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Nov 24, 2023
Dublin Comedy International Film Festival Roundtable
Dublin Comedy International Film Festival Roundtable by Film Ireland
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Nov 17, 2023
Podcast: Ken Wardrop, Director of ‘So This Is Christmas’
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Ken Wardrop, Director of So This Is Christmas.
It’s late November and across the country expectations of the impending festive season are growing. Christmas trees are being bought, festive music turned up and presents scrambled for. It’s all getting very bright and loud, excessive and expensive. Directed by acclaimed director Ken Wardrop, So This Is Christmas takes us on a heartening and emotional journey with five ordinary characters as they navigate personal dilemmas triggered by this overwhelming time of year. Amid their everyday lives and struggles, we discover stories of extraordinary resilience and humble bravery.
The story is brought to life in a creative documentary form, where characters’ lives interweave with a colourful tapestry of Christmas scenes. Beyond the façade of tinsel and celebration, the film explores the deeper complexities that emerge when expectations collide with reality. What transpires is an important social commentary, filled with humour yet tinged with tragedy that will leave audiences questioning the true meaning of Christmas.
So This Is Christmas is in cinemas from 17th November 2023.
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Nov 15, 2023
Paul Mercier, Writer & Director of 'Prospect House'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Paul Mercier, Writer & Director of Prospect House ahead of its screening at this year’s Cork International Film Festival.
Prospect House is a satirical film about a group of protestors who stage a period re- enactment in a dilapidated 18th century house in a last ditch effort to save the building from demolition. The film deals with the final days of the illegal occupation of the house by the protestors. They are a motley crew of artists, actors and activists who want to bring the building’s plight to the attention of the world and to rescue it from the claws of aggressive property developers. The protestors believe that they can save the building by telling its story. But the project is rife with discord, as no-one can agree what story they are telling. Set in Ireland in the present day, the film challenges conventional understandings and perceptions of heritage, historical narrative and truth.
Prospect House screens at the Cork International Film Festival at Everyman Theatre, Cork, at 8.30pm on Friday 17th November.
https://corkfilmfest.org/
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Nov 13, 2023
Still Voices 23 Podcast: Joe Lee, Director of '406 Days'
Still Voices 23 Podcast: Joe Lee, Director of '406 Days' by Film Ireland
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Nov 10, 2023
Still Voices 23 Podcast: Laura Moss Co-Writer & Director of 'Birth/Rebirth'
In this Still Voices 23 Podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Co-Writer (alongside Brendan J. O’Brien) & Director of Birth/Rebirth which is screening at this year’s Still Voices Film Festival (November 15th – 19th 2023).
A morgue technician successfully reanimates the body of a little girl, but she must harvest biological materials from pregnant women to keep the child breathing. When the girl’s mother, a nurse, discovers her baby is alive, the two enter into a deal that forces them both down a dark path.
Birth/Rebirth is screening at Still Voices 23 on 17th November at 7:45pm in the Bog Lane Theatre Ballymahon.
https://stillvoicesfilmfestival.com/
https://filmireland.net/
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Nov 8, 2023
Cork International Film Festival Filmmakers Roundtable
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to 4 filmmakers whose films are screening at the Cork International Film Festival (Nov 9th - 26th, 2023). Martina Glynn (Wrecker), Aduda Hera & Lia Campbell (Shee) and TJ O’Grady-Peyton (Room Taken).
https://filmireland.net/
https://corkfilmfest.org/
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Nov 6, 2023
Podcast: Molly Manning Walker, Writer/Director of ‘How to Have Sex’
In this Film Ireland podcast, Smrithika Majukar talks to Molly Manning Walker, Writer/Director of ‘How to Have Sex’
Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday, drinking, clubbing and hooking up in what should be the best summer of their lives. As they dance their way across the sun-drenched streets of Malia, they find themselves navigating the complexities of sex, consent and self-discovery. Captured with luminous visuals and a pitch-perfect soundtrack, Manning Walker’s directorial debut paints a painfully familiar portrait of young adulthood, and how first sexual experiences should – or shouldn’t – play out.
How To Have Sex stars Screen Stars of Tomorrow 2023 Mia McKenna-Bruce (Persuasion, Kindling) and BAFTA-nominated Samuel Bottomley (Somewhere Boy, Ladhood), alongside Lara Peake (Mood, Brave New World), Shaun Thomas (Ali & Ava, The Long Shadow), and newcomers Enva Lewis and Laura Ambler. Screen Star of Tomorrow 2021 Molly Manning Walker trained at NFTS in England and holds an MA in Cinematography. Her previous work as a cinematographer includes shooting Charlotte Regan’s debut feature Scrapper and the multi-BAFTA-nominated Mood. Molly also won the Next Step prize at Cannes 2022 for the How to Have Sex script.
\ Opens in Cinemas in the Uk & Ireland on 3rd November 2023.
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Oct 20, 2023
From The Quiet Man to The Quiet Girl – An Irish Film Music Journey
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to event organiser Tim Burden about From The Quiet Man to The Quiet Girl – An Irish Film Music Journey, a celebration of Irish film music, and the role played by music in telling the great stories of Irish cinema over the past 100 years at Belfast’s iconic Strand Arts Centre.
Followed by Pius Ojo talking to Composer Sarah Lynch, who features among the panel of speakers at the event.
From The Quiet Man to The Quiet Girl – An Irish Film Music Journey takes place on Thursday, 26 October 2023 as part of the Belfast International Arts Festival.
https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/event/from-the-quiet-man-to-the-quiet-girl-an-irish-film-music-journey/
Join top award-winning composers from the Screen Composers Guild of Ireland and host Hugh Odling-Smee (Film Hub NI) as they explore seminal Irish films, and how their scores reflected the culture of the day. Featuring the music of Stephen Rennicks, John Williams, Mark Gordon, James Horner, Sarah Lynch, Elmer Bernstein, Cater Burwell, Van Morrison, Henry Mancini, Hannah Peel and Glen Hansard.
https://filmireland.net/
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Oct 19, 2023
Trish McAdam, Director of Songs Of Blood And Destiny
Ahead of its screening at the Kerry Film Festival, Gemma Creagh talks to Trish McAdam, Director of Songs Of Blood And Destiny.
Based on the epic poem, iGirl, by Marina Carr. A narrator unravels her own life like some knotted ball of string, reflects with dark humour and heavenly wit on humanities destiny and evokes voices past and future.
The filmmaker takes the semi-autobiographic words of Marina Carr’s epic poem, as if they were her own, encouraging the audience to do the same. Using her unique visual language, the filmmaker mirrors the slippery nature of Carr’s work, fire, earth, air, water, crash and bump, contradictory truths told by a dynamic troupe of actors, banging on the forth wall. Visuals untangle, re-tangle in multi-layered collages to augment performances of Eileen Walsh, Cathy Belton, Brian Gleeson, Brian Quinn and new-comers Ella Lilly Hyland and Holly Sturton.
The present day narrator is curious, funny but unforgiving, evoking voices, past and future. Joan of Arc, the warrior, Antigone, the truth teller, and the incestuous Jocasta and her son Oedipus, victims of homosapiens tragic fate of our own making. Looking forward from our contemporary, messy domesticity, back to the extinction of the Neanderthals, the film reminds us of the potential extinction of the planet, and ourselves, driven by our very desire to avoid it, fuelled by sci-fi fantasies of somewhere better in the beyond, transhumants of the future.
Composer: Paddy Mulcahy: Casting Director: Maureen Hughes Production Manager Grace Sexton, Studio shoot Cinematographer Fiona Graham, Anna O’Carroll camera operator, Sound Peter Nicell, Hair, Makeup Sarah O’Rourke, Edited with Connie Farrell in Oughterard, Post Production Gorilla Post. Niche Films would like to acknowledge the support of The Arts Council | and Cliona Maher as producer for An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Clonmel Junction Arts Festival.
Songs Of Blood And Destiny screens on Friday 20th October as part of the at the Kerry Film Festival (19-22 October 2023.
https://kerryfilmfestival.com/
https://filmireland.net/
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Oct 19, 2023
Lisa Mulcahy, Director of 'Lies We Tell'
In this Film Ireland Podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Lisa Mulcahy Director of 'Lies We Tell'.
Lies We Tell is a a contained psychological thriller about a gaslit girl’s break for freedom. Maud (Agnes O’Casey), an orphaned heiress living alone in an isolated manor, must fight her charming and dangerous Uncle (David Wilmot) for her inheritance— and her life. Lies We Tell also stars Holly Sturton and Chris Walley, is written by Elisabeth Gooch, produced by Ruth Carter of Blue Ink Films with backing from Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland.
Stripped-down, gritty, and all-too-contemporary: this is not a frocks-and-bonnets period picture but a taut, propulsive, fight to the death.
Lies We Tell is in cinemas from 13th October 2023.
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Oct 13, 2023
Thaddeus O'Sullivan, Director of 'The Miracle Club'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Thaddeus O’Sullivan, Director of ‘The Miracle Club’.
The Miracle Club follows a female friendship across generations in a community in the late 1960’s in working class Dublin when the Catholic Church reigned supreme. A bus trip to Lourdes becomes more than a pilgrimage as each of the women look for answers to very different questions. Having never even left Dublin – let alone Ireland – the journey provides our heroines the chance to let their hair down, celebrate life and delight in some sweet independence. Truly joyous, uplifting, hilarious and aspirational – and an invitation to meet our heroines, all just as funny, messy, vocal and flawed as ourselves – The Miracle Club empowers us all to communicate, love and laugh, and discover that we are only as strong as the friends and family who stand by us. This remarkable cast includes Dame Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates, Laura Linney, Agnes O’Casey, Stephen Rea and Mark O…
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Oct 11, 2023
Eugene O Brien, Writer of ‘Tarrac’
In this Film Ireland Podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Eugene O Brien, Writer of 'Tarrac', which is in cinemas from 6th October 2023.
Filmed on the breathtaking landscapes of Corca Dhuibhne, Dingle Peninsula, in County Kerry, this award-winning Irish-language film, Tarrac, stars Kelly Gough (Kill Command, Out of Innocence) Lorcan Cranitch (Lakelands, Aisha, Róise & Frank) Kate Nic Chonaonaigh (An Cailín Ciúin, Song of Granite, Shadow Dancer), Kate Finegan (Joyride, Rós na Rún), Rachel Feeney (Belfast, Death on the Nile) and Cillian Ó Gairbhí (Róise & Frank, Foscadh)
Producer Clíona Ní Bhuachalla (Seamus Heaney – Out of the Marvellous, The Clinic), writer Eugene O Brien (Eden, Pure Mule) and director Declan Reeks (Pure Mule, The Running Mate, Scúp) began discussions about making a feature film as gaeilge.
Eugene states “TARRAC has really been a labour of love for myself, Declan and Clíona and Kerry was absolutely vital to the film. This world-renowned landscape battered…
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Oct 6, 2023
Tony Kelly, Writer/Director of 'The Hurler (A Campion's Tale)'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Lynn Larkin talks to Tony Kelly, Writer/Director of The Hurler (A Campion’s Tale).
The Hurler: A Campion’s Tale tells the story of Ireland’s most notorious Hurler, Gar Campion (Tony Kelly) . Gar is one of Ireland’s most successful, decorated and best hurlers but, his public persona and strong personality has made him almost bigger than the game. He’s a fashionista who dates Ireland’s top Instagram model, Keeva McGinley (Sophie Vavasseur). He’s the GAA’s answer to David Beckham.
However when he becomes the first hurler in the history of the proud amateur sport to fail a drug test for performance enhancing drugs and becomes public enemy number one. While also finding himself in debt to a nefarious local businessman, Gar agrees to a plan concocted by his coach and father figure, Billy Byrne (Jon Kenny) to kill two birds with one stone. A plan that will hopefully rebuild his shattered reputation in the hurling community and get him out of tow…
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Sep 21, 2023
Prasanna Puwanarajah, Director of 'Ballywalter'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Prasanna Puwanarajah, Director of Ballywalter.
A life affirming story about the unexpected connections that can change the course of our lives.
Eileen (Seána Kerslake) is a caustic, unrepentant University drop-out whose dreams of a successful life in London have fallen by the wayside. Back at home with her mum, she makes ends meet by working as an unlicensed driver in her ex-boyfriend’s minicab.
Shane (Patrick Kielty) has exiled himself in Ballywalter following the break-up of his marriage, but now he’s trying to get his life back on track by enrolling in a stand-up comedy course. When Shane calls a taxi to get him to his classes, Eileen answers and a surprising connection is made. As the two spend time together shuttling back and forth, a beautiful friendship develops, leading both to a moment of realisation.
Shane reintegrates; Eileen makes peace with herself and who she really is. Finally, she can stop running and just dri…
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Sep 15, 2023
Bryony Dunne, Director/Co-Writer of 'Surrender Your Horns'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Bryony Dunne about her film Surrender Your Horns.
Surrender Your Horns is a feature film that starts with a lonesome Irish man snorting a substance of powdered horn, who then undergoes a bestial metamorphosis. The work combines documentary footage with absurdist performances of unicorn nightclubbers, reproductive biologists, and horn smugglers.
Surrender Your Horns premiered at Galway Film Fleadh last year, and went on to have a number of international screenings at venues such as Thessaloniki Documentary Festival in Greece, Film Maudit in LA, and was presented in Limerick for the opening events at EVA international, Ireland’s Biennale for Contemporary Art. On Thursday 21st of September it will screen at the Mermaid Theatre in Bray to celebrate the space’s 21 year anniversary, and in October it is set to screen at Another Way Film Festival in Madrid and Worm in Rotterdam. Check out the instagram account for updates on screenings…
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Sep 2, 2023
Producer Kathryn Lennon and Executive Producer James Mitchell of Hidden Assets
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to ‘Hidden Assets’ Series Producer Kathryn Lennon and Executive Producer James Mitchell.
Hidden Assets returns to our screens this Autumn with a six-part second season, set between Limerick and Antwerp, Belgium.
Hidden Assets airs on Sunday September 3rd for 6 consecutive weeks at 9.30pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player
Over a year has passed since the events in season one and the stage is set for an exciting season full of twists and turns. Claire (Nora-Jane Noone), new to our team as lead Detective Sergeant within Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) faces a sudden challenge – a coordinated cyber-attack targeting CAB and the Belgian Counter-Terrorist Unit (CTU), with a connection to the Bibi Brannigan case.
Bibi (Simone Kirby) , under threat from Richard Melnick’s business partner Frances Swann, resurfaces with some new and crucial information unveiling dark details on how Richard ran his company Trestford.
In the face of gro…
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Aug 24, 2023
Tony Devlin, Director and Co-writer of 'The Glenarma Tapes'
Ahead of its screening at this year’s FrightFest, Gemma Creagh talks to Tony Devlin, Director and Co-writer of The Glenarma Tapes.
In the spring of 2020, five art students and two lecturers went missing in a remote forest in Ireland. What happened to them has remained unknown – until now. Their last movements are pieced together from found footage recovered from a police operation almost two years later, where it becomes clear that what started out as an innocent prank went badly wrong and became a horrific fight for survival in the cold darkness of Glenarma Forest. Let the deadly race to escape begin…
The Glenarma Tapes is the latest film to be produced through Northern Ireland Screen’s New Talent Focus initiative.
The Glenarma Tapes screens on 26th August at Frightfest (24 – 28 August 2023).
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Aug 16, 2023
Laura McGann, Writer/Director of 'The Deepest Breath'
In this Film Ireland podcast Gemma Creagh talks to Laura McGann about her film The Deepest Breath.
The Deepest Breath follows champion freediver Alessia Zecchini, who fell in love with the sport as a child growing up in Italy, astounding coaches with her raw talent and determination in pool swims and open water contests before she was even old enough to legally compete. Irish adventurer turned expert safety diver Stephen Keenan, meanwhile, was raised near the sea, but as a young man he set out on a quest to find himself, traveling across Africa before landing in Dahab, Egypt and establishing a dive school. Despite their very different paths, the two would meet at the pinnacle of the competitive freediving world, discovering a shared passion for pushing their limits and forming a powerful relationship that felt like fate.
From Irish director Laura McGann, this thrilling documentary takes a look inside one of the most dangerous sports in the world, using everything from raw underwater…
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Aug 4, 2023
Murray Pomerance, Vertigo 65
In this Film Ireland podcast, Paul Farren speaks to Author & Scholar Murray Pomerance about Alfred Hitchcock’s timeless classic Vertigo.
Murray Pomerance will be presenting at the Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo: 65th Anniversary: 1958-2023 which takes place 21 – 23 August 2023 at Trinity College Dublin.
The conference also includes a special screening of Vertigo in the Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin on Sunday, 20th August at 8pm.
www.vertigo65.com
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Jul 12, 2023
Interview with Patricia Kelly, Director/Writer of 'Verdigris'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Director/Writer Patricia Kelly about her film Verdigris which is premiering at the 35th Galway Film Fleadh.
Trapped in a marriage with a volatile and controlling husband, middle-aged, middle-class Marian takes on a secret part-time job as a census enumerator. The job is no picnic. On her tough inner-city route, she faces dismissive and abusive locals who flatly refuse to engage in the census. This includes brash and no-nonsense teenager Jewel, who Marian soon realises is living alone with no obvious means of supporting herself.
Marian finds herself striking a deal with Jewel – she won’t report her to the authorities if Jewel helps her get the locals to fill out their census forms. As they walk the streets of Dublin, an unlikely friendship blooms.
Verdigris screens at the Galway Film Fleadh 2023 on 14th July.
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Jul 10, 2023
Galway Film Fleadh Filmmakers Roundtable
In this Film Ireland Podcast, Gemma Creagh welcomes 3 filmmakers to talk about their short films screening at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh. Grace Dyas (Director, Waiting Day), Shannon Welby (Writer, Licence for Nil)) and Aisling Byrne (Writer/co-director, Misread) join Gemma for this special Fleadh edition of the podcast.
The Galway Film Fleadh takes place 11 – 16 July 2023.
https://filmireland.net/
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Jun 30, 2023
Claire Dix, Director of 'Sunlight'
In this Film Ireland Podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Claire Dix about her feature debut, Sunlight, written by Ailbhe Keogan and stars Barry Ward, Liam Carney and Maureen Beattie.
Former-addict Leon (Ward) loves his best friend Iver (Carney) more than anything else in the world. Iver’s the reason he’s clean and romping about the place like a wild pinball. So when Iver gets a terminal diagnosis and decides to leave this earth early, Leon’s not about to let him go without a fight, even if it means being a royal pain in the arse. He forces Iver to agree to one last day in Dublin, hoping to convince him to live. Will he succeed? The outcome knocks both of them off course: some things are so wrong they’re right….
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Jun 22, 2023
Interview with Gene Stupnitsky, Writer / Director of 'No Hard Feelings'
Jennifer Lawrence produces and stars in No Hard Feelings, a laugh-out-loud, R-rated comedy from director Gene Stupnitsky (Good Boys) and the co-writer of Bad Teacher.
Maddie (Lawrence) thinks she’s found the answer to her financial troubles when she discovers an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to "date" their introverted 19-year-old son, Percy, and bring him out of his shell before he leaves for college. But awkward Percy proves to be more of a challenge than she expected, and time is running out. She has one summer to make him a man or lose it all.
Directed By Gene Stupnitsky
Written for the Screen by Gene Stupnitsky and John Phillips
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Feldman, Laura Benanti, Natalie Morales and Matthew Broderick
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Jun 16, 2023
Docs Ireland Documentary Film Festival
In this Film Ireland Podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Roisin Geraghty, Head Of Industry and Marketplace & Stuart Sloan Docs Ireland Programmer , about this industry focussed, all Ireland International Documentary Festival, which takes place 20 – 25 June 2023.
The Docs Ireland Documentary Film Festival runs 20 – 25 June 2023.
https://docsireland.ie/
https://filmireland.net/
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Jun 12, 2023
Interview with Allan Graf
In this Film Ireland Podcast, Paul Farren talks to Allan Graf, one of Hollywood's premier 2nd unit directors and stunt coordinators.
