Film Ireland Podcast

The ninth Capital Irish Film Festival (5 – 8 February 2015) brought some of the best of contemporary Irish film to Washington D.C. This year’s highlights included a screening of  Frank , Niall Heery’s  Gold , Sinéad O’Brien’s fascinating documentary  Blood Fruit  and Keith Farrell‘s  A Terrible Beauty . Adam McPartlan talks to produc...

Adam McPartlan spoke to Sinéad O'Brien, whose documentary Blood Fruit screened at the the Capital Irish Film Festival. Blood Fruit tells the story of the Dunnes Stores strikers in 1980’s Dublin. Mary Manning, a 21-year-old Dunnes Stores checkout girl, refused to sell two Outspan grapefruits under direction from her union in support of the anti-apartheid struggle. She and ten other supporters were...

Adam McPartlan spoke to Anne Anderson, the 17th Ambassador of Ireland to the United States, to find out about the huge appetite among the 40 million Diaspora to connect with Ireland through film and how festivals such as the Capitol Irish Film Festival can bring Irish culture to a wider American audience. Over the years, the podcast has featured acclaimed guests such as Phyllida Lloyd , Lenny Abra...

InConversation in collaboration with Film Ireland examine in a recorded roundtable discussion the Internet’s impact on the film industry and cinema, from sourcing new talent, building a personal creative profile, raising funds and attracting audiences. A panel of industry workers - producer Marie Caffrey, casting director Thyrza Ging, MD of FilmBase Alan Fitzpatrick and IFI Public Relations Office...

The ninth Capital Irish Film Festival (5 - 8 February 2015) brought some of the best of contemporary Irish film to Washington D.C. This year's highlights included a screening of Frank, Niall Heery's Gold, Sinead fascinating documentary Blood Fruit and Keith Farrell's A Terrible Beauty. Adam McPartlan attended the festival in the first of a series of audio interviews he speaks to Paddy Meskell, Cha...

Donnchadh Tiernan, Richard Drumm and Ruairí Moore continue their efforts to escape from the basement by bringing you more film news, reviews and pleas for freedom. Donnchadh pitches a Back to the Future project based in 1950's Ireland, Ruairí ponders his role in The Gilmore Girls and Richard attempts to beam out of the basement - unsuccessfully. Tuxedos and stale bread were delivered down the shaf...

This episode of InConversation features Nick Ryan, a producer and writer/director, whose work includes the award-winning documentary 'The Summit'. Nick is currently working on '6 Days of the Rising', based on the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. Over the years, the podcast has featured acclaimed guests such as Phyllida Lloyd , Lenny Abrahamson , M. Night Shyamalan , John Boorman, Saoirse Ronan, Coli...

Coming from trio of directors Steven Benedict, Jennifer Shortall and and Lorna Fitzsimmons, 'Poison Pen' adapts Artemis Fowl-scribe Eoin Colfer's story to film. Made as part of Filmbase MSc in Filmmaking, 'Poison Pen' follows high-brow author PC Molloy as he becomes embroiled in a world of celebrity secrets and intrigue. Over the years, the podcast has featured acclaimed guests such as Phyllida Ll...

Richard Drumm delivers tins of dog food to Donnchadh Tiernan and Ruairí Moore in the basement and joins the lads for a look back at the year in film. Along the way they discuss movie news and cross swords over The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Will Richard survive...? Over the years, the podcast has featured acclaimed guests such as Phyllida Lloyd , Lenny Abrahamson , M. Night Shyamalan ,...

This episode of InConversation features writer, editor, producer and director, Shimmy Marcus, whose work to date includes the feature films 'Headrush' and 'Soulboy', alongside a number of short films and documentaries. Over the years, the podcast has featured acclaimed guests such as Phyllida Lloyd , Lenny Abrahamson , M. Night Shyamalan , John Boorman, Saoirse Ronan, Colin Farrell, Aisha Tyler, C...

Donnchadh Tiernan returns to the basement after his heavily subsidised holiday in the United States to find a malnourished Ruairí Moore gnawing at the walls in order to stay alive. After feasting on a bucket of fish heads, the lads were able to talk film, bringing you the latest movie news, a smorgasboard of reviews including '71, Nightcrawler and Interstellar and an interview with the wonderful c...

Donal Foreman talks to Donnchadh Tiernan about his debut feature 'Out of Here', a contemporary coming-of-age story shedding Dublin and its youth culture in a light not previously seen or explored. Over the years, the podcast has featured acclaimed guests such as Phyllida Lloyd , Lenny Abrahamson , M. Night Shyamalan , John Boorman, Saoirse Ronan, Colin Farrell, Aisha Tyler, Colm Meaney, Paul Reise...

