The Euro 75: Nine Daughters (UK-Ireland)

Need to know: NFTS graduate Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly is from Kerry, Ireland, but has been based in London for the past 17 years. She initially set up her production company under the banner Sixty-six Pictures after producing her first feature Lady Macbeth, released in 2016. She has since worked on 1960s documentary feature My Generation and Francis Lee’s Ammonite, which she produced with UK-Australian outfit See-Saw Films. Cronin O’Reilly now operates under the moniker Nine Daughters, taken from Norse mythology about the nine daughters of the sea god and goddess, who each personify the waves. This name reflects the female and environmental focus of her films.

Key personnel: Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly, founder and producer.

Incoming: Cronin O’Reilly has produced US directors Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer’s God’s Creatures, which is premiering in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes. She has further feature projects in development, and plans to work again with Davis and Holmer and some of her longtime collaborators, while also expanding into TV, where she has a couple of series on her slate. She is planning to grow the company and to make her first hires in the coming months.

Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly says: “I want to work with kind, collaborative people who have something to say, and through their work want to better the world. Working internationally is important to me — God’s Creatures is very much an Irish story but with universal qualities. By bringing on directors who are from outside of Ireland, creatively and story-wise they were more objective and could see things we had never seen before about this work.”

Contact: fodhla@nine-daughters.com