Ronan Mackenzie (Directing)

Ronan Mackenzie is an artist filmmaker and animator based in Blackburn, UK. He is a 2023 Film London Lodestar and an alumni of the FLAMIN Fellowship and BBC New Creatives. His work has screened nationally on television through the BBC and internationally at BAFTA & OSCAR qualifying festivals. His films are created through an intuitive process where ideas come naturally to him in an unconscious, painterly approach. Akin to a painting that moves, he combines multiple layers of images to create depth and texture to his frames. In this process: new images and new ideas are formed to create connections and make a narrative. His work often deals with personal narratives surrounding familial relationships and themes of mortality, existentialism, nostalgia, alienation, and most recently, anthropogenic climate change. His debut short film Infinity screened at multiple festivals in the UK, including, Aesthetica short film festival (BAFTA Qualifying) where he was...Read More