FNI Wrap Chat

Episode #64 of FNI Wrapchat is Director Imogen Murphy. Imogen, taking the time out to join us from the editing suite, is from Cork and a Director of Drama for Film & Television. A graduate of the National Film School of Ireland, she has gained numerous awards for her drama and documentary work. Her short films have played at over 100 film festivals world-wide, and she has Directed for broadcas...

On this weeks Episode Joining Paul Webster is vastly Experienced Irish producer Edwina Forkin.  Edwina Forkin, is one of the most positive and engaging people working in Irish Film and Tv, Edwina is is an Irish Film Producer and the Founder of Zanzibar Films, an independent Production company in Ireland. Zanzibar Films was founded in 1998. They have Produced over 41 award winning film and TV produ...

Our Guest this week is Director Gavin Fitzgerald. Gavin Fitzgerald has a knack making gripping feature documentaries and television shows. He has worked with some of the biggest clients in the business including Universal Pictures, Warner Music & Showtime Television. His recent documentary, Notorious: Conor McGregor (2017), became the highest grossing Irish documentary of all time and was quic...

Sam Atwell. Episode 61.  Sam is an Australian television Writer and previous Actor perhaps best known for his role as Kane Phillips in the soap opera Home and Away. An Aussie living in Ireland, Sam was originally taken by the craft of acting, he pursued this part of his career by working across the mediums of theatre, film and television. This opened his eyes to opportunities in writing, directing...

Episode 60 of WrapChat is with the really wonderful Helen Behan.  Helen sits down with Paul and discusses her amazing journey from being a well-loved nurse working in Drogheda to starring opposite Stephen Graham as his long lost Sister in Shane Meadows critically acclaimed gripping new Channel 4 TV show, The Virtues. Quite literally a walking example of never giving up on your dreams. How a chance...

On this weeks Episode of FNI Wrapchat is Producer and Manager of Jumper productions Fiona Kinsella.  Fiona has over 20 years' experience in film and television production. Fiona's heartfelt passion for film, coupled with her extensive experience in film industry training and development, give her an instinctive ability to bring out the very best in the many talented people with whom she works. As...

EPISODE, No 58 of FNI Wrapchat is Director Carmel Winters. Carmel was born in Cork and studied Drama and English at Trinity College Dublin. She is an award-winning storyteller, the maker of bold and innovative drama for stage and screen. "Snap", her debut feature as writer/director, was critically acclaimed as ‘engrossing… nervy, audacious filmmaking’ (Variety) and ‘a masterclass in storytelling’,...

This week on FNI WrapChat is MD of Wildcard Distribution Patrick O'Neill. Wildcard Distribution is an Irish film distributor established in early 2013 specialising in new and fresh approaches to distribution. Its breath of work and clients over the last number of years is very impressive. Its slate in recent years include Cardboard gangsters, The Young Offenders, Katie, Black 47, The Hole in the G...

Stuart Drennan .  Stuart is a Writer, Producer and Director from Monaghan. Not Fermanagh... Stuart has written and directed award winning short films and television dramas, including Hollyoaks, 6 Degrees and Seacht. Stuart has extensive experience working with NI Screen, BBC, Channel 4 and TG4.  Stuarts latest work the suspenseful and thrilling feature Film "The Dig" which he has written, has brou...

HAPPY EASTER. OUR LATEST EP OF WRAPCHAT IS NOW READY TO OPEN AND SCOFF.   Hot off the heels of Working on Quentin Tarantino's Once upon a Time in Hollywood, Jill Beecher Joins us this time on Fni Wrapchat.  Check out our previous Podcast with Frank Shouldice.  Jill Beecher is a production designer, Concept artist and \storyboard artist working in Hollywood and Ireland. Jill was born in Dublin, Ire...

Frank Shouldice, is an award winning journalist and playwright who has been working with the investigations unit of Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ for many years. Frank makes his feature documentary debut with The Man Who Wanted to Fly, an affectionate character portrait but with a unexpected Hollywood twist. A published author and winner of Prix Europa for his radio documentary work, Frank’s...

Award-winning writer, producer and director, Ruán Magan’s recent credits include The Irish Revolution Narrated by Cillian Murphy,  the critically acclaimed comedy drama series, Wrecking The Rising; 1916 – The Irish Rebellion, the multi-award winning documentary narrated by Liam Neeson, which reached audiences of 40 million worldwide during 2016 and the play, And Spring Shall Come, play exploring W...

