Originally from Belfast, Carol Murphy studied Fine Art Painting at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She worked as a visual artist, completing a two-year fine art residency at the Ateliers ’63 in Amsterdam where she made predominantly video based installation work, exhibiting in London, Belfast, Derry, Dublin and Amsterdam.

An MA in Film Theory; managing and fronting a pop band, California Roll; publishing “The Innocents”; film journalism for magazines such as Film Ireland, Flux Magazine and Filmwaves and the development of an arts documentary, Art Baby with Flame TV brought her on the road to 35mm short film production.

Murphy produced “Automaton” and “Tell it to the Fishes” – starring Dylan Moran and Gerard McSorley. In February 2006 she attended the Berlinale Talent Campus. In Feb 2007 she directed and produced her short film “Mustard”, through her company Roof Raic, and Rage Filmproduction and Realise, in Paris. Mustard premiered, at The European Film Festival in Munich in December 2007.

Murphy shot, directed and edited a music video, You Make Me Sick in response to Ladyscraper’s Chunderchunk, which premiered at The 5th London Short Film Festival at the ICA in January 2008. She also attended the Rutger Hauer Filmfactory as a director in January 2008 where she directed “Mystery”, an ident for the NBC Channel 13th Street and The Other Side.

Murphy has written 5 shorts, including Nightclubbing, which won an RTÉ/Filmbase Short Film Award and is currently in post-production. Another short, Painkiller was short listed for Film London’s Pulse Award 2008. Murphy is also developing “The Leg” film project and three feature projects – “Painkiller (the feature)”, “The Body and Blood” (horror) and “Eugene” - which is currently being developed at the Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam 2008/9 and has been selected for EAVE 2009.