Graf worked as a stunt player for several years on a variety of projects, notably Walter Hill's "Southern Comfort," "The Driver" and "The Long Riders," John Carpenter's "They Live," Paul Verhoeven's "Total Recall," "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," "Raising Arizona," "Action Jackson," "S.W.A.T.," "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," "Independence Day" and, most recently, "Captain America: The First Avenger."
He has coordinated stunts on several other projects, including "Punch Drunk Love," "Domestic Disturbance," "Broken Arrow," "Wayne's World,""The Hangover, Part II" (the highest-grossing, R-rated comedy of all time), and several of director Hill's actioners, including "Supernova," "Geronimo: An American Legend" and "Wild Bill," on which he also directed the films' 2nd unit.
On Hill's 1990 sequel, "Another 48 Hrs.," Graf, as the…
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Jun 7, 2023
Tommy Creagh, Bloomsday Film Festival Director
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Tommy Creagh, the Bloomsday Film Festival Director.
The Bloomsday Film Festival was set up as a celebration of cinema, literature, and artistic innovation, inspired by the long reaching arm of Ireland’s patriarch of modernism, James Joyce. The festival is run in partnership with the Bloomsday Festival & the James Joyce Centre and will run between the 11th – 16th June 2023, with screenings taking place at the historic James Joyce Centre and the IFI, as well as Online.
http://www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/filmfestival
Tickets: https://linktr.ee/bloomsdayfilmfest
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May 29, 2023
'Tráma Teaghlaigh' Producer Fiona Kinsella & Director Keith Farrell
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Producer Fiona Kinsella & Director Keith Farrell about their 3-part TV series Tráma Teaghlaigh, which starts on TG4 at at 9:30pm on Wednesday, 31st May 2023.
Tráma Teaghlaigh an innovative series investigates the fallout of the Irish Civil War though the lens of intergenerational trauma. How the war impacted on the state and subsequent generations of families involved in the conflict. Episode 1 – Reprisal – Explores the atrocities of Ballyseedy and the assassination of Kevin O’Higgins. These events had a profound impact on the families of the victims and left a lasting legacy of bitterness on the Irish political landscape. Focusing on the Fullers, O’Connor and O’Higgins-O’Malley families, we follow their path of reconciliation as they move beyond their trauma to use their experiences in the cause of peace.
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May 23, 2023
Fergus Dowd, Producer of '406 Days' & Carol Ann Bridgeman, Ex-Debenhams worker
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Producer Fergus Dowd and Ex-Debenhams worker Carol Ann Bridgeman about 406 Days.
The film tells the story of the 1,000 Irish Debenhams workers who were made redundant through a generic email on the 9th of April 2020 after Debenhams UK Retail Ltd closed all 11 Irish stores including their flagship store on Henry St. Dublin 1. The workforce, 95% female, had been denied an earlier agreed redundancy package.
They voted to go on official strike and blocked stock being removed from the 11 stores by the liquidator. The workers remained on the picket lines, through the Covid 19 pandemic for 406 days, making it the longest industrial dispute in Irish labour history. It finally ended in May 2021 through a compromise government-sponsored proposal based on a retraining fund.
But the telling of the very human stories of courage, determination, and friendship that lay behind the conflict are told here for the first time in ‘406 days-The Debe…
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May 18, 2023
David McGiffert
Paul Farren talks to David McGiffert about his extensive career working as an Assistant Director on close to 50 feature films, including the likes Absence of Malice (1981), An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Tootsie (1982), Witness (1985), all three installments of the Back to the Future trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Rain Man (1988), The Fisher King (1991), Batman Returns (1992), The Firm (1993), Little Giants (1994), The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), A Civil Action (1998), Dudley Do-Right (1999), Man on the Moon (1999), Heartbreakers (2001), Vanilla Sky (2001), Laurel Canyon (2002), The Interpreter (2005), and All the King’s Men (2006).
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Apr 25, 2023
Achill Island Film Festival Podcast
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to 4 filmmakers whose films are being screened at the Achill Island Film Festival – Sarah Grant (Candy) Sinéad O’Loughlin (Lamb) and Shaun Doogan & Ciaran McCann (Night Of The Daniels).
The Achill Island Film Festival takes place 11-13 May, 2023.
https://www.achillinternationalfilmfestival.com/
https://filmireland.net/
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Apr 21, 2023
Interview with Sinéad O'Shea, Director of ‘Pray for Our Sinners’
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Sinéad O’Shea about her film Pray for Our Sinners.
Pray for Our Sinners documents Sinéad’s return to her hometown in Navan in search of those who fought against the Catholic Church and discovers the ways in which local people found a way to resist. It is a film of unexpected twists as it chooses to shine a light on those who attempted to stand up to the church in a quiet but deeply moving resistance.
Pray for Our Sinners is not a straightforward narrative of sinners and victims. The story which emerges is a nuanced account of Catholicism and its role in Irish life. It focuses on the tradition of silence in Ireland and how difficult it has been for the people from Sinéad’s hometown to articulate the suffering they endured.
It is only through old friendships and neighbourly connections that we hear previously untold testimonies from mother and baby homes, and stories from within school classrooms about corporal punishment. B…
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Apr 19, 2023
Fintan Connolly, Director and Co-Writer of 'Barber'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to filmmaker Fintan Connolly about his film Barber. Directed by Fintan Connolly & co-written with Fiona Bergin, Barber is in cinemas from 14th April.
Val Barber, a private investigator, is hired by a wealthy widow to find her missing granddaughter Sara. As initial investigations into her disappearance begin to darken, secrets surface in unexpected ways. Before too long, Barber finds himself entangled with powerful men of shady morals determined to thwart his investigations. Has he bitten off more than he can chew?
Barber is in cinemas from 14th April 2023.
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Apr 13, 2023
Shane Crowley, Writer of God's Creatures
In this Fim Ireland Podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Shane Crowley, Writer of God's Creatures - Directed by Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer & starring Emily Watson and Paul Mescal.
In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community in this tense, sweepingly emotional epic.
God’s Creatures is released to cinemas in Ireland on March 24th and the UK on March 31st.
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Apr 10, 2023
Interview with Andrew Legge, Co-Writer & Director of ‘LOLA’
In this Film Ireland Podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Andrew Legge, Co-Writer & Director of LOLA.
1941, sisters Thom and Mars have built a machine, LOLA, that can intercept radio and TV broadcasts from the future.This allows them to listen to iconic music before it has been made, place bets knowing what the outcome will be and embrace theirinner punk well before the movement came into existence.But with the Second World War escalating, the sisters decide to use the machine for good to intercept information from the futurethat could help with military intelligence. The machine initially proves to be a huge success, rapidly twisting the fortunes of the waragainst the Nazis.
While Thom becomes intoxicated by LOLA, Mars begins to realise the terrible consequences of its power.
LOLA was co-written with Angeli Macfarlane and stars Emma Appleton and Stefanie Martini, with original score by Neil Hannon.
LOLA is in cinemas from 7th April 2023
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Mar 19, 2023
Jayne Foley, Artistic Director Of Fresh International Film Festival
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Jayne Foley, the founder and Artistic Director of Fresh International Film Festival.
The 27th annual Fresh International Film Festival will take place from March 28 to April 1, 2023, showcasing hundreds of short films from Ireland’s future screen talent.
Founded in 1997 as the Irish School’s Video Competition, Fresh Film was originally a schools competition for secondary students. It has since grown into a year round organisation with a focus on national and international filmmakers spanning the primary and secondary age groups. ‘Fresh International Film Festival’ now includes ‘Ireland’s Young Filmmaker of the Year Awards `, which constitute three sections – Junior (7-12 years) – Senior (12- 18 years) – The International (7-19 years). Each section is open to individual filmmakers, schools, youth and community groups.
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Mar 1, 2023
Interview with Eoin McGuirk, Editor
Eoin is an Editor of TV and film. His credits cross a diverse range of genres from TV dramas, to romantic features and fight units on big budget TV series.
Credits include TV series Kin featuring Charlie Cox and Aidan Gillen for Bron/ AMC+, Miss Scarlet and The Duke featuring Kate Phillips and Stuart Martin, Red Election for Mopar Media/Subotica with Director Jill Robertson, feature film The Delinquent Season, starring Cillian Murphy and Andrew Scott and TV series Striking Out for Blinder Films/RTÉ. Previously Eoin worked as assistant editor on internationally successful productions including The Lobster.
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Feb 17, 2023
Alex Kayode-Kay, Writer/Director & Roisin Kearney, Exec Producer of ‘The Ballad Of Olive Morris’
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Writer/Director Alex Kayode-Kay and Executive Producer about their 2023 BAFTA-nominated film ¸.
The Ballad Of Olive Morris is a short film based on real life events that took place in the South London neighbourhood of Brixton in 1969. 17-year-old Olive Morris gets violently caught up in an incident of police brutality as she intervenes to help a Nigerian diplomat being wrongly arrested for stealing his own car.
BAFTA Film Awards 2023 – Nomination – Best British Short Film
The 76th BAFTA Awards take place on Sunday, 19th February at 7pm
The Ballad Of Olive Morris – HONOURS:
Winner of Best Short Film – Windrush Caribbean Film Festival 2022.
Official Selection for Bolton International Film Festival 2022 (BAFTA qualifying festival – British Short Film)
Official Selection for Cambridge Film Festival 2022 (BAFTA qualifying festival – British Short Film). Nominations: Best Short Film
Official Selection for SOUL Fest 2022 (BA…
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Feb 13, 2023
Ramsey Avery, Production Designer
In this Film Ireland podcast, gemma Creagh talks to Production Designer Ramsey Avery.
Ramsey is a celebrated production designer and design director whose credits include The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Star Trek: Into Darkness.
Ramsey Avery is speaking at the RENDR Festival, Belfast (23 – 24 February 2023), a festival for inspiring creatives, exploring the space between creativity and technology across film, gaming, animation and immersive.
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Jan 26, 2023
Conor McMahon, Writer/Director of 'Let the Wrong One In'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh chats to Conor McMahon, Writer/Director of Let the Wrong One In.
Let The Wrong One In tells the story of a young supermarket worker who discovers that his older brother is a vampire and must choose whether to save or slay him.
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The film stars Anthony Head, who is best known for his role in ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’, along with upcoming Irish acting talent Karl Rice and Eoin Duffy. It also stars Irish talent Mary Murray, Hilda Fay and Lisa Haskins. Both Rice and Duffy have received praise for their comedic performances in the film, while Rice was nominated for the Discovery Award at Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival in 2022.
Since its world premiere at the renowned Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas Let The Wrong One In has screened at a number of international film festivals this year including Sitges, Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival, the Dublin International Fi…
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Jan 18, 2023
Frank Berry: Director/Writer of 'Aisha'
In this podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Frank Berry about his film Aisha.
Aisha (Letitia Wright), a young Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland, is floundering in a maze of social services and bureaucracy. Alone and unwilling to sacrifice her dignity to satisfy the demands of the authorities, she finds an ally in Conor (Josh O’Connor), an employee at her residence home, a local young man with a troubled past of his own. Together they struggle to maintain their tender friendship in the face of Aisha’s increasingly dire predicament and her rapidly diminishing options.
Aisha is available on Sky Cinema & Now TV.
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Garter Lane Arts Centre is hosting a special screening of Aisha on Feb 1st with Waterford Area Partnerships Mukisa group, members of the migrant community who locally worked closely with Director Frank Berry during the making of this award winning film. Frank will be present on the evening and will lead a Q&A with members of Mukisa members after t…
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Dec 16, 2022
Gerard Lough, Writer/Director of 'Spears'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Gerard Lough, the Writer and Director of 'Spears'.
Packed with twists and turns, Spears kicks off when a Private Investigator is sent from Ireland to Florence, Italy to track down a woman who mysteriously vanished there. Meanwhile in London, a Dissident Republican does an arm’s deal with a new seller he does not trust. In Berlin, a scam artist spends a weekend with a married woman he tries to convince to leave with him. Each of the three men make a startling discovery which forces them to team up back in Ireland and take revenge on those who have wronged them. Fittingly, the film’s title is taken from the Emily Bronte quote; “Treachery and violence are spears pointed by both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.” Typical of the Neo Noir genre, the film is a stylish looking affair with tension and fear in abundance but trust in short supply. Over half of the film was shot in Donegal, Ireland with…
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Dec 9, 2022
Alan Gilsenan, Director of 'Ghosts of Baggotonia'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Alan Gilsenan, Director of Ghosts of Baggotonia.
Ghosts of Baggotonia is a haunting and visually captivating film-poem exploring the literary and other ghosts of the bohemian quarter bordering Dublin’s Baggot Street during the mid-20th century. “Baggotonia” as it has become known – was both a permeable geographic area and a cultural movement, populated by writers, artists and other intellectuals living an anarchic life at odds with the over-arching drabness and the conservative mores of the time.
Inspired by a rare collection of photographs from artist Nevill Johnson, the film is shot in starkly beautiful Leica monotone and draws upon writings from the period, including Patrick Kavanagh, Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett, Blanaid Salkeld, John Montague, Eavan Boland, Paul Durcan, Ethna McCarthy, Thomas Kinsella amongst many others.
This stunning film is also an act of psycho-geography as well as a personal meditation on Alan…
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Dec 5, 2022
Luke McManus, Director of 'North Circular'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Luke McManus about his documentary musical North Circular.
North Circular travels the length of Dublin’s fabled North Circular Road, from the Phoenix Park to Dublin Port, meeting characters and hearing their personal stories, often told in music and song. The film celebrates the vibrant cultural heritage of the various neighbourhoods the road connects, along with the addressing the challenges of living along the famed road.
These character’s stories are both heartfelt and intimate. But they also evoke narratives from Irish history: imperialism, revolution, incarceration, institutionalisation, the housing crisis, and the struggle for gender equality.
Told in black and white 4:3 Academy ratio, North Circular also engages with urgent contemporary issues, including the battle to save the legendary Cobblestone Pub, centre of Dublin’s new folk and trad scene, from destruction at the hands of property developers.
The film includes…
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Dec 1, 2022
Anna Rodgers and Shaun Dunne, Directors of 'How to Tell A Secret'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Anna Rodgers and Shaun Dunne about their film How to Tell A Secret.
A powerful examination of the experiences of people who are living with HIV in Ireland today, How to Tell A Secret is a hybrid documentary film that looks at social stigma and the art of telling your story.
Robbie Lawlor was diagnosed with HIV at 21 and became one of the youngest people to come out on Irish television. Enda McGrattan, also known as Veda, promised to keep their HIV status a secret for a decade but eventually broke free by releasing a song. And a group of Irish and migrant women, who cannot show their faces, found creative ways to have their voices heard…
In this compelling film, directors Anna Rodgers and Shaun Dunne use documentary, performance and genre-blurring storytelling techniques to communicate a powerful message. The stories in this film move between bodies of young men, migrant women, drag artists and activists. Featuring a cast of actor…
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Nov 25, 2022
Gavin Fitzgerald, Director of 'Million Dollar Pigeons'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Gavin Fitzgerald, Director of Million Dollar Pigeons.
The Irish documentary is about the passionate and ferociously competitive international pigeon masters, known as fanciers, that will do whatever it takes to win. Big bucks, sweat, tears and sleepless nights are invested into these feathered athletes, yet on race day all they can do is wait, hope and pray.
Fitzgerald’s guide into this competitive racing world is Ireland-based pigeon fancier John O’Brien. A father of two, he has 60 pigeons, including race winner “Big Balls”, that he routinely trains. Citing a vision that appeared to him while hallucinating at confirmation that he was meant to be in the sport, O’Brien has a big dream he wants to achieve.
Flying under the radar are a group of pigeon masters from the US, Thailand, China and South Africa, competing in one of the most lucrative bird races on the planet. Each event is stranger and more exciting than the last.…
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Nov 22, 2022
Ciara NicChormaic, Director of ‘Aisling Trí Néallaibh: Clouded Reveries’
In this Film Ireland Podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Ciara NicChormaic, Director of Aisling Trí Néallaibh: Clouded Reveries.
Acclaimed poet and essayist Doireann Ní Ghríofa was catapulted into the international literary spotlight in 2020 with the publication of her debut novel A Ghost in the Throat. Lauded by the critics from the New York Times to the Guardian, it went on to win the Irish Book of the Year.
Clouded Reveries is an intimate exploration of Ní Ghríofa’s world and creative process. It is a film about memories, motherhood and the mysterious nature of creativity. Captured through intimate performances of her own work and in-depth interviews, the film reveals Ní Ghríofa’s creative impulses and journeys with her to the heart of her inspiration, her home place in Co. Clare.
Aisling Trí Néallaibh: Clouded Reveries is in cinemas from 11th November 2022.
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Nov 16, 2022
Wayne Byrne, Author of ‘Walter Hill: The Cinema of a Hollywood Maverick’
Paul Farren talks to Wayne Byrne about his latest book Walter Hill: The Cinema of a Hollywood Maverick.
Walter Hill: The Cinema of a Hollywood Maverick is a comprehensive journey through the long career of auteur Hollywood filmmaker Walter Hill, director of The Driver, The Warriors, Southern Comfort, 48 Hrs., Streets of Fire and many more. The book covers every motion picture that Hill directed, with historical detail and critical commentary on each, and discusses Hill’s overall cultural relevance and industrial impact. It includes candid conversations with Hill; producer Larry Gordon; actors Nicholas Guest, William Sadler and Michael Pare; cinematographers Lloyd Ahern and Matthew Leonetti; composers Van Dyke Parks and David Mansfield; screenwriter Larry Gross, and others who worked with Hill throughout his prolific career.
Walter Hill: The Cinema of a Hollywood Maverick is out now.
Wayne will be celebrating the release of Walter Hill: The Cinema of a Hollywood Maverick in Naas Li…
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Nov 9, 2022
Seamus Murphy, Director of 'The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby'
In this podcast, Gremma Creagh talks to Seamus Murphy, the director of The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby.
The film examines Irish writer Pat Ingoldsby’s unique world. Ingoldsby’s poems and candid anecdotes bear witness to a visceral relationship with his beloved Dublin, fellow Dubliners and anything that catches his interest. Personal challenges, a sensitive humanity and a lifetime as a maverick have taught him to harness reality and reach well beyond it to avenge the banal with absurd magic. It heals him as it does us.
The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby in Irish cinemas from 4th November 2022.
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Nov 7, 2022
Robert Higgins and Patrick McGivney, Writers & Directors of 'Lakelands'
We are thrilled to be once again partnering with Still Voices Film Festival to bring you a series of podcasts with artists featured at the international film festival located in the heart of Ireland.
In this podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Robert Higgins and Patrick McGivney, writers & directors of Longford-shot Lakelands.
After an attack on a night out, Cian, a young Gaelic footballer, struggles to come to terms with a career-ending injury. Lakelands follows him as he undertakes a search for his own identity in a small town in the Midlands, where Gaelic football is a religion and identity is defined by what you can do on the pitch.
Lakelands was filmed on location in Granard, Co. Longford, and stars Éanna Hardwicke (Normal People, Vivarium), Danielle Galligan (Netflix’s Shadow and Bone), Lorcan Cranitch (Bloodlands, The Dig), Dafhyd Flynn (Michael Inside), Dara Devaney (Ar-racht), and Gary Lydon (Calvary). Lakelands is produced by Robert Higgins and Patrick McGivney for Harp Medi…
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Nov 4, 2022
Still Voices Film Festival - Dance
We are thrilled to be once again partnering with Still Voices Film Festival to bring you a series of podcasts with artists featured at the international film festival located in the heart of Ireland.
In this Dance-themed podcast, Niamh Creely talks to the creators behind 3 films that screen at this year’s festival.
In Velvet (Jessica Kennedy & Megan Kennedy)
A child sits alone on a beach. A man approaches and they set off on a journey, driving through the Irish landscape of green parks and stunted suburbs. A herd of deer graze nearby with their antlers peeling away: a shedding to transform into something new.There is an unsettled empty space that hangs between the child and the man. Will they continue on the road together or apart?
