WRITER/DIRECTOR, PETER FLYNN earned his Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a faculty member of Emerson College's Department of Visual Media Arts and teaches courses in media production and history.
An award-winning filmmaker in his own right, Peter has several films to his credit and has worked in a variety of capacities as camera-person, cinematographer, editor, director and producer. His most recent project was as Director of Photography for a feature-length documentary on Irish Blues guitarist Rory Gallagher.
Peter co-founded the Boston Irish Film Festival in 1999 with Emerson College colleague Jim Lane and has continued to direct the festival ever since.
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PRODUCER, DAWN MORRISSEY, from Co. Kildare, graduated from Emerson College with a BA in Film. She has worked on several feature films both in Ireland and the USA, one of which was a Sundance finalist.
She produced the Waltham Mills Artist Open studios for three years and was awarded both the regional and national awards from the Alliance for Community Media for her work on a video short.
Dawn has just recently co-produced a short fiction film about illegal immigration, and is currently working on the rewrite of a feature script. She has produced the Boston Irish Film Festival since 2003.
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EDITOR, COB CARLSON has been a film and video editor for nineteen years, the past sixteen spent in Boston. He has worked on feature films, major network television programs, documentaries, music videos, commercials, and industrials. He has also recorded sound for feature film, and freelanced as both a film and video cameraman.
He taught filmmaking at N.Y.U. in the late eighties, and has guest lectured on editing, the language of film, and film production at Boston College, Emerson College, Endicott College, Mass College of Art, and Stonehill College. He produced his own 16mm documentary film "An Irish American Story" which received critical acclaim and was broadcast on PBS in 1998.
Cob has won two CINE GOLD EAGLES, a Gold at the National Education & Video Festival, a Silver at the New York Film & Video Festival, a Silver at the New York Film & Video Festival, a Silver at the Breckinridge Film Festival, and Best Documentary awards at The Golden Gate Film Festival, and Boston Film Festival.
Peter Flynn 
Dawn Morrissey