Film Ireland Podcast
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Nuala O'Connor, Director Of 'Keepers Of The Flame'
December 21, 2018 15:33 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBJonathan Victory spoke to Emmy Award winner Nuala O’Connor about her feature directorial debut, Keepers of the Flame, which tells the universal story of generations dealing with the consequences of war and civil war; of what is remembered and what is forgotten. Please note the interview was conducted by phone. http://filmireland.net/
Capital Irish Film Festival: Chairman, Paddy Meskell & Director, Pat Reilly
December 20, 2018 14:48 - 19 minutes - 20.1 MBJohn Collins spoke to Chairman of the Capital Irish Film Festival, Paddy Meskell and Festival Director Pat Reilly about the origins and evolution of the festival, the importance of an Irish film festival in Washington and the challenges the festival faces. The Capital Irish Film Festival celebrates annually the best of new Irish features, documentaries, shorts and animation, and particularly welcomes Irish language films.
Capital Irish Film Festival: Editor, Tony Cranstoun
December 12, 2018 10:08 - 10 minutes - 10.7 MBJohn Collins spoke to Tony Cranstoun, editor of The Farthest, which closed this year’s Capital Irish Film Festival in Washington D.C. John was good enough to send us on his recording of their conversation. The Farthest chronicles NASA's 1977 launch of twin space probes, sent to capture images of remote planets and bear messages from Earth. http://filmireland.net/
The Belly Of The Whale, Director Morgan Bushe & Actor Lewis MacDougall Nov 2018
December 11, 2018 12:51 - 13 minutes - 16.9 MBThe Belly Of The Whale is set over a long bank holiday weekend. Misfit teenager, Joey Moody, returns to his home town in a bid to reopen his family’s crumbling caravan park and salvage his friendship with his best friend, Lanks. Meanwhile, on a mission to find the money to cover his wife’s medical expenses, Ronald Tanner, a fractured soul, risks his meagre life savings on a get rich quick scheme that ends in abject failure and humiliation at the hands of local big shot Gits Hegarty, pushing R...
Aoife O'Toole, Dublin Feminist Film Festival Manager
November 19, 2018 18:07 - 23 minutes - 25.7 MBGemma Creagh talks to Aoife O'Toole, the Dublin Feminist Film Festival Manager, about what we can expect at this year's festival with screenings in the Light House Cinema 21st and 22nd November plus Special Launch Events taking place on 20th November in The Generator Hostel, Smithfield. The Dublin Feminist Film Festival Manager runs 19 - 21 November. http://filmireland.net/
Natasha Waugh, Director of 'Mother'
November 09, 2018 12:38 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBNatasha Waugh's latest short film, Mother, screens at this year's Cork Film Festival. In the film, hardworking mam Grace, played by Hilary Rose, has the perfect happy family: a loving husband and two wonderful children. But when her husband arrives home one day with a brand new kitchen appliance, she slowly starts to realize that there might not be room for both of them in this house. Gemma Creagh sat down with Natasha to find out more about her quirky short, her journey into film and her IF...
On the Red Carpet: The Little Stranger
September 25, 2018 17:10 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBGemma Creagh was at the European premiere of Lenny Abrahamson's new film The Little Stranger at the Light House cinema in Dublin and talked to Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Lenny Abrahamson and Ruth Wilson. Lenny Abrahamson's new film The Little Stranger tells the story of Dr. Faraday (Domhnall Gleeson), the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother o...
Capital Irish Film Festival: Elynia Betts, Director of Maeve and the Moon
June 29, 2018 09:20 - 7 minutes - 17.5 MBJohn Collins spoke to Elynia Betts, whose short film Maeve and the Moon screened at this year's Capital Irish Film Festival in Washington D.C. When her father offhandedly remarks that her mother is "asking for the moon," imaginative and resilient Maeve decides to set off on her own to find the moon and bring it home. filmireland.net/
Capital Irish Film Festival: Colin McIvor - Director of 'The Zoo'
March 28, 2018 09:27 - 5 minutes - 5.19 MBJohn Collins spoke to Colin McIvor, whose film Zoo, featuring Ian McElhinney, Amy Huberman, Toby Jones and Penelope Wilton, opened this year's Capital Irish Film Festival in Washington D.C. Zoo recounts the story of young Tom and his misfit friends, who fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941. Zoo screened at the Capital Irish Film Festival on Thursday, 1st March. Zoo is released in Irish cinemas on 29th June 2018. http://filmireland....