This episode of InConversation features Emer Reynolds, writer, director and IFTA-winning film editor. Emer has won IFTAs for Timbuktu (2003), her work on the opening series of Channel 4’s groundbreaking Shameless (2004) and My Brothers (2011). Emer's other feature credits include The Good Doctor, The Eclipse, The Actors, Small Engine Repair, and I Went Down. Most recently, Emer has worked on Terry...

This episode of InConversation features composer Joseph Conlan. His film scores range from dark psychological thrillers to romantic comedies, from conventional orchestral arrangements to electronic and more experimental instrumentation. Among the notable film directors with whom Joe has collaborated are Tobe Hooper (Toolbox Murders), John Badham (Obsessed), Gregg Champion (The Simple Life of Noah...

In this interview, Donnchadh Tiernan talks to Ross Whitaker, the Festival Programmer of the IFI Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Festival, which takes place September 25th – 28th. This year's festival includes the world premiere of Ciarín Scott’s In a House That Ceased to Be as well as premieres for other Irish films, including Blood Fruit, Showrunners and It Came from Connemara!!.The internation...

This episode of InConversation features Pauline Cotter and Helen Wells of The Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival (CFSFF), which takes place every year in the picturesque fishing village of Schull on the south-west coast of Ireland. The festival screens short films from all over the world and invites industry professionals to share their knowledge with visiting filmmakers. Pauline was educated in C...

Louise Kiely is one of Ireland’s leading casting directors. She graduated from University College Cork with a Degree in Law. Lousie then trained at The Gaiety School of Acting. She was an actor for a short period before setting up Louise Kiely Casting in 2005 and has since cast a number of up-and-coming Irish actors in successful films, including Jack Reynor in What Richard Did, the BBC series Qui...

Under the dominance of apes and shackled in the basement, Ruairí Moore & Donnchadh Tiernan return to talk True Detective and investigate other movie news; the lads mark each other's Irish homework (Breakfast on Pluto & Pilgrim Hill) and take a shwipe at schtuff in the shinema, including Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Begin Again and the game-changing Pudsey the Dog: The Movie. Both Ruari & Donnch...

This episode of InConversation features Lenny Abrahamson. His first feature Adam & Paul (2004) was launched at the Berlin International Film Festival, Telluride and Galway among many prestigious film festivals. Garage (2007) was awarded the CICAE Award upon its presentation at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. The film also won awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Script and Best Actor at the 2008...

This episode of InConversation features writer/director Terry McMahon, who made his feature debut with the hugely controversial Charlie Casanova. Winner of ‘Best First Feature’ at The Galway Film Fleadh, nominated for four Irish Film and Television Awards, and picked up for distribution by Studio Canal, Charlie Casanova broke the mould for Irish independent film. McMahon followed that up with Patr...

In this episode, Ruairí Moore and Donnchadh Tiernan ride the dragon into the basement to do battle with Decepticons, bringing you some news along the way and compare and contrast homeworks (The Madness of King George & La Vie en Rose) and, of course, check out what's out now in a cinema near you, including How to Train Your Dragon 2, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Cold in July, The Golden Dream,...

InConversation chats to Nick Dunning, an actor and writer who attended RADA, where he won the Ronson Prize for Most Promising Young Actor. He is best known on screen for his role as Thomas Boleyn in The Tudors playing opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers, for which he won an IFTA award for Best Supporting Actor. He has also appeared in numerous popular British TV shows such as Waking the Dead, Kavanagh Q...

In this episode of the Film Ireland Podcast, Ruairí Moore and Donnchadh Tiernan shake their fists at the latest film news, delve deep into the underbelly of the latest films playing in your local picture house, review their homework ('Princess Mononoke' and 'Persepolis') and, due to good behaviour, Donnchadh is let out of the basement to nab an insightful interview with historian Stephen Ryan, kno...

Stephen Totterdell sat down with Barry Ward and Simone Kirby, who star in Ken Loach's latest film, 'Jimmy's Hall', a portrait of Irish communist and activist Jimmy Gralton, played by Ward alongside Kirby, who plays Gralton's former love Oonagh. Over the years, the podcast has featured acclaimed guests such as Phyllida Lloyd , Lenny Abrahamson , M. Night Shyamalan , John Boorman, Saoirse Ronan, Col...

Unable to escape from the basement, Ruairí Moore and Donnchadh Tiernan give us their latest film ramblings, including the latest film news, open up their homework (The Day the Earth Stood Still & The Quiet Earth ) and take a look at stuff in the cinema, including X-Men: Days of Future Past, Edge of Tomorrow, Godzilla, A Million Ways to Die in the West, and more... Over the years, the podcast has f...