The GALPAL Collective (2025)

02/09/2025

Meet our facilitators for Writers Club 2025 🤩💫

The GALPAL Collective and National Talent Academy Film & TV are delighted to announce the facilitators for this year’s Writers Club: Ian Fallon, Emer Hussey, and Katie Lynch.

As facilitators, they will provide ongoing support and mentorship to Writers Club members, leading weekly writing groups and offering constructive feedback on participants’ projects.

What to expect from Writers Club 2025:
⭐ Weekly writing groups (online & in person) ⭐ Guest-led workshops and writing exercises ⭐ Peer-to-peer feedback and community support ⭐ Monthly in-person socials ⭐ End-of-year networking event for alumni

The Writers Club is a space for writers to develop a short film script while receiving meaningful, well-rounded feedback. The programme is designed to nurture original voices, with a focus on individuals from underrepresented backgrounds.

Submissions close this Friday 5th of September @ 12 noon. 
The Writers Club runs from late September to mid-December. Anyone aged 18 or over with a short film idea or script in development is welcome to apply. 
For more information and submission link please refer to the link in our bio.

21/08/2025

THE WRITERS CLUB 2025 with The GALPAL Collective

The GALPAL Collective and National Talent Academy Film & TV, are delighted to open applications for the 2025 edition of the ever popular Writers Club. ✍️💗

The Writers Club will consist of three writers groups. Each group will have in-person and online meetings to share work with their peers and facilitators weekly. This will include informative sessions regarding the writing process, peer to peer feedback, writing exercises, industry guest-led workshops, provided resources and more.

Once a month the groups will meet for an in-person (optional) social event in Dublin, where all the groups can mingle and form a wider collective of writers. Also, in November, an alumni event will take place for participants of previous terms of the Club to network. The Club will then conclude in December 2025.
The Writers Club will be a space for the writers to develop their skills and short film projects while receiving feedback from an organically diverse range of people and peers. The club aims to create a cultivation of original storytelling that often doesn’t get space to flourish in many development spaces.

All applicants will be asked to submit a short film project idea that they would like to develop and work on as part of the Club.

Dates/Duration: The club will be active from late September- mid December 2025.

16/08/2025

It has been almost 5 months since “Directed By Her”. We would like to say a big thank you to everyone who attended the Creative Workshop at and our Short Form Programme at the . Thank you to the wonderful Shauna Harris ( ), Anita Ikharo (.mom ) and Rachel Wren () for speaking on their experiences as black actors during the “Black Actors in Focus” panel facilitated by Ashley Chadamoyo Makombe ().

Congratulations to the screenwriters and directors for their awards. we wish them the best in their next project.

A big thank you to our sponsors and for supporting this initiative.

Stay tuned as we have some exciting news to announce.

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09/05/2025

The GALPAL Collective is happy to return to Phizzfest 2025 with a curated programme of short films this Sunday 11th @ 7pm at The Pillar Centre, Mater Hospital. Selected films are being curated by The GALPAL Collective centred around the idea of ‘home’.

Where the Heart Is Dir. Fatoumata Gandenga
Why the Sun & Moon Live in the Sky Dir. Aisha Bolaji
Cumha Dir. Elena Horgan
Dear Ishan Dir. Ashish Prasai
Swedish Death Dir. Kristina Yee

🎟️ Tickets €5 at the door

24/03/2025

Have you secured your tickets for the Short Form Programme yet?

Not only is there a curation of short film and music videos, there will also be a panel discussion titled “Black Actors in Focus” exploring the experience of Black Irish actors in film. The Panel will be moderated by Ashley Chadamoyo () and will feature Shauna Harris ( ), Anita Ikharo (.mom ) and Rachel Wren () as panelists.

The short form programme will be held this Wednesday March 26 at @ 6.10pm

🎟️ Limited tickets left. Link in the bio

23/03/2025

Directed By Her - “Creative workshops” is a workshop aimed at filmmakers and creatives who want to improve their understanding of financing and branding within the creative and freelancing context. The workshop will be held on Saturday March 29 at at 3pm.

