Producer / Executive / Management

Ed Guiney

Dublin · London, Ireland

Irish-American film producer, co-founder and Co-CEO of Element Pictures, which he established in 2001 with andrew Lowe. Before Element he ran Temple Films with writer-director Stephen Bradley, credits including Cillian Murphy’s Screen Breakthrough Disco Pigs, Gerard Stembridge’s Guiltrip and Paddy Breathnach’s Ailsa. He and Lowe first worked together on Bradley’s Sweety Barrett, where Lowe was Production Accountant and, in Guiney’s words, “brilliant at all the financing stuff”; the conversation about starting their own company began in the late 1990s on the strength of complementary skills. WON a BAFTA and was nominated for four more for the favourite, the Wonder and Poor Things; twice oscar-nominated as a producer, for room (2016) and the favourite (2019), and again with Poor Things, which took eleven academy award nominations, a record for an irish-produced film. Credits: garage (2007, Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, cicae Art and Essai award) with writer Mark O’Halloran and director Lenny Abrahamson; death of a president (Channel 4, fipresci Prize at Toronto); Ken loach’s the Wind that Shakes the Barley, co-produced by Element, palme d’or at Cannes and one of the most successful independent films ever released in Ireland; room; the Lobster; the Killing of a Sacred Deer; the favourite; Calm With Horses; Red Rock; Normal People; Conversations with Friends; The Dry; Poor Things; Kinds of Kindness; and Bugonia. On the job: “More than anything, we’re prospectors mining for gold… it’s following something from inception right to the very end.” On why they founded Element: “It was to work with people whose films we really admire. We’re probably first and foremost film fans.”