Colin Peppard, a director from Monaghan now based in Dublin, discovered his passion for storytelling by shooting music videos on his iPad, which led to creating student campaign videos in college. His debut short film, a COVID-era college project titled "So Say All of Us," won 'Best Quarantine Short Film' at the Desert of the Light Film Festival in 2020. Since then, he has directed videos for Irish bands like Post-Party, Gurriers, Ailbhe Reddy, Still Blue, CHALK, and Wild Youth, whose Eurovision entry video "We Are One" garnered over a million views on YouTube.

Recognised as an emerging talent, he directed Ailbhe Reddy's "Inhaling," longlisted for the 1.4 Awards and shortlisted for the Berlin Commercial Awards 2024. Recently, Colin was shortlisted for the National Talent Academy’s First Credit Short Film Scheme, and his script "Muscle Bound" was a finalist for the BVIFF Bursary and a quarter-finalist at Kerry International Film Festival. He also received the Clones Film Festival’s Bursary for his short, "Mile 24”, which is now in post-production.