Earlier this year, eight Irish film festivals signed the 5050×2020 Gender Parity and Inclusion Pledge, launched at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. How realistic is this goal? That’s the topic for this panel discussion with (pictured L-R) Dr. Susan Liddy...
Director Michael McCormack’s first feature documentary, a biopic of the late musician Fergus O’Farrell called Breaking Out, won the Best Irish Documentary Award at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh. In this episode, Michael talks about his background in...
Derry women Brónagh Gallagher (actor), Louise Gallagher (producer) and Tess McGowan (screenwriter) talk about the making of their new film, A Bump Along the Way. We talk about ‘Derry Fairies,’ shedding insecurities, pregnancy as an in-built deadline and...
Through personal anecdote, screenwriter and actor Mark O’Halloran (Adam and Paul, Garage, Viva) discusses ‘the substance of things unseen’ and the idiom of ‘write what you know.’ Recorded live at the Fleadh Forum, an annual...
Director Paul Duane talks about going from being a tour guide at the Rock of Cashel to a documentary filmmaker, the appeal of working in documentary vs. fiction, DA Pennebaker, and the challenges facing new filmmakers. Paul’s new film Best Before Death plays at...
Comedian and Cagney and Lacey super-fan Gearóid Farrelly interviews multi-Emmy Award winning actress Tyne Daly, who helped redefine the way women were represented on screen in her role as the eponymous Lacey. Daly’s career spans being an 80’s icon to...
