Lisa Mulcahy

Director

Lies We Tell is Lisa Mulcahy's 4th feature film. Recent work inclides, 4-part BBC/PBS/STUDIO CANAL drama, RIDLEY ROAD, written by Sarah Solemani, based on the book by Jo Bloom, and being produced by Red Productions. Prior to that she directed the final 2 episodes of YEARS AND YEARS for BBC/HBO, written by Russell T Davies. She was lead director on series 1 of BLOOD, a psychological thriller for Virgin Media One/Channel 5 for which she was nominated as Best Director in the 2020 IFTA awards.

The series won the IFTA for the Best TV Drama at the 2020 awards. In 2017 she completed UNDERCLIFFE (aka WASTELAND), a contemporary feature film shot in Bradford. Her episodes of HOLBY CITY were broadcast in May 2017 and previous to that, she directed all five episodes of THE MOONSTONE, a period drama based on the Wilkie Collins book, for BBC 1, which was broadcast in in 2016. She co-wrote and directed the children’s feature film THE LEGEND OF LONGWOOD released in 2015. The film sold to many territories worldwide and in April 2016, won the Celtic Media Award for Best Children’s Programme. It was also runner up at the Giffoni Film Festival.

In November 2015, she won an IFTA for Best Director for her work on RED ROCK, the critically acclaimed Irish series which sold to Amazon and the BBC. She was nominated again, for Season 2, in 2016. After RIDLEY ROAD, Lisa will direct UNCLE SILAS, a feature film, written by Elisabeth Gooch. A subversive take on J.S. LeFanu’s gothic sensation novel Uncle Silas, it is being produced by Ruth Carter of Blue Ink Films under the Screen Ireland POV scheme. She is also developing STOLEN, based on a true story, a thriller set in Syria in 2011 during the civil war, which she has written and will direct.

In a previous life she was a first assistant director on many films and dramas in Ireland and abroad.