Kevin McCann

Kevin McCann is an award-winning filmmaker who was born in Northern Ireland and raised in the Republic of Ireland. He is a 2010 graduate of the distinguished European EAVE Producer Program and has run the production company Maccana Teoranta since 2005, which has made award-winning drama and documentaries for film, television, and radio. His work includes the documentary film The Boys of St. Columbs for BBC and RTE, which followed the lives of several great Irish figures including Nobel Laureates Seamus Heaney and John Hume. It documented for the first time the influence of education on the peace process in Ireland. He has worked extensively in radio, and recently wrote and directed a drama series called COMA, which won a 2015 National Radio Award in Ireland and was shortlisted for the European Grand Prix Nova for Radio Drama in Bucharest, Romania. Amongst his latest work is Volkswagen Joe, which is the first film awarded funding by the EUROPEAN PEACE PROGRAMME. Based on a play written