Billy McCannon
Filmmaker

35 years making films that go where they're not supposed to. From celluloid shorts in the late 80s — selected for Cork Film Festival, broadcast across Europe and Australia — to a decade building a cinema studio inside Portlaoise Prison, to features filmed across Dublin, London, New York and Bogotá.

The work is built on participant trust, forensic attention, and the conviction that the people inside a story are the only ones qualified to tell it.

• Telluride · Rotterdam · Sydney · Clermont-Ferrand · Cork (Opening Film)
• RTÉ · Channel 4 · ZDF · Showtime Australia · Tara Television USA
• Portlaoise Prison — True Words, f-slot, Walls Behind Walls
• Everybody Knows — In Post-Production · 2026
• Feature scripts in development