barry Reilly is Apple Certified Trainer and Senior Technical Officer in Film and Screen Media.

Department roles incl.: Health and Safety Officer; Fire Marshal.

A graduate in Broadcast Systems Engineering, he went on to work for one of Ireland's largest independent Broadcasters as a Broadcast Technician. His role there included technical supervision of the company’s live studio events as well as broadcast engineer on global news channel guest interviews.

Office: Kane B10D 
Email: barry.reilly@ucc.ie 
Tel: 021 490-2237