In Velvet is a short dance film created by the award winning company Junk Ensemble and commissioned by Irish Arts Centre | New York City.
amser/time (Deborah Light)
In the intertidal zone, between land and sea, three people move through three remark…
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Nov 2, 2022
Adrian Duncan ‘Lost Colony’
We are thrilled to once again be partnering with Still Voices Film Festival to bring you a series of podcasts with artists featured at the international film festival located in the heart of Ireland.
In this podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Ballymahon artist Adrian Duncan about his new short film Lost Colony.
A film told from the centre circle of a football pitch. It is a poetic analysis of the aesthetics of football.
Lost Colony screens on 11th November 2022 as part of the Still Voices Film Festival. Followed by a Q&A between director Adrian Duncan and John Connell.
Still Voices Film Festival runs from November 9th – 13th 2022.
Adrian Duncan is an artist and award-winning writer based in Ireland and Berlin. His debut novel Love Notes from a German Building Site was published by The Lilliput Press and Head of Zeus in 2019. It won the 2019 John McGahern Book Prize. In 2020 he was shortlisted for the Dalkey Literary Awards Emerging Writer.
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Oct 28, 2022
Still Voices Film Festival - Something Dark and Wicked Horror
We are thrilled to once again be partnering with Still Voices Film Festival to bring you a series of podcasts with artists featured at the international film festival located in the heart of Ireland.
In this Horror special podcast, Paul Farren talks to Marie Clare Cushinan & Ryan O’Neill and Derek Ugochukwu about their films screening at the festival.
Still Voices Film Festival runs from November 9th – 13th 2022.
Take a look at the programme here: stillvoicesfilmfestival.com/
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Oct 21, 2022
Podcast: Still Voices Film Festival - Animation
We are thrilled to once again be partnering with Still Voices Film Festival to bring you a series of podcasts with artists featured at the international film festival located in the heart of Ireland.
In this podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to 3 animators – Cliona Noonan, Mary Smyth and Victor Jaquier about their films screening at the festival.
Still Voices Film Festival runs from November 9th – 13th 2022.
Take a look at the programme here: https://stillvoicesfilmfestival.com/
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Oct 19, 2022
Podcast: Andrew Baird, Director of 'One Way'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Andrew Baird, the Director of ‘One Way’, the high-octane US thriller, written by Ben Conway.
On the run with a bag full of cash after a robbing his former crime boss—and a potentially fatal wound—Freddy slips onto a bus headed into the unrelenting California desert. With his life slipping through his fingers, Freddy is left with very few choices to survive.
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Oct 14, 2022
Robert Manson, Writer & Director Of 'Holy Island'
In this Film Ireland podcast Gemma Creagh talks to Robert Manson, writer and director of Holy Island.
Holy Island is a story about two lost souls, Rosa and David, trapped in purgatory in the form of a run-down port town.
They meet awaiting a boat to leave the island, both longing to return home. Together they are forced to traverse an abnormal maze, piecing together their past lives through shared conversations and memories. In the end, only one of them can be saved. The other must fall.
Holy Island is in cinemas from 14th October 2022.
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Oct 13, 2022
Sasha King, Director of 'Vicky'
In this Film Ireland podcast Gemma Creagh talks to Sasha King about her powerful film Vicky which tells the inspirational story of Vicky Phelan’s personal journey and heroic work to uncover the Irish CervicalCheck scandal.
In 2018 on the steps of the High Court in Dublin, Vicky Phelan gave a now infamous address where she exposed the CervicalCheck scandal. A subsequent investigation revealed over 220 women were affected, while 17 women had already died.
Vicky is a profound and intimate journey into the Kilkenny native’s fight to expose the truth. It also delves into Vicky’s personal fight to extend her life.
Vicky is in Irish cinemas from 7th October 2022.
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Oct 4, 2022
Interview with Kim Bartley, Director of 'Pure Grit'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Kim Bartley, Director of ‘Pure Grit’, a thrilling tale of extreme bareback horse racing, and an intimate love story.
Pure Grit chronicles three years in the life of a young Native American bareback horse racer Sharmaine, her dogged determination, and the relationships that sustain her.
Sharmaine dreams of becoming a champion again but she needs money to compete, and jobs are scarce on the reservation. Sharmaine quit racing and her job to care for her sister who was paralyzed in a catastrophic accident on the racetrack. When the atmosphere at home turns toxic, Sharmaine and her girlfriend Savannah are forced to leave the Wyoming wilderness for the industrial Commerce City, Denver. The city brings freedom and opportunity, but also distractions and a strain on their fledgling relationship. When racing season starts up, Sharmaine and Savannah hit the road and put it all on the line. With a new horse from her city earnings, Sharmai…
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Sep 23, 2022
Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Writer & Director of 'It Is In Us All'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Antonia Campbell-Hughes on the release of her debut feature It Is In Us All.
When Hamish arrives on the soil of his mother’s birth, she is felt instantly. As he travels further into the wild Irish country, a shocking car accident rips him apart, shattering his clenched control. A beast broken, he finds himself lost in the world of his long deceased mother. But when he starts to receive visits from a teenager who was also involved in the crash, Hamish begins to experience the electricity of living.
It is in Us All is in cinemas from 23rd September 2022.
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Sep 19, 2022
Halina Reijn, Director of 'Bodies Bodies Bodies'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Halina Reijn, director of Bodies Bodies Bodies.
When a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game goes awry in this fresh and funny look at backstabbing, fake friends, and one party gone very, very wrong
Bodies Bodies Bodies is directed by Halina Reijn (Instinct) and written by acclaimed playwright Sarah DeLappe (The Wolves) from a story by Kriten Roupenian (Cat Person). The film stars Amandla Stenberg (The Hate U Give), Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm), Myha’la Herrold (Industry), Chase Sui Wonders (On the Rocks), Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby) with Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies) and Pete Davidson (The King of Staten Island).
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Sep 15, 2022
Lynne Parker, Director of 'Hecuba'
In this podcast Gemma Creagh talks to Director and Rough Magic Theatre Company co-founder Lynne Parker about her filmed version of Hecuba, playwright Marina Carr’s new version of the classic Greek tragedy. Hecuba screens in cinemas nationwide for one night only on September 15th 2022.
A dynamic filmed version of Rough Magic’s remarkable theatre production, Hecuba is a passionate reimagining of the aftermath of the Trojan War by internationally renowned playwright Marina Carr. Surrounded by the devastation of her city, her husband slain, Hecuba waits in the throne room for the conqueror Agamemnon. She and her daughters now face a future beyond their control, in a history written by the victors.
An extraordinary ensemble cast (led by Aislin McGuckin, Brian Doherty and Owen Roe) offer a series of intense, dangerous, personal encounters and impossible choices in this visceral depiction of the effect of war and its cost to the individual.
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Sep 9, 2022
Dónal Foreman, Director of 'The Cry of Granuaile'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Dónal Foreman about his genre-defying blend of psychodrama and fantasy, The Cry of Granuaile.
The Cry of Granuaile is a genre-defying blend of psychodrama and fantasy from Dónal Foreman, award winning director of the The Image You Missed (the IFTA-nominated documentary named by the Irish Times as one of the 50 best Irish films ever made.) Filmed on lush 16mm film and starring Dale Dickey and Judith Roddy, The Cry of Granuaile follows a grieving American filmmaker and her Irish assistant on a tour of the west of Ireland as they research a film about Granuaile (aka Grace O’Malley), the legendary 16th century rebel and pirate queen. The two women develop an uneasy intimacy as they journey towards the remote Clare Island, where boundaries begin to blur between past and present, myth and history, dream and reality.
The film opened at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin on Friday, September 2nd at 6:20pm and at the Triskel Arts Centre…
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Aug 12, 2022
Dean Kavanagh: Writer/Director of 'Hole in the Head'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to filmmaker Dean Kavanagh about his latest feature, Hole in the Head, a sophisticated and darkly comic exploration of the meeting point of traumatised memory and image technologies.
Part-time projectionist and amateur filmmaker, John Kline Jnr, is mute and suffers from missing time. He hires local actors to play his parents in a series of recreated home movies in order to investigate their unsolved disappearance 25 years earlier.
Hole in the Head screens at the Irish Film Institute from 12th August 2022
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Jul 29, 2022
Emer Reynolds, Director of 'Joyride'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Emmy-winning documentary maker Emer Reynolds about her debut feature film Joyride.
Joyride stars the Academy®, Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning Olivia Colman as Joy, a solicitor, who didn’t expect to get pregnant or hijacked in a taxi stolen by a 12-year-old boy.
Fleeing from his father, 12-year-old Mully steals a taxi and is shocked to find a woman, Joy, in the back seat with a baby. Joy is on her way to an important meeting, and Mully needs to get some distance from his dad, who’s after the cash Mully has with him. The unlikely pair go on a journey across Ireland, gradually finding the friendship, love and learning, they never knew they needed, in each other.
Joyride was developed by Embankment Films and produced by Aoife O’Sullivan and Tristan Orpen Lynch through Ingenious Media, Subotica and Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland.
Executive Producers are Christelle Conan, Peter Touche, Tim Haslam, Hugo Grumbar and Ailbhe Keo…
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Jul 22, 2022
Olivia Newman, Director of 'Where the Crawdads Sing'
In this podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Olivia Newman, the director of Where the Crawdads Sing, which is adapted from the best-selling novel by Delia Owens and produced by Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter.
A captivating mystery. Where the Crawdads Sing tells the story of Kya, an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from her community. Drawn to two young men from town, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world; but when one of them is found dead, she is immediately cast by the community as the main suspect. As the case unfolds, the verdict as to what actually happened becomes increasingly unclear, threatening to reveal the many secrets that lay within the marsh.
3000 Pictures presents in association with HarperCollins Publishers a Hello Sunshine production, Where the Crawdads Sing. Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor J…
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Jul 15, 2022
The DocArena Podcast: Episode 15 -Jay Bedwani (Donna)
The DocArena Podcast: Episode 15 -Jay Bedwani (Donna) by Film Ireland
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Jul 4, 2022
Galway Film Fleadh Filmmakers Roundtable 2022
In this Film Ireland podcast Gemma Creagh talks to Derek Ugochukwu, Laura Kavanagh and Jonathan Hughes ahead of their films screening at the Galway Film Fleadh (5-10 July 2022).
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Jun 23, 2022
Kate Dolan, Writer/Director Of 'You Are Not My Mother'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Kate Dolan, the writer and director of You Are Not My Mother.
Rooted in eerie Irish folklore, the creepy and unsettling chiller is Kate’s debut feature. Char’s mother, Angela, has inexplicably disappeared. All that remains is her abandoned car. When she returns home without explanation the following evening, it becomes clear to Char and her grandmother, Rita, that something is amiss. She might look and sound the same but Angela’s behaviour has become increasingly frightening, as if she has been replaced by a malevolent force. As Halloween night looms, a night steeped in ancient myth and legend, Char realizes that she is the only one who can save her, even if it means potentially losing her forever.
Following its cinematic release this year 'You Are Not My Mother' is currently available to watch on Netflix.
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May 13, 2022
Emily O’Callaghan: Festival Director of the Achill Island Film Festival
In this Film, Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Emily O’Callaghan, the Festival Director of the Achill Island Film Festival. The Festival takes place from 20 – 22 May 2022.
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Festival tickets
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About this event
Ticket holders for the inaugural Achill Island Film Festival can expect to see a wonderful range of films from Ireland and around the world in some fantastic venues both indoor and weather dependent, outdoors as well! They will also get to enjoy the island in between watching a programme of superb local and international films. You can pick and choose from screenings, or see them all!
Attendees will get to view fascinating documentaries, animations and exclusive films featuring a range of themes. There will be panel discussions and Q&A’s as well as live music and plenty of craic! Achill as we know is a speci…
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Apr 4, 2022
The DocArena Podcast: Episode 15 – Luke Sewell (Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King)
In this episode of The DocArena Podcast, Ross Whitaker talks to Luke Sewell about his documentary Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King.
If you want proof that the world of cryptocurrency is like the Wild West, look no further than Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King.
The gripping new documentary follows a group of Bitcoin investors who lost their money after the strange death of Gerald “Gerry” Cotten, founder of the cryptocurrency company QuadrigaCX. His death triggered some serious conspiracy theories, the disappearance of $250 million and an unofficial investigation into the nature of virtual currency.
Connected by a quest to recover their lost funds, a band of Bitcoin investors morph into a cyber-sleuth collective called The Committee. Do they find the answers they’re searching for? You’ll have to wait and see for yourself — but you won’t have to wait long.
Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King premieres on Netflix on 30th March 30 2022.
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Mar 18, 2022
The DocArena Podcast: Episode 14 – Declan McGrath & Neasa Ní Chianáin (Young Plato)
In this episode of The DocArena Podcast, Ross Whitaker talks to Declan McGrath & Neasa Ní Chianáin about their documentary Young Plato.
A Primary School in Belfast’s Ardoyne housing estates invokes the wisdom of the ancient Greek philosophers to fight poverty, drug dealers and the IRA – restoring hope in the heart of a battered community.
Young Plato is in cinemas from 18th March 2022.
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Mar 16, 2022
Interview with Seán Breathnach, Writer/Director of 'Foscadh'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Seán Breathnach, Writer/Director of Foscadh.
Set in the stunning wild mountains of North Conamara, Foscadh (meaning Shelter) is a delayed coming-of-age tale that will have you rooting for its hapless hero as he takes his first tentative steps into adulthood.
Written and directed by Seán Breathnach, Foscadh is based on characters created by award-winning novelist Donal Ryan in his book The Thing About December. It tells the story of naïve recluse John Cunliffe who is suddenly propelled into manhood at the ripe old age of 28. When his over-protective parents pass away, friendless John inherits mountain land that sits in the way of a lucrative wind-farm development where he is forced to navigate the choppy waters of trust, vengeance and romance for the first time.
Foscadh is in cinemas from 11th March 2022.
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Feb 18, 2022
The DocArena Podcast Episode 13 – Peter Middleton & James Spinney (The Real Charlie Chaplin)
In this episode of The DocArena Podcast, Ross Whitaker talks to Peter Middleton & James Spinney about their documentary The Real Charlie Chaplin.
Hollywood icon Charlie Chaplin rocketed to fame from the slums of Victorian London and spent decades as one of Hollywood’s most famous and beloved stars until his scandalous fall from grace. His stage persona and incendiary media portrayal defined how he was perceived, but his private life has always been shrouded in mystery – until now. Never-before-heard recordings, intimate home movies and newly restored classic films reveal a side to Chaplin that the world never got to see.
The Real Charlie Chaplin is released in cinemas and available on Atltude.film and other digital platforms from the 18th February 2022.
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Feb 3, 2022
The DocArena Podcast: Episode 12 – Felicity Morris & Bernie Higgins (The Tinder Swindler)
In this episode of The DocArena Podcast, Ross Whitaker talks to Director Felicity Morris & Producer Bernie Higgins about their documentary 'The Tinder Swindler'.
Posing as a wealthy, jet-setting diamond mogul, he wooed women online then conned them out of millions of dollars. Now some victims plan for payback.
The Tinder Swindler is available on Netflix from 2nd February 2022.
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Feb 1, 2022
Interview with Director Damian McCann & Writer Aislinn Clarke of 'Doineann'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Director Damian McCann & Writer Aislinn Clarke about their film ‘Doineann’.
Doineann the Irish for ‘stormy weather’, is the feature debut from Damian McCann with the screenplay penned by Aislinn Clarke and tells the story of the disappearance of a woman and her baby on a remote Irish island. Her husband must put his trust in the island’s retired policewoman to help find his family before a storm hits the island.
Starring Love/Hate actor Peter Coonan, Bríd Brennan (Calm With Horses, Brooklyn), Clare Monnelly (Moone Boy) and Sean T. O’Meallaigh (Vikings).
Since the film’s world premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh earlier this year it has gone on to screen at Newport Beach Film Festival in California, the Foyle Film Festival and the Belfast Film Festival where star Bríd Brennan was presented with the Reálta Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cinema.
Doineann was produced by Diarmuid Lavery, Christopher Myers and Mi…
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Jan 20, 2022
Podcast Roundtable: Dublin International Comedy Film Festival 2022
In this podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to 4 filmmakers whose films are screening at this year’s Dublin International Comedy Film Festival. Bébhinn Naughton, Adam William Cahill, Lara Cassidy and Len MacKeigan talk about the craft behind their comedy.
The Dublin International Comedy Film Festival 2022 runs 20-22 January 2022.
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Jan 7, 2022
The DocArena Podcast: Episode 11 – Jamila Wignot (Ailey)
In this episode of The DocArena Podcast, Ross Whitaker talks to Jamila Wignot about her documentary Ailey.
Alvin Ailey was a visionary artist who found salvation through dance. Directed by Jamila Wignot, the celebrated documentary is an immersive profile of ground-breaking and influential choreographer Alvin Ailey, founder of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Ailey captures the brilliant and enigmatic man who, when confronted by a world that refused to embrace him, was determined to build one that would.
Ailey is a sensorial, archival-rich story that traces the full contours of this extraordinary artist’s biography and connects his past to our present with an intimate glimpse into the Ailey studios today, where we follow innovative hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris as he conceives a new dance inspired by Ailey’s life.
Using never-before-heard audio interviews recorded in the last year of his life, we experience Ailey’s astonishing journey in his words.
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Nov 30, 2021
Interview with Tadhg O’Sullivan, Director of 'To The Moon'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Tadhg O’Sullivan, Director of To The Moon.
To the Moon is a beautiful and poetic cinematic ode to the moon.
Made primarily from international cinematic archive in combination with literary fragments and original moonlit cinematography filmed across five continents,
To The Moon steps lightly through the ages and ideas that people have drawn from the moon to meditate on the fragile and fleeting nature of humanity.
To The Moon is in cinemas from 26th November 2021.
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Nov 23, 2021
Interview with Michael McCormack, Director of 'Breaking Out'
Breaking Out is the remarkable story of Cork born singer-songwriter Fergus O’Farrell, the charismatic voice of Interference, one of the most compelling and influential bands to emerge from the Irish music scene in the 1990’s. He was best known for his timeless song “GOLD” which featured in the soundtrack to ONCE, the Oscar winning film and multi-Tony-award-winning musical.
Despite being diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at a young age, through it all, Fergus had to keep singing. His unique talent and love for life inspired a generation of songwriters even as his own was slipping away. Close friend Glen Hansard was one of those songwriters and never forgot that voice, and in one of the many incredible moments in Breaking Out, he performs the ultimate duet as Fergus' greatest gift was failing.
Hailed by Film Ireland as “extraordinary”, this intimate journey into the heart and soul of the late Fergus O’Farrell was filmed over ten years by director Michael McCormack.
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Nov 12, 2021
Interview with Edwina Casey, Director of 'The Lighthouse'
In this podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Edwina Casey, the director of a new production of Peter Maxwell Davies’s chamber opera The Lighthouse, which screens in cinemas for one night only on 16th November and then goes on tour nationwide with live performances in venues from Saturday, 20th November.
Presented by Irish National Opera, conducted by Nil Venditti and starring Brenton Ryan, Ben McAteer and John Molloy, The Lighthouse is based on an actual event in December 1900, when a visiting supply ship to a Scottish lighthouse finds the building in order but the keepers vanished without a trace.
The three singers who play multiple roles, explore the psychological state of the fractious men, relive an official investigation and project a supernatural explanation. The composer, who based the structure of the opera on the Tower of the Tarot, leaves no simple answers.
The Lighthouse screens in cinemas on Tuesday 16th November 2021.
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Nov 11, 2021
Interview With Ross Killeen, Director Of 'Love Yourself Today'
In this Film Ireland podast Gemma Creagh talks to Ross Killeen about Love Yourself Today, which centres around the music of Irish singer songwriter Damien Dempsey but also turns the lens onto his fans.
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Nov 4, 2021
Still Voices Short Film Festival: Fiction Filmmakers
We are thrilled to be partnering with Still Voices Short Film Festival to bring you a series of podcasts. This episode features Ariane Louis-Seize, Reza Riahi and Hazel McKibbin talking to Roisin Kearney ahead of their films screening at this year’s festival.
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Nov 1, 2021
Interview with Robbie Walsh, Writer/Director of 'The Letters'
Set against the backdrop of the Cervical Check scandal that rocked Ireland, 'The Letters' tells the story of three women from different walks of life who have been given mere weeks to live due to the false results of their cervical cancer checks. Mary is a woman in her 50's who is the sole carer of her elderly mum with late stage Alzheimer's, Sam is a single mother in debt and struggling to raise her four kids and Cliona a single career driven woman who rates low on the autism spectrum that results in anxiety and social awkwardness. 'The Letters' screens from the 29th of October in selected cinemas, Odeon (Charlestown) Omni-PLex (Rathmines Dublin, Limerick, Cork) Eye Cinema (Galway).
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Oct 25, 2021
Still Voices Short Film Festival Podcast: Terence Davies
We are thrilled to be partnering with Still Voices Short Film Festival to bring you a series of podcasts. This year acclaimed director Terence Davies will attend the 2021 festival for a special screening of his 1988 masterpiece Distant Voices, Still Lives (after which the festival took its name). Ahead of his appearance Terence was kind enough to give us his time and join Paul Farren to talk about films, filmmaking and all that comes between!
Terence will also give a Masterclass at the festival - full details and tickets here.
Still Voices Short Film Festival runs 4-7 November. See the full programme at http://stillvoicesfilmfestival.com/
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Oct 19, 2021
The DocArena Podcast: Episode 10 – Ric Burns (Oliver Sacks: His Own Life)
In this episode of The DocArena Podcast, Ross Whitaker talks to Ric Burns about his documentary Oliver Sacks: His Own Life.
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller, as he shares intimate details of his battles with drug addiction, homophobia, and a medical establishment that accepted his work only decades after the fact. Sacks, known for his literary works Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, was a fearless explorer of unknown cognitive worlds who helped redefine our understanding of the brain and mind, the diversity of human experience, and our shared humanity.
The film features exclusive interviews with Sacks conducted just weeks after he received a terminal diagnosis, and months prior to his death in August 2015.
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life is screening at the IFI and is also available on Digital platforms.
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Oct 15, 2021
Still Voices Short Film Festival Documentary Filmmakers
We are thrilled to be partnering with Still Voices Short Film Festival to bring you a series of podcasts. We’re kicking off with 3 very talented documentary filmmakers. Kaitlyn Schwalje & Alex Wolf Lewis join us to talk about their film Snowy and Tom Dream joins us to talk about his film Shy Radicals. We were delighted to have fellow filmmaker Jenny Keogh hosting and making this such a fabulous and informative conversation.
Still Voices Short Film Festival runs 4-7 November. See the full programme here.
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Oct 14, 2021
Interview with Tom Sullivan, Writer/Director of Arracht
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Tom Sullivan, Writer/Director of Arracht.
Arracht tells the story of Colmán Sharkey, a fisherman, a father, a husband, living in Connemara in 1845 as The Great Hunger is about to fall on Ireland. As land taxes rise and crops rot Colmán confronts his Landlord, the night ends in deadly violence and Colman is forced to go on the run, hunted for crimes he did not commit. As the years pass in solitude, Colmán returns to the mainland and encounters a young girl, Kitty and a life-saving friendship develops.
Arracht is in cinemas from 15th October 2021
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Sep 27, 2021
Podcast: Interview with Directors of ‘Father of the Cyborgs’
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to David Burke about his film Father of the Cyborgs.
Father of the Cyborgs looks at the fascinating life and career of Irish neuroscientist Dr Phil Kennedy. In the late 1990s he made global headlines for implanting several wire electrodes in the brain of a paralysed man and then teaching the locked-in patient to control a computer cursor with his mind.
He was compared to Alexander Graham Bell in The Washington Post and became known as ‘The Father of the Cyborgs’. He made the headlines more recently in 2014 when he travelled to South American and had tiny electrodes implanted inside his own brain in order to continue his research. The documentary examines the ethics of self-experimentation and the unintended consequences of a future where technology and human brains combine.
The documentary is the directorial debut of David Burke who co-produces with Sean Ó’Cualáin. The pair previously worked together on the IFTA-nominated…
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Sep 21, 2021
Interview with Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, Co-Writers & Directors of 'Rose Plays Julie'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Natasha Waugh talks to Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor about their film Rose Plays Julie.
This podcast was recorded at the 2020 Dublin International Film Festival ahead of the film’s premiere.
Rose Plays Julie is an intense, edge-of-your-seat story of revenge centring on a young woman searching for her biological mother. Addressing a deep longing, Rose undertakes a journey that leads her to revelations that are both devastating and dangerous. Rose Plays Julie features Ann Skelly, Orla Brady and Aidan Gillen.
This interview was recorded in 2020 ahead of the film’s premiere at the Dublin International Film Festival.
Rose Plays Julie is in cinemas from 17th September 2021.
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Sep 16, 2021
Niall Owens Writer/Director of 'Gateway'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh chats to Niall Owens about his debut feature film Gateway, which screens at IndieCork 2021 Film Festival (19th September – 3rd October).
Mike a low-level drug dealer is haunted by a recent death. Unable to shake his waking nightmare, Mike’s business has suffered and he and his gang are in debt to a ruthless supplier. In need of quick cash, the gang plan to grow a large amount of weed to settle the debt, now all they need is a quiet place to grow it.
When Mike is given the address to an unassuming abandoned house it would appear that their problems are solved. But when confronted by a locked door within the house, unease starts to form within the gang and old feuds begin to fester.
Gateway screens at the Gate Cinema on the 19th of September at 20:30 as part of IndieCork 2021 Film Festival, which runs 19th September – 3rd October.
Niall Owens is a Writer/Director and 1st Assistant Director from Cork City, Ireland. Niall has worked for…
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Sep 10, 2021
Podcast Interview With Phyllidia Lloyd, Director Of 'Herself'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Phyllidia Lloyd, Director of Herself.
Herself follows the story of Sandra (Clare Dunne), who on the surface of it, is a young Mum struggling to provide her two young daughters with a warm, safe, happy home to grow up in. Beneath the surface, Sandra has a steely determination to change their lives for the better and when it becomes clear that there are no other options left to her, she decides to build it herself from scratch, drawing together a community of friends to support her. Supporting cast includes Harriet Walter (Succession), Conleth Hill (Game of Thrones) and Cathy Belton (Philomena).
Herself in in cinemas from 10th September 2021.
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Aug 27, 2021
Interview with Writer / Director Philip Doherty & Actor Aaron Monaghan of ‘Redemption of A Rogue’
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Philip Doherty (writer / director) and Aaron Monaghan (lead) about Redemption of A Rogue.
Redemption of A Rogue, the first feature film from the award-winning playwright Philip Doherty (Pilgrim) follows Jimmy, played by Cavan native Aaron Monaghan (MAZE, Assassin’s Creed), on his road to salvation after returning to his hometown. Stuck in a Groundhog Day-like purgatory, Jimmy embarks on a sacrificial and outlandish journey to rid himself of his guilt and shame from the past, ultimately redeeming himself through love.
Redemption Of A Rogue is in cinemas from 27th August 2021.
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Aug 19, 2021
Tania Notaro, Dublin Feminist Film Festival Programmer
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to actor/writer and festival programmer Tania Notaro ahead of the Dublin Feminist Film Festival, which takes place 20-22 August 2021. Tania guides us through the programme and lets us know what to expect.
The Dublin Feminist Film Festival promotes and celebrates female filmmakers, hoping to inspire and empower others to get involved in filmmaking. This involves considering women on-screen, but also behind the camera, through celebrating and showcasing fantastic female filmmaking, as well as demonstrating that women make compelling and complex characters and subjects.
Check out this year’s programme https://www.ifihome.ie/page/dfff-2021/
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Aug 10, 2021
Interview With Chris Baugh, Writer:Director Of 'Boys From County Hell'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Chris Baugh, Writer/Director of Boys From County Hell.
Welcome to Six Mile Hill, a sleepy Irish backwater whose only claim to fame is the somewhat dubious local legend that Bram Stoker once spent a night in the local pub. It’s home to Eugene Moffat, a young man who fills most of his days drinking pints with his friends and pranking tourists who come to visit the gravesite of Abhartach, a legendary Irish vampire some believe to have inspired ‘Dracula.’
When a personal tragedy forces Eugene to go and work for his gruff, no-nonsense father he finds himself on the site of a controversial new road development that threatens to destroy the town’s livelihood. But strange events unfold when Eugene and the crew tear down a famous cairn believed to be the final resting place of Abhartach and they soon come under attack from a sinister force that has infected one of their workmates. As the night closes in The Boys must fight for surviva…
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Jul 30, 2021
The DocArena Podcast Episode 9 – Kristina Lindström & Kristian Petri
In this episode of The DocArena Podcast, Ross Whitaker talks to Kristina Lindström & Kristian Petri about their documentary The Most Beautiful Boy in the World.
Fifty years after the premiere of Death in Venice, The Most Beautiful Boy in the World explores the life of Björn Andrésen, the former teen star who embodied the legendary character Tadzio and whom director Luchino Visconti dubbed “the most beautiful boy in the world”.
In 1970, filmmaker Luchino Visconti travelled throughout Europe looking for the perfect boy to personify absolute beauty in his adaptation for the screen of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice. In Stockholm, he discovered Björn Andrésen, a shy 15-year-old teenager whom he brought to international fame overnight and led to spend a short but intense part of his turbulent youth between the Lido in Venice, London, the Cannes Film Festival and the so distant Japan. Fifty years after the premiere of Death in Venice, Björn takes us on a remarkable journey made o…
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Jul 19, 2021
2021 Galway Film Fleadh Filmmakers' Roundtable
In this Film Ireland podcast Gemma Creagh talks to filmmakers ,Annika Cassidy, Diarmuid Donohoe and Kamila Dydyna whose short films are screening at this year's Galway Film Fleadh (20-25 July).
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Jul 16, 2021
The DocArena Podcast: Episode 7 - Kim Bartley (Pure Grit)
In this episode of The DocArena Podcast, Ross Whitaker talks to Kim Bartley, the director of Pure Grit, which is screening at this year's Galway Film Fleadh. Pure Grit is both a thrilling tale of extreme bareback horse racing, and an intimate love story. Chronicling three years in the life of a young Native American bareback horse racer, her unwavering determination, and the relationships that sustain her. Sharmaine is a former horse racing champion, determined to ride and win. It's been a year since she last raced. A year since her sister was paralysed in a catastrophic accident on the track. Sharmaine quit racing to care for her. In the stunning Wyoming wilderness of the Wind River reservation, Sharmaine and her new girlfriend Savannah begin to build a life for themselves. They hope for better. But the atmosphere at home soon deteriorates and the young lovers are forced to leave for the industrial Commerce City, Denver. The city brings freedom and opportunity, but also distractions…
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Jul 2, 2021
The DocArena Podcast: Episode 7 - Sophie: A Murder In West Cork
In this episode of The DocArena Podcast, Ross Whitaker talks to some of the team behind Sophie: A Murder in West Cork. Director John Dower, and exec producers Suzanne Lavery and Simon Chinn. This three-part Netflix series examines one of Ireland's most famous murder cases, the death of French producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier in the town of Schull, West Cork in 1996. The brutal murder, which shocked the country, triggered one of the biggest murder investigations Ireland had ever seen and became a national obsession. The documentary charts the circumstances of her death, unravelling the extraordinary story from its beginning, 24 years ago to the present day. With exclusive access to Sophie Toscan du Plantier's family, the series brings together, for the first time, the views of her family with Ian Bailey, the man at the centre of the investigation.
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Jun 18, 2021
The DocArena Podcast: Episode 6 - Jerry Rothwell
In this episode of The DocArena Podcast, Ross Whitaker talks to Jerry Rothwell, director of The Reason I Jump. Based on the bestselling book by Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump is an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people from around the world. The film blends Higashida’s revelatory descriptions of his autism, written when he was just 13, with intimate portraits of five remarkable young people. It opens a window into an intense and overwhelming, but often joyful, sensory universe, a rich tapestry that leads us to Naoki’s core message: not being able to speak does not mean there is nothing to say.
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May 28, 2021
The DocArena Podcast Episode 5 – Maeve O’Boyle
In this episode of The DocArena Podcast, Ross Whitaker talks to filmmaker Maeve O’Boyle. Maeve is the editor and co-director along with Aideen Kane, Lucy Kennedy, of The 8th, the first independently made documentary about the triumphant referendum campaign led by a group of women including Ailbhe Smyth and Andrea Horan to repeal the Eighth Amendment and change Ireland’s abortion laws after a 35-year long struggle. While featuring voices from both sides of the debate, the primary focus of this new documentary is on the dynamic female leaders of the pro-choice campaign. The film closely follows veteran pro-choice campaigner Ailbhe Smyth, co-director of the ‘Together for Yes’ campaign, and self-described glitter activist and co-presenter of the podcast Don’t Stop Repealin’, Andrea Horan, as they chart a bold strategy of grassroots activism and engineer the near impossible. This dramatic story is underscored by a vivid exploration of the wrenching failures that led to this defi…
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May 21, 2021
The DocArena Podcast: Episode 4 – Dror Moreh
In this episode of The DocArena Podcast, Ross Whitaker talks to filmmaker Dror Moreh, whose 2012 documentary 'The Gatekeepers' was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 85th Academy Awards. Moreh's latest film, 'The Human Factor', is the behind-the-scenes story from the last 25 years of how the United States came within reach of pulling off the impossible –securing peace between Israel and its neighbours. Today, the need to learn from past mistakes couldn’t be more urgent.
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May 14, 2021
The DocArena Podcast: Episode 3 – Lance Oppenheim
In this episode of The DocArena Podcast, Ross Whitaker talks to Lance Oppenheim, a filmmaker from South Florida. Lance's debut feature documentary, Some Kind of Heaven, explores life inside the palm-tree-lined streets of The Villages, America’s largest retirement community in Florida. Referred to as the “Disneyland for Retirees,” this planned community is home to over 130,000 seniors. It offers residents a utopian version of the American yesteryear: wide, safe streets, perfectly manicured lawns, and countless activities all in service of enjoying their golden years. While most residents have bought into its packaged positivity, we meet four residents living on the margins, striving to find happiness. Married couple Anne and Reggie wrestle with Reggie’s deteriorating grip on reality, Barbara, a widow, seeks second love, and Dennis, an 82-year-old bachelor living out of a van, looks for a way out of a peripatetic existence. By turns biting, tender, and surreal, the film demonstra…
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Apr 30, 2021
The DocArena: Podcast: Episode 2 - Johnny Gogan
“Welcome to the DocArena Podcast in association with Film Ireland. My name is Ross Whitaker and every fortnight, I want to dig deeply into the motivations of documentary filmmakers – how do they choose their subject material and what approaches and strategies do they employ to fund, craft and distribute their work…”
In this second episode of DocArena, Ross talk to Johnny Gogan, whose latest film, Groundswell, brings into focus an isolated Irish border community faceing down the powerful fracking industry.
The film follows the establishment of a broad-based campaign in these counties which spread nationally and internationally, leading to the passing of a seminal low in the Dáil banning fracking in 2017. With over 40 contributions from participants on both sides of the Atlantic including actor and campaigner Mark Ruffalo, Sandra Steingraber, Eddie Mitchell, Dianne Little and Nuala McNulty, Groundswell is a very affirmative story about the power of community and creativity, b…
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Apr 30, 2021
The DocArena Podcast: Episode 1 - Lisa Immordino Vreeland
"Welcome to the DocArena Podcast in association with Film Ireland. My name is Ross Whitaker and every fortnight, I want to dig deeply into the motivations of documentary filmmakers – how do they choose their subject material and what approaches and strategies do they employ to fund, craft and distribute their work..."
In this inaugural DocArena podcast, Ross talks to Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Love, Cecil, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel), whose latest film, Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation, brings the two forces together in a unique and fascinating tête-à-tête, comparing and contrasting their trajectories through dueling voices — the writers’ own, culled from archival footage, and the voices of actors Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto (The Boys in the Band) portraying, respectively, Capote and Williams at various stages of their lives. Both created rich, imaginary worlds and characters (Blanche DuBois, Holly Golightly) that left ind…
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Apr 28, 2021
Pat Collins, Director of 'Henry Glassie: Field Work'
Pat Collins, Director of 'Henry Glassie: Field Work' by Film Ireland
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Mar 28, 2021
Treasa O’Brien, Director of 'Town of Strangers'
In this podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Treasa O’Brien, director of Town of Strangers
A stranger arrives in the town of Gort and announces that auditions will be held in the town hall for a new film. “Come and tell me your stories, your dreams, your lies, your memories, any gossip. All genders, nationalities and languages welcome. No acting experience necessary” is announced by the director via a loudspeaker on her van as she drives through the town. One by one, people sit into an armchair on the set of a kitchen, surrounded by old props found in the Town Hall that could have been from John B Keane’s The Field, which had been produced by the local theatre group the year before. And they tell their stories….
Town of Strangers screens on IFI@Home from 19th March 2021
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Dec 31, 2020
Farewell 2020
Sarah Cullen & Richard Drumm return to the world of pod after a long hiatus - reunited over zoom, our dynamic duo take a look back at the year in film.
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Dec 12, 2020
Interview with Kieron J. Walsh, Director / Co-writer of 'The Racer'
In this Film Ireland Podcast, Paul Farren talks to Kieron J. Walsh, Director / Co-writer of The Racer.
In summer 1998, the opening stages of Le Tour de France are relocated to Ireland. At the start of what will likely be his last Tour, cyclist Dom Chabol (Louis Talpe) is dropped from the Team he has dedicated his life to. Team masseur and best friend Sonny (Iain Glen), who helped keep Dom at peak performance through illegal blood doping, fails to reassure him about his future. However a chance liaison with Lynn (Tara Lee), a young Irish doctor, softens the blow, and Dom starts to accept – and even enjoy – the idea of civilian life. But just as he gears up to head home, another teammate is knocked off the Tour and Dom is thrown back into the saddle. Now with the years of doping having taken a toll on his body, the racer may pay the ultimate price for a final shot at the glory that has eluded him his entire career…
The Racer is in Irish cinemas from 11th December 2020.
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Dec 4, 2020
Podcast: Interview with Mary McGuckian, Writer / Director of 'A Girl From Mogadishu
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Mary McGuckian, whose film A Girl From Mogadishu is released in cinemas across Ireland.
The film portrays Female Genital Mutilation activist Ifrah Ahmed, who, after fleeing war-torn Somalia in 2006, is trafficked to Ireland. A traumatic medical examination when seeking asylum reveals the extent of her mutilation as a child. Traumatized by the memory, she channels the experience into a force for change and emerges as a formidable campaigner against Female Genital Mutilation at the highest political echelons in Ireland, across Europe and finally back in the country of her birth, Somalia.
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Dec 2, 2020
Podcast: Interview with Alistair Owen, author of 'The Art of Screen Adaptation'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Paul Farren talks to Alistair Owen about his book ‘The Art of Screen Adaptation’.
In the age of cinema and TV adaptation, Alistair Owen asks a crucial question; how do you transfer a story from the page to the screen? Owen navigates this and others in conversation with some of the top screenwriters of our time, including Hossein Amini, Jeremy Brock, Moira Buffini, Lucinda Coxon, Andrew Davies, Christopher Hampton, David Hare, Olivia Hetreed, Nick Hornby, Deborah Moggarch, David Nicholls and Sarah Phelps.
Exploring fiction and nonfiction projects, contemporary and classic books, films and TV series The Art of Screen Adaptation reveals the challenges and pleasures of reimagining cinema and television, and provides a frank and fascinating master class with the writers who have done it – and have the awards and acclaim to show for it.
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Nov 8, 2020
Cork International Film Festival Roundtable
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to 3 filmmakers, David Prendeville (Sins of a Werewolf), Edwina Casey (Algorithm) and Maureen O’Connell (Hum), about their short films screening at this year’s Cork International Film Festival. The short films are available to watch on the online Virtual Festival platform from 9 – 15 November 2020.
