Leah Barbour
Leah Barbour is a cinematographer, editor, photographer, and creative director based in Cork, working across commercial production and brand storytelling through her studio, Lemon7. As DOP and editor, she builds visual content for brands that performs as well as it looks, from paid social campaigns to full production shoots, with Sony cinema cameras and DaVinci Resolve at the core of her workflow.
Her commercial work spans clients across Ireland, operating at the intersection of high-end production value and marketing strategy, with a persistent belief that craft and commercial intent aren’t in opposition. That passion for narrative driven work pulled her increasingly towards short films. She is currently in pre-production as DOP on Rearview, the upcoming short film from director and writer, Jay Woodard, and is drawn to projects that carry creative weight beyond the deliverable.
Alongside her production work, Leah documents her practice and perspective on filmmaking through her Instagram, @leah_on_set, exploring cinematography, lighting, and cinema through the lens of someone who shoots for a living.
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Max Baronin
Max is a filmmaker and director based in Cork, originally from Berlin, with a career spanning Europe and New Zealand. Working across narrative cinema and high-end commercial production, he brings a rare all-round fluency in directing, cinematography, and editing to every project, a technical breadth that shapes both how he tells stories and how he collaborates.
His films are defined by a cinematic, nostalgic tone, intimate character studies exploring memory, identity, love, and internal conflict, favouring mood and visual rhythm over exposition. He is drawn to realism and human connection, finding the extraordinary in quiet, everyday moments.
Alongside his personal work, Max has built an extensive commercial portfolio through agency and freelance collaborations with global brands across Europe and beyond. This experience has sharpened his sense of pacing, visual clarity, and the art of communicating with precision and purpose.
Through his production label Moonlens, he balances commissioned work with original projects, allowing each to inform and enrich the other. His long-term focus remains on crafting emotionally grounded, cinematic stories that resonate beyond the screen.
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Jay Woodard
Jay is a writer, director, and producer based in Crosshaven, Cork. He has been making films for over a decade, working across narrative shorts, commercials, and music videos, with a consistent focus on character-driven genre storytelling.
His short film The Stranger (2013), a western he wrote and directed, was licensed by RTÉ Short Screen and broadcast nationally. His most recent short, The Leftovers, is currently on the international festival circuit, with selections including Fastnet Film Festival, chosen from over 700 submissions, and Underground Cinema Festival. A previous short, The Last Echo (2024), a post-apocalyptic thriller shot on location in Cork, reached over 106,000 views on YouTube and was featured in Echo Live.
His YouTube channel has accumulated over 707,000 views across nearly 24,000 subscribers, supported by a social media following of over 15,000.
Across his work, Woodard has operated as writer, director, producer, editor, and cinematographer, bringing a hands-on, self-sufficient approach to production that has allowed him to make ambitious work with limited resources. He has spent a decade working professionally in commercial filmmaking, an experience that has sharpened his instincts for economy, precision, and delivering under pressure.
The Twins O'Brien is his debut feature, 1850s America. Two Irish brothers, Famine survivors and wanted men, ride into the corrupt frontier town of Hargrove looking for money, not justice. When they discover the powerful British trafficker running the town is one of the same exporters who starved their country during the famine, a robbery becomes a reckoning. A gritty western with dark humour, moral weight, and an Irish heart. Tonally: Unforgiven meets In Bruges.
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