Keynote
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Nora Twomey

Partner & Creative Director with Cartoon Saloon, ACADEMY AWARD® & GOLDEN GLOBE nominated director.

Nora has been part of Cartoon Saloon since it set up in Kilkenny in 1999.

She directed award winning short films such as From Darkness before going on to co-directing  ACADEMY AWARD® nominated The Secret of Kells with Tomm Moore.

She was creative producer on the Netflix pre-school series Puffin Rock and Head of Story on ACADEMY AWARD® nominated Song of the Sea.

Most recently, Nora directed The Breadwinner, based on Deborah Ellis’s acclaimed YA novel about a young girl growing up in Afghanistan. The film was nominated for an  ACADEMY AWARD® & GOLDEN GLOBE, and won the Audience & Jury Awards at Annecy 2018.