Film Ireland Podcast

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...

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...

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 Delin...

In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Writer/Director Alex Kayode-Kay and Executive Producer Roisin Kearney about their 2023 BAFTA-nominated film The Ballad Of Olive Morris . 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 poli...

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 inspi...

In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh chats to Conor McMahon, Writer/Director of  Let the Wrong One In . Listen now on  SoundCloud ,  Apple ,  Spotify ,  Acast  and  Amazon , or subscribe to Film Ireland  wherever you get your podcasts . Let The Wrong One In  tells the story of a young supermarket worker who discovers that his older brother is a va...

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...

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 spe...

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...

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 con...

In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Anna Rodgers and Shaun Dunne about their film How to Tell A Secret. A powerful examination of the experiences of people who are living with HIV in Ireland today, How to Tell A Secret is a hybrid documentary film that looks at social stigma and the art of telling your story. Robbie Lawlor was diagnosed with HIV at 21 and became one of the youngest...

In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Gavin Fitzgerald, Director of Million Dollar Pigeons. The Irish documentary is about the passionate and ferociously competitive international pigeon masters, known as fanciers, that will do whatever it takes to win. Big bucks, sweat, tears and sleepless nights are invested into these feathered athletes, yet on race day all they can do is wait, ho...

In this Film Ireland Podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Ciara NicChormaic, Director of Aisling Trí Néallaibh: Clouded Reveries. Acclaimed poet and essayist Doireann Ní Ghríofa was catapulted into the international literary spotlight in 2020 with the publication of her debut novel A Ghost in the Throat. Lauded by the critics from the New York Times to the Guardian, it went on to win the Irish Book of t...

Paul Farren talks to Wayne Byrne about his latest book Walter Hill: The Cinema of a Hollywood Maverick. Walter Hill: The Cinema of a Hollywood Maverick is a comprehensive journey through the long career of auteur Hollywood filmmaker Walter Hill, director of The Driver, The Warriors, Southern Comfort, 48 Hrs., Streets of Fire and many more. The book covers every motion picture that Hill directed, w...

In this podcast, Gremma Creagh talks to Seamus Murphy, the director of The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby. The film examines Irish writer Pat Ingoldsby’s unique world. Ingoldsby’s poems and candid anecdotes bear witness to a visceral relationship with his beloved Dublin, fellow Dubliners and anything that catches his interest. Personal challenges, a sensitive humanity and a lifetime as...

We are thrilled to be once again partnering with Still Voices Film Festival to bring you a series of podcasts with artists featured at the international film festival located in the heart of Ireland. In this podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Robert Higgins and Patrick McGivney, writers & directors of Longford-shot Lakelands. After an attack on a night out, Cian, a young Gaelic footballer, struggles t...

We are thrilled to be once again partnering with Still Voices Film Festival to bring you a series of podcasts with artists featured at the international film festival located in the heart of Ireland. In this Dance-themed podcast, Niamh Creely talks to the creators behind 3 films that screen at this year’s festival. In Velvet (Jessica Kennedy & Megan Kennedy)A child sits alone on a beach. A man app...

We are thrilled to once again be partnering with Still Voices Film Festival to bring you a series of podcasts with artists featured at the international film festival located in the heart of Ireland. In this podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Ballymahon artist Adrian Duncan about his new short film Lost Colony. A film told from the centre circle of a football pitch. It is a poetic analysis of the aest...

We are thrilled to once again be partnering with Still Voices Film Festival to bring you a series of podcasts with artists featured at the international film festival located in the heart of Ireland. In this Horror special podcast, Paul Farren talks to Marie Clare Cushinan & Ryan O’Neill and Derek Ugochukwu about their films screening at the festival. Still Voices Film Festival runs from November...

We are thrilled to once again be partnering with Still Voices Film Festival to bring you a series of podcasts with artists featured at the international film festival located in the heart of Ireland. In this podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to 3 animators – Cliona Noonan, Mary Smyth and Victor Jaquier about their films screening at the festival. Still Voices Film Festival runs from November 9th – 13th...

In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Andrew Baird, the Director of ‘One Way’, the high-octane US thriller, written by Ben Conway. On the run with a bag full of cash after a robbing his former crime boss—and a potentially fatal wound—Freddy slips onto a bus headed into the unrelenting California desert. With his life slipping through his fingers, Freddy is left with very few choices...

In this Film Ireland podcast Gemma Creagh talks to Robert Manson, writer and director of Holy Island. Holy Island is a story about two lost souls, Rosa and David, trapped in purgatory in the form of a run-down port town. They meet awaiting a boat to leave the island, both longing to return home. Together they are forced to traverse an abnormal maze, piecing together their past lives through shared...

In this Film Ireland podcast Gemma Creagh talks to Sasha King about her powerful film Vicky which tells the inspirational story of Vicky Phelan’s personal journey and heroic work to uncover the Irish CervicalCheck scandal. In 2018 on the steps of the High Court in Dublin, Vicky Phelan gave a now infamous address where she exposed the CervicalCheck scandal. A subsequent investigation revealed over...

In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Kim Bartley, Director of ‘Pure Grit’, a thrilling tale of extreme bareback horse racing, and an intimate love story. Pure Grit chronicles three years in the life of a young Native American bareback horse racer Sharmaine, her dogged determination, and the relationships that sustain her. Sharmaine dreams of becoming a champion again but she needs m...

In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Antonia Campbell-Hughes on the release of her debut feature It Is In Us All. When Hamish arrives on the soil of his mother’s birth, she is felt instantly. As he travels further into the wild Irish country, a shocking car accident rips him apart, shattering his clenched control. A beast broken, he finds himself lost in the world of his long deceas...