Ed Guiney, the co-founder and chief executive of Element Pictures, caught the film bug early, spending hours as a teenager in the local video rental shop. “Often we used to rent four or five films a night and just watch as much as we possibly could,” he says. “I was mad about films.” He was also very interested in the business of film, understanding how films got to the screen, pulling together the many strands of creatives, funding sources and technical brilliance to produce great movies. His business degree at Trinity (he chose his course – business, economics and social…

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