A member from will offer a financial literacy rundown on all things creative. This will include understanding financial terms and their relevancy to the freelancing world. Ashley Chadamoyo Makombe () will speak on the main strategy to self branding as a creative and its importance to career progression. While Aisha Bolaji () will offer tips on pitching and funding your shorts.

🎟️ Link in the bio

22/03/2025

We are happy to announce the full festival programme for Directed By Her. The festival kicks off on March 26th with our annual Short Form Programme at the Irish Film Institute at 6pm. The programme will include curated shorts and a panel discussion titled “Black Actors Focus”. There will also be an audience awards for best short films and music video and best screenplay.

On March 29th, the festival continues with a workshop at Rua Red. The workshop will focus on self-branding and financial literacy, offering valuable guidance for emerging filmmakers.

The festival will conclude on April 3rd with a screening of “The Love Witch”, a comedy-horror film by Japanese-American director Anna Biller. This screening is part of The Bigger Picture.

🎟️ Link in bio

21/03/2025

The GALPAL Collective has been shortlisted for an IMAGE PwC Businesswoman of the Year award for - Diversity & Inclusion Leader of the Year✨

To be recognised for our work alongside the other amazing nominees is an honour. We started this collective as first year college students with ambitions of bringing change to our industry. To create a space that celebrates the work of people that often goes unnoticed, and to support the new generation of creatives in Ireland and all the different stories that comes with that. It’s hard to believe all we have managed to achieve since then.

Thank you so much to .ie for this nomination and to everyone who has supported us so far, and congratulations to all the nominees

With love,
Aisha, Ashley, Oyin, Lulit 💓

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13/03/2025

The GALPAL Collective is happy to announce Directed By Her is back to celebrate and honour work from women and the FLINTA Community. Our highly anticipated Short Form Programme will rerun at on Wednesday March 26th at 6pm.

We are excited to announce more of the selected shorts for our Short Form Programme 2025.

Feast Director dir. Niamh Bryson

De Selby - Part 2 - Hozier () dir. Wolf James

All That’s Carried dir Rosie Barrett

The Rollover - BIIRD () dir Olivia McLaughlin

Belly dir. : Étáin Nash

Keeper dir. Martha Scanlon .scanlon

🎟️ Tickets available in our bio and more to be announced!

13/03/2025

The GALPAL Collective is happy to announce Directed By Her is back to celebrate and honour work from women and the FLINTA Community. Our highly anticipated Short Form Programme will rerun at on Wednesday March 26th at 6pm.

We are happy to announce the selected shorts for our Short Form Programme 2025.

The Vintage Movement dir. Meghan O’Shaugnessy

Dollar Baby’s dir by Remi Alfallah and Megan Haly

Swedish Death dir. Kristina Yee

The Rhythm We Know dir. Macy Stewart

Rendezvous - dir. Lydia Stone

Cherry Pie - Shiv & Kojaque dir. Tobi Bello

🎟️ Tickets available in our bio and more dates to announce!

19/12/2024

Directed by Her 2025 submissions are open! 💗🌟

We want your short films and music videos!

Our annual FLINTA focused festival is coming back for 2025 with some exciting new changes and additions. Can’t wait to see you guys in March 2025 🌟Make sure to submit before January 10th for our Earlybird discount!

08/12/2024

The GALPAL Collective won Community Organisation of the Year at the Black and Irish Gala Awards🌟

Community is at the heart of everything we do, so this award and recognition means the world to us. We want to say a massive thank you to the Black & Irish team as well as the panel who selected us.

For those of you who are new here, The GALPAL Collective is an arts and media organisation dedicated to community cultivation as well as support and celebration of the Black community, migrants, people of colour, q***r
folks and women navigating creative fields. We curate, organise events, workshops, mentor and more all in service of a more inclusive and dynamic industry.

We are excited for what the future holds. We are grateful we get to do this together.

with love,

- Aisha, Ashley, Oyin, Lulit 💗💐

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