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Lisa Barros D’Sa

Lisa Barros D’Sa is a Northern Irish film director and producer.

Born in Belfast and best known for her 2019 feature film Ordinary Love starring Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson the film was warmly received by critics. Ordinary Love was included by Mark Kermode, the Guardian/Observer film critic in his top ten films of 2019.

Ordinary Love had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2019 and was released theatrically in the United Kingdom on 6 December 2019 by Focus Features. Its is scheduled to be released theatrically in the United States of America on 14 February 2020.

Career

In 2006 Lisa founded a film production company called Canderblicks Films with long term collaborators Glenn Leyburn and David Holmes.

Her directorial debut in 2006 was a short film co-directed with Glenn Leyburn The 18th Electricity Plan. The film played at various international film festivals including LA Shorts, Clermont Ferrand and Cork International Film Festival, where it won a Special Mention in the Best New Director category.

Lisa’s feature film debut Cherrybomb followed in 2009. Co-directed with Glenn Leyburn and starring Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan and Kimberley Nixon Cherrybomb had its world premiere in competition at the 2009 Berlinale Generations and was subsequently bought by Indi Vision/Universal Pictures for distribution in the UK.

In 2012 Lisa and Glenn completed their second feature, Good Vibrations, a comedy drama/biopic about Belfast rebel and music fan Terri Hooley and the Belfast punk scene in the 1970s. A Canderblinks co-production with Revolution Films London, the film was also made with BBC Films, Irish Film Board and NI Screen. Good Vibrations opened the 46th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and went on to win Best Irish Film at the Galway Film Fleadh 2012 and the Audience Award at the Belfast Film Festival the same year. It was nominated for several IFTA awards, winning best costume with Glenn and Lisa receiving a nomination for the Rising Star Award. Good Vibrations had a theatrical release across the world, garnering excellent reviews across the board (94% Rotten Tomatoes) and won BBC and Guardian top critic Mark Kermode’s Kermode Award for Best Film in 2013.

Good Vibrations was written by Colin Carberry and Glenn Patterson and stars Richard Dormer, Jodie Whittaker, Adrian Dunbar, Liam Cunningham, Karl Johnson and Dylan Moran.

Working from Owen McCafferty's screenplay Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glen Leyburn directed their third feature film Ordinary Love. Starring Lesley Manville OBE and  Liam Neeson the film observes the heartbreak, intimacy and endurance that comes when long married Joan and Tom are confronted with a sudden cancer diagnosis.