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’s debut feature film SEPTEMBER SAYS was a debut from Arianne Labed for Element Pictures, BBC Films, and The Match Factory – it premiered as part of Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024, and is currently available to watch on Mubi.

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, long-listing it for the Academy Awards. She has since gone on to produce four more short films and had her work selected internationally at over 90 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. It won the Best Short Drama award at the Dublin International Film Festival, was selected for the prestigious Vimeo Staff Picks, and was nominated for Best Short Film at the IFTAs. BURN IT ALL written & directed by Jack Hickey, which had its world premiere at the 34th Galway Film Fleadh where it won the Donal Gilligan Award for best Cinematography, and saw Lara also nominated for the Bingham Ray New Talent Award. GOOD CHIPS, directed by Nell Hensey, was selected as part of Virgin Media Discovers, and won the award for Best Short Screenplay at the ZEBBIE Awards for the Writer’s Guild of Ireland.

Lara currently has four feature films in development with Screen Ireland for Copper Alley Productions, and is Co-Creative Director of X-POLLINATOR, with Co-director Evan Horan (Keeper Pictures), and  Co-director and founder Katie Holly (Keeper Pictures). It is a development initiative for female, trans, and non-binary creative talent, funded by Screen Ireland, Creative Europe and the BAI. Lara is a member of the European Producers Club, Screen Producers Ireland, Women in Film and Television, European Women’s Audio-visual Network (EWA) and the Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA).