Image Storytelling: A Directing Workshop with Cathy BradyImage Storytelling: A Directing Workshop with Cathy Brady

Image Storytelling: A Directing Workshop with Cathy Brady

How does a director turn a single image into a story? In this hands-on workshop, filmmaker Cathy Brady explores the role of the director and how framing and visual choices shape character, tone and atmosphere. Starting from the same photograph, small groups imagine the opening moments of a film and discover how one image can spark completely different stories.

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.

This introductory directing session is part of Networkshops, a series of practical, hands-on workshops for new and emerging filmmakers aged 18+, delivered by Northern Ireland Screen under the banner of BFI NETWORK.