About

Kathleen Harris is a documentary director based in Dublin. Her recent work includes the hour-long documentaries Natasha (RTÉ, 2025), following a young woman seeking justice after surviving a violent assault, and Birdsong (RTÉ, 2024), which follows ornithologist Seán Ronayne as he records the call of every bird species in Ireland. Birdsong premiered at the Dublin International Film Festival, was later acquired by the BBC and Arte, and received recognition from the Jackson Wild Media Awards and European Wildlife Film Awards.

From 2014 to 2022, Kathleen was a video journalist for The Irish Times, directing, shooting, and editing hundreds of videos on a wide range of subjects, including Ireland’s abortion and marriage equality referendums, sexual assault on college campuses, national elections, grassroots environmental activism, and migration in Bangladesh, Greece, and France. In 2021, she was named Video Journalist of the Year by the NewsBrands Journalism Awards for Third Wave, a short documentary about healthcare workers battling a surge of Covid-19 cases in a Dublin hospital. In 2020, she won the Justice Media Award for TV/Video for The Push, a short about the fight for same-sex marriage and reproductive rights in Northern Ireland.

Kathleen’s other work includes Growing Up at the End of the World (RTÉ, 2020), following teen climate justice activists in Ireland, and Postcard from a Crisis (2019), a short about Irish clowns performing for children in refugee camps, which screened at festivals in Ireland and the UK.

Born and raised in the United States, Kathleen has lived in Ireland since 2006.