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Nov 5, 2020
Podcast: Interview with Anna Kopecká, Cork Film Festival Director of Programming
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh chats to Anna Kopecká, Director of Programming at the Cork International Film Festival. The festival runs online this year and Anna gives us an inside look into the Ireland's oldest film festival.
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Oct 28, 2020
Interview with Artist and Filmmaker Andrea Mastrovito
In this Film Ireland podcast, June Butler talks to artist and filmmaker Andrea Mastrovito, whose new work of horror film-art I am NOT legend, screens as part of the 2020 Bram Stoker Festival.
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Oct 15, 2020
Interview with Vivienne Dick, Director of 'New York Our Time'
In this Film Ireland podcast (recorded earlier this year) Gemma Creagh talks to the internationally-celebrated filmmaker and artist Vivienne Dick about her latest film 'New York Our Time', an intimate and philosophical documentary that contrasts the concerns of present day living in New York with the bohemian wildness of the city in the late '70s, reflected through the lives of artists, musicians and friends of the filmmaker.
'New York Our Time' premiered at the Dublin International Film Festival 2020 and can be live streamed from Friday, 16th as part of the Kerry Film Festival.
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Oct 9, 2020
Interview with Producer John Wallace
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to producer John Wallace, co-founder of Cowtown Pictures with Alan Maher.
Earlier this year John was selected as Ireland’s Producer on the Move for the EFP (European Film Promotion) networking programme, which usually takes place at the Cannes Film Festival but this year took place online. His latest film, Rialto, was released in cinemas on 2nd October 2020.
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Oct 4, 2020
Interview with Peter Mackie Burns, Director of 'Rialto'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Peter Mackie Burns, the Director of Rialto, which is released across Irish cinemas on October 2nd and in Dublin Cinemas from October 10th once cinemas re-open.
In the wake of his father’s death, Colm (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) must come to terms with his actions and find the resolve to halt the crumbing facade of his home, his family, and everything he has built.
Rialto is released in Irish cinemas 2nd October and in Dublin 10th October 2020.
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Sep 25, 2020
Director Daniel Holmes & Producer Matthew Toman of 'Street Leagues'
In this Film Ireland Podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Director Daniel Holmes & Producer Matthew Toman about their film Street Leagues, which tells the inspiring story of the Irish Homeless Street Leagues – where homeless people and recovering addicts use the power of sport to regain their self-worth and reclaim their lives.
In cinemas from 25th September 2020.
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Sep 18, 2020
Wayne Byrne on Film Writing
In this podcast, Paul Farren talks to Irish journalist, film historian and author Wayne Byrne about the craft of writing about film.
From his early days reviewing films for the Leinster Leader, through writing his first book, Include Me Out: The Cinema of Tom DiCillo, to working on his latest project on the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, Wayne reflects on his journey to date and how he approaches writing about film and why he does it.
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Jul 9, 2020
Director Phil Sheerin and Writer David Turpin of 'The Winter Lake'
In this Film Ireland podcast director Phil Sheerin and writer David Turpin chat to Gemma Creagh ahead of the premiere of their atmospheric drama at the Galway Film Fleadh.
With nowhere else to go, Tom (Anson Boon) and his mother, Elaine (Charlie Murphy), return to her childhood home in Ireland. While exploring, Tom makes a disturbing discovery in the nearby seasonal lake that forces him into a troubling personal dilemma.
After meeting the father (Michael McElhatton) and daughter (Emma Mackey), from the neighbouring farm, their complex web of secrets and lies are revealed to pull Tom and Elaine into a violent confrontation with the darkest parts of human nature.
Cast: Anson Boon, Charlie Murphy, Michael McElhatton, Emma Mackey, Mark McKenna
The Winter Lake screens at https://www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/ from Friday, 10th July at 9:00 PM. Followed by Q + A with cast and crew.
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Jul 4, 2020
Will Fitzgerald, Galway Film Fleadh Programme Director
In this Film Ireland podcast Gemma Creagh talks to Will Fitzgerald, the Galway Film Fleadh Programme Director ahead of this year's festival about the challenges he faced moving the festival online and what Irish films are on offer this year.
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Jun 29, 2020
Imogen Murphy, Director of 'Dead Still'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Director Imogen Murphy talks to Natasha Waugh about ‘Dead Still’.
Set in 1880s Ireland in the Victorian era heyday of ‘postmortem photography’, this six-episode period drama follows renowned memorial photographer Brock Blennerhasset played by Michael Smiley (Luther).
When a series of murders threatens to sully Brock’s reputation, a tenacious detective drags him into an investigation of Dublin’s criminal underbelly.
Dead Still is directed and co-created by Imogen Murphy.
Dead Still is currently streaming in the US and Canada on Acorn TV and is released in the UK, Australia and New Zealand on 29th June.
Imogen Murphy is an award-winning Irish director. Her TV credits include Cant Cope Wont Cope, Red Rock and Holllyoaks. Her short film Cry Rosa was nominated for a Royal Television Society award and an IFTA award. Most recently she was lead director and co-story writer on Dead Still www.imogenmurphy.com
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Jun 17, 2020
Steven Berkoff, 'Tell Tale Heart'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Paul Farren talks to Steven Berkoff about his feature film adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe chiller The Tell-Tale Heart
Staying faithful to Poe’s original short story of 1843, the film is a spine-chilling retelling of the dizzying tale of Edmund (Berkoff), a solitary figure who endeavours to convince the viewer of his sanity, whilst describing a murder he has committed. Haunted by the still beating heart of the dismembered body of his victim which he has hidden under the floorboards and under investigation by the police, the unhinged killer finally gives himself away driven mad by the sounds inside his head.
Tell Tale Heart is available on DVD from 11th June 2020 and on various digital platforms including Amazon, Apple TV and Google Play.
Directed by Stephen Cookson.
Adapted by Steven Berkoff and Stephen Cookson from a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
Starring Steven Berkoff, Henry Goodman, Dudley Sutton.
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Jun 4, 2020
David Freyne, Writer / Director of ‘Dating Amber’
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to David Freyne about his latest film Dating Amber.
Set-in Ireland during the mid-90’s, Eddie and Amber decide to stage a relationship in order to stop everyone speculating about their sexuality. Eddie is keen to follow his Dad into the military, while Amber dreams of moving to the liberal hub of London. However, their ‘ideal’ arrangement begins to fall apart, forcing Eddie deeper into denial as Amber realises that a perilous future awaits her best friend unless she intervenes.
Dating Amber is available on Amazon Prime Video from 4th June in Ireland & the UK.
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May 31, 2020
Antonia Campbell Hughes, Writer / Director of 'Acre Fall Between'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Antonia Campbell Hughes about her short film Acre Fall Between. On a desolate Northern Ireland border, a man (Mark O’Hallor an) begins a desperate search for his family, knowing the future he feared is nigh.
Acre Fall Between features in The Uncertain Kingdom – the groundbreaking anthology of 20 short films released on demand on 1st June on BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema, iTunes, & GooglePlay.
Climate change, migration, disability, homelessness and sexuality are just some of the subjects explored in The Uncertain Kingdom, a ground-breaking anthology of 20 short films from twenty directors that together offer a unique snapshot of the UK in 2020. From comedies and dramas, through documentaries and experimental pieces, made by a mix of established names and new talent, the collection reflects the state of our nation as seen by the 20 filmmaking teams behind them.
Find out more at https://theuncertainkingdom.co.uk
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May 21, 2020
Nick McLean, Cinematographer
In this Film Ireland podcast, Paul Farren talks to Nick McLean, one of the most acclaimed camera operators in American cinema, during which time he shot many classics including McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Heaven Can Wait, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Deer Hunter, Marathon Man, Being There and The Goonies and television shows including Evening Shade, Cybill, and Friends.
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Nick is the subject of a book by Irish film journalist and author Wayne Byrne, co-written with McLean himself, which takes readers on an entertaining journey through five decades of Hollywood filmmaking.
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May 15, 2020
Keith Walsh, Director of 'When All is Ruin Once Again'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Keith Walsh about When All is Ruin Once Again, a film about rural life in the midst of great local, national and global change.
When All is Ruin Once Again was filmed over a 7 year period amongst the communities of Gort in South Galway and Crusheen in Co. Clare where the filmmakers live. A new motorway ploughs forth through the landscape, a glaring symbol of our modern age.
The film weaves an expansive tapestry of reflections from bog-lands, fire-sides, race tracks and hurling pitches;all while the country is hit by the worst economic crisis it has ever faced and the realisation that we are living unsustainably slowly dawns.
W.B Yeats, who lived and wrote in the area where the film is set, provides the title’s prophetic words and prompts us to consider the value of memory and the impermanence of our existence. All is in flux. The mis-use of our natural resources percolates beneath the surface and rises up in the form of rising f…
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May 1, 2020
Anna Rodgers, Directer of 'When Women Won'
Photo credit: Derek Speirs
In this Film Ireland podcast Gemma Creagh talks to Anna Rodgers whose documentary When Women Won screened at this year’s Dublin International Film Festival.
When Women Won tells the emotional inside story of the Together for Yes campaign to repeal the 8th amendment and change Irish society forever. In the aftermath of the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar, three Irish feminists joined forces and set about establishing a grassroots, women-led social movement. Working with teams in every county in Ireland, they ultimately delivered a landslide victory. Compelling and insightful, this documentary brings you back to the highs and lows of the tumultuous campaign, and captures the most seismic shift in Irish society in the past 35 years.
Anna also talks about Creative Kids, a documentary inspired by the roll-out of Creative Schools, focussing on creativity and the Arts in primary and secondary schools all around Ireland.
Creative Kids broadcasts on Sunday,…
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Apr 28, 2020
Nick Rowland, Director of 'Calm with Horses'
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to director Nick Rowland about his feature debut, adapted by Joe Murtagh from Colin Barrett's novella Young Skins.
Ex-boxer Douglas ‘Arm’ Armstrong (Cosmo Jarvis) is the faithful and violent right-hand-man to the drug-dealing Devers clan, ready to dole out beatings at the whim of his best friend, and the family’s unpredictable protégé, Dympna (Barry Keoghan).
Arm’s struggle to find his place in the world has consequences on his relationship with his ex-girlfriend Ursula (Niamh Algar) as she strives to find a better life for herself and their young son Jack.
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Apr 24, 2020
Podcast: Neasa Hardiman, Writer / Director of 'Sea Fever'
In this podcast Natasha Waugh talks to BAFTA-winning writer and director Neasa Hardiman about her debut feature Sea Fever.
For marine biology student Siobhan, it was supposed to be a research excursion with a trawler crew fishing the West Irish seas. But when they hit an unseen object and become marooned, a mysterious parasite infects their water supply. Soon the oozing force infiltrates the entire vessel and turns Siobhan’s journey into a claustrophobic fight for survival. Can they stop the mysterious water borne parasite from spreading before it’s too late?
Sea Fever is available on VOD platforms from Friday, 24th April.
Amongst the discussion Matasha and Neasa discuss:
-her intention behind the film
-reflecting transnationalism
-the film inhabiting both a cinema of political meaning and a cinema of spectacle
-the conflict between magical thinking and the scientific method
-the ethics of contagion
-probing the cliches of scientists in cinema
-the lead character Siobhan owni…
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Apr 20, 2020
Lenny Abrahamson, Director of 'Normal People'
In this podcast Natasha Waugh talks to director Lenny Abrahamson about his work on the BBC series Normal People. Adapted by Sally Rooney from her acclaimed 2018 novel alongside writers Alice Birch and Mark O’Rowe, Normal People is a 12-part drama for BBC Three in partnership with Hulu. It will star Daisy Edgar-Jones (War Of The Worlds, Cold Feet) as Marianne and Paul Mescal in his first television role as Connell, in an exquisite and compulsive modern love story about how two people can profoundly impact each others’ lives.
Lenny Abrahamson directs episodes 1 – 6. Hettie Macdonald directs episodes 7 – 12.
Normal People will land as a complete boxset on BBC Three on Sunday, 26th April . It will also air on BBC One from Monday, 27th April at 9pm with weekly double episodes. Normal People will air on RTE One on Tuesday, 28th April .
Normal People consists of 12 episodes, with each episode half an hour long.
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Apr 9, 2020
Mary Kate O Flanagan, Screenwriter and Story Consultant
In this podcast Gemma Creagh talks to award-winning screenwriter and story consultant Mary Kate O Flanagan.
Mary Kate O Flanagan was born in Dublin, Ireland and grew up bi-lingual. She spent her teenage years in Denmark where she attended an international school. Since leaving school she has studied French, Italian and Biblical Hebrew and lived in Italy and London before returning to her native Ireland. Her experiences of living in different European countries informs her work with screenwriters across Europe. Her main work is in helping writers to write cinema stories that cross borders, while preserving their authentic voices. She spends two months a year in Los Angeles collaborating with her former teachers at USC. Mary Kate is a working writer who has won awards for her screenwriting projects and is a published short story writer and journalist.
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Mar 27, 2020
Lorcan Finnegan, Director & Garret Shanley, Writer of Vivarium
In this Film Ireland podcast, Paul Farren talks to director Lorcan Finnegan and writer Garret Shanley about their film Vivarium, which is available on digital from 27th March.
During their search for the perfect home, Gemma (Imogen Poots) and Tom (Jesse Eisenberg) find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like suburban neighbourhood named Yonder. All attempts to escape end in failure, culminating in the discovery of a baby on the pavement outside house number 9 with the instructions ‘raise the child and be released’ .
Listen to the podcast as Lorcan and Garret take us inside number nine...
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Mar 9, 2020
Podcast: John Boorman Interview
On Thursday, 12th March, to celebrate the publication of John Boorman's new book Conclusions, the IFI will host screenings of short films I Dreamt I Woke Up and Tree Poems, plus a public interview with the Oscar-nominated director.
In this podcast, Paul Farren talks to John Boorman about his book and career, including
- the reasons behind the book
- working with Lee Marvin (Point Blank)
- Hell and the Pacific and Toshirō Mifune
- Irish actors and crew on Excalibur
- trying to adapt Lord of the Rings
- Leo the Last, a law case and its revival
- Deliverance, Burt Reynolds and stealing stories
- Driving around with Lee Marvin on the roof of his car
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Feb 24, 2020
2020 Dublin International Film Festival Roundtable Podcast
Ahead of the 2020 Dublin International Film Festival, three filmmakers whose films are screening at the festival joined Gemma Creagh on the latest Film Ireland podcast. Pictured above, Tristan Heanue (Ciúnas), Iseult Howlett (The Grass Ceiling) and Suri Grennell (Wrath) came into the studio to talk about their films and the craft of filmmaking.
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Feb 14, 2020
The Reel OSCAReS Horror Show 2020
Welcome to the 2020 Reel OSCAReS Horror Show Awards Ceremony.
On a dark Winter's Eve under a misty stained Dublin sky, our gruesome gang of ghouls gathered to present the awards for artistic merit in the horror film industry.
Tune in to hear Conor McMahon, Sarah Cleary, Ali Doyle and Paul Farren bare their fangs and flex their chainsaws and announce the nominations and winners in the following categories:
Best Scene
Best Script
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Score
Best Documentary
Best Disappointment
Best Director
Best Film
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Feb 12, 2020
Ciaran Cassidy, Director of 'Jihad Jane'
In this podcast Gemma Creagh talks to Ciaran Cassidy, whose film Jihad Jane is in cinemas Friday, 14th February.
In March 2010, the arrest on terror charges of a blonde haired, blue-eyed, American woman who called herself ‘Jihad Jane’ made headlines worldwide and was described as the 'new front in the war on terrorism.' The story of Coleen LaRose, a forty six-year-old woman, who had radicalised in rural Pennsylvania led the evening news bulletins. What made the case more surreal and confusing was the arrest of another American woman, Jamie Paulin Ramirez, a Colorado native — this time in Waterford, Ireland.
In this podcast, Ciaran talks about his film plus
getting into film
his first films and learning the process of filmmaking
his approach to storytelling and its different genres
what draws him to particular stories
Jihad Jane
how the story unravelled
the characters involved
positioning the story and maintaining a balance
the editing process
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Dec 31, 2019
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 39 - Farewell 2019!
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 39 - Farewell 2019! by Film Ireland
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Dec 23, 2019
The Wild Bunch at 50
In this podcast, Paul Farren & Wayne Byrne discuss Sam Peckinpah’s masterpiece The Wild Bunch, which celebrated its 50th anniversary this year. Paul and Wayne look back on the film’s legacy and celebrate its “ballet of violence”
plus:
how Peckinpah turned the Western genre on its head
the response to the film at that time
Peckinpah’s career & style
themes and symbols running through his films
the personal Peckinpah
different readings of the film
his collaborators
the death of the Western
the legacy The Wild Bunch leaves
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Dec 20, 2019
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 37- Crime is Cool Kids
Our podders return after a Film Ireland funded extended holiday to look back on the last couple of months in film. Dividing their time between tropical islands and cinemas in Dublin, Sarah Cullen and Richard Drumm take out their film scalpel and get under the skin of Extra Ordinary, Joker, Harriet, The Irishman, The Laundromat, La Belle Époque, Hustlers, Gemini Man and Ready or Not.
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Dec 13, 2019
Wayne Byrne, Author of 'Burt Reynolds on Screen'
In this podcast, Paul Farren talks to author Wayne Byrne about his latest book Burt Reynolds on Screen, the first critical overview of Reynolds’ work which examines his complete filmography, featuring candid discussions with costars and collaborators, exclusive behind-the-scenes photos and a wealth of film stills.
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Dec 12, 2019
Aoife Crehan, Writer/Director of 'The Last Right'
Aoife Crehan, Writer/Director of 'The Last Right' by Film Ireland
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Dec 4, 2019
Ruth Barton, Author of 'Irish Cinema in the Twenty-First Century'
In this podcast, Natasha Waugh talks to Ruth Barton about her latest book Irish Cinema in the Twenty-First Century, a comprehensive overview of contemporary Irish cinema.
Natasha and Ruth discuss:
-what makes an Irish film
-preoccupations within Irish cinema
-a multiplicity of filmmakers making a multiplicity of films
-the success of the animation industry
-gender representation
-short film
-the fetishisation of social outsiderdom
-Northern Irish cinema
-the lack of diversity in the industry
-what's next for Irish cinema
Ruth Barton is Associate Professor in Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin. She has published widely on Irish cinema and her works include Irish National Cinema (2004) and Acting Irish in Hollywood (2006). She is a regular film critic on RTÉ radio’s Arena.
Irish cinema in the twenty-first century is available to buy now.
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Nov 20, 2019
Festival Podcast Roundtable: Iffy
Festival Podcast Roundtable: Iffy by Film Ireland
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Oct 31, 2019
Gerard Mannix Flynn, Writer & Co-Director of 'Land Without God'
In this podcast, Gemma Creagh met up with Gerard Mannix Flynn, in The Westbury Hotel in Dublin to talk about his film - co-directed with Maedhbh McMahon & Lotta Petronella - Land Without God, which examines the legacy of institutional abuse by the Irish Church and State over the last century.
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Oct 24, 2019
Reel Horror Show - Episode 14: Halloween Special
In this eerie episode of the Reel Horror Show, special ghoulish guest Stephen "Screaming " Shields [writer, The Hole in the Ground] joins regular monstrous mutant hosts Conor "McMayhem" McMahon, Ali "Horror" Doyle and Conor "Howling" Dowling to open a coffin of consternation and carve up the corpse within.
Uv-voov shredded thistle organ... welcome.
In this episode, the ghastly gang talk about
- "Screaming" Stephen's experience of his debut horror feature, his horror influences & writing process
- some horror-watching recommendations
- a hefty look at IT: Chapter Two
- chats from the set of Irish horror comedy Extra Ordinary
- a preview of what's screaming at this year's Horrorthon at the IFI
- the perfect double bill for Halloween viewing
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Oct 22, 2019
Shelly Love, Director of 'A Bump Along the Way'
In this podcast, Gemma Creagh chats to Shelly Love, the director of A Bump Along the Way which introduces us to Pamela, a boozy 44-year-old single mother whose teenage daughter Allegra disapproves of her care-free lifestyle. Their fragile relationship is further tested when Pamela becomes pregnant after a one-night stand.