Michael broke his teeth as Financial Controller for Palace Productions working on such projects as Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves and The Crying Game, and Michael Caton-Jones' Scandal. In 1995 he produced This is the Sea starring Richard Harris and Gabriel Byrne for Overseas Film Group. He later produced Accelerator which was screened at Cannes and Montreal. His company Grand Pictures was est...

Paul Duane is an Irish-born writer and director of television and film. Has directed television programmes including:  Ballykissangel, Casualty, The Royal, Small Potatoes, Footballer's Wives  He has also made several short films including LSD 73!, based on an original script by the Irish novelist Patrick McCabe. More recently he co-created the ITV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl based on the we...

Heather is an Animation Producer, Line Producer and Lecturer based in the West of Ireland. A graduate of both GMIT (BA Film & TV Production) and NUIG (MA Film Studies: Theory and Practice), she now works as a lecturer in GMIT. She has worked in Animation Production for more than a decade across a range of animation formats including traditional 2D animation, 3D-CGI, stop-motion puppet animatio...

Ross Killeen runs two very successful production companies; Event Junkies and Motherland. With Event Junkies, Ross's pitch was simple; a one-stop shop for all their clients' production, shooting and editing needs, with a quick turnaround, creating better content, faster. Based on the success of this company, Ross set up Motherland, a collective of directors, producers and editors, producing commer...

On today's FNI WrapChat is the very sound John Butler.  John speaks candidly about earning his stripes in the USA, the ups and downs of Film and TV, and how unlocking his potential paved the way to emotional truth in his work.  Touching on his experiences and reminiscing on how two green horn Paddy's convinced Pro Poker players, Cowboys and lowlifes to take part, in search of the perfect Doc.  Joh...

On this Episode Fni WrapChat on the Headstuff Podcast Network is Festival Manager of the Dublin Virgin Media Film Festival Grainne Humphreys. Grainne Humphreys has worked in film programming for over twenty years, she started her career working with young audiences with the Junior Dublin Film Festival in 1994. In 1995, she joined the IFI as Education Officer and expanded her role to include progra...

Viko Nikci is a Director and writer, known for Coming Home (2014), Cellar Door (2018).  Viko has been on film sets since his teenage years in New York. This experience lead to  the short film Take it Back – which led to over a hundred festival screenings. As a Director, Viko’s feature documentary COMING HOME – premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh, where it won Best Documentary and the Amnesty Inter...

On the very first Episode of FNI Wrapchat of 2019 on the Headstuff Podcast Network is Director and Producer at Failsafe Films Ian Hunt Duffy. Ian’s first love is genre cinema and he strives to make movies that will grip an audience and keep them guessing. Having graduated from The National Film School in Ireland Ian established Failsafe Films in Dublin, producing the IFTA Nominated and Academy Awa...

Merry Christmas Folks and Thanks for listening this year. On todays ep:44 of Fni WrapChat is Screenwriter Fergal Rock. An award-winning Irish filmmaker, Fergal Rock graduated from Dublin Institute of Technology with an honors MA in Film (Theory & Production) in 2002. He is best known as the screenwriter of Then Came You (2019), starring Asa Butterfield and Maisie Williams. Fergal is a winner o...

Nuala O'Connor is an Emmy award Winning Irish Director and works closely with Writer Diarmaid Ferriter with whom she collaborated with on her first documentary feature, Keepers of the Flame. Keepers of the Flame is playing at the IFI this week. #SupportIrishFilmmaking Keepers of the Flame tells the universal story of generations dealing with the consequences of war and civil war; of what is rememb...

Coming up on the FORTY SECOND ep of Fni Wrapchat is the Amazing O'Flanagan Sisters. Mary-Kate and Rachel.  Rachel is a story consultant who works across the business and arts industries. She works with teams and individuals in Ireland, the UK and Germany to develop visual storytelling and audience engagement. She has worked on a wide range of television and film productions ensuring that scripts c...

Luke Morgan is an Irish director and writer. He is a founder of both “the Theatre Room Galway” and the filmmaking collective “Project Spatula”. His short films have screened at a variety of festivals, including the Galway Film Fleadh (2015), The Cork Film Festival (2016), Richard Harris International Film Festival (2014, 2016), the Polish International Film Festival (2016) and the Short Film Corne...

Tim Wardle is a BAFTA-nominated documentary director, and Executive Producer at award-winning production company Raw. As Director, his films include Three Identical Strangers, a feature documentary for CNN Films which up to date has grossed over 12 million in the USA alone. The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling....