MEET THE TEAM
CHRIS KELLY
Chris Kelly is a BAFTA nominated writer, director and producer who founded Little Ease Films in 2008. Chris has more than fifteen years experience in the film and television industry. His first documentary feature ‘A Cambodian Spring’ premiered at the Hot Docs International film Festival in 2017, winning the Special Jury Prize. The film went on to win more than half a dozen awards, was nominated for a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut and an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Documentary and was screened in more than 30 countries around the world. In 2018 the film was released theatrically in the UK and Ireland to widespread critical acclaim.
Chris is currently writing several dramas including an animated feature and is in production as director & producer on two new feature documentaries. Chris is also producing several feature documentaries for other filmmakers and overseeing the development slate at Little Ease Films.
Rabie Mustapha is a Belfast based Palestinian filmmaker. He works on creative documentaries that tackle living in troubled places where individual paths are heavily impacted by outside forces. His latest work is the personal short documentary “The Cities I Live In” that is centred around his experience of leaving Beirut in 2020 to become a father in Belfast. In 2018, he directed the short doc The Actor which follows a young Palestinian man trying to leave the ghetto where he lives to follow his dream of becoming a professional actor. Currently, Rabie works as an assistant director/producer with Little Ease Films
RABIE MUSTAPHA
JOHN DIXON
John Dixon is an emerging documentary film maker from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has a strong background in working with grass root community organisations and charities. He has extensive experience as a qualified drone operator as well as a sound recordist.
John has a strong visual story telling style and currently has multiple short documentary ideas in development. He works as an assistant Director & Producer with Little Ease Films.