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 31 – A Giant Pile of Falsehoods
December 29, 2017 21:20 - 2 hours - 110 MBIn this end of year peachy pod, Sarah Cullen and Richard Drumm reflect on 2017 and pick out their top movies, plus their worst moments - including Richard's newly diagnosed persicaphobia. There's also a round-up of some recent films, including ItTolls for Thee, Battle of the Sexes - featuring Sarah's tennis rant, The Death of Stalin, Thor: Ragnarok, The Disaster Artist, Call Me By Your Name, The Last Jedi - and all its sex scenes. Happy new year...
End Of Year Reel Horror Show: Episode 10
December 23, 2017 16:07 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBTo see the year off, our yuletide yetis, Ali Doyle, Conor Dowling, Conor McMahon and Mark Sheridan gathered together roasting corpses on an open fire and discussing their latest horror oglings. They also mull over haunted house films and recommend a few Christmas horrors to see you through the festive season. Happy horrordays from everyone at Reel Horror Show http://filmireland.net/
SuperPod: 2017 - A Year of Heroes
December 21, 2017 19:28 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBThe cybernetically reconstructed Richard Drumm is joined by antiquities dealer Paul Farren to aim fire at Justice League and Thor Ragnarock and look back on the year of Superhero and Comic Book Films, mull over top Fives, and gaze into the future to see what's in store for 2018. Contains spoilers...
Alan Maher, producer of 'Song of Granite'
December 08, 2017 18:29 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBGemma Creagh sat down with Alan Maher of Marcie Films to discuss the ins and outs of producing Pat Collins' Song of Granite, the life story of traditional Sean-nós singer Joe Heaney, from County Galway. Song of Granite is in cinemas from 8th December 2017 http://filmireland.net/
Reel Horror Show: Episode 9
December 03, 2017 01:06 - 1 hour - 128 MBThe macabre members of Reel Horror Show return to feed your nightmares. Fresh from their Halloween live recording at Filmbase, the troop of terror re-assemble in the mangled form of Ali Doyle, Conor Dowling, Conor McMahon, and Mark Sheridan. Listen to them — children of the night. What music they make. http://filmireland.net/
The Actors' Room: Geraldine McAlinden
November 23, 2017 17:14 - 43 minutes - 40 MBIn this episode of The Actors’ Room, Lynn Larkin chats to Geraldine McAlinden. Originally from County Armagh, Geraldine trained originally as a solicitor and worked in the UK and Ireland. She trained and worked part-time as an actor and director for theatre until 2012 when she left law to take up a place in the first one year Screen Acting programme run by the Factory now Bow Street Academy. During that time she trained with Kirsten Sheridan, Shimmy Marcus, Lance Daly and Maureen Hughes duri...
Gerry Gregg, Director of 'Condemned to Remember'
November 12, 2017 01:50 - 54 minutes - 49.3 MBJune Butler talks to director Gerry Gregg about his film Condemned to Remember in which Irish Holocaust Survivor Tomi Reichental celebrates his 80th birthday in a Dublin Mosque and embarks on epic journey across a Europe in turmoil. http://filmireland.net/
Conor McGregor: Notorious - Interview with Director Gavin Fitzgerald and Producer Jamie D’Alton
November 02, 2017 18:04 - 8 minutes - 8.21 MBJonathan Victory talks to director Gavin Fitzgerald and producer Jamie D’Alton about making Conor McGregor: Notorious. Filmed over the course of 4 years, Conor McGregor: Notorious is an access-all-areas account of McGregor's personal and professional journey from claiming benefits and living in his mum's spare room with his girlfriend to claiming multiple championship belts and 9-figure pay packets. Featuring exclusive interviews, unprecedented access and fight footage, this is the ultimate b...
Real Horror Show Live/Evil Recording @ Halloween 2017
October 29, 2017 18:02 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBThe gruesome gang return from the dead for a very special live recording in front of an unholy audience in the dungeons of Filmbase. Regulars Mark "flesh-eating" Sheridan and Conor "axe-wielding" McMahon were joined by very special guests Zoe "zombie-hunter" Kavanagh and David "candelabrum-in-the-wind" Turpin to dissect all things horror. The frightful four chew over their own particular love of horror, making horror films and what puts the shivers in their shizzle, amongst other devilish di...
Linda Cullen Interview
October 17, 2017 14:12 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBIn this podcast Sarah Cullen chats to Linda Cullen, co-director of The 34th, which tells the story of the driven and dedicated people who formed Marriage Equality in Ireland, and developed it into a highly effective grassroots force with one clear goal in mind - the extension of Civil Marriage to same sex couples. Through revealing interviews and archive material, former board members and staff outline the strategising, fierce battles, sheer hard graft and personal cost of running such an all...
