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00:43:53

Still Voices 23 Podcast: Joe Lee, Director of '406 Days'

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2023/11/13

Still Voices 23 Podcast: Joe Lee, Director of '406 Days' by Film Ireland

00:32:47

Still Voices Podcast: Laura Moss Co-Writer & Director...

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2023/11/10

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

01:06:44

Cork International Film Festival Filmmakers Roundtable

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2023/11/08

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/

00:11:06

Podcast: Molly Manning Walker, Writer/Director of...

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2023/11/06

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

00:52:33

From The Quiet Man to The Quiet Girl – An Irish Film...

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2023/10/20

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

00:50:21

Trish McAdam, Director of Songs Of Blood And Destiny

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2023/10/19

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

00:36:12

Lisa Mulcahy, Director of 'Lies We Tell'

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2023/10/19

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

00:38:28

Thaddeus O'Sullivan, Director of 'The Miracle Club'

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2023/10/13

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

00:40:34

Eugene O Brien, Writer of ‘Tarrac’

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2023/10/11

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,

00:29:49

Tony Kelly, Writer/Director of 'The Hurler (A...

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2023/10/06

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

00:40:26

Prasanna Puwanarajah, Director of 'Ballywalter'

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2023/09/21

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

00:38:20

Bryony Dunne, Director/Co-Writer of 'Surrender Your...

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2023/09/15

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

00:46:32

Producer Kathryn Lennon and Executive Producer James...

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2023/09/02

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

00:35:08

Tony Devlin, Director and Co-writer of 'The Glenarma...

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2023/08/24

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

00:26:40

Laura McGann, Writer/Director of 'The Deepest Breath'

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2023/08/16

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

00:30:25

Murray Pomerance, Vertigo 65

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2023/08/04

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 https://filmireland.net/

00:31:08

Interview with Patricia Kelly, Director/Writer of...

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2023/07/12

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

00:56:48

Galway Film Fleadh Filmmakers Roundtable

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2023/07/10

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/

00:34:07

Claire Dix, Director of 'Sunlight'

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2023/06/30

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

00:10:30

Interview with Gene Stupnitsky, Writer / Director of...

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2023/06/22

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

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