Kathleen Harris

Kathleen is a documentary film director and freelance videographer based in Dublin. She also collaborates with other filmmakers and journalists as a researcher, editor, and cinematographer. Her environmental film BIRDSONG is currently screening in Ireland: www.birdsongfilm.com.

Previously, Kathleen directed the hour-long documentary Growing Up at the End of the World, which aired on RTÉ in 2020. The film follows three teen climate activists for 18 months as they strike from school, lead protest marches in Ireland, and work alongside Greta Thunberg to create a vision for the youth climate justice movement.

From 2014 to 2022, Kathleen worked as a video journalist for The Irish Times, shooting and editing news videos and short documentaries on a wide range of subjects, including Ireland’s abortion and gay marriage referendums, sexual assault on college campuses, and grassroots environmental activism. She has also covered stories about human migration in Bangladesh, Greece, and France. In 2021, she was named Video Journalist of the Year by the NewsBrands Journalism Awards for a short documentary covering a Covid surge at a Dublin hospital.