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 30 – Meat House
October 04, 2017 13:41 - 1 hour - 96.3 MBSarah Cullen and Richard Drumm return to aurally go where no pod has gone before bring both chit and chat to the latest Film Ireland Podcast. In this episode our dastardly duo bring you news and gossip and enter the world of TV to ponder Game of Thrones and The Handmaid's Tale. Under the cinematic microscope is The 34th, an Irish doc that tells the story of the people who formed Marriage Equality in Ireland, the hirsute War for the Planet of the Apes, Nolan's Dunkirk, the capered Logan Luck...
IFI Documentary Film Festival 2017: Sunniva O'Flynn & David O'Mahony
September 26, 2017 21:36 - 23 minutes - 31.6 MBGemma Creagh talks to the IFI's Head of Irish Film Programming, Sunniva O'Flynn and Head of Programming, David O'Mahony about what to expect at this year's IFI Documentary Film Festival. http://filmireland.net/
Stephen Burke, Writer/Director of 'Maze'
September 26, 2017 15:36 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBGemma Creagh talks to writer/director Stephen Burke about Maze, which tells the true story of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II. Maze is in cinemas from 22nd September 2017 http://filmireland.net/
The Actors' Room: Niamh Hogan
September 20, 2017 14:40 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBIn this episode of The Actors' Room, Lynn Larkin chats to Niamh Hogan, who recently starred in Zoe Kavanagh's 'Demon Hunter', which is available on digital and Video on Demand platforms. http://filmireland.net/
InConversation: Tony Cranstoun
September 13, 2017 14:08 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBIn this episode of InConversation, Mark Sheridan talks to editor Tony Cranstoun, an award-winning editor who has cut drama, comedy and documentary for cinema and television. His work has received ‘Best Editing’ recognition from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), The Royal Television Society (RTS) and the American Cinema Editors (A.C.E.). He is English by birth and resides in Ireland where he is married to filmmaker Emer Reynolds. http://filmireland.net/
Nick Kelly, Writer/Director of 'The Drummer and the Keeper'
September 11, 2017 17:05 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBPaul Farren talks to Nick Kelly, whose film The Drummer and the Keeper is in cinemas now. In his film, the drummer of a rock band recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder strikes up an unusual friendship with an institutionalized teen who is suffering from Asperger’s syndrome. http://filmireland.net/
WFT Ireland- In Conversation With Director Aisling Walsh
August 10, 2017 16:09 - 1 hour - 71 MBWomen In Film and Television Ireland recently presented In Conversation with director Aisling Walsh as part of their Masterclass series. Aisling Walsh’s 'Maudie' is currently in Irish cinemas.
Film Ireland Presents: Roisín Geraghty, Gaze Programmer
July 31, 2017 11:31 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBGemma Creagh chats to Roisín Geraghty, programmer for Gaze LGBT Film Festival about this year's festival, which runs 3rd - 7th August 2017. http://filmireland.net/
Roisín Geraghty, Gaze LGBT Film Festival Programmer
July 31, 2017 11:31 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBGemma Creagh chats to Roisín Geraghty, programmer for Gaze LGBT Film Festival about this year's festival, which runs 3rd - 7th August 2017. http://filmireland.net/
Emer Reynolds, director of 'The Farthest'
July 27, 2017 18:53 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBNatasha Waugh talks to Emer Reynolds about her documentary 'The Farthest', which celebrates the men and women who built the Voyager spaceship. http://filmireland.net/
SuperPod Wonder Woman & Spider - Man - July 2017
July 25, 2017 20:31 - 1 hour - 96.4 MBOur latex-wearing superpodders, Richard Drumm and Paul Farren, return to their headquarters to plot the rescue of their missing partner Scott Adair. Whilst plotting, our crime-fighting duo discuss the two latest DC and Marvel films to hit the big screens, Wonder Woman and Spider-Man: Homecoming. http://filmireland.net/
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 29 - The Thinking Man's Apocalypse
July 12, 2017 20:08 - 1 hour - 76.9 MBOur regular Film Ireland Podcast returns with resplendent hosts Sarah Cullen and Richard Drumm bringing you fun and frolics from the film world. Yes there's Star wars news, Yes there's movie reviews. Want to hear about Baby Driver - take that. After the Storm - bleakly optimistic. Miss Sloane - make guns seem cool with the ladies. Wonder Woman - we all liked it. It Comes at Night - thinking man's apocalypse. My Cousin Rachel. Of course. Alien Covenent - celebrating James Franco's face on fire...
