Lenny Abrahamson is best known for directing independent films Adam & Paul (2004), Garage (2007), What Richard Did (2012), and Frank (2014), and Room (2015), all of which contributed to Abrahamson's six Irish Film and Television Awards. In 2015, he received widespread recognition for directing Room, based on the novel of the same name by Emma Donoghue. The film received four nominations at the 88th Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director for Abrahamson. In 2020, he directed six episodes of and executive produced the television series Normal People, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series.

Saorise Ronan is Primarily known for her work in period dramas since adolescence she has received a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards and five British Academy Film Awards. Ronan made her acting debut in 2003 on the Irish medical drama series The Clinic and her film debut in I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007). She had her breakthrough role as a precocious teenager in Atonement (2007), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her career progressed with starring roles as a murdered girl seeking closure in The Lovely Bones (2009) and a teenage assassin in Hanna (2011), and the supporting role of a baker in The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). Ronan received critical acclaim and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a homesick Irish immigrant in 1950s New York in Brooklyn (2015), the eponymous high school senior in Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird (2017), and Jo March in Gerwig's Little Women (2019). She also won a Golden Globe Award for Lady Bird.

Fiona Shaw CBE is known for extensive work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, as well as in film and television. In 2020, she was listed at No. 29 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. In film, she played Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2010). Other notable film roles include in My Left Foot (1989), Persuasion (1995), Jane Eyre (1996), The Tree of Life (2011), Colette (2018), Ammonite (2020), and Enola Holmes (2020).

Her television roles include Hedda Hopper in the HBO film RKO 281 (1999), and Marnie Stonebrook in the HBO series True Blood (2011). She played Carolyn Martens in the BBC series Killing Eve (2018–22), for which she received the 2019 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. For her role as a Counselor in Fleabag (2019), she received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series nomination. She starred in the BBC One series Baptiste (2021), and the Disney+ series Andor (2022).

Moe Dunford is best known for his roles in Vikings and Patrick's Day. He is the recipient of a number of accolades, including three Irish Film & Television Awards. Dunford started his acting career in 2010 on The Tudors. Afterwards he appeared in many films and TV productions like An Crisis and Game of Thrones. His most notable roles are Aethelwulf on Vikings and Patrick Fitzgerald in Patrick's Day. In 2015, he received an IFTA in the category of Best Actor in a Lead Role in Film for Patrick's Day, and an EFP 2015 Shooting Stars Award representing Ireland at the Berlin Film Festival.

Colin Farrell has played the leading man in blockbusters and independent films since the 2000s, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and a nomination for an Academy Award. The Irish Times named him Ireland's fifth-greatest film actor in 2020, and Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023. In 2022, Farrell played Penguin in the superhero film The Batman, and gained acclaim for his roles in the science fiction drama After Yang, the survival film Thirteen Lives, and McDonagh's drama The Banshees of Inisherin. For playing a naïve Irishman in the lattermost, he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and another Golden Globe, in addition to a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Ros Hubbard is a world-renowned Irish Casting Director, who together with her husband John, founded and has run Hubbard Casting since 1976. Born in Dublin she worked and lived in London for almost forty years before returning to Ireland. Ros has extensively cast for Hollywood as well as the UK and Irish film and TV industry. Together they have cast films such as The Commitments, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit, Evita, Angela’s Ashes, The Mummy, The Bourne Trilogy and The Da Vinci Code, working closely with Hollywood directors such as Peter Jackson, Paul Greengrass, Sir Alan Parker and Ron Howard. In 2014 she was inducted into the American Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Ros is hugely active in the Irish industry and regularly presents Acting & Casting Masterclasses at the prestigious Galway Film Fleadh and Irish Film Festival, London. In recent years she has turned her hand to producing a number of international movies.

David Freyne's first feature was the Irish horror film, THE CURED, starring Elliot Page. It screened in Special Presentation at The Toronto International Film Festival, The London Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival, as well as winning Best Horror Feature at the Brussels Fantastic Fest. His follow up is the Prime Original comedy, DATING AMBER. It has received several awards including the Audience Award at NewFest and the Pink News Best Feature Film.

Michael is a commercially focussed qualified accountant with 15 years experience in designing, developing and implementing financial systems & solutions in both the commercial and not-for profit sectors. Formerly Head of Finance at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and The British Academy, and Accountant to Birkbeck University of London, Michael's most recent position was with International Non-Government Organisation Westminster Foundation for Democracy.

Email: MM@irishfilmuk.com

Paddy works in the City of London where he has led intelligence, corporate security and risk management programmes for Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, and Swiss Re.

His career has involved engagements across the public and private sectors, notably in security and defence, energy and finance, often helping corporate leaders to align threats and risks with effective controls and countermeasures and thereby protect critical business assets and processes. He currently sits on multiple international industry forums specialising in security and business intelligence.

Former IFL Board Member and Lead on Business Strategy, Karen has strong credentials in strategy and governance frameworks.

Karen has led strategy and business development activities for profit and non-profit organisations, from start-ups in the South Pacific to clean energy companies in Canada. Her love of film began as an intern at United Artists’ head office in San Francisco.