Lisa Barros D Sa
Biography
Lisa Barros D'Sa is a film director, writer, and producer. Barros D'Sa studied English at the University of Oxford and holds an MA in Screenwriting from the London University of the Arts.
Born in Belfast, she is best known for co-directing and producing the 2019 feature film Ordinary Love, she has also co-directed the films Good Vibrations and Cherrybomb with husband Glenn Leyburn.
Based on these three 'strikingly different' feature films, the Irish Times described Barros D'Sa and Leyburn as "the most important contemporary filmmakers working from Northern Ireland".
In 2006, Barros D'Sa founded a film production company called Canderblinks Film with long-term collaborators Glenn Leyburn and David Holmes.
Barros D’Sa's directorial debut in 2006 was The 18th Electricity Plan, a short film based on her own screenplay and co-directed with husband and collaborator Glenn Leyburn.
The film played at various international film festivals including LA Shorts, Clermont-Ferrand, and Cork International Film Festival, where it won a Special Mention in the Best Short Film category.