Shelly discusses
-her background in film
-the choreography of directing
-how A Bump Along the Way came together
-prepping for the project
-the production design on the film
-working with Die Hexen on the soundtrack
-working with 50 / 50 cast & crew + Abbey the dog
-working on the edit with Helen Sheridan at Yellowmoon post----production facilities
-how the film has been received
A Bump Along the Way is released in Irish cinemas on 11th October 2019.
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Oct 4, 2019
IndieCork 2019 Roundtable Podcast
Ahead of the this year's IndieCork (6 - 13 October), Gemma Creagh sat down with 2 filmmakers whose films are screening at the festival. Rachel Smyth's film Pit Stop tells the story of one woman’s attempt to flee an abusive relationship. Kerrie Costello's film Nina introduces us to Sarah as she returns to a house to pack up.
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Oct 2, 2019
Tom Burke, Director of 'Losing Alaska'
In this podcast, Paul Farren talks to Tom Burke, the director of Losing Alaska, which tells the story of a small community in Alaska called Newtok who are dealing with a slow-moving disaster. The 375 inhabitants of Newtok feel the winter storms grow more fierce each year and steal their coastline, they watch their homes disappear into rolling seas as the melting permafrost erodes the edges of their town. The plan is to abandon the town and start again 9 miles up the river on higher, more solid ground. The community is divided between those determined to stay, and those equally determined to move. They are fighting the weather, the indifference of state agencies and now, finally, each other.
As well as discussing the intricacies of the ways of life of the people of Newtok and the challenges they face, Tom talks about how the project came to be, telling a big story through the prism of a small situation, people trying to survive in a changing world, the nature of documentary, telling p…
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Sep 19, 2019
The IFI Documentary Festival Roundtable Podcast: Paul Webster, Peter Kilmartin, Nodlag Houlihan
Ahead of the 2019 IFI Documentary Festival (25-29 September) Gemma Creagh talks to three filmmakers whose films feature in the Shorts Programme, which takes place on the 28th September. Nodlag Houlihan (Reality Baby ), Paul Webster (The Vasectomy Doctor ) and Peter Kilmartin (Sunny Side Up) join Gemma to talk about their films and what it takes to put together a documentary.
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Sep 13, 2019
Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman, Co-Directors/Co-Writers of 'Extra Ordinary'
In this podcast, Paul Farren talks to Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman, Co-Directors/Co-Writers of Extra Ordinary, a supernatural comedy which tells the story of Rose, a sweet and lonely small town driving instructor who must use her supernatural ‘talent’ to save the daughter of a local man from a washed up rock-star looking to use her in a satanic pact that will reignite his fame.
Mike & Enda discuss things that go bump in the night, getting the project from script to screen, and working with Maeve Higgins, Will Forte, Barry Ward and Terri Chandler. They also talk about their early days in IADT and experimenting on mini-VHS tape, making music videos, ads, the influences behind their work and being practical with visual effects .
Extra Ordinary is released in Irish cinemas 13th September
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Sep 2, 2019
Reel Horror Show: Episode 13
Reel Horror Show's Mark Sheridan is joined by Dr Sarah Cleary in this special episode to explore the cobwebbed tunnels of horror.
Sarah discusses how the horror genre is being controlled, regulated and restricted in response to its alleged effect on children. Other topics include horror as the messenger and reflecting ourselves and society back to us. Trump horror. A take-down of Stranger Things and the comfort blanket of '80s nostalgia. Franchises! Zombies!! - watching Diary of the Dead in the context of Love Island. The Exorcist as a conservative narrative. Is there ever a cause for censorship? An examination of I Spit on Your Grave. The discomfort of seeing the human in the monster and how horror has always explored how the monster isn't necessarily evil. A look at Midsommar's folk horror. The condition of Irish horror and where it can go. Plus a Rob Zombie love-in.
And to quote Sarah - "a good horror should always leave us a little bit looking over our shoulder as we leave the…
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Aug 30, 2019
The Bleeding Pig Film Festival Roundtable Podcast
In this podcast Gemma Creagh is joined by Emma Fagan, programme manager of The Bleeding Pig Festival (9-11 September) and filmmakers Mia Mullarky (Mother & Baby) and Laura O'Shea (Hold the Line), whose films are screening at the festival.
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Aug 27, 2019
Ivan Kavanagh, Writer/Director of 'Never Grow Old'
In this podcast, Paul Farren talks to Ivan Kavanagh about his latest feature Never Grow Old and the influences behind it, and discuss the Western genre and its enduring appeal. Ivan also talks about working with John Cusack, Emile Hirsch and Déborah François and the craft of filmmaking.
In Never Grow Old, Irish carpenter and undertaker Patrick Tate (Hirsch) lives with his young family on the outskirts of a small frontier town on the California trail during the 1849 gold rush. It’s a tough but relatively peaceful place, until outlaw Dutch Albert (Cusack) and his gang take over, killing anyone who stands up to them. Patrick initially plays a dangerous game, profiting from the outlaws’ mayhem, but it is only a matter of time before he must protect his own from the bloodshed.
Starring Emile Hirsch (Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, Into The Wild), Déborah François (L’Enfant) and John Cusack (High Fidelity, Being John Malkovich), Never Grow Old was filmed in Galway and Luxembourg a…
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Aug 23, 2019
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 37- Sexy Thrillers... There's No Buckets Involved
Sarah Cullen and Richard Drumm return to give us their latest contemplations and ruminations on film.
This episode's reviews include The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid, Never Grow Old and Toy Story 4. Netflix fodder Secret Obsession and Kidnapping Stella, plus a daylit look at MidSommar, Woman at War, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Good Boys.
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Aug 19, 2019
The Dublin Feminist Festival: Filmmaker Carmen García & Programme Manager Dr Jennifer O'Meara
In this podcast, Gemma Creagh is joined by Carmen García and Dr Jennifer O'Meara to talk about the Dublin Feminist Film Festival, which runs 22 - 24 August 2019.
Carmen García is a feminist videojournalist, journalist and filmmaker. Her film Tra na mban / Ladies Beach screens at the festival as part of the shorts programme on Thursday, 22nd August.
Dr Jennifer O'Meara is an Assistant Professor in Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin, and a programming manager for the Dublin Feminist Film Festival.
Tra na mban / Ladies Beach (2019) Mexico (6.36)
Dir. Carmen Garcia Gonzalez
In the west coast of Ireland, a group of Irish women 40 to 80 years old swim every morning in the Atlantic cold waters come rain or shine. Martell, who hasn’t missed a day in 10 years now, let us know how is it for her and the swimmers to meet at the Ladies Beach in Galway, vent together under the cold water and share a hot coffee and a warm chat afterwards. A tight-knit bunch brought together by their love t…
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Aug 12, 2019
Garry Keane & Andrew McConnell, Co-Directors of Gaza
June Butler talks to filmmakers Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell about their documentary Gaza, a portrait of the resilience of people in the most challenging of circumstances and living under the constant threat of a looming war.
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Jul 29, 2019
GAZE International LGBT Film Festival Roundtable 2019
In this podcast, we welcome three filmmakers whose works are screening at this year's GAZE International LGBT Film Festival (1 - 5 August). Maya Derrington, Katie McNeice and Tom Speers join Gemma Creagh to talk about their films and filmmaking. Plus festival director Roisín Geraghty pops in to give us a quick look at this year's programme.
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Jul 18, 2019
Hugh O'Conor, Director of Metal Heart
In this podcast, Gemma was joined by writer Stephen Shields (The Hole in The Ground, 2019) to chat to Hugh O'Conor about his feature directorial debut debut Metal Heart.
Hugh talks about pitching "Twin Peaks in Terenure" to writer Paul Murray, the development process, a darker version, casting and working with the actors. Hugh explains how his own background as an actor influences his directing and learning from other directors he's worked with as an actor. Finally, Hugh sheds light on getting the soundtrack right, Louise O'Neill's influence on the script and creating a complex bad guy.
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Jul 11, 2019
Galway Film Fleadh Filmmakers Roundtable
In this podcast, Gemma Creagh sits down with three filmmakers whose short films screen at this year's Galway Film Fleadh. Director Rioghnach Ni Ghrioghair (Break Us), writer Sarah Ingersoll (The Bridge) and producer Marissa Aroy (The Ferry) join us to talk about their films, their roles as director, writer and producer and their individual approaches to the craft of filmmaking.
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Jul 6, 2019
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 36 – I'm Jesus. I Want Cocaine.
Sarah Cullen and Richard Drumm return to open up the bonnet of film. In this episode, our podders shine a light on Netflix fodder Rim of the World, I Am Mother, When They See Us and The Perfection and take a look at some recent cinema releases including Too Late To Die Young, Diego Maradona, Brightburn, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, High Life, Godzilla: King of the Monsters and In Fabric.
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Jul 4, 2019
Prisoners of the Moon - Johnny Gogan, Director & Nick Snow, Writer
In this podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to director Johnny Gogan and writer Nick Snow at a special screening of Prisoners of the Moon at the IFI. The film tells the story of Arthur Rudolph, a scientist who played a key role in NASA’s historic 1969 moon landing. Rudolph was one of over 100 Nazi V-2 rocket engineers secretly brought to America in 1945 to work on the Cold War missile programme. He became a key figure in NASA’s space race, but was arrested in Toronto in 1990 on suspicion of being a war criminal. The dramatised trial (featuring Jim Norton and Cathy Belton) animates this revelatory documentary which uses archive material, expert witness interviews, and the testimony of Jean Michel, a slave labour survivor of the subterranean wartime V-2 Rocket.
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Jul 1, 2019
Jaro Waldeck, Cinematographer
In this podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Jaro Waldeck about filmmaking and her career in cinematography. Jaro talks about learning her craft, training opportunities and getting into the industry.
Jaro is a DOP with Master of Arts in Cinematography from FAMU Prague and a Bachelor of Arts in Cinematography from Columbia College Chicago. She interned with Academy Award nominee Phedon Papamichael, ASC, and won several Best Cinematography Awards in Ireland and Scotland. Jaro has worked on projects ranging from short narrative and documentary films to music videos, TV documentaries and commercials and promos. She is a member of Czech Society of Cinematographers and a board member of Women in Film and Television Ireland.
As well as focusing on lighting and camera operating, Jaro has four years combined experience teaching cinematography and supervising student film-shoots. Her skills and experience involve working with all modern digital semi-pro and fully professional cameras and workflows,…
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Jun 18, 2019
Reel Horror Show: Episode 12
Our grotesque gathering of ghouls and goblins return to spread mischief in the latest episode of the Reel Horror Show. Ali Doyle, Conor Dowling, Conor McMahon and Mark Sheridan are all chained at the ankle to a pipe and will only be set free by discussing horror for over an hour - will they succeed and be freed or will they fail and be handed a hacksaw by their evil editor.
Films that come under the horror hammer include Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, Escape Room, The Silence, Us, The Twilight Zone, Mom and Dad, Insidious IV, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Victor Crowley, The Cure for Wellness, Unfriended: Dark Web, Slenderman, Possum - "it's a guy, with a bag, with a spider in it...", The Haunting of Sharon Tate, Necromancer, Patchwork, May, Pet Sematary.
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Jun 7, 2019
John Butler, Writer/Director Papi Chulo
Set in modern-day Los Angeles, Papi Chulo tells of a down-on-his-luck weatherman (Matt Bomer) who is shaken by the end of a relationship. He has an on-air meltdown, prompting concerned bosses to persuade him to take some time out. To fill his days, he employs a Latino migrant worker (Alejandro Patiño) to paint his home but also to keep him company. Despite their cultural, age and language differences, they connect.Paul Farren sat down with writer/director John Butler to talk about creating his comedy/drama, the themes of empathy and unlikely friendship, the talents of Matt Bomer and Alejandro Patiño and working with DOP Cathal Watters and composer John McPhillips.
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May 24, 2019
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 35 - Drop Kick a Puppy
Sarah Cullen and Richard Drumm address the nation and share their latest jibber jabber on some new films that people have made for you to see, including dream-chasing and drug-taking in Wild Rose, spotting Dublin streets in Greta, and high-school yarns in 8th Grade and Book Smart.Sarah takes a look at three Netflix films with women drinking in Wine Country, a lack of murders in Who Would you Take to a Desert Island, and alive ghosts in Suzzanna Buried Alive,Richard takes his seat at the High Table and discusses the endless shoot-outs of John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, nonsense in the cinema at Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, and the pointlessness of Vox Lux.And finally there's the glass cliff of Avengers: Endgame.
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May 20, 2019
Jon Hozier-Byrne
In this podcast, Natasha Waugh talks to Jon Hozier-Byrne, a filmmaker from Dublin, Ireland. John has a BA and an MA in Film Studies from University College Dublin, where he taught film until 2014, when he founded Stoneface Films. Since then, he's had his directorial work featured in the Cannes Film Festival, and created music videos for the likes of We Cut Corners, Hozier, Mick Flannery, and Hometown.
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May 15, 2019
Cormac Fox, Ireland’s EFP's Producer on the Move at Cannes 2019
This month at the Cannes Film Festival, 20 up and coming producers from 20 different countries from throughout Europe participate in ‘Producers on the Move’. The initiative is aimed at connecting young, enterprising European producers with potential co-production partners, strengthening their industry networks and, at the same time, providing a solid and visible platform for this next generation of European filmmakers. They take part in project pitching, 1:1 meetings and case studies, social events and an extensive press campaign, which includes online presentation and profiles in the international trades.
This year Cormac Fox of Vico Films was selected as Ireland's EFP Producer on the Move for 2019.Cormac has produced several feature films for Vico Films, including Fiona Tan's History's Future, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2015, Peter Foott's 2016 local breakout hit The Young Offenders, and Sophie Hyde's Animals which had its world premiere…
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May 10, 2019
Carmel Winters, Writer/Director of 'Float Like A Butterfly'
Float Like a Butterfly is a powerful and timely story of a girl’s fight for freedom and belonging. Some people say it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose. But for Frances losing is not an option – at stake is her own freedom, her mother’s honour and her father’s faith. In this podcast, Paul Farren talks to Carmel Winters about her film and the art and craft of filmmaking.
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Apr 19, 2019
Alan Mulligan, Writer/Director of 'The Limit Of'
James Allen (Laurence O’Fuarain) is a successful, controlling, thirty-something banker living alone and working in Dublin city at the tail-end of the recession. When a family tragedy occurs at the hands of his employer he decides to take action which forces him to face a terrible childhood secret. Meanwhile, his mysterious co-worker Alison (IFTA-nominated Sarah Carroll) has her own agenda, which puts her on a collision course with James, triggering a dark spiral of deceit, revenge, and murder.
Gemma Creagh met up with writer/director Alan Mulligan to talk about his look at modern-day greed and desire, and society’s ever-growing need for control.
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Apr 18, 2019
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 34 - Eat Your Slops
In a Brexit-themed show, our podders, Sarah Cullen and Richard Drumm, discuss junk-checking in Captain Marvel, whip out the Irish Bleakometre for The Miami Showband Massacre, The Hole in the Ground, and Shooting the Mafia. There's chat about the buffed fingers of Free Solo, the Peeping Toms of Under the Silver Lake, the harsh yellows of At Eternity's Gate with Willem Dafoe's demon face and the tragic horror of Us.
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Apr 6, 2019
Reel Horror Show: Episode 11
Our possessed posse return after a hiatus in the netherworld. Summoned back to earth, Conor McMahon, Mark Sheridan, Ali Doyle and Conor Dowling cast a darkened eye over the likes of Suspiria, The Hole in the Ground, Halloween, The House that Jack Built, Anna and the Apocalypse, The Guilty, One Cut of the Dead, Overlord, Castle Rock, Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, He's Out There and The Monster.
Caution. This podcast may contain thigh-slapping.
Oo welcome, ahhh oo magu welcome to the Reel Horror Show.
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Mar 15, 2019
Stephen Shields, Writer of 'The Hole In The Ground'
In this podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Irish writer Stephen Shields about his debut feature film The Hole in the Ground (2019). Stephen also talks about his work on Zombie Bashers (2010) and Republic of Telly (2009) and gives us an insight into the craft of writing.
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Mar 9, 2019
Nick McClean
The legendary cinematographer Nick Mclean is currently in Ireland for a series of events honouring his work. We were fortunate enough to have Nick join us to chat with Paul Farren about his illustrious career. Nick is joined by film historian Wayne Byrne, who co-authored a book with Nick which details McLean’s life and work on some of the biggest films and television shows of the past fifty years.
Nick takes us inside Hollywood and shares some fabulous stories, working with the likes of Steven Spielberg, Robert Altman, Vilmos Zsigmond, László Kovács, Brian De Palma, Burt Reynolds, Warren Beatty, Hal Ashby, Clint Eastwood, Mel Brooks, Richard Donner on The Goonies and Superman and working on Friends.
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Feb 27, 2019
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 33 - Sandblasted and Dehydrated
Sarah Cullen and Richard Drumm are back in your ear to deliver their take on the Oscars. Plus amongst their reviews, Sarah implores you not to see Dragged Across Concrete, Richard ponders the point of Cold Pursuit, starring Liam Neeson as an avenging Mr Plough and there's love for If Beale Street Could Talk and a look at… a look at… a look at Happy Death Day 2U. Outside of the cinema, there’s a bit of Netflix chats and on the Irish cinema front Richard finds himself liking Cellar Door.
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Jan 25, 2019
Viko Nikci, Writer/Director of 'Cellar Door'
Cellar Door tells the story of young lover Aidie as she searches for her son while in the grip of the Church. But as she gets closer to the truth, she suffers uncontrollable shifts in time and place that send her spiralling.
Gemma Creagh sat down with writer/director Viko Nikci to open up the Cellar Door and find out more about his moving mystery thriller.
In cinemas from 25th January 2019.
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Jan 10, 2019
Kate Dolan
Filmmaker Kate Dolan was recently named in the Irish Times Top 50 people to watch in 2019: Ireland’s hottest young talent. Gemma Creagh sat down to talk to Kate about her career to-date and what we can look forward to in 2019.
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Dec 31, 2018
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 32 - Space Jesus & Sudden Male Nudity
Sarah Cullen & Richard Drumm return to your ears after a forced lengthy absence in 2018. We hope to find a home in 2019 and have them back for their almost-regular film ruminations. For now, we set up shop in an abandoned room and reflected on the year in film...
The pod kicks off with our buffs looking at their favourite Irish films of the year and includes Richard finally asking Sarah if she's "got any yokes".
Our best branding people came together to title a special section for this episode called "The 2018 Oscar Films that Only Came Out Here in 2018 but Are Technically 2017 Films", including a look at the politics of Phantom Thread and the fish-sex movie.
After discussing the sudden appearances of naked men, Sarah and Richard pull apart their favourite films of the year, discuss recurring tropes in the year in film, including assimilation, Motherhood as a horrifying thing, highbrow trash and how deaths of wives and girlfriends give men the opportunity to become violent and get…
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Dec 21, 2018
Nuala O'Connor, Director Of 'Keepers Of The Flame'
Jonathan Victory spoke to Emmy Award winner Nuala O’Connor about her feature directorial debut, Keepers of the Flame, which tells the universal story of generations dealing with the consequences of war and civil war; of what is remembered and what is forgotten.
Please note the interview was conducted by phone.
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Dec 20, 2018
Capital Irish Film Festival: Chairman, Paddy Meskell & Director, Pat Reilly
John Collins spoke to Chairman of the Capital Irish Film Festival, Paddy Meskell and Festival Director Pat Reilly about the origins and evolution of the festival, the importance of an Irish film festival in Washington and the challenges the festival faces.
The Capital Irish Film Festival celebrates annually the best of new Irish features, documentaries, shorts and animation, and particularly welcomes Irish language films.
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Dec 12, 2018
Capital Irish Film Festival: Editor, Tony Cranstoun
John Collins spoke to Tony Cranstoun, editor of The Farthest, which closed this year’s Capital Irish Film Festival in Washington D.C. John was good enough to send us on his recording of their conversation.
