About

We are an intersectional feminist company who believe the stories people tell shape culture and society.

Farset Films seeks to tell stories about women by women - a perspective too often overlooked – and to tell these stories with honesty, empathy, and humour.

Our goal is to develop and produce both fiction and documentary projects rooted in contemporary Northern Ireland.

We are keen to increase the representation of women in the film industry in all roles and departments and to provide opportunities for new and more established talent in our productions and we are exploring innovative ways to achieve this end.

The Company is run by Lisa Keogh and Muireann McGinty.

Lisa is a writer/director working across fiction, documentary, and commercials.

She is currently a WFTV Mentee 2023 and part of The Writer’s Lab UK & Ireland 2022/23. She was part of the BBC Writersroom, Drama Room 2017. She has been a recipient of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig’s Filmmaker’s Bursary. She was one of NI Screen’s Emerging Auteurs 2014/15 and the 1st runner up of their New Talent Focus 2013/14.

For TV, she directed Clean by Karis Halsall as part of BBC3’s The Break, Series 4 and was the 2nd Unit Director on The Deceived, a 4-part thriller written by Lisa McGee & Tobias Beer.

She has directed 6 fiction films and 2 short documentaries that have screened at international festivals.

Lisa has a PhD in Scriptwriting from Queen’s University, where she taught scriptwriting at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels. 

She lives in Belfast with her daughter.

Muireann has been working in the Northern Ireland television industry since 2010 and has extensive experience of development and production in factual, entertainment and current affairs television. 

Muireann was part of the original team behind Channel 4’s long-running series of moral and ethical short films, 4thought.tv, has been a live producer on BBC1’s Sunday Morning Live and was producer on Ireland with Ardal O’Hanlon - three one hour feature documentaries for More 4.

In 2018, Muireann was part of the BBC Northern Ireland Spotlight team responsible for Buried Secrets - an investigative documentary combining real-life testimony and drama reconstruction unveiling an historical clerical abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.

As a writer, Muireann participated in NI Screen’s Short Steps programme in 2014 with Meryleum, and was finalist in BBC Writersroom Craic Off competition in 2014.

Muireann has a degree in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and a postgraduate diploma in Interdisciplinary Arts Practice (Drama Studies) from Queens University Belfast.

She lives in Belfast with her husband and three children.