Producer at Newgrange Pictures
Producer of My Name is Emily (2016) with an outstanding 8 IFTA nominations

Lesley McKimm has been working in film and television since 1991. She is co-managing director of Newgrange Pictures, which she runs with fellow producer Jackie Larkin, together they produce feature films, documentaries and tv drama for the international marketplace.

Feature films produced at Newgrange include the current film My Name is Emily (starring Evanna Lynch and Michael Smiley), Stella Days (starring Martin Sheen, Stephen Rea, Marcella Plunkett, directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan) which was nominated for 9 IFTAS, Happy Ever Afters, starring Golden Globe winter Sally Hawkins & Tom Riley which was released theatrically by Disney in Ireland, Verve in the UK, Haut et Court in France, Lucky Red in Italy & Senator in Germany, and Kings starring Colm Meaney, dir Tom Collins which was Ireland’s first ever submission to the foreign language Academy Awards.

Newgrange also acts as co-producers on a number of European films – including the upcoming Absolution (Dir Petri Kotwica, starring Laura Birn), A Thousand Times Goodnight, with Paradox Films in Norway and starring Juliette Binoche and Nikolai Koster Waldau., Call Girl (director Mikael Marcimain, producer Mimmi Spang) for Garage Film in Sweden which won the Fipresci prize in Toronto in 2012, and the German-Austrian film Kill Daddy, Goodnight (directed by the late Michael Glawogger) which had it’s world premier at the Berlin Film Festival in 2009. They are currently co-producing two more films with Paradox, The Last King (Dir Nils Gaup) and The King’s Choice (dir Erik Poppe). She is graduate of EAVE 1998 and the Media Business School 2002 and served on the board of the Irish Film Board from 2005 to the end of 2012.