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Film Ireland Podcast

FilmIreland

Covering all things cinema on the island of Ireland.

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00:27:11

Docs Ireland Documentary Film Festival

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2023/06/16

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/

00:40:41

Interview with Allan Graf

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2023/06/12

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

00:18:59

Tommy Creagh, Bloomsday Film Festival Director

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2023/06/07

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

00:40:15

'Tráma Teaghlaigh' Producer Fiona Kinsella & Director...

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2023/05/29

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

00:42:04

Fergus Dowd, Producer of '406 Days' & Carol Ann...

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2023/05/23

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

01:23:41

David McGiffert

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2023/05/18

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

01:04:46

Achill Island Film Festival Podcast

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2023/04/25

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/

00:59:47

Interview with Sinéad O'Shea, Director of ‘Pray for...

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2023/04/21

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

00:31:02

Fintan Connolly, Director and Co-Writer of 'Barber'

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2023/04/19

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

00:44:00

Shane Crowley, Writer of God's Creatures

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2023/04/13

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

00:48:50

Interview with Andrew Legge, Co-Writer & Director of...

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2023/04/10

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

00:25:01

Jayne Foley, Artistic Director Of Fresh International...

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2023/03/19

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

00:52:50

Interview with Eoin McGuirk, Editor

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2023/03/01

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

00:41:12

Alex Kayode-Kay, Writer/Director & Roisin Kearney,...

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2023/02/17

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

00:37:39

Ramsey Avery, Production Designer

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2023/02/13

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

00:46:54

Conor McMahon, Writer/Director of 'Let the Wrong One In'

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2023/01/26

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. https://filmireland.net/ 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

00:47:29

Frank Berry: Director/Writer of 'Aisha'

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2023/01/18

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

00:34:50

Gerard Lough, Writer/Director of 'Spears'

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2022/12/16

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

00:41:34

Alan Gilsenan, Director of 'Ghosts of Baggotonia'

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2022/12/09

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

00:43:37

Luke McManus, Director of 'North Circular'

Film Ireland Podcast ·

2022/12/05

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

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