Karen MacDaid

26/11/2025

I am very proud to announce that „The Child I Left Behind" has been chosen to win the Best Overall Film (Audience Choice) and Best Documentary award at the 2025 Lasta Film Festival.

31/08/2025

Growing up on a farm in Donegal hits different.

These are stills from my newest film release "The Child I Left Behind" available to watch on KarenMacDaid youtube channel.

31/08/2025

This film is a love letter to my childhood. You will enjoy this one!

This is a love letter to my childhood. 🎬This video was colour graded with Dehancer, which is a film emulation plugin designed to make your footage look like...

15/08/2025

Along with all the camping essentials, I brought with me a full length dress to the beach. The original plan was to get some artsy shots under the moonlight, but I was too hungry, cold, and lazy to bother myself. The next day after cooking in the sun, my Irish skin had enough and I needed to cover up. I put my dress on and then, a thought! “I am going to run into the sea in my dress.” I know - revolutionary! Never been done before! I share my idea with Artur and within minutes we race down to the shore. My dress now is soaked with salty water weighing me down. Artur had me doing laps in the sea. Over and back over and back. It was like a deadly obstacle course, jumping over crabs and jellyfish, which were after my toes. But all in the name of art.

13/08/2025

Rathmullan Beach is my favourite spot to camp in Donegal. This was one of the best local trips of my life.

11/08/2025

Recently I had the best time ever camping on Rathmullan beach, link to the new video in the comments 🤝💕

29/07/2025

I have a new video for you at on YouTube, which is about the wild quest of testing Dehancer Film Emulation plugin.

Colour Grading is a very important process in developing the final look of the imagery we create, so if you are curious about our process on making videos, you are in for a treat.

[LINK TO THE YOUTUBE VIDEO THE COMMENTS]

19/04/2025

New film from Glenveagh National Park is out now on my YouTube channel 👀

I have been to Glenveagh National Park many times, but never went inside the castle. Why?Sign up for Artlist and get 2 months free!https://bit.ly/KarenMacDai...

09/01/2025

It’s this time of the year, when Letterkenny gets snug under a thin blanket of snow❄️