Round 28: Puttnam Scholars
For the second time we are looking forward to focus our film talk on some of the talented participants of the Puttnam Scholarship. The Puttnam Scholarship is a programme by University College Cork that offers final year students from any discipline the opportunity to create a short film under the guidance of Oscar-winning former Hollywood producer Lord David Puttnam. Find more information about the scheme here.
Portia Ameyalli García Cruz
Originally from Mexico City, she holds a bachelor 's degree in film production from the Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Her cinematic passion spans several fields in film. She has experience in film restoration, which she developed during an internship at the National Archive of Mexico. She has also worked as a camerawoman covering cultural and political news, as well as in various roles such as first assistant director, cinematographer and director in short and feature films, mostly in Mexico.
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Brigid Cryan
Brigid is a sound artist and linguist from Virginia, USA and based in Cork. Their interests are in digital and organic sound synthesis, especially of speech sound, and minimal units of meaning in sound patterning systems. Both their creative and academic work explores how sound and the meaning we draw from it are inextricable from its physics.
They created the sound for the 2025 Puttnam Scholar's film as a researcher, recordist, composer, editor, and mix and mastering engineer.
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George Lynch
George is a writer, director, photographer and videographer from Cork, Ireland. He has done event photography and videography for the drag performance collective, Mockie Ah!, the CoCo Comedy Club, and the monthly film showcase The People's Picturehouse Cork, amongst many others.
He graduated from the Actorsvision School of Acting Cork in Acting For Camera, was part of the Lord Puttnam Scholarship programme 2023-2024, and has directed numerous short films since he was thirteen years old. His previous short film, 'Unseen Riders', a documentary on the lives of two Deliveroo riders in Cork, was selected for the 2023 IndieCork Film Festival and was a finalist at the Fastnet Film Festival 2024.
His latest film, 'Fragmented', currently in it’s festival run, was developed as part a thesis for his Master's Degree in Film & Screen Media at University College Cork. The film, set in the aftermath of the First World War, follows an Irish family coping with the lingering effects of trauma within a sheltered society.
Adam Barry-Murphy
Adam is a filmmaker from Cork. He is the writer & director of the triple-award winning Jumbo Christmas franchise. His projects have screened at CIFF & Catalyst Int. Film Festival - as director as well as his work as cinematographer.
He is the director & co-cinematographer of Cardboard Ocean.
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