Locky

LOCKY started his filmmaking journey studying and working as an actor in his native Cork City before swiftly moving through a variety of roles from assistant directing and editing to casting and producing (one personal life-highlight was producing two episodes of The Real Housewives of Orange County) before he eventually stumbled upon directing in 2017.

His Best New Director gong at the Kinsale Shark Awards is among the awards he’s most proud of. Recently, he was announced as the Dublin International Film Festival’s Discovery Award Winner following in the footsteps of Barry Keoghan and Jessie Buckley. Also in 2024 he won the Best Director award at the Fastnet Film Festival.

Commercially, he’s crafted spots for Specsavers, Tesco, Guinness, Toyota, Sky amongst a host of other international brands. His music video work includes collaborations with the likes of Westlife and Keane and his music video work for Daithí was nominated for a UK Music Video Award in 2019.

In 2020 Locky wrote a short story entitled Guinness & Coke which was nominated for the RTÉ Francis McManus Short Story competition. The story was put on the Junior Cert Curriculum (Irish GCSEs) in 2021 and he has since made it into a film.
The now entitled, Two For The Road, is his 3rd short film and is based on his aforementioned weekends with his father. Two For The Road was recently nominated for an IFTA and was Oscar long-listed having picked up awards at Galway, Newport Beach, Cork and Kerry, thus far.

He is currently in development of a feature version of Two For The Road.

Locky is represented for Film & TV by Curtis Brown.