The Farthest chronicles NASA's 1977 launch of twin space probes, sent to capture images of remote planets and bear messages from Earth.
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Dec 11, 2018
The Belly Of The Whale, Director Morgan Bushe & Actor Lewis MacDougall Nov 2018
The Belly Of The Whale is set over a long bank holiday weekend. Misfit teenager, Joey Moody, returns to his home town in a bid to reopen his family’s crumbling caravan park and salvage his friendship with his best friend, Lanks. Meanwhile, on a mission to find the money to cover his wife’s medical expenses, Ronald Tanner, a fractured soul, risks his meagre life savings on a get rich quick scheme that ends in abject failure and humiliation at the hands of local big shot Gits Hegarty, pushing Ronald over the edge and off the wagon. After Joey accidentally burns down Ronald’s camper van and is forced to find the cash to repay him, the strange pair find themselves bonded together in misfortune. In an effort to change their shabby circumstances they concoct a plan to rob the Pleasurama, the local amusement arcade, and the domain of the iniquitous Gits.
Gemma Creagh chats to Morgan Bushe about The Belly of the Whale his debut feature as a director and Lewis Mac…
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Nov 19, 2018
Aoife O'Toole, Dublin Feminist Film Festival Manager
Gemma Creagh talks to Aoife O'Toole, the Dublin Feminist Film Festival Manager, about what we can expect at this year's festival with screenings in the Light House Cinema 21st and 22nd November plus Special Launch Events taking place on 20th November in The Generator Hostel, Smithfield.
The Dublin Feminist Film Festival Manager runs 19 - 21 November.
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Nov 9, 2018
Natasha Waugh, Director of 'Mother'
Natasha Waugh's latest short film, Mother, screens at this year's Cork Film Festival. In the film, hardworking mam Grace, played by Hilary Rose, has the perfect happy family: a loving husband and two wonderful children. But when her husband arrives home one day with a brand new kitchen appliance, she slowly starts to realize that there might not be room for both of them in this house.
Gemma Creagh sat down with Natasha to find out more about her quirky short, her journey into film and her IFTA-nominated 2016 film Terminal.
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Sep 25, 2018
On the Red Carpet: The Little Stranger
Gemma Creagh was at the European premiere of Lenny Abrahamson's new film The Little Stranger at the Light House cinema in Dublin and talked to Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Lenny Abrahamson and Ruth Wilson.
Lenny Abrahamson's new film The Little Stranger tells the story of Dr. Faraday (Domhnall Gleeson), the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. The Hall has been home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries. But it is now in decline and its inhabitants – Mrs. Ayres (Charlotte Rampling), Roderick Ayres (Will Poulter) and Caroline Ayres (Ruth Wilson) - are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely, and how disturbingly, the family's story is about to become entwined with his own.
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Jun 29, 2018
Capital Irish Film Festival: Elynia Betts, Director of Maeve and the Moon
John Collins spoke to Elynia Betts, whose short film Maeve and the Moon screened at this year's Capital Irish Film Festival in Washington D.C.
When her father offhandedly remarks that her mother is "asking for the moon," imaginative and resilient Maeve decides to set off on her own to find the moon and bring it home.
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Mar 28, 2018
Capital Irish Film Festival: Colin McIvor - Director of 'The Zoo'
John Collins spoke to Colin McIvor, whose film Zoo, featuring Ian McElhinney, Amy Huberman, Toby Jones and Penelope Wilton, opened this year's Capital Irish Film Festival in Washington D.C. Zoo recounts the story of young Tom and his misfit friends, who fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.
Zoo screened at the Capital Irish Film Festival on Thursday, 1st March.
Zoo is released in Irish cinemas on 29th June 2018.
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Dec 29, 2017
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 31 – A Giant Pile of Falsehoods
In this end of year peachy pod, Sarah Cullen and Richard Drumm reflect on 2017 and pick out their top movies, plus their worst moments - including Richard's newly diagnosed persicaphobia.
There's also a round-up of some recent films, including ItTolls for Thee, Battle of the Sexes - featuring Sarah's tennis rant, The Death of Stalin, Thor: Ragnarok, The Disaster Artist, Call Me By Your Name, The Last Jedi - and all its sex scenes.
Happy new year...
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Dec 23, 2017
End Of Year Reel Horror Show: Episode 10
To see the year off, our yuletide yetis, Ali Doyle, Conor Dowling, Conor McMahon and Mark Sheridan gathered together roasting corpses on an open fire and discussing their latest horror oglings. They also mull over haunted house films and recommend a few Christmas horrors to see you through the festive season.
Happy horrordays from everyone at Reel Horror Show
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Dec 21, 2017
SuperPod: 2017 - A Year of Heroes
The cybernetically reconstructed Richard Drumm is joined by antiquities dealer Paul Farren to aim fire at Justice League and Thor Ragnarock and look back on the year of Superhero and Comic Book Films, mull over top Fives, and gaze into the future to see what's in store for 2018.
Contains spoilers...
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Dec 8, 2017
Alan Maher, producer of 'Song of Granite'
Gemma Creagh sat down with Alan Maher of Marcie Films to discuss the ins and outs of producing Pat Collins' Song of Granite, the life story of traditional Sean-nós singer Joe Heaney, from County Galway.
Song of Granite is in cinemas from 8th December 2017
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Dec 2, 2017
Reel Horror Show: Episode 9
The macabre members of Reel Horror Show return to feed your nightmares. Fresh from their Halloween live recording at Filmbase, the troop of terror re-assemble in the mangled form of Ali Doyle, Conor Dowling, Conor McMahon, and Mark Sheridan.
Listen to them — children of the night. What music they make.
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Nov 23, 2017
The Actors' Room: Geraldine McAlinden
In this episode of The Actors’ Room, Lynn Larkin chats to Geraldine McAlinden. Originally from County Armagh, Geraldine trained originally as a solicitor and worked in the UK and Ireland.
She trained and worked part-time as an actor and director for theatre until 2012 when she left law to take up a place in the first one year Screen Acting programme run by the Factory now Bow Street Academy. During that time she trained with Kirsten Sheridan, Shimmy Marcus, Lance Daly and Maureen Hughes during the one year Screen Acting Programme in The Factory (now Bow Street) and with the Gaiety School of Acting and the Focus Theatre. She is a member of The Actor’s Studio in Bow Street.
Film credits include the features The Secret Scripture, The Truth Commissioner, How to be Happy, ANTON and Portrait of a Zombie (Winner of the 2013 Underground Film Festival’s Best Independent Feature award). Geraldine’s performance in Portrait of a Zombie led to her being long listed for an IFTA for Best…
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Nov 11, 2017
Gerry Gregg, Director of 'Condemned to Remember'
June Butler talks to director Gerry Gregg about his film Condemned to Remember in which Irish Holocaust Survivor Tomi Reichental celebrates his 80th birthday in a Dublin Mosque and embarks on epic journey across a Europe in turmoil.
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Nov 2, 2017
Conor McGregor: Notorious - Interview with Director Gavin Fitzgerald and Producer Jamie D’Alton
Jonathan Victory talks to director Gavin Fitzgerald and producer Jamie D’Alton about making Conor McGregor: Notorious. Filmed over the course of 4 years, Conor McGregor: Notorious is an access-all-areas account of McGregor's personal and professional journey from claiming benefits and living in his mum's spare room with his girlfriend to claiming multiple championship belts and 9-figure pay packets. Featuring exclusive interviews, unprecedented access and fight footage, this is the ultimate behind-the- scenes look at a sporting icon and his meteoric rise.
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Oct 29, 2017
Real Horror Show Live/Evil Recording @ Halloween 2017
The gruesome gang return from the dead for a very special live recording in front of an unholy audience in the dungeons of Filmbase.
Regulars Mark "flesh-eating" Sheridan and Conor "axe-wielding" McMahon were joined by very special guests Zoe "zombie-hunter" Kavanagh and David "candelabrum-in-the-wind" Turpin to dissect all things horror. The frightful four chew over their own particular love of horror, making horror films and what puts the shivers in their shizzle, amongst other devilish discourse.
Film Ireland would like to make it clear that all blood sacrifices on the night were voluntary and a result of the victims' own free will.
Happy Halloween!
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Oct 17, 2017
Linda Cullen Interview
In this podcast Sarah Cullen chats to Linda Cullen, co-director of The 34th, which tells the story of the driven and dedicated people who formed Marriage Equality in Ireland, and developed it into a highly effective grassroots force with one clear goal in mind - the extension of Civil Marriage to same sex couples. Through revealing interviews and archive material, former board members and staff outline the strategising, fierce battles, sheer hard graft and personal cost of running such an all-consuming campaign.
From the KAL (Katherine Zappone & Ann Louise Gilligan) case to a YES vote on 22nd May 2015, this documentary spans a decade culminating in the 34th amendment to the Irish constitution, allowing same sex marriage.
The 34th screens at the Light House Cinema on Wednesday, 18th October at 6.30
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Oct 4, 2017
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 30 – Meat House
Sarah Cullen and Richard Drumm return to aurally go where no pod has gone before bring both chit and chat to the latest Film Ireland Podcast.
In this episode our dastardly duo bring you news and gossip and enter the world of TV to ponder Game of Thrones and The Handmaid's Tale.
Under the cinematic microscope is The 34th, an Irish doc that tells the story of the people who formed Marriage Equality in Ireland, the hirsute War for the Planet of the Apes, Nolan's Dunkirk, the capered Logan Lucky, the punch a white man inducing Detroit, the bravely bleak Wind River, the fingerbanging Kingsman: The Golden Circle and ermmmm mother!
Hear ye! Hear ye!
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Sep 26, 2017
IFI Documentary Film Festival 2017: Sunniva O'Flynn & David O'Mahony
Gemma Creagh talks to the IFI's Head of Irish Film Programming, Sunniva O'Flynn and Head of Programming, David O'Mahony about what to expect at this year's IFI Documentary Film Festival.
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Sep 26, 2017
Stephen Burke, Writer/Director of 'Maze'
Gemma Creagh talks to writer/director Stephen Burke about Maze, which tells the true story of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.
Maze is in cinemas from 22nd September 2017
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Sep 20, 2017
The Actors' Room: Niamh Hogan
In this episode of The Actors' Room, Lynn Larkin chats to Niamh Hogan, who recently starred in Zoe Kavanagh's 'Demon Hunter', which is available on digital and Video on Demand platforms.
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Sep 13, 2017
InConversation: Tony Cranstoun
In this episode of InConversation, Mark Sheridan talks to editor Tony Cranstoun, an award-winning editor who has cut drama, comedy and documentary for cinema and television. His work has received ‘Best Editing’ recognition from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), The Royal Television Society (RTS) and the American Cinema Editors (A.C.E.). He is English by birth and resides in Ireland where he is married to filmmaker Emer Reynolds.
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Sep 11, 2017
Nick Kelly, Writer/Director of 'The Drummer and the Keeper'
Paul Farren talks to Nick Kelly, whose film The Drummer and the Keeper is in cinemas now. In his film, the drummer of a rock band recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder strikes up an unusual friendship with an institutionalized teen who is suffering from Asperger’s syndrome.
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Aug 10, 2017
WFT Ireland- In Conversation With Director Aisling Walsh
Women In Film and Television Ireland recently presented In Conversation with director Aisling Walsh as part of their Masterclass series.
Aisling Walsh’s 'Maudie' is currently in Irish cinemas.
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Jul 31, 2017
Roisín Geraghty, Gaze LGBT Film Festival Programmer
Gemma Creagh chats to Roisín Geraghty, programmer for Gaze LGBT Film Festival about this year's festival, which runs 3rd - 7th August 2017.
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Jul 27, 2017
Emer Reynolds, director of 'The Farthest'
Natasha Waugh talks to Emer Reynolds about her documentary 'The Farthest', which celebrates the men and women who built the Voyager spaceship.
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Jul 25, 2017
SuperPod Wonder Woman & Spider - Man - July 2017
Our latex-wearing superpodders, Richard Drumm and Paul Farren, return to their headquarters to plot the rescue of their missing partner Scott Adair. Whilst plotting, our crime-fighting duo discuss the two latest DC and Marvel films to hit the big screens, Wonder Woman and Spider-Man: Homecoming.
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Jul 12, 2017
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 29 - The Thinking Man's Apocalypse
Our regular Film Ireland Podcast returns with resplendent hosts Sarah Cullen and Richard Drumm bringing you fun and frolics from the film world. Yes there's Star wars news, Yes there's movie reviews. Want to hear about Baby Driver - take that. After the Storm - bleakly optimistic. Miss Sloane - make guns seem cool with the ladies. Wonder Woman - we all liked it. It Comes at Night - thinking man's apocalypse. My Cousin Rachel. Of course. Alien Covenent - celebrating James Franco's face on fire.
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Jul 11, 2017
Len Collin
Gemma Creagh talks to Len Collin about Sanctuary, which introduces us to Larry and Sophie, two people with intellectual disabilities, who long to be together in a world that does everything to keep them apart.
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Jun 30, 2017
Laura McGann, director of 'Revolutions'
Gemma Creagh had jams with director Laura McCann about her film Revolutions, which introduces the exciting, sometimes brutal, world of women’s roller derby.
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Jun 29, 2017
InConversation: Noel Quinn
In this episode of InConversation, Mark Sheridan talks to Emmy-nominated sound recordist Noel Quinn, who has worked on sound for feature films, documentaries, and commercials in a number of countries worldwide, and has lectured extensively on film sound. His credits include Michael Collins, Reign of Fire and The Butcher Boy.
InConversation is a series of personal interviews with people working across the many aspects of the Irish filmmaking industry.
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Jun 23, 2017
Tom Ryan, writer / director of 'Twice Shy'
Gemma Creagh met Tom Ryan to talk about his film Twice Shy, which is released in cinemas 23rd June 2017.
Twice Shy, is a modern, coming-of-age drama that revolves around a young, unmarried couple who set off on a road trip from Ireland to London, as the result of an unplanned pregnancy. The film charts the ups and downs of their relationship by juxtaposing their dramatic journey with flashbacks to happier times in their romance.
The film stars Shane Murray-Corcoran and Iseult Casey in the lead roles and features support from a stellar cast including Ardal O’ Hanlon (After Hours, Fr. Ted), Pat Shortt (The Guard, Garage), Mary Conroy (Ros na Run) and Paul Ronan (Love / Hate).
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Jun 16, 2017
Conor Armstrong Sanfey, Director of 'Lift'
Mark Sheridan talks to Conor Armstrong Sanfey about his debut feature Lift, which screens at Filmbase on 21st June 2017.
In Lift, Sean's vicious attack leaves a man unconscious and him stranded in an elevator with five others. In the confines of the lift, love has a chance of blossoming - violence has a chance of erupting - Sean has little chance of escape. With his freedom hanging in the balance can the people who fear him offer him one last chance of redemption?
No Budget Presents a Special Screening of Lift at Filmbase followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.
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Jun 12, 2017
Mark O'Connor, co-writer & director of 'Cardboard Gangsters'
Paul Farren sat down with Mark O'Connor to talk about his latest film Cardboard Gangsters.
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Jun 5, 2017
Zoe Kavanagh: Writer/Director Demon Hunter
Mark Sheridan talks to writer / director Zoe Kavanagh about her film Demon Hunter which plays in select cinemas June 6th.
Zoe talks about her influences, making the film and self-financing it, music and actors, the film's success on the festival circuit and the need for audiences to support Irish films.
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May 22, 2017
Get into Film: Alan Maher, Producer
Representing Ireland at the EFP Producer on the Move programme at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, Mark Coffey talks to producer Alan Maher about his life in film.
Alan Maher set up Marcie Films (formerly Roads Entertainment) in 2013, produced the documentary Being Ap and served as the Irish partner for Maya Zinshtein’s Forever Pure, both of which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Alan produced Pat Collins’ biopic Song of Granite, which premiered at SXSW this March, and is now raising the finance for Hong Khaou’s drama Trade.
Alan has been selected for the EFP Producer on the Move programme, representing Ireland at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Each year, the prestigious festival selects 20 promising, up-and-coming producers from throughout Europe to participate in the initiative which connects European producers with potential co-production partner
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May 16, 2017
SuperPod: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
After being hired by a powerful alien race to protect their precious batteries from invaders, our superhero team, Richard Drumm, Paul Farren and Scott Adair, return from their trip throughout the cosmos to discuss Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
NB: This is riddled with spoilers.
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May 12, 2017
Q&A with Lorcan Finnegan, director of 'Without Name' at the IFI
Following a screening of Without Name at the IFI, director Lorcan Finnegan took part in a Q&A with Mark Sheridan to talk about his supernatural eco-horror film.
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May 10, 2017
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 28 - More Guns Less Talking
Richard Drumm and Sarah Cullen are back with their chit and their chat about the world of cinema. In this episode, our primo podders deliberate over Life, Mindhorn, Get Out, John Wick: Chapter 2, Raw, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, The Transfiguration, Fast & Furious 8, which Sarah debates took place in The Purge universe, while Richard dreams of Helen Mirren one day fighting The Rock. Finally the gang exchange shots at Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and despair at Logan.
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May 9, 2017
Ristéard O’Domhnaill and Brian Fitzpatrick of 'Atlantic' at Irish Film Festival, Boston 2017
Ristéard O’Domhnaill (director) and Brian Fitzpatrick (associate producer) talk about Atlantic, crowdfunding, and working with Brendan Gleeson. And enjoy some fine Boston pizza.
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May 5, 2017
Author / Assoc Producer Rónán Mac Con Iomaire 'Rocky Ros Muc' at Irish Film Festival, Boston 2017
Carrie Drzik talks to Author / Assoc Producer Rónán Mac Con Iomaire about 'Rocky Ros Muc', which tells the story of Galway boxer Seán Ó Mainnín who left the Irish-speaking village of Ros Muc in Galway, for Boston, in the 1970s.
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May 4, 2017
Interview with Duncan Campbell
Following his first major exhibition in Dublin at IMMA in 2014, IMMA presents a new film work by Irish-born artist Duncan Campbell. Entitled The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy this is the artist’s first film based in the Republic of Ireland and his first new work since winning the Turner Prize in 2014; when he was the first Irish born artist to do so.
Originating from research undertaken in the IFI Irish Film Archive, Campbell’s new film commission takes as a starting point a 1960’s UCLA anthropological film study of rural Kerry to investigate and reframe contemporary Ireland.
Conor Dowling talks to Duncan about the genesis of the project and the research that underpins the work.
The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy screens at IMMA until 7th May 2017
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May 3, 2017
Writer/Co-Director Sarah Dempsey, 'Hand in Hand' at Irish Film Festival, Boston 2017
Carrie Drzik talks to writer/co-director Sarah Dempsey about her film 'Hand in Hand', a short documentary that sits down gay and lesbian couples as they openly discuss topics ranging from coming out to childbirth. This intimate documentary offers a window into what it is to be in a same-sex relationship in Ireland.
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May 2, 2017
Reel Horrorshow: Episode 7
Our horror hosts return to your nightmares in the latest episode of Reel Horrorshow. Flesheaters Conor McMahon, Conor Dowling and Mark Sheridan delve into the dark to discuss the latest delicacies they've dined upon...
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Apr 28, 2017
Natasha Waugh, writer/director of Terminal @ Irish Film Festival, Boston 2017
Carrie Drzik talks to director Natasha Waugh at the Irish Film Festival, Boston about her short film about the decisions women make in the face of overwhelming personal circumstance.
A girl and a woman meet at an airport departure gate. Just before they board a plane to Manchester, we witness a private exchange as they share the different reasons that brought them to this moment, and the traumatic journey that awaits them.
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Apr 26, 2017
Actor Dominic MacHale, The Young Offenders @ Irish Film Festival Boston
Carrie Drzik talks to Dominic MacHale, who plays the bike-thief-obsessed Sergeant Healy in The Young Offenders, which won Best Feature at the festival.
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Apr 7, 2017
Podcast: Liam Gavin, 'A Dark Song'
Paul Farren caught up with director Liam Gavin to chat about his character-driven horror A Dark Song, which follows Sophia, a young woman who insists on renting an old house in the remote countryside so that she can hire an occultist named Solomon. She needs him to perform an ancient invocation ritual, the Abramelin, to summon up Sophia’s Guardian Angel so her wish can be granted. She wishes to talk to her murdered child, a desire that consumes her.
