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Stephen Byrne

Video Producer & Editor
  • Suggested rate
    $323 / day
  • Experience8-15 years
  • Response rate100%
  • Response time1 hour
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Dublin, Ireland
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Stephen is an award-winning producer/editor from Waterford, Ireland, living in Dublin. He has been working in the film industry since 2002, initially doing courses at the Irish Film Institute and then producing short films.

In 2005 he produced his 1st professional short film called Jack’s Hat. The film went on to
have success in national and international film festivals, secured U.S. distribution and broadcast on national television.

Besides producing and co-producing short films that won several awards (including Best Short Comedy Award & Spirit of the Festival Award), he obtained a BTEC Higher National Diploma in Creative Media Production.

Since 2007, he has worked as a freelancer in arts/film management under the name Mad Dog Productions (and he established the Waterford International Film Festival ) the same year.

The festival has run successfully ever since and is due to celebrate its 17th annual event in 2023.

He was nominated for the Contribution to the Arts Award for the South East region of the country for his work on the festival.

Stephen has worked on a variety of projects over the years including online adverts and corporate videos for big companies and organisations such as The Chamber of Commerce, Maxol, Credit Union, Sun Life Financial, and Waterford Crystal.

As of 2019, Stephen began collaborating with Associate Producer Zahara Moufid of Jim Sherdian's company Hell's Kitchen, including the Dublin Arabic Film Festival, where Zahara is the Festival Director and Stephen is the Festival Programmer.

He provides a variety of different services including video production & editing, event management, and website design.

In 2022, he was awarded the Semi-Finalist Spot for Best Trailer in the Arthouse Festival of Beverly Hills for the Short Film Quest' by Maree Egan.


Experience
  • Dublin Arabic Film Festival
    Festival Programmer
    June 2019 - Today (5 years and 5 months)
    Dublin, Ireland
    Zahara Moufid and Jim Sheridan established DAFF in 2014 in a bid to allow Irish audiences the opportunity to enjoy some of the best new and classic Arab films ever made. The festival, which has been presented and supported since its inception by Dubai Duty Free, has had some very high-profile actors, filmmakers and celebrities involved with it over the years. I have been working on the festival since 2019. as a festival programmer. My duties include website building, video editing, social media management and coordinating with filmmakers and film production companies.
  • Waterford International Film Festival
    Festival Director
    ARTS & CRAFTS
    April 2007 - Today (17 years and 7 months)
    Waterford, Ireland
    The Waterford International Film Festival is Waterford's premiere film festival that showcases the works of national & international filmmakers & artists. The festival was established by filmmaker Stephen Byrne in 2007 and he is the creative/festival director of the annual event. In 2022 the festival will be celebrating its 16th Annual event! This year the festival will be a blend of Cinema & Online Screenings. Cinema Screenings will take place in the Odeon Cinema in Waterford City. It has always been our goal to promote and support established,debut and student filmmakers especially in the field of independent short films with our annual events and competitions. The festival welcomes all forms of short films: live-action, animation, documentaries and music videos. The festival has a passion to celebrate short films from around the world,bringing filmmakers together. The Waterford Film Festival was the 1st festival in the Republic of Ireland to hold an annual short screenplay competition supporting and acknowledging the work of short screenplay writers. The festival also runs a movie themed Photography Competition to support and encourage new and emerging talent in the areas of photography and art. Each year we produce a series of events that are creative, intriguing, fun and entertaining. The festival hugely encourages networking. Social meetups and events are held for the audience to meet other filmmakers over the festival weekend. Filmmakers & Artists from across the globe have attended the festival and we always look forward to meeting and engaging with all filmmakers and our audience. The festival strives to promote talent from all over the world and to bring a wide variety of projects for our audience of cinema lovers to enjoy.
    event manager Creative
  • Maddog Productions
    Producer & Video Editor
    FILM & AV
    June 2004 - Today (20 years and 5 months)
    Dublin, Ireland
    Brand Video Production, Marketing Videos, Online Promos , Video Production, Short Film Production,Team Management, Video Editing.
    Video production Video editing
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Education
  • Btec Higher National Diploma, Creative Media Production
    Coláiste Dhúlaigh College of Further Education
    2015
    Btec Higher National Diploma, Creative Media Production
  • Certificate, Computer Science
    University of Limerick
    2000
    Certificate, Computer Science