Sorcha Glackin has been a director and producer of radio, TV, and film, for over twenty years. She is particularly interested in exploring subjects in a way that relates to the shared human experience.  

A graduate of DCU’s MA in Journalism, she started her career working in current affairs radio for RTÉ.  

In 2012, she left RTÉ to work in the independent sector making a number of radio documentaries supported by the Mary Raftery Investigative Journalism fund.  

This body of work explored subjects such as suicide in the Traveller community and the impact of drug addiction on families.  

Later moving into television, she gained extensive experience working across various TV formats before producing I Am Immigrant, her first documentary exploring racism in Ireland. Directed by Luke McManus for Motive Television, the film won best documentary at the 2016 IFTA Awards. 

Since then, Sorcha has continued to work in the independent sector for her own company Get Reel Film, producing and directing the critically acclaimed Passing It On: Ballymun Kickhams and The Team That Turned Up directed by Luke McManus.  

She has worked internationally in El Salvador, Morocco, Honduras, and Turkey and as a reporter for the BBC World Service in New York. In 2016 she reported on the US presidential election for Ireland’s Today FM.  

Sorcha has also produced commercial work for brands such as Aer Lingus, AIB, Heineken and Facebook. 

In 2023, she worked as series producer and director on Face the Music for Animo TV, a critically acclaimed three-part observational series following the students and teachers of the Royal Irish Academy of Music. 

Her sensitively rendered film portrait of legendary song collector Tom Munnelly for TG4 –Tom Munnelly: Fear na n-Amhrán, will screen as part of the Séan Corcoran Series at Droichead Arts Centre on Saturday Sept 7 at 12.45pm.  

An ‘in conversation’ on the making of the film with Director Sorcha Glackin and Irish Times journalist Sorcha Pollak, will follow.  

Sorcha Glackin is also a participant on our Culture in the Classroom schools programme