Film Ireland Podcast

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 t...

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 Marin...

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 C...

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...

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 Cail...

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...

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 a...

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. S...

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 eve...

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...

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 S...

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 lo...

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.n...

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 d...

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...

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/ Over the years, the podcast h...

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,...

Festival founder Tommy Creagh discusses the evolution of Ireland's most literary film festival, the enduring influence of James Joyce on contemporary filmmakers, and the excitement of welcoming acclaimed screenwriter and director Charlie Kaufman to Dublin. Listen now on SoundCloud , Apple , Spotify , Acast and Amazon , or subscribe to Film Ireland wherever you get your podcasts . About Bloomsday F...

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...

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% fe...

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 Ret...

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/ Over the years, the podcast has f...

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...

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 w...

In this Film 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, sweepingl...