Meet the Team
Meet the co-founders and programmers of BYOF: Dervla McDonnell, Iván Romero, and Marisa Moreno.
Dervla McDonnell is a writer and filmmaker from Kildare, Ireland. Her creative work moves between poetry and film, exploring memory, nostalgia and the strange spaces between the personal and the imagined. She holds a Master’s Degree in Film and has written and directed several short films. Her poetry has been published in Swim Press, Nowhere Girl Collective, Fig Tree Magazine, and more. She co-created the experimental poetry film Biting of the Sun and is currently working on a new poetry short film, Velvet Glove, which will be released later this year.
Dervla McDonnell
Iván Romero is a visual artist and filmmaker from Málaga, Spain, based in Dublin. His work lives in the experimental realm, far from traditional storytelling. His projects have the goal of finding different ways to convey feelings through visuals and music.
He is heavily inspired by Internet culture and aesthetics, visual collage and the exploration of the subconscious. Projects like Dream 47 or the unreleased The Human Screen are a perfect example of his vivid, hectic, often distorted and dark toned visual language.
Iván Romero
Marisa Moreno is a German-born and Dublin-based writer and filmmaker. She holds an undergraduate degree in English & German Language, Literature & Culture and a masters degree in Film & Creative Media. Her published work spans prose as well as short films where her involvement varies between writing, directing, editing and acting. Her one-shot short film ‘Sunday Afternoon’ was shortlisted at the Dublin Smartphone Film Festival 2026. Marisa’s art focuses on exploring the human condition and the complex relationships that come with it.
