Stuart Sloan is the director of the Docs Ireland International Film Festival. Having completed both a BA and MA in film at Queen's University Belfast, Stuart started editing feature documentaries in the USA in 2010. He has worked on films shown on PBS, at SXSW and San Francisco Film Festival, among many other festivals worldwide, working with Sundance and Cannes-winning directors, and Oscar-nominated producers. In Northern Ireland, Stuart has produced Voices of the New Belfast, a video project on migrants in Belfast and co-founded Second Chance Cinema, a Belfast-based pop-up cinema organisation, who specialise in documentaries and programming for various festivals across Northern Ireland. He is currently editing a film about one woman's childbirth, Of Woman Born, and is a documentary programmer for the Belfast Film Festival.
www.belfastfilmfestival.org and www.secondchancecinema.org