Cathy Brady

Cathy Brady is a Northern-Ireland born film director and screenwriter. After directing several award-winning short films and some television episodes in the 2010s, she wrote and directed her first feature film, Wildfire in 2020.[1][2][3][4]

She studied visual arts at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) but became interested in film and transferred to the National Film School of Ireland to complete her degree. She has an MA in directing fiction from the National Film and Television School (NFTS).[2][5]

She grew up in Newry in Northern Ireland and lives in St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England with her dachshund dog Betty. She chose to live in Sussex because she "didn't want to be typecast as an Irish film-maker".[3]

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  4. ^ Brady, Tara (1 September 2021). "Director Cathy Brady: 'With Wildfire I was interested in the internal violence of women in the North'". The Irish Times. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
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