Niamh Gormley

Sundance Collab Community Leader

Niamh Gormley is a Sundance Collab Community Leader, award-winning Northern Irish screenwriter, co-founder of Lír Pictures and member of the Writers Guild of Ireland.

Her work includes Boa Island, a supernatural epic family drama set in Northern Ireland’s Lakelands, Dippers, a bilingual Irish-English murder mystery series, and Luscus, an adaptation of poet Maureen Boyle’s award-winning memoir. Her 1920s period TV drama Bridget in Manhattan, developed through Sundance Collab’s Outline-to-Pilot programme, is a multi-award-winning script with numerous international Best TV Pilot Screenplay awards.

Niamh has been a Sundance Collab Community Leader since July 2025 and is passionate about introducing filmmakers to new technologies and using emerging AI technologies to amplify untold stories and bring them from page to screen.

Courses and Content

Video

Harnessing the Power of Virtual Production for Indie Filmmakers

With: Alyssa Boyle and 3 more

FREE

Harnessing the Power of Virtual Production for Indie Filmmakers

With: Alyssa Boyle, Declan Keeney, Jamie Harvey and Niamh Gormley

Virtual production (VP) offers filmmakers a new avenue to achieve high production value on a smaller budget. In this immersive introduction to the technology, viewers receive a virtual tour of Studio Ulster, one of Europe’s most ambitious VP studios located in Belfast, Ireland. Representatives from Studio Ulster discuss the benefits, logistical issues, and challenges unique to VP. Viewers also hear from independent producer Jamie Harvey on his honest experiences working with VP. This session offers an informed, on-the-ground exploration of VP for independent filmmakers curious of the new technologies, including: LED volumes, real-time engines, camera tracking, in-camera VFX (ICVFX), and motion (or emotion) capture (MOCAP).

FREE

Event Recording

Story Forum: Exploring Art and Innovation - ON DEMAND

Together with creators, educators, industry leaders, and technologists, we explored the creative technologies that are impacting storytelling and how today’s artists are evolving. Now you can experience it all on-demand for free.