Ross McClean

Ross McClean (1991) is a filmmaker from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied creative documentary in Canada, Hungary, Portugal & Belgium and graduated from the European documentary directing masters program DocNomads. On returning home, Ross has lectured in both Queens & Ulster University whilst creating work about his homeland.

His first short film, Hydebank (2019), premiered at DokLeipzig, IDFA, Hot Docs and won Best Short Documentary at Galway, London Short, Spektrum, Docs Ireland and Leeds. His following short, Echo (2023), premiered at IDFA, True/False, Sheffield DocFest & Camerimage, winning Best Short Documentary at Kerry Film Festival. 

Ross' most recent film, No Mean City (2025), premiered in Vision du Réel short competition and has been picked up by The New York Times for the Op-Docs platform. He is currently finishing his first feature length documentary supported by BFI DocSociety & Arte. 

(Photograph - Bronte Stahl)