Alan Moloney - Chairman

Dublin born Alan Moloney is a film and television producer. He established the award-winning Parallel Film Productions in Dublin in 1993. The company is now a market leader in feature film and television drama.

His productions have received multiple nominations and awards including for the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, The Peabody Awards, The British Independent Film Awards, US National Board of Review, US Critics’ awards, the BAFTA’s, the Royal Television society, Shanghai Film festival, British Independent Film Awards, the Celtic Film festival and IFTA’s.

His productions have screened in all of the major film festivals including New York, London, Toronto, the AFI in Los Angeles, Cannes, Venice and Sundance amongst many others. He is a member of BAFTA, the European Film Academy and the Irish Film and Television Academy.

Debbie Thornton -
managing director

Debbie has over 18 years experience in TV production. Having started out her career in live entertainment programming, she subsequently worked on both Irish and international factual entertainment formats such as Dragons Den and The Apprentice.

Debbie moved to London in 2010 and worked for Fremantle Media, Optomen, RDF and Monkey Kingdom (an NBC company), on Factual and Factual entertainment programmes for BBC One, BBC Three, ITV and Channel 4.

Since joining Animo TV as an Executive Producer in 2015, Debbie has overseen the output of the company which includes formats, documentaries, international co-productions, corporate or brand funded content, Section 481 productions and BAI funded programming.

Contact Debbie at debbie@animotv.ie

Jean Devlin -
company director & Executive Producer

Jean has 18 years experience in the industry producing programmes and series in a variety of genres from entertainment and documentary to factual entertainment formats.

Having produced and developed programming and formats at the highest level in both the independent sector and within RTÉ, she joined Animo TV in 2017 as Executive Producer where she has developed and overseen output across a range of platforms.

Jean has originated new formats and award winning documentaries and continues to grow the Animo TV slate both at home and abroad with key co-producing partners.

She secured a number of relationships with international distributors to ensure that Animo TV’s content can be seen all over the world.

Contact Jean at jean@animotv.ie

Ciara Bresnihan - Head of Production

Ciara has worked in TV and Film production for over twenty years, having started her career in the early 2000’s in New York, where she worked on dramas like Law & Order: S.V.U and As Good As it Gets. 

She subsequently moved back to Ireland and into TV Production, and for over 17 years has worked as a Production Manager, Line Producer and Producer for International and domestic broadcasters like Channel 4, Channel 5, RTÉ and Virgin Media Television, and more recently as Production Executive for broadcasters such as National Geographic, Discovery Channel and Smithsonian Channel. 

CLAIRE GORMLEY -
producer and production manager

As a producer and production manager, Claire has over 9 years experience in the film and TV industry in Ireland. In 2014 Claire began working with Parallel Film Productions, working on an array of feature films including Brooklyn, Maudie, The Man Who Invented Christmas, Mary Shelley as well as producing an array of award-winning short films including Sister This, The Date and Vanilla for RTÉ.

With Animo TV Claire works as a Production Manager across Animo’s varied and exciting slate of productions for TV, cinema and digital platforms. Recent projects include The Great House Revival (RTÉ One), Prison Breaks (2020, Virgin Media One) and Buyer’s Bootcamp (Virgin Media Player).

Caitlin Hayes Production Assistant

Caitlin decided to study TV & Media Production in SETU, Carlow because of her love for creative writing. Whilst studying, Caitlin began to enjoy radio and TV production and graduated in 2024 wanting to start a career in TV. After an exciting summer of freelancing as a Production Assistant and the odd stint working at Naas Radio and KCLR, Caitlin joined Animo as a PA. She has since worked across many of Animo's productions both in the office and on set. 

lorraine o’donovan - head of development

Lorraine joined Animo in 2020, having moved back to Ireland from the UK where she worked on a range of factual entertainment and documentary formats for the BBC, Channel 5, Channel 4, Netflix and Vice. Her production credits include The Undateables, The Case that Shook America, The Murderer & Me, The Baby Has Landed and the BAFTA-winning Race Across the World.

With over 12 years of experience in the industry, Lorraine’s role as Head of Development involves working closely with the Animo team to drive the company’s development slate and devise new formats for Irish, International and SVOD markets. Since joining the team, she worked as Series Producer on Series 2 of Davy’s Toughest Team, as well as developing original commissions including The Tuskar Rock Tragedy and Face the Music for RTE. 

Sinéad ToAl - Coordinator and Researcher

After graduating from DIT with an award for excellence in film production, Sinéad spent several years working at Parallel Films across the companies varied slate of feature film, television and documentary while also assisting the managing director and managing the compani’s administration and bookkeeping. Credits include Marlowe, My New York Year and Sweetness in the Belly.

Sinéad has recently moved into television production with Animo TV, working as a coordinator and researcher on a number of company’s projects. 

Linda Jackson - ACCOUNTs

Linda Jackson started her bookkeeping career in 2009, when she took a position in an accountancy practice. A position that lasted 13 years. This was a varied role working across a number of industries. Linda then joined the Animo team in 2022. 

karen moran - series producer

Karen began her career in the film industry, starting off in the camera department, and then moving to production; working across a number of Irish and UK dramas.

She then worked in television production in RTÉ for 12 years, on various genres; entertainment, lifestyle, children’s programming, and drama.  While at RTÉ Karen developed, produced and directed the documentary, “#missingyou”, as part of the RTÉ 2 Reality Bites series.  Later she went on to co-develop the show with NRK and RTÉ as a formatted six part series, “Missing You” which aired on RTÉ One.

Since joining AnimoTV, Karen has worked on multiple productions as a casting producer, producer, and more recently as series producer on “The Great House Revival”.

Alex Ryan - production assistant and researcher

Alex joined the Animo team in 2024 having completed his education at the Toronto Film School.

Alex has worked as a production assistant and researcher on several Animo productions, including ‘The Great House Revival,’ ‘Ireland’s fittest family,’ and ‘Help Me Buy A Home.’