Interview: Ross Whitaker, IFI Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Festival Programmer
Film Ireland Podcast
English - September 22, 2014 18:45 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTV & Film film ireland irish dublin movies filmbase Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this interview, Donnchadh Tiernan talks to Ross Whitaker, the Festival Programmer of the IFI Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Festival, which takes place September 25th – 28th.
This year's festival includes the world premiere of Ciarín Scott’s In a House That Ceased to Be as well as premieres for other Irish films, including Blood Fruit, Showrunners and It Came from Connemara!!.
The international programme includes Irish premieres of Steve James’ Life Itself about the film critic Roger Ebert, Kim Longinotto’s Love is All, Joe Berlinger’s Whitey: United States of America V. James J. Bulger, Andreas Johnsen’s Ai Weiwei – The Fake Case and Amir Amirani’s We Are Many.
The festival also welcomes Amir, Kim and Andreas as guests to the festival, along with long-time Werner Herzog producer André Singer, who presents his new film Night Will Fall.