Niamh Donohoe

Niamh Donohoe is an award winning director, producer and writer with over 18 years industry experience in the UK and Australia, working on a broad range of screen content spanning broadcast TV documentaries, news and current affairs, TVCs and online content.

With a BA in Gender and Cultural Studies and a Masters with Distinction in Screen Studies, Niamh is passionate about content that interrogates challenging ethical, social and political issues, particularly those affecting women: she’s worked as a researcher and producer on long-form primetime TV documentaries exploring: underage female sex work in Amy: My Body For Bucks, (BBC 2008); damaging global female beauty standards in Am I Beautiful? (BBC 2008) and delved into the pressures on young Indian-Australian women to marry before 30 in Indian Wedding Race (SBS 2016).

Niamh’s news and current affairs output includes the women’s hockey, soccer and volleyball as part of the London Olympics (2012); the longest running investigative journalism programme in the world, Panorama (BBC); and she has investigated discrepancies in UK women’s life expectancy across the UK as part of the BBC’s flagship evening magazine program, The One Show (BBC 2008).

 Niamh’s professional introduction to Australian screen production in 2013 was on The Great Australian Fly, an ABC documentary that was a finalist in the Department of Industry and Science’s Eureka Prize for Science journalism. A project led by the brilliant Producer/Director team of Sally Ingleton (360 Degree Films) and Tosca Looby, Niamh directed and shot a web-series of Behind The Scenes shorts as part of the package.

 A sport and travel enthusiast (and drone pilot), Niamh partnered with North Face and Rapid Ascent in 2017 to cover their slate of ultra-endurance and trail-running events, including the gruelling 4 day stage race, Run Larapinta in the heart of Australia. After an approach from Intrepid Travel, Niamh then camped on the Great Wall of China while shooting, directing and producing a documentary on a blind American ultra-marathoner and his team. She crashed her drone numerous times during that year.

Niamh’s work sparks imagination and audience engagement evidenced by over 1 million YouTube views of a short documentary she shot about the Australian regenerative agriculture movement in 2018, ‘From the Ground Up’. In 2019, Niamh co-directed a short film ‘Breast Friends’ for Baker’s Delight and Breast Cancer Network Australia that won the Australian Retailers Award for Excellence in Retail Marketing. The piece invited breast cancer survivors to pay tribute to the person (or people) who were always there to provide next-level support.

 Currently building her narrative portfolio and experience, in 2020 Niamh finished a government-funded slate of six narrative films and VR content for a mental health organisation where she was engaged as a director and co-writer as part of a world-first project with a budget exceeding AUD$1.5 million.

Niamh’s comedy short, Sweetcorn was an official selection for the BAFTA/Oscar-accredited LA Shorts International Film Festival. Niamh was subsequently awarded development funding from Vic Screen, and production funding from Creative Victoria to develop Sweetcorn into a web series: Pivot (2023), an official selection for Sydney Web Fest (2022).

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