Jack Mitchell is a regional Filmmaker from County Offaly with a passion for boundary pushing and darkly comedic storytelling. With a specialization in Screenwriting and Fiction Direction, His works explore contemporary class and societal issues, employing dynamic cinematography, experimental editing and genre blending narratives.

Jack’s award winning debut short film, The Power Hour with Birch Stratton, won the Best Comedy Short Film award at the Dublin University Film Festival.

In 2024, Jack completed his second short film, Wet Sheets, with his filmmaking collective, Tara Hill Productions. The film is currently making its way through the festival circuit and has been selected by the Buenos Aires International Film Festival.

Jack is currently Developing two feature-length screenplays and expanding his documentary short, Enter Yoshii, into a feature-length documentary.

Beyond Screenwriting and Directing, Jack is a passionate graphic designer and has curated pitch decks, look books and stylized treatments for grant applicants over the past 6 years.

Jack has worked with production companies in Ireland and the UK, acting as a post-production trainee in the Alley Cats TV offices in Derry and as a Camera Assistant for on documentary and commercial shoots in Ireland and the UK.

As the founder of Tara Hill Productions, Jack has set course for the horizons of a fruitful future for himself and indigenous talent within the Irish film sector with a lifelong goal of establishing Ireland as a landmark destination for creative voices in the greater world of cinema.