Lesley McKimm has been working in film and television since 1991 and initially worked for many of the main Irish production companies including Temple Films (now Element), Treasure Films and Little Bird. With these companies she worked in a variety of roles including, producer, line producer, production manager, post-production supervisor and script development.
She set up the production company Comet Films in 1998, and produced the t.v. drama series Any Time Now (6 x 1 hour) for BBC 1, RTÉ 1 & The Irish Film Board, and No Tears (4x 1hour) for RTÉ 1, in association with Little Bird, and the 35mm short film No No No (directed by Stephen Bradley). Most recently she produced the Arts Lives documentary To Be or Not To Be for RTÉ, the Arts Council of Ireland and the Irish Film Board and the theatre show A Heart of Cork, for Cork 2005.
No Tears starred Brenda Fricker, Maria Doyle Kennedy and Tina Kellegher & was one of the most watched dramas on RTÉ, it won the Golden Nymph for best drama at Monte Carlo in 2002 and was selected as one of three Irish projects at INPUT in 2003. Any Time Now has sold to Australia (ABC), New Zealand (TVNZ), Finland (Channel 4) and Sweden (SVT) and won Iftas for Susan Lynch, Angeline Ball and Ruth McCabe.
She joined Newgrange Pictures in September 2006 and is now working alongside fellow producer Jackie Larkin.
She is graduate of EAVE 1998 and the Media Business School 2002 and sits on the board of the Irish Film Board and Pan Pan Theatre Company.
Lesley’s freelance producer credits include:
Relative Strangers 4 x 50 t.v. drama series starring Brenda Fricker, for RTÉ and WDR (for Little Bird)
In Search of Ancient Ireland 3 x 1 hour documentary series for PBS and RTÉ (for Little Bird & Café)
‘81 1 x 1/2 hour short film, directed by Stephen Burke (for Mammoth Films)
Home a series of six half-hour documentaries for RTÉ (for Treasure Films)
Southpaw feature length documentary which was released theatrically in Ireland, the U.K. and screened at Sundance (for Treasure Films as Line Producer)
