Carmel Winters is from
Cork, where she was born into a large family. She had ten older brothers and sisters. She studied Drama and English at
Trinity College Dublin. Winters has written and directed plays and screenplays. She has had films at the
Tribeca Film Festival in New York, the
Toronto International Film Festival and the
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic. She has been commissioned to write for the
Abbey Theatre and was appointed Film Artist in Residence at
University College Cork in 2014–15. Winters lives in
Ballydehob with her wife, Toma McCullim. ==Awards==