Andrew Lowe and Tom Clinch have recently joined our board. We are delighted to welcome their skills and experience to the board and look forward to working with them and the wider board in the coming months.

Andrew Lowe
Andrew Lowe co-founded Element Pictures with Ed Guiney in 2001. Element has offices in Dublin, Belfast and London and works across film and television production. As Founder and Co-CEO, his focus is on production and the financing and commercial exploitation of Element’s slate. Element’s film and tv productions include Room, directed by Lenny Abrahamson; Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite; Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter; The Wonder, directed by Sebastian Lelio; Nancy Harris’ The Dry; Normal People and Conversations with Friends, both directed by Lenny Abrahamson.

Before setting up Element Pictures Andrew freelanced as a production accountant and was Head of Business Affairs at the Irish Film Board.  Andrew is Chair of the IBEC (Irish Employers representative body) Audiovisual Federation. In May 2022, Fremantle announced its majority stake in Element Pictures, marking a new and ambitious phase of growth for Element.

Andrew is also a director of a distribution company, Volta Pictures, as well as the Light House Cinema in Dublin and Pálás Cinema in Galway.

Tom Clinch
Tom fell for the stage playing Richard III in Belvedere College. In 1985 he joined the National Youth Theatre. He read Drama Studies in Trinity, touring the USA with Irish Universities Theatre Company playing Estragon to Stephen Bradley’s Vladimir. He played a body-snatcher in Gerry Stembridge’s Red Noses at the Project and appeared in several Nighthawks sketches directed by Anne Enright.

He found a knack for making profitable theatre directing his Afternoon of Irish Theatre productions. He was a DTF translator and production manager and produced Irish and international tours of Dermot Bolger’s Lament for Arthur Cleary starring Liam Cunningham. He co-produced a documentary film From Clare to Here about Martin Hayes which aired worldwide.

Tom is now principal of CLINCH, Ireland’s premier privately-owned financial advisory firm for leading creatives, professionals and entrepreneurs. His wife Meav Ni Mhaolchatha is a singer and composer. They have two daughters Anna and Catherine Clinch.