FNI Wrap Chat

On this Stars and Stripes ep of Fni Wrapchat is Roger Gregg. Roger Gregg is a playwright, musician, Actor and voiceover artist from Ohio in the good old Us of A. But he's one of us as he's been living here since the 1980s . He has written plays for Dublin Youth Theatre, the Gaiety School of Acting, TEAM Theatre Company, and Graffiti Theatre Company. In 1998, he founded Crazy Dog Audio Theatre, who...

http://www.feargalward.com/ Feargal Ward is an Irish filmmaker based in Berlin and Dublin. His award-winning work has been screened, exhibited and broadcast worldwide. He also collaborates with other filmmakers and artists on projects of shared interest. His latest feature Documentary, The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid is in selected Irish Cinemas now. It centres around Farmer Thomas Reid who lives...

Episode 37 of FNI WrapChat is Writer/Director Kate Dolan Kate graduated with an Honours Degree in Film & Television Production from the National Film School, IADT in 2012. There, she majored in Directing and minored in Editing. She has worked in many facets of filmmaking including Art Dept, Production and also worked as a Broadcast Producer in TBWA Dublin for almost 2 years after graduating. I...

Ep: 36 of FNI WrapChat is Rioghnach Ni Ghrioghair With a BA in Film and TV Production and MA in Screenwriting, Rioghnach has straddled both sides of the development table for nearly a decade in the Irish TV and Film Industry. She's worked with Dublin's Blinder Films for two years from 2011 as a development assistant before moving on to FAIR CITY in 2013 to write story lines for RTE's soap opera fo...

This time on FNI WrapChat, We're coming to you from the Kingdom of Kerry, at the Kerry Film Festival. We were invited to come and interview a couple of filmmakers, run a networking event and we also made a bit of a vlog with Filmmaker Luis Diaz. @luiscameraman which you can view here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3eFOVIcNZ0&t=48s Vincent Lambe's latest work is the short Film "Detainment" wh...

On Episode 34 of Fni WrapChat is Gary Cooke. This one is a really funny one which had us in stitches. Gary Cooke is an Irish Actor, satirist, writer and facilitator who is one of the stars, on screen, of Aprés Match, and, on stage, I, Keano and MacBecks. Gary has also been involved in many other successful comedy shows such as Gift Grub, Irish Pictorial Weekly, Bridget and Eamon, The Eleventh Hour...

Joining Paul Webster in Galway on Fni Wrapchat this time is Sarah Dillon. Sarah is a former Production & Development Executive at Screen Ireland (Irish Film Board) and currently development Manager at Western Region Audiovisual Producers Fund (WRAP Fund). With over ten years experience in the film industry, Sarah was responsible for managing the slate of funded projects with Screen Ireland acr...

This week on FNI WrapChat is TJ O’Grady-Peyton  TJ is an Irish director and Actor who graduated from the London Film School’s graduate program in 2010. Fresh into the professional ad space, he was shortlisted for a Young Directors Award at Cannes in 2013 and 2015, later earning a Webby Award in 2016. He has directed commercials for clients such as BMW, Gatorade, Cadillac, Coke, Nespresso, Asics, R...

Joining us on this FNI Wrapchat on the Headstuff Podcast Network is Writer/Director and beard enthusiast Seán Branigan. Sean sat down for a candid chat with the Pauls to discuss his experiences in Film and Tv, ups and downs in the game, how to mind yourself and how to be your best creative self. Seán Branigan is a Writer, Director, Artist and Director of Storyboard Workshop here in Dublin which of...

If you have a minute, please take our listener survey, your feedback will help us improve the podcast. Many Thanks. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GGZCCM2 Pierce writes stuff. He also misses the Arcade/Amusements in his hometown of Tramore. We sat down for a quick chat about his work and what Hugo Weaving does be talking about in between takes. Pierce is an Irish screenwriter from Waterford. His f...

We sat down for an impassioned and rather touching chat about his career, The realities of the Film and Tv Environ, Earning your stripes and kids growing up in modern day Ireland. Gerry Nelson is an award winning Irish documentary filmmaker. Gerry switched to directing following ten years as a highly regarded, award winning, editor. With his first film, the acclaimed study of Lourdes, 'Faith, Hope...

If you have a minute, please take our listener survey, your feedback will help us improve the podcast. Many Thanks. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GGZCCM2 Earlier this year, producer Jessie Fisk, established her production company, Feline Films with her creative partner Nathalie Biancheri. They are currently developing their first fiction feature, Wolf, which recently won Best Project at the 2018...

