Lorcan Finnegan

Lorcan Finnegan is an Irish filmmaker, writer, producer and director. He is most notable for directing the film Vivarium (2019), which won the 2019 Cannes Film Festival Gan Foundation Support for Distribution award.

Lorcan Finnegan at DIFF 2020

Education and career

Lorcan Finnegan graduated with a Master's degree in Graphic Design from his studies in Dublin.^[1] He began his professional career in London, joining Charlie Brooker's production company Zeppotron, which created the television series Black Mirror, where he worked as a designer, editor, and then director.^[1]

Returning back to the Irish capital in 2004, he set up his own company Lovely Productions, and began to write and direct advertising films, music videos and short films.^[1] His transition to feature films was with the film Without Name (2016), a horror-tinged mystery, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2016.^[1][2]

He directed the film Vivarium (2019), which starred Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg, and won the 2019 Cannes Film Festival Gan Foundation Support for Distribution award.^[3][4]

He next directed Nocebo (2022)^[5] and The Surfer (2024),^[6] which starred Nicolas Cage, and was featured in the Limelight section of the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam.^[7]

Filmography

Short film

Year	Title	Director	Writer
2007	Defaced	Yes	Yes
	Changes[a]	Yes	Yes
2012	Foxes	Yes	No

Feature film

Year	Title	Director	Executive Producer
2016	Without Name	Yes	No
2019	Vivarium[b]	Yes	Yes
2022	Nocebo	Yes	No
2024	The Surfer	Yes	Yes

Ref.:^[8][5][9]

1. Also editor
2. Also story writer