Imelda O'Reilly
Associate Professor, Filmmaker
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About Me
Imelda O’Reilly is an Irish independent filmmaker from Kildare. Her award winning short films and feature screenplay have been represented at over a hundred film festivals internationally around the world, including Cannes Film Festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Cinequest Film and Creativity Film Festival, DOC NYC, Black Maria Film Festival, International Film Festival de Creteil, WorldFest Houston and the Richard Harris International Film Festival.
As a commissioned writer on Song For New York with Mabou Mines her work was developed through the Sundance Theater Lab and New York Theater Workshop. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Morocco where her film Bricks, Beds and Sheep’s Heads was a Regional Finalist for the Student Academy Awards.
Imelda’s short film Eggs and Soldiers was broadcast on RTE and is distributed through ShortsTV Europe. It has screened at over 50 festivals in nine different countries to date. It won an award of excellence at the Broadcast Education Association a Tonino Guerra Award for screenwriting from the Chicago Art-house Blow-Up Film Festival. In addition, it received awards from Accolade Competition, Global Shorts, Los Angeles and IndieFest Film Awards. Her most recent short documentary film titled Tumbling Towards Home premiered at Cinequest Film and VR Festival in 2020 and just won a Best Director Award at the Black Maria Film Festival in 2021. She is currently in production at Catwalk residency in Hudson, New York on a short narrative film titled Suspicious Minds.
She has several projects in development. Her feature screenplay We’re the Kids in America was an official selection of L’Atélier Cinéfondation that is part of the Cannes International Film Festival for 2018. It was also received an honorable from the Stowe Story Labs and “Best Of” competition from the Broadcast Education Association in 2019. It was also workshopped through the Moving Picture Institute Screenwriting Fellowship. It placed in the top 10% of the Nicholls Fellowship in 2019.
She has an MFA in film with honors from Columbia University. Imelda spent three years in Singapore as an Arts Professor in the Graduate Film Program for New York University TischAsia. Prior to NYU she taught at Barnard College, Hunter College and the School for Visual Arts. She is currently an Associate Professor at James Madison University.
InterestsNarrative Film And Docs|Avant Garde