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Connor Clements is a writer and director from Northern Ireland. His short film James (2008), made for his MA at Queen’s University Belfast, was an Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival and won 23 awards. He is developing his first feature, The Part We Played.

Connor Clements is a writer and director from Northern Ireland. He studied film at Queen’s University Belfast and the New York Film Academy. His MA film, James (2008), premiered at the Belfast Film Festival, where it won Best Northern Irish Film. It was selected for the Short Film Corner at Cannes and was an Official Selection at Sundance in 2009, and it won 23 awards in all, including the Skillset Best UK Short award at the Iris Prize Festival. He went on to work on documentaries for the Irish-language broadcaster TG4, including The Enigma of Frank Ryan, as an additional director and assistant editor to Nigel Galt. Since 2014 he has taught film and television production at South Eastern Regional College. He is developing his first feature, The Part We Played, a psychological romance inspired by personal experience.