Kevin de la Isla O'Neill
- Director
- Editor
- Writer
Kevin is a professional and passionate multi-award winning filmmaker with experience in film & television production, advertising and distribution.
He has learned first hand from shadowing established directors on set such as: Andrew Dominik, Jim Sheridan, Ken Girotti, Julian Jarrold & Agnes Merlet and has had directing master-classes with Mike Leigh, Luis Mandoki and Mark Romanek. He has over 20,000 hours of film and broadcast editing experience & was mentored in film editing by Emma E. Hickox. His broadcast experience also includes live studio, gallery and multi-camera directing for fast-paced international television formats, complementing his extensive post-production background with a practical understanding of real-time production, coverage and delivery.
He is an Irish and Mexican citizen fluent in both, English and Spanish languages. His background also spreads to creative development, on-air promotion, event panel moderating and speaker alike. He is an experienced team leader with limitless ambition and a drive to taking the creative lead whilst inspiring others, listening and collaborating to achieve the best possible result for the project at hand.
He is a multi award-winning director, producer and editor with over 16 years in the business and a proven track record in conception, production and delivery of content. He has successfully created and managed crowd-funding campaigns for feature films. Extremely motivated creative who is passionate about the whole process, enthused by exigent projects and briefs and constantly full of ideas. In 2013 he spent 5 weeks in Africa co-producing, directing and editing a 4-part TV-documentary series commissioned by EWTN on the life of the Pallottines. This series aired globally on November-2015.
He produced, directed and edited his multi award-winning debut feature film "The Hit Producer", which opened in Irish cinemas on October 2015 and had an extended release on January 2016 through Omniplex and had a theatrical distribution in Mexico through Cinemex in 2018.
He recently directed the RTE/Filmbase short film "Acorn" for which he won a Kinsale Gold Shark award for Best Director.
He is an Irish and Mexican citizen fluent in both, English and Spanish languages. His background also spreads to creative development, on-air promotion, event panel moderating and speaker alike. He is an experienced team leader with limitless ambition and a drive to taking the creative lead whilst inspiring others, listening and collaborating to achieve the best possible result for the project at hand.
He is a multi award-winning director, producer and editor with over 16 years in the business and a proven track record in conception, production and delivery of content. He has successfully created and managed crowd-funding campaigns for feature films. Extremely motivated creative who is passionate about the whole process, enthused by exigent projects and briefs and constantly full of ideas. In 2013 he spent 5 weeks in Africa co-producing, directing and editing a 4-part TV-documentary series commissioned by EWTN on the life of the Pallottines. This series aired globally on November-2015.
He produced, directed and edited his multi award-winning debut feature film "The Hit Producer", which opened in Irish cinemas on October 2015 and had an extended release on January 2016 through Omniplex and had a theatrical distribution in Mexico through Cinemex in 2018.
He recently directed the RTE/Filmbase short film "Acorn" for which he won a Kinsale Gold Shark award for Best Director.