The ritual is an extremely arduous one. They are to seal themselves in the house for months as it plays out. As they get deeper into the rite they run the risk of turning on each other, of going mad. But when Solomon finds out that Sophia has not been truthful about her wish, a greater danger threatens them. In the dark, they find that they are no longer alone in the house. They are now in the world of real angels, and real demons. The house is surrounded with a line of salt, it is the only protection they have. They must not cross it, n…
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Apr 4, 2017
Get Into Film: Steve Gunn talks to Graham Cantwell
Filmmaker Graham Cantwell chats to Steve Gunn about his life in film.
Graham Cantwell is an award-winning Irish director and writer, who achieved early acclaim when his short film A Dublin Story won several awards and was shortlisted for Academy Award nomination in 2004.
In 2008 he directed Anton (international title Trapped), which stars IFTA winner Gerard McSorley. The film was picked up for distribution at the Cannes Film Festival and has sold to over 40 territories worldwide. It has since been nominated for three Irish Film and Television Academy Awards.
In 2010 he directed The Guards for TV3, the first ever homegrown single drama commissioned by the broadcaster, set in the dynamic world of the Irish police force.
His last feature, romantic comedy The Callback Queen had a successful cinema release in Ireland and the UK and was nominated for two Irish Film and Television Academy Awards.
Graham recently co-wrote romantic comedy Poison Pen with Artemis Fowl creator Eoin Colfer.…
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Mar 31, 2017
Ben Wheatley,'Free Fire'
Ben Wheatley,'Free Fire' by Film Ireland
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Mar 23, 2017
Capital Irish Film Festival 2017: Hilary Rose, actor in The Young Offenders
John Collins talks to Hilary Rose about celebrating Irish film abroad, what goes into making a good comedy, being a pregnant fishmonger, the success of The Young Offenders and The Sultans of Ping.
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Mar 22, 2017
Capital Irish Film Festival 2017: Kealan Ryan, actor and writer of Lift
John Collins talks to Kealan Ryan, actor and writer of Lift about bringing his debut indie feature to the festival, getting the dialogue right, the dynamic of the characters, how the project came about, and the different challenges writing novels and scripts.
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Mar 16, 2017
SuperPod: Lego Batman & Logan
Our colourful interlocking plastic mutants return to the superpod to discuss The Lego Batman Movie and Logan.
Paul Farren, whose body has aged greatly because the adamantium fused to his bones has started poisoning him and impeded his healing factor, is joined by mutant tracker Scott Adair, who can psionically sense other mutants out to several miles away and track their movements, and Richard Drumm, who is suffering from a neurodegenerative disease which causes him to lose control of his telepathic abilities to devastating effect.
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Mar 15, 2017
Capital Irish Film Festival 2017: Marie-Therese Garvey
John Collins talks to producer Marie-Therese Garvey about working with Risteard O'Domhnaill on Atlantic, crowdfundingthe film, the power of story, the impact the film is having, the value of film festivals and having Brendan Gleeson on board.
Atlantic focuses on the two biggest resources in the North Atlantic: fish and oil, following the fortunes of three small fishing communities struggling to maintain their way of life.
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Mar 14, 2017
Capital Irish Film Festival 2017: Hen Norton & Dan Dennison, Born & Reared
In this interview, John Collins talks to director Henrietta Norton and DOP Dan Dennison about bringing their film Born and Reared to an American audience, the challenges for Dan as a photographer working with film, shooting in Belfast, and the overwhelming desire for peace in Northern Ireland.
Born and Reared tells the story of four men in Northern Ireland living in the aftermath of a conflict that ended 18 years ago.
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Mar 2, 2017
Juanita Wilson, director of 'Tomato Red'
Gemma Creagh sat down with director Juanita Wilson to talk about her latest film Tomato Red. Juanita explains how she went about adapting Daniel Woodrell's book for film, working on the the look and feel of the film and casting the right actors.
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Feb 21, 2017
Reel Horrorshow: Episode 6
In this lurid episode, Conor McMahon, Conor Dowling and Mark Sheridan gather under a blood red sky to discuss Hammer Horror films.
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Feb 21, 2017
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 27 - Human Balloon Man Deflating
Sarah Cullen and Richard Drumm return to investigate the demise of Sherlock, take a look at ADIFF and ponder some recent releases in your cinema - films in which things happen - including Silence, A Monster Calls, Moana, Underworld: Blood Wars, Assassins Creed, La La Land, Fences, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter and Split.
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Feb 19, 2017
Interview with Emer Reynolds, Director of 'The Farthest'
Jonathan Victory talks to Emer Reynolds about her stunning documentary on NASA’s Voyager mission,which screens at this year's Audi Dublin International Film Festival.
It is one of humankind's greatest achievements. More than 12 billion miles away a tiny spaceship is leaving our Solar System and entering the void of deep space - the first man-made object ever to do so. Dying within its heart is a nuclear generator that will beat for perhaps another decade before the lights on Voyager 1 finally go out. But this little craft will travel on for millions of years, carrying a Golden Record bearing recordings and images of life on Earth. In all likelihood Voyager will outlast humanity. The Farthest will celebrates these magnificent machines, the men and women who built them and the vision that propelled them farther than anyone could ever have hoped.
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Feb 14, 2017
Interview with Niamh Algar
Actor Niamh Algar joined Jonathan Victory to talk about 3 films she features in at this year's Audi Dublin International Film Festival.
In Lorcan Finnegan’s debut feature Without Name, Niamh plays Olivia, the apprentice to a middle-aged land surveyor, who takes up a job in a remote forest. Deep in the woods, he becomes aware of a malevolent presence, an intelligence of sorts. A silhouette flits between trees. The place fascinates the fragmenting Eric as much as it disturbs him. Is his mind playing tricks on him or is there some ancient horror wishing him harm?
Niamh also talks about the short films she appears in, Gone and Pebbles, which are also screening at ADIFF.
In Patrick Maxwell's Gone, Paul returns to his hometown to find that his ex-lover has a child with another man. As old sparks reignite, jealousy and revenge lead to fatal consequences.
In Jonathan Shaw's Pebbles, on her 50th wedding anniversary, Ruby returns to the hotel where she spent her Honeymoon. Will her estra…
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Feb 13, 2017
Interview: Actor/Writer/Director of 'Prevenge'
Paul Farren talks to Alice Lowe about her film Prevenge, a pitch black, wryly British comedy, which follows Ruth, a pregnant woman on a killing spree that’s as funny as it is vicious.
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Feb 7, 2017
Interview with Grainne Humphreys, ADIFF 2017 Festival Director
Grace Corry sat down with Grainne Humphreys to delve into the delights that await us at this year's Audi Dublin International Film Festival.
http://www.diff.ie/ 2017 takes place 16 - 26 Feb 2017
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Jan 23, 2017
Reel Horrorshow: Episode 5
Our shapeshifting lycanthropes gather on the moors under a full moon to bring you the latest Reel Horrorshow.
In this episode, in between devouring recently buried corpses, the gang talk about the wonderful world of werewolf movies.
Silver bullets at the ready...
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Jan 1, 2017
SuperPod: SuperMan (1978) The Year (2016)
Richard Drumm and Paul Farren join forces to bring you a look back at the year in superhero films employing their newfound powers of finger rating, plus they discuss Richard Donner's 1978 Superman and together unlock the secrets of the universe.
There's also a look into the future to see what 2017's superheroes have to offer us mere mortals...
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Dec 23, 2016
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 26 - Take That 2016
Richard Drumm and Sarah Cullen bring you their end of year pod and look back at what stood out for them in 2016 in film.
This episode also includes reviews of Passengers, which "does everything cinema shouldn't do", The Edge of Seventeen, The Birth of a Nation and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Use the forks Luke.
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Dec 20, 2016
Reel Horror Show: Episode 4
Our monstrous group of horror podders return minus one. Ali headed off to investigate a noise and hasn't been seen since. The remaining three, Conor McMahon, Conor Dowling and Mark Sheridan, gather around a bloodied Christmas tree to discuss the best and the worst of Yuletide horror.
Films dissected include Silent Night Deadly Night - and its 4 sequels - Krampus, Christmas Evil, Rare Exports, Jack Frost, To All a Good Night, Silent Night Bloody Night, Santa's Sleigh, Black Christmas, Elves and Gremlins.
Plus our knife-wielding filmmakers discuss their own ideas for a Christmas film.
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Dec 8, 2016
Interview: Director Billy O'Brien and Actor Max Records, 'I Am Not a Serial Killer'
Gemma Creagh talks to director Billy O'Brien and actor Max Records about their film I Am Not a Serial Killer. Billy discusses how 3 Irish filmmakers ended up making Dan Wells' novel into a film and Max reveals how he got into acting in . Along the way, Billy talks about Christopher Lloyd's subtle acting technique and of course, there's chat about the weather and Trump.
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Dec 6, 2016
Reel Horror Show: Episode 3
In this episode, our bloodied band take a look at the debut features of some of their favourite directors.
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Nov 27, 2016
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 25 - Human Velcro
Sarah and Richard are back in podland with a brand new episode of film chit chat.
Among the exotic topics on offer are reviews of Girl With All the Gifts, Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Nocturnal Animals, Arrival, Train to Busan, Headshot, I Am Not A Serial Killer, Doctor Strange, and a nosedive into the world of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror.
All aboard!
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Nov 23, 2016
Podcast Interview: Gerard Walsh wri/dir of 'South'
Stephen Porzio talks to Gerard Walsh about his film South, which is out now in Irish cinemas.
South tells the story of Tom, a young man struggling with the recent death of his father. After finding a note from his estranged mother he decides to hit the road and try to find her. Throughout this journey Tom also tries to overcome his crippling stage fright as a musician. Along his journey he meets Jess, a free-spirited young woman that captivates his mind and heart.
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Nov 22, 2016
Reel Horror Show: Episode 2
Conor McMahon, Ali Doyle, Mark Sheridan and Conor Dowling return to the realms of horror in the second episode of Reel Horror Show. As well as gruesome chat about The Witch, Train to Busan, Raw, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Found Footage. Ouija among others, the bloodied gang talk about the process of making horror films and this year's Horrorthon, which included a screening of Mark's Crone Wood. And of course there's Shakma, "the greatest killer baboon movie ever" - what more could you ask for...
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Nov 16, 2016
The Actors' Room: Eddie Jackson
In this episode of The Actors’ Room, Lynn Larkin is joined by Eddie Jackson.
Eddie's most recent credits include the feature film Red Room, directed by Stephen Gaffney, Game of Thrones ('Battle of the Bastards' & 'Book of the Stranger') directed by Miguel Sapochnick, Riegn (TV Show) and Ripper Street (TV Show). He is also currently shooting Acceptable Risk a six-part series.
Eddie studied theatre studies at Inchicore College and later completed the Dublin Acting Class with Terry McMahon. His other film and television credits include Vikings (T.V.) J.A.M (Short), Gold (Feature), Justlikeabitch (Short), Dog Eat Dog (Short), Proclaim (Short), Bridge Station (Short), Promised Land (Short), Windows (Short), The Last Frame (Short) and The Light of Day (Feature).
Eddie also appeared in the short films A House of Cards and Normal, written and produced with fellow actor Mark McCabe. Both films had successful festival runs with Normal most notably been selected for the Cork Film Festival. N…
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Nov 15, 2016
Podcast Interview: Pieter-Jan De Pue, director of 'The Land of the Enlightened'
Stephen Porzio talks to Pieter-Jan De Pue, the director of the Irish co-production The Land of the Enlightened.
A group of Kuchi children are living in a minefield around Bagram airfield, Afghanistan. They dig out old Soviet landmines in order to sell the explosives to child workers in the Lapis Lazuli mine. Meanwhile Gholam Nasir and his gang control the mountains where caravans are smuggling the blue gem stones to the border of Tajikistan and Pakistan.
When Gholam’s gang is not guiding the caravans over the frozen rivers, they dream about Afghanistan after the withdrawal of the Americans. Some of them will grow up as soldiers, others will remain with the caravans.
But Gholam dreams about marrying and living with his queen in the palace in Kabul. Will Afghanistan have a new king after the foreigners will have returned home?
The co-production was produced by Morgan Bushe for Irish production company Fastnet Films together wit…
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Nov 11, 2016
Podcast: Interview with Johnny O’Reilly, writer/director of ‘Moscow Never Sleeps’
Stephen Porzio talks to Johnny O’Reilly about his film Moscow Never Sleeps, a multi-story drama that weaves through Moscow’s choked cityscape as it celebrates its birthday with a massive fireworks display. Over the course of one day, many lives will change forever.
Moscow Never Sleeps is released in Irish cinemas on 11th November 2016
Moscow Never Sleeps is released in Irish cinemas on 11th November 2016
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Nov 10, 2016
SuperPod: Doctor Strange
Former neurosurgeon, Richard Drumm joins forces with Sorcerer Supreme, Scott Adair and the Ancient One, Paul Farren to protect Earth against magical and mystical threats. Their superchat goes off on all sorts of tangents, including Scott meeting Stan Lee.
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Nov 8, 2016
Innovators: Panel Discussion
Madeline Di Nonno is joined by EMMY award-winning director Dearbhla Walsh, Jennie Stacey, Director of Development at Brown Bag Films, for an Innovators panel moderated by acclaimed Irish actor, Ger Ryan. The panel came together to talk about the technical and creative innovations they are witnessing in their fields and the issues facing the media industry, particularly in film and television.
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Nov 8, 2016
Innovators: Madeline Di Nonno introduces GD-IQ
Women in Film and Television Ireland (WFT.I) in collaboration with the U.S Embassy of Ireland, presented their October event Innovaters with a particular emphasis on creative, business and technological innovations in an ever-changing media landscape.
Madeline Di Nonno, the Chief Executive Officer of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, introduced GD-IQ, a tool that employs video-and audio-recognition technology, along with algorithms, to identify gender, speaking time and additional details about characters presented in films, television shows and other media. Madeline used GD-IQ to analyse 2 Irish films, Brooklyn and Room.
The software, called the Geena Davis Inclusion Quotient (or GD-IQ), speeds up and automates the painstaking data-collection process that researchers use to study representation, a key initiative in recent years as the entertainment industry has begun to focus on equity onscreen.
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Nov 2, 2016
Podcast: Interview with Paddy Breathnach, Director of 'Viva'
Grace Corry talks to Paddy Breathnach about 'Viva' ,which is out now on DVD and On-Demand.
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Oct 28, 2016
Reel Horrorshow - Episode 1
Conor McMahon, Ali Doyle, Mark Sheridan and Conor Dowling join forces to bring you Reel Horror, which debuts with a seasonal episode of Halloween horror-natter about favourite horror films.
Aaaaaaarghhhhhhhhh!
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Oct 27, 2016
IFI Horrorthon Podcast with Directors Jason Figgis & Mark Sheridan
In this podcast, Paul Farren talks to directors Jason Figgis and Mark Sheridan about their films, Don't You Recognise Me? and Crone Wood, which are screening as part of the IFI Horrorthon.
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Oct 13, 2016
The Actors' Room: Maureen O'Connell
In this episode of The Actors' Room, Lynn Larkin is joined by Maureen O'Connell.
Maureen has a Higher National Diploma in Film Production from Ballyfermot College & a BA in Acting from RADA, London.
Maureen has over 10 years experience as an actor & filmmaker. She has many theatre and tv credits to her name, most notably, 'Mary' in Juno & the Paycock alongside Niamh Cusack, and 'Oonagh' in BBC 1's Father Brown alongside Mark Williams and James Fleet.
She has written and directed 3 short films, the most recent of which Proclaim! has just won the Best 1916 Centenary Short Film Award at Fingal Film Festival and Best Script at the Dublin International Short Film & Music Festival.
Maureen also teaches Acting at Filmbase.
Maureen is currently directing her first feature film.
Links: www.proclaimfilm.com
www.maureenoconnell.weebly.com
www.3hotwhiskeys.weebly.com
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Sep 27, 2016
InConversation with Michael Lavelle – Part II
This episode of InConversation features the second part of our episode featuring Michael Lavelle ISC.
Part I is here http://filmireland.net/2016/08/02/inconversation-with-michael-lavelle-part-i/
Michael is a graduate of the National Film School of Ireland and an award-winning writer, director and cinematographer. He won the World Cinematography Award for Documentary at Sundance 2010 for His and Hers, his debut feature documentary as a DOP. The Sundance jurors singled out the cinematography “for its Vermeer like qualities and formal restraint in conveying the power of ordinary emotional lives”.
He was also the DOP on the multi-award winning short film Undressing My Mother, which screened at Cannes, was highly commended at Sundance and went on to win the European Academy Award for Best Short Film in 2005.Patrick’s Day, his first dramatic feature as DOP, received its world premiere at SXSW2014. The film went on to win Best Feature at Galway Film Fleadh and Best Film at Woodstock…
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Sep 21, 2016
Interview: Director Peter Foott, Actors Hilary Rose & PJ Gallagher, The Young Offenders
Gemma Creagh talks to director Peter Foott, and actors Hilary Rose and PJ Gallagher about The Young Offenders, which achieved the highest opening for an Irish film at the Republic of Ireland Box Office this year.
Inspired by Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure of €440 million off the coast of Cork in 2007, the laugh-out-loud comedy follows two Cork inner-city teenagers, Conor and Jock, as they embark on a 160km road trip on stolen bikes in the hopes of finding an unrecovered bale of cocaine.
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Sep 19, 2016
IFI Documentary Festival Podcast: Interview with Sunniva O’Flynn & David O’Mahony
Ahead of the 2016 edition of the IFI Documentary Festival, Grace Corry talks to David O’Mahony, Head of Irish Film Programming and Sunniva O’Flynn, Head of Programming, about what we can expect from this year's festival.
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Sep 19, 2016
Interview with Séamus Hanly, Writer & Director of 'The Middle Finger'
Ahead of its screening at A4 Sounds, Jonathan Victory talks to Séamus Hanly about his film The Middle Finger.
Dennis, a lonely and frustrated teenager, is reluctantly transformed into a superhero, embedded with the symbol of a hand showing its middle finger, and must awkwardly endure his training and save his world from extinction in The Middle Finger, a superhero comedy feature film, written and directed by Séamus Hanly.
The Middle Finger screens at A4 Sounds, Dorset St., Dublin 1 at 7pm on Friday, 23rd September 2016.
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Sep 15, 2016
WFT.I Podcast: Interview with Julie Ryan, Producer of 'The Young Offenders'
Brought to you by Women in Film and Television Ireland and Film Ireland, this podcast features producer Julie Ryan talking to Sarah Griffin about her career to date and her work on The Young Offenders.
Julie is an international producer having produced the short film Take a Seat (Official selection for the Hollywood Film Festival and Palm Springs International Shortfest), Blood and Water (Best narrative at the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood & Official selection for the Action on Film International Film Festival at Los Angeles). She has worked on numerous TV shows in Ireland, Canada and the US including Showrunners the Documentary, which debuted No.1 on the iTunes documentary chart in the US.
The Young Offenders is out in cinemas from 16th September and has the widest release of any Irish film so far this year.
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Sep 15, 2016
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 23 - Have Your Leg & Eat it
Richard and Sarah return to podland to bring down a verbal hammer blow upon film. In this episode they round up the recent releases, including Ghostbusters, Suicide Squad, Viva, A Date for Mad Mary, Jason Bourne, Purge: The Election and The Shallows.
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Aug 21, 2016
Interview- Director Paddy Breathnach & Writer Mark O'Halloran Of 'Viva'
Gemma Creagh chats to the director Paddy Breathnach and writer Mark O'Halloran of 'Viva' which introduces us to Jesus, a young hairdresser working at a Havana nightclub that showcases drag performers. Jesus dreams of being a performer himself. Encouraged by his mentor, Mama, Jesus finally gets his chance to take the stage. But when his estranged father Angel abruptly reenters his life, his world is quickly turned upside down.