If you have a minute, please take our listener survey, your feedback will help us improve the podcast. Many Thanks. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GGZCCM2 Lee is a Dublin based award winning Writer/Director who works in both Film and Television. Lee's debut Feature "The Hole in the Ground" Starring Seana Kerslake, which was produced by Savage Productions has been officially selected for Sundance i...

If you have a minute, please take our listener survey, your feedback will help us improve the podcast. Many Thanks. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GGZCCM2 Mark is a European Film Academy nominated and multi-award winning writer/director based between Dublin and London. An alumnus of the Berlinale Talent Campus and the Toronto Film Festival Talent Lab, his first two short films met with success at...

If you have a minute, please take our listener survey, your feedback will help us improve the podcast. Many Thanks. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GGZCCM2 This time on FNI WRAPCHAT We have Irish DOP, JJ Rolfe. We chatted all things camera, his role on productions and the importance of team building, loyalty and collaboration as an ethos in Film and TV. JJ shot the new Irish Feature "Dublin Old Sch...

If you have a minute, please take our listener survey, your feedback will help us improve the podcast. Many Thanks. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GGZCCM2 Nathan is an Editor whose work you'd know well. From Tv to Documentary to Oscar nominated Feature film. We were delighted to sit down for a chat with Nathan Nugent, about his life in Irish Film and Tv and how he has developed such a fantastic sy...

If you have a minute, please take our listener survey, your feedback will help us improve the podcast. Many Thanks. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GGZCCM2 Maurice O’Brien is a documentary filmmaker who produces and directs as well as filming much of his own work. He has made some wonderful documentaries including Hey, Ronnie Reagan which was screened at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival this y...

Sheila Aherne is a producer and researcher with a huge amount of experience working in TV and documentary. She cut her teeth researching on investigative documentaries with the legendary Mary Raftery on programmes like the groundbreaking States of Fear. She talks to us here about what makes a great researcher and her work on Thaddeus O'Sullivan's wonderful documentary, Citizen Lane, Featuring Tom...

Joining us this week is Bafta award winning Producer/Director Colin McKeown.  Colin sat down and chatted to us all things 1980's Super 8 production with your siblings, the differences between Northern Irish production/funding, compared to that of southern and working with the logistics of bigger productions overseas. (on a large boat off the shipyard in Belfast no less) Colin has worked Extensivel...

James’s wonderfully intriguing take on the world represents a new era for youth culture films in Ireland. He has been making films since he was 15, honing his skills with Actors and Film creatives over this time; and resulting in some of the most raw, honest and powerful performances in his work. His music video for The Funeral Suits, has shot him to mainstream acclaim working on some large profil...

Ken studied filmmaking at the National Film School, IADT. His short films have screened at many of the worlds most prestigious festivals including Sundance and Cannes. He has presented retrospective programmes at the Cork International Film Festival, and at festivals in the UK, Croatia, The Netherlands and in Scandinavia. In 2008, his work received the Grand Prix Award at Sapporo International Fil...

http://www.vienna-filmcoach.at IP, Mr. Wischinsky began his career as intern working with Academy Award winner Milos Forman and other refugees from the east at Columbia University, New York in the early 1980's. He also worked as writer and script coach for Federal Austrian Television. For 10 years he was head of Pygmalion Theatre in Vienna. He wrote several award winning plays and toured the world...

Actor, Writer, Comedian and Voice Over Artist for over 20 odd years, Morgan speaks very Candidly about his career, work experiences, ups and downs and that time he met Jack Nicholson. His credits include Nighthawks, The Bailout, The Guarantee, Game of Thrones, Penny Dreadful, The Dutch political Thriller The Fox and a number of Tv Dramas and radio programmes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...

Claire Dix is an award winning writer and director of short films, music videos and also works in documentary TV. Her credits include the Short Take Me Swimming, Featuring Barry Ward and Olwen Fouéré. The Documentary, We Are Moving - Memories of Miss Moriarty, Broken Song, the urban Feature Documentary funded by the Arts Council's Reel Art Scheme, The Short Film Alia, Signatures Short funded by th...

Eilish managed onto screen for RTÉ include Hardy Bucks, Raw, Fade St, Any Time Now, No Tears (International Emmy for best series or serial), Love Is The Drug (IFTA best series), Fergus' Wedding, Paths to Freedom and Foreign Exchange. And for the BBC, Vicious Circle, Rap at the Door and Mezzone (RTS winner). She devised and managed StoryLand, a unique project when launched that saw 28 original onli...