Film Ireland Podcast

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.http://filmireland.net/2020/11/08/podcast-cork-inter...

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.http://filmireland.net/2020/11/05/podcast-interview-with-anna-kopecka-cork-film-festival-director-of-programming/ Over the years, the podcast has featured acclai...

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.http://filmireland.net/2020/10/28/podcast-interview-with-artist-and-filmmaker-andrea-mastrovito/ Over the years, the podcast has featured acclaimed guests such as Phyllida Lloyd , Lenny Abrahamson , M. Night S...

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...

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 Octo...

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...

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.http://filmireland.net/ Over the years,...

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 approac...

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 tro...

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. Over the years, the podcast has featured acclaimed guests such as Phyllida Lloyd , Lenny Abrahamson , M. Night Shyamalan , John Boorman, Saoirse Ronan, Colin...

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...

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 HeartStaying 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 committe...

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...

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...

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.http://filmireland.net/...

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 glari...

Photo credit: Derek SpeirsIn 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 f...

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...

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 entir...

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...

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 Ir...

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, culm...

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 t...

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.http://filmireland.net/ Over the years, the podcast ha...

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 c...