Animator Norton Virgien began his directing career in 1990 as part of the original team for Nickelodeon’s “Rugrats”.  A two time Emmy winner for “Rugrats”, Norton also directed episodes of the critically acclaimed “Duckman” series and the CBS series “Santo Bugito”, before co-directing 1998’s “The Rugrats Movie”, which became the first non-Disney animated release to gross more than $100 million dollars.

Subsequently Norton was a Co-Producer on the Klasky Csupo features “Rugrats in Paris” and “The Wild Thornberrys Movie”, and a Co-Director of the 2004 release  “Rugrats Go Wild”.

In early 2005 he directed a thirteen episode season of the Discovery Channel series Tutenstein, winning a third Emmy;  in 2009, for Universal Animation, he directed a DVD sequel to the Curious George Movie, “Follow That Monkey!”.  Currently he is directing the upcoming Disney Kid’s CGI series “Doc McStuffins” for Brown Bag FIlms in Dublin, Ireland, slated to appear in 2012.

Paul Greengrass began his career on Granada’s World in Action in the 1970s and 80s. During this period Greengrass wrote Spycatcher with Peter Wright, which was banned by the British government in the mid 80s for revealing insights into how the British Secret Service (MI5) operated.

In 1989 he directed his first feature length drama, Resurrected, the story of a British soldier in the Falkland Islands. He continued his career in television drama with The Fix, The One That Got Away and The Murder of Stephen Lawrence. But his big break came in 2002 when he wrote and directed the critically lauded documentary-style feature Bloody Sunday. It won the Golden Bear in Berlin and the audience award at Sundance and brought him to the attention of Hollywood. His next film was the international blockbuster The Bourne Supremacy.

In 2005 he was awarded the Alan Clarke Award for Outstanding Creative Contribution to Television at BAFTA.

Next Greengrass tackled 9/11 with his 2006 film United 93 which won him an Oscar nomination for Best Director as well as that years BAFTA for direction and numerous other awards. He returned to the helm for the next instalment of the Bourne series, Bourne Ultimatum. Which won three Oscars as well as huge commercial success.

Greengrass finished directing Green Zone a thriller set in post-war Baghdad starring Matt Damon, in 2009, which was released in 2010.

Cillian appears most recently in IN TIME, directed by Andrew Niccol, opposite Justin Timberlake, Olivia Wilde and Amanda Seyfried. In November, Cillian will be bringing, MISTERMAN, directed by Enda Walsh, a much acclaimed one man, theatre performance, from earlier this year, to St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York.

Cillian appeared in INCEPTION (Warner Bros.), a contemporary sci-fi thriller set within the architecture of the mind. The film, which also stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard and Ellen Page, marks Cillian’s third collaboration with director Christopher Nolan. In 2005, Cillian made an indelible impression as Dr. Jonathan Crane/The Scarecrow in BATMAN BEGINS and reprised the role in last year’s THE DARK KNIGHT.

Cillian first garnered international attention for his performance as the reluctant survivor, Jim, in Danny Boyle’s 28 DAYS LATER. Following BATMAN BEGINS, he starred opposite Rachel McAdams in Wes Craven’s hit thriller RED EYE and garnered a Golden Globe nomination for his performance as Patrick Kitten Brady in Neil Jordan’s BREAKFAST ON PLUTO. In Ken Loach’s 2006 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY, Cillian portrayed a guerilla fighter who battles the British Black and Tan squads that attempt to thwart Ireland’s bid for independence. Cillian re-teamed with Boyle and writer Alex Garland (28 DAYS LATER) on SUNSHINE (2007), a thriller in which a group of scientists attempt to re-ignite a dying sun.

Cillian made his mark on stage with a stunning performance in Enda Walsh’s DISCO PIGS. After receiving commendations for Best Fringe Show at the 1996 Dublin Theatre Festival and the Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival 1997, DISCO PIGS went on to tour extensively in Ireland, the U.K., Canada and Australia. Murphy later starred in the film version directed by Kirsten Sheridan.

In 2006, Cillian made his West End debut at the New Ambassador Theatre in John Kolvenbach’s LOVE SONG, directed by John Crowley. His stage collaborations with Tony Award-winning director Garry Hynes include THE COUNTRY BOY, JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK, and PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD at the Gaity Theatre in Dublin. Murphy also starred as Konstantin in the Edinburgh Fest production of THE SEAGULL directed by Peter Stein, as Adam in Neil LaBute’s THE SHAPE OF THINGS at the Gate Theatre in Dublin and as Claudio in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

Geoffrey Smith was born in Melbourne, Australia and was always fascinated by the moving image. Never at ease in “the lucky country” however, he went traveling to find himself and discovered en route a love of listening and storytelling.

In 1987 he found himself in Haiti helping to make to make a documentary about the first election there in 31 years, but following the discovery of a massacre of twenty one voters in a schoolyard, he was shot and wounded. Struggling to put his life back together in London, Geoffrey decided to film his journey back to Haiti to find the man who had so nearly killed him. This acclaimed film was subsequently shown on the BBC and was very powerful for the on screen catharsis it intimately portrayed.

Having discovered through this personal project that the camera could be a powerful tool in helping people through difficult periods in their lives, many of Geoffrey’s subsequent films are built around this approach. Winner of numerous awards, director of the acclaimed Emmy winning feature documentary “The English Surgeon” and co-director of “Presumed Guilty” which is transforming the Mexican legal system, Geoffrey has made over twenty two films and is drawn to observational real life dramas where deep ethical and moral dilemmas abound.