Rate My Professor Justin Mac Gregor

Dr. Justin MacGregor serves as Associate Professor in Film Studies and Head of the School of Creative Arts at Trinity College Dublin. His academic interests span film studies, film theory and philosophy, filmmaking, documentary theatre, theatre of the real, transmedia creation, performing arts, arts education, Irish theatre, film and cultural performance, media arts, and visual arts. MacGregor has held roles such as External Examiner for the MA in Production and Direction at NUI Galway since September 2016 and Writer in Residence for Prague UNESCO City of Literature in 2019. His career includes professional memberships in the Writers Guild of Great Britain and Writers Guild of Ireland, as well as contributions to film criticism through regular broadcasts on RTE's Arena program, reviewing films such as "Robot Dreams," "The Fabelmans," "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3," and "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed" in 2023-2024.

MacGregor has received numerous awards, including Artist Project Awards from Arts Council England (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013), Peggy Ramsay Writing Awards (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015), Directing Bursary Awards from the Directors Guild of Great Britain (2009, 2010), Award of Merit and Award of Excellence from the Accolade Global Film Competition (2022), Award of Merit from Impact Documentary Awards (2023), and Manchester Theatre Award (2012). His key publication is the book Cineworks 2000: Twenty Years of Independent Filmmaking in British Columbia (2000). Notable creative works include theatre productions such as 'To Russia, With Pride' (2015), 'Uhta! The last part of the night' (2016), 'It Shall Be Illegal' (2014), and 'The Lonely Clouds of Guernica' (2016); film productions like 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps: Images for Putin's Russia' (2014), 'Is There Anybody Out There? Young Voices from Inside a Pandemic' (2021, selected for Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival), and 'Tow' (2024); and scripts including 'The Gyre' (2019), 'Cooking in the Outer Hebrides with Angus McTiernan - a live theatrical podcast' (2022), and 'Vaclav's Prague Spring Blues' (2023-2024).