Ed Guiney - Company Director
Ed's focus is on overseeing the development of our film and television slate and producing (or overseeing the production of) those projects that are green lit, whether from our slate or 3rd Party projects. Ed commutes between Dublin and London. Prior to setting up Element Pictures with Andrew Lowe, Ed produced various titles under Temple Films.
Andrew Lowe - Company Director
Andrew Lowe jointly runs Element Pictures together with Ed Guiney with whom he founded the company in 2001. Andrew’s focus is on managing the financing and business affairs of Element’s own slate of projects and the overseeing of Element’s co-production activity in both film and television. Andrew is also a board member of the Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) and Vice Chair of the IBEC Audiovisual Federation. Prior to setting up Element Pictures with Ed Guiney, Andrew was head of Business Affairs at the Irish Film Board (1999-2001) and a freelance production accountant in feature film from 1993 to 1999 having qualified as a chartered accountant with Coopers and Lybrand in 1996.
Louise Cornally - Production Finance Executive
Having qualified as a chartered accountant in 2000 with Deloittes, Louise worked in banking at Credit Suisse before joining Element Pictures in 2004 as production finance executive. Since this time, Louise has worked on many feature films and television projects, covering different financing structures. Louise has produced two short films: The Faeries of Blackheath Woods in 2006 and It's Some Kind of Voodoo in 2005 and she currently serves on the Board of Directors of Storyteller's Theatre Company, Dublin.
Robert Finn- Sales Manager
Robert joined Element Pictures as Sales Manger in September 2008, before that he worked for five years as the marketing manager for a cinema company. He graduated from the University of Ulster in 2001 with a degree in Irish History and Politics and completed a Hdip in Business Studies at the UCD, Michael Smurfit Business School in 2003.
His favourite film of all time is The Motorcycle Diaries and he likes to play football, travel and hill walk during his free time.
Charles Harrison - Head of Television Drama Development
Charles has script edited The Palace (Company Pictures), Doctors (BBC) and The Bill (Talkback Thames). He set up the script department in Nigeria for Wetin Dey (BBC World Service Trust.), and is now heading up the TV Drama Development slate for Element in the UK.
Paula Heffernan - PA to Directors
Paula is PA to Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe. She studied Communications in DIT and graduated with a BSc degree in 2003. Her job in Element involves assisting with the administration needs of new productions and those that have wrapped. She also deals with film festival enquiries and logistics and manages worldwide travel needs for staff, cast and crew.
Lee Magiday - Head of Development and Production - Film
Lee Magiday, based in the London office, is Head of Development & Production and responsible for acquiring, developing and overseeing Element Pictures' feature film projects. Formerly VP of Acquisitions and Production – Europe for Focus Features, she was involved with films such as Swimming Pool, My Summer of Love and Hell (L'Enfer).
Fiona McConnell - Business Affairs Executive
Fiona studied Law and Business Studies at the University of Ulster in the North of Ireland. Having completed her L.L.B she returned to Dublin to continue her legal studies in the Law Society of Ireland. She completed her training with Adams Corporate Solicitors concentrating particularly in the area of commercial law. Fiona has recently joined Element Pictures as the Business Affairs Executive.
Emma Norton - Development Executive
Emma joined Element Pictures as the Dublin-based Development Executive in September 2008. In this role Emma works across film and television, working closely with the UK office; developing slate projects, meeting new talent and sourcing new material. Before coming to Element, Emma spent two years working in the development department at Film4 and prior to that was a freelance script reader for a wide range of UK film, TV and theatre companies.
Grace O'Hara - Runner
After completing a degree in Fine Art, specialising in Sculpture, in GMIT, Grace took some time off to travel the world. She then went on to gain a second degree in Production Design and Art Direction in IADT Dun Laoghaire which she completed in July 08. Grace joined our team in July 08.
Karen O’Malley - Head of Home Entertainment
With over ten years experience in Irish production and film distribution, Karen manages the Home Entertainment output for Element Pictures Distribution. Karen acquires DVD, VoD and TV rights for independent film, drama, documentary and animation titles of specific interest to the Irish market.
Vicky Owens - Office Manager
Vicky has a BA in English and Sociology from UCC and a Certificate in Photography from Griffith College in Dublin. Having worked in a variety of Arts Administration roles Vicky joined Element in 2008 as Office Manager with responsibility for overseeing the efficient running of the Dublin and London offices.
Leonie Quinn - Accountant
Leonie’s background is in the performing arts where she worked full time until she caught the accounting bug. She has been working part-time since 2007 at Element Pictures, to satisfy her fascination with invoices, nominal ledgers and management accounts. Once she gets her love of accounting out of her system, she will go back to acting full time.
Nell Roddy - PR Executive
After completing a BA in Politics and Philosophy in UCD, Nell went on to study for her MA in Film and TV studies in DCU. Once completed she worked with LHP from a number of years as a publicist for acts as diverse as Nick Cave, Kila and Moby. Taking some time off to travel, Nell returned to Ireland in 2006 where she joined the Irish Film Institute as their press officer, managing and developing press strategies for all IFI events and theatrical releases. Nell joined Element Pictures Distribution in February 2008.
Audrey Sheils - Head of Distribution
Audrey is head of the newly formed Element Pictures Distribution, whose first release was Garage in 2007. She has moved back to Dublin after 7 years based in London working in film distribution. She released titles such as Donnie Darko, Spellbound and Monster while in Metrodome and worked on a large number of high profile films while in Empire, such as The Da Vinci Code and Casino Royale.
She loves being near the sea again and good fish & chips.
