Rioghnach Ní Ghrioghair

Rioghnach Ní Ghrioghair is an award-winning writer, director and producer from Dublin, Ireland.

Based between Ireland and Germany, she is also the founder of Curveball Media LTD and has an experienced career in film and TV development, having been a development executive for leading Irish companies Blinder Films and Samson Films. Winner of the 2022 Aer Lingus Discovery Award, Rioghnach’s new award-winning horror short film, Don’t Go Where I Can’t Find You, was selected for SXSW 2022, won several awards and was recently nominated for the Best Live Action Short Film IFTA. She is also the writer and director of Break Us, which went to over 30 festivals internationally including Fantasia Film Festival. She produced and directed Do I Know You? and written and directed Neon. All three films were supported by Screen Ireland. In summer 2022, Rioghnach wrote and directed Balor Hall, a half hour whodunnit commissioned by RTE under their Storyland Scheme. She is one of Screen International’s Rising Stars for 2023.