Dónal Foreman is an Irish filmmaker living in New York City. He has been making films since he was 11 years old and has since written, directed, edited, and co-produced three feature films and dozens of shorts spanning fiction, documentary, and experimental forms. He was nominated for the Rising Star Award in 2014 and for Best Documentary in 2020 from the Irish Film & TV Academy Awards.
His second feature, The Image You Missed, premiered at Rotterdam and went on to screen at over 40 festivals including CPH:DOX, Viennale, and Art of the Real at Lincoln Center, winning nine awards including the Grand Jury Prize at BAFICI. The Irish Times recently declared the film one of the 50 best Irish films ever made.
Dónal has also worked as a film critic (writing for Cahiers du Cinema, Filmmaker Magazine, and the Brooklyn Rail) and as a film programmer curating series for Metrograph, the Irish Film Institute and La Cinémathèque Française.
While at MacDowell, he wrote and edited a documentary essay film exploring the past, present, and future landscapes of New York City's Jamaica Bay.
Portrait by Conor Horgan
