Copper Alley Productions is an award-winning film and television production company based in Dublin, Ireland. We are interested in character driven, intellectually rigorous, philosophically curious and emotionally engaged cinema with a strong audience focus.
Our work has been selected internationally at over 90 festivals including Tribeca Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival, Fantastic Fest; and has won multiple awards, as well as being twice nominated at the Irish Film and Television Awards.
The company is led by Producer and CEO Lara Hickey, and Creative Director Jack Hickey
Copper Alley is a member of the European Producers Club, Screen Producers Ireland, Women in Film and Television, European Women’s Audio-visual Network (EWA), the Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) and the European Film Academy.
About Us
Lara Hickey
CEO & CREATIVE PRODUCER
LARA HICKEY is an award winning Irish producer with Copper Alley Productions, based in Dublin, and holds a First Class Honours MA in Creative Production and Screen Finance from the National Film School, IADT. Lara has recently been nominated for the Galway Film Fleadh’s Bingham Ray Award at the 34th Galway Film Fleadh.
Lara produced the IFTA nominated BAINNE, directed by Jack Reynor and starring Will Poulter, in association with Sky Arts and Screen Ireland which won Best First Short at Galway Film Fleadh 2019, and that same year CYNTHIA, directed by Jack Hickey and starring Clare Dunne and Moe Dunford won the prestigious Tiernan McBride award for Best Short Drama, longlisting it for the Academy Awards. She has since gone on to produce four more short films and had her work selected internationally at over 65 festivals including Sitges Film Festival, Fantastic Fest and most recently with the Screen Ireland Focus Short LAMB by Sinéad O’Loughlin, which had its World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival in New York; and BURN IT ALL written & directed by Jack Hickey, which had its world premiere at the 34th Galway Film Fleadh, where Lara was also nominated for the Bingham Ray new talent award.
Jack Hickey
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
JACK HICKEY is the Creative Director and co-founder of Copper Alley Productions, and an award-winning writer and director based in Dublin. He holds a First-Class Honours MA in Screenwriting from the National Film School in IADT, and was selected to participate in Screen Producers Ireland’s inaugural EMERGE program for emerging producers. He is currently enrolled in the Advanced Producers post-graduate degree at TUD, backed by Screen Ireland.
Jack made his debut short film as a writer/director in 2019. CYNTHIA, starring Clare Dunne (Kin, Herself) and Moe Dunford (Vikings, Dublin Murders), premiered at the 31st Galway Film Fleadh in July 2019 and won the prestigious Tiernan McBride Award for Best Short Drama, and the award for Best Short Film at the Irish Film Awards in London, selected by Lenny Abrahamson (Normal People, Room). BURN IT ALL (starring Toni O’Rourke and Deirdre O’Kane) premiered at the 34th Galway Film Fleadh, where it won The Donal Gilligan Award for Best Cinematography. It has also won Best Narrative Short at the Kerry International Film Festival, and the Special Jury Prize at the BAFTA-qualifying Manchester International Film Festival.
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