Ed Guiney

Ed Guiney runs film and television drama production company Element Pictures with partner Andrew Lowe. Element have offices in Dublin and London and they established the Irish film distribution company, Element Pictures Distribution.In 2007 Ed produced Garage the follow up film to the award winning Adam & Paul, from the same team of writer Mark O'Halloran and director Lenny Abrahamson, and starring Pat Shortt, which was selected for the prestigious Director’s Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival and won the CICAE Art and Essai award. The film also won the awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Script and Best Actor at the 2008 Irish Film and Television Awards.

In 2007 he also produced Death of a President for Channel 4, written and directed by Gabriel Range, which won the International Critics Fipresci Prize at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival.

In 2006 Element Pictures co-produced The Wind That Shakes the Barley, directed by Ken Loach, which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and has become one of the most successful independent films ever released in Ireland.

Recent Element Pictures productions include Darren Thornton’s acclaimed A Date for Mad Mary, Lenny Abrahamson’s Golden Globe and Oscar winning Room and Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster, winner of the Jury Prize in Cannes and recently nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Yorgos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell, winner of Best Screenplay at the 70th annual Cannes Film Festival.

Since then, Guiney has worked on The Favourite, Red Rock, Calm With Horses and Normal People.

Element Pictures Distribution also handles StudioCanal’s slate and the Royal Opera House live cinema season in Ireland as well as direct acquisitions. Element Pictures operates an online video on demand platform, Volta.ie and also runs and operates the Light House Cinema, one of Dublin’s premiere art house cinemas.