Ronika Merl
Ronika is an award-winning Film maker and Screenwriter and the artistic director of the Wicklow Stories Film Festival, launched in 2022, funded and supported by Creative Ireland. Having placed highly in both the Academy Nicholl Fellowship as well as the Austin Film Festival in 2019, she has since expanded her slate to contain more than 22 feature-length scripts. She has lectured at Griffith College in Dublin, Ireland and has given multiple workshops in Ireland and the UK. Her latest work, Matriarchy is a film and TV adaptation of Mary Mackey’s best-selling novel series “Earthsong”, which is being produced by Chainsaw Europe.
Her textbook for Irish Screenwriters "The Hustle" is now available on Amazon or can be purchased directly from her. An addition and expansion to this work, titled “Navigating Hollywood” can be purchased through the New York Script Awards.
She has consulted on projects in the US, UK, South Africa and Australia.