Len Collin
July 11, 2017 14:37 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBGemma Creagh talks to Len Collin about Sanctuary, which introduces us to Larry and Sophie, two people with intellectual disabilities, who long to be together in a world that does everything to keep them apart. http://filmireland.net/
Laura McGann, director of 'Revolutions'
June 30, 2017 16:12 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBGemma Creagh had jams with director Laura McCann about her film Revolutions, which introduces the exciting, sometimes brutal, world of women’s roller derby. http://filmireland.net/
InConversation: Noel Quinn
June 29, 2017 13:35 - 1 hour - 92.4 MBIn this episode of InConversation, Mark Sheridan talks to Emmy-nominated sound recordist Noel Quinn, who has worked on sound for feature films, documentaries, and commercials in a number of countries worldwide, and has lectured extensively on film sound. His credits include Michael Collins, Reign of Fire and The Butcher Boy. InConversation is a series of personal interviews with people working across the many aspects of the Irish filmmaking industry. http://filmireland.net/
Tom Ryan, writer / director of 'Twice Shy'
June 23, 2017 17:58 - 27 minutes - 25 MBGemma Creagh met Tom Ryan to talk about his film Twice Shy, which is released in cinemas 23rd June 2017. Twice Shy, is a modern, coming-of-age drama that revolves around a young, unmarried couple who set off on a road trip from Ireland to London, as the result of an unplanned pregnancy. The film charts the ups and downs of their relationship by juxtaposing their dramatic journey with flashbacks to happier times in their romance. The film stars Shane Murray-Corcoran and Iseult Casey in the...
Conor Armstrong Sanfey, Director of 'Lift'
June 16, 2017 17:30 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBMark Sheridan talks to Conor Armstrong Sanfey about his debut feature Lift, which screens at Filmbase on 21st June 2017. In Lift, Sean's vicious attack leaves a man unconscious and him stranded in an elevator with five others. In the confines of the lift, love has a chance of blossoming - violence has a chance of erupting - Sean has little chance of escape. With his freedom hanging in the balance can the people who fear him offer him one last chance of redemption? No Budget Presents a Speci...
Mark O'Connor, co-writer & director of 'Cardboard Gangsters'
June 12, 2017 19:49 - 32 minutes - 30.3 MBPaul Farren sat down with Mark O'Connor to talk about his latest film Cardboard Gangsters. http://filmireland.net/
Zoe Kavanagh: Writer/Director Demon Hunter
June 05, 2017 15:47 - 28 minutes - 38.9 MBMark Sheridan talks to writer / director Zoe Kavanagh about her film Demon Hunter which plays in select cinemas June 6th. Zoe talks about her influences, making the film and self-financing it, music and actors, the film's success on the festival circuit and the need for audiences to support Irish films.
Get into Film: Alan Maher, Producer
May 22, 2017 20:19 - 41 minutes - 63.2 MBRepresenting Ireland at the EFP Producer on the Move programme at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, Mark Coffey talks to producer Alan Maher about his life in film. Alan Maher set up Marcie Films (formerly Roads Entertainment) in 2013, produced the documentary Being Ap and served as the Irish partner for Maya Zinshtein’s Forever Pure, both of which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Alan produced Pat Collins’ biopic Song of Granite, which premiered at SXSW this March, and is ...
SuperPod: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
May 16, 2017 20:12 - 1 hour - 86.9 MBAfter being hired by a powerful alien race to protect their precious batteries from invaders, our superhero team, Richard Drumm, Paul Farren and Scott Adair, return from their trip throughout the cosmos to discuss Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. NB: This is riddled with spoilers. http://filmireland.net/
Q&A with Lorcan Finnegan, director of 'Without Name' at the IFI
May 12, 2017 11:15 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBFollowing a screening of Without Name at the IFI, director Lorcan Finnegan took part in a Q&A with Mark Sheridan to talk about his supernatural eco-horror film.
Film Ireland Podcast: Episode 28 - More Guns Less Talking
May 10, 2017 16:24 - 1 hour - 68.5 MBRichard Drumm and Sarah Cullen are back with their chit and their chat about the world of cinema. In this episode, our primo podders deliberate over Life, Mindhorn, Get Out, John Wick: Chapter 2, Raw, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, The Transfiguration, Fast & Furious 8, which Sarah debates took place in The Purge universe, while Richard dreams of Helen Mirren one day fighting The Rock. Finally the gang exchange shots at Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and despair at Logan.
Ristéard O’Domhnaill and Brian Fitzpatrick of 'Atlantic' at Irish Film Festival, Boston 2017
May 09, 2017 13:15 - 10 minutes - 9.91 MBRistéard O’Domhnaill (director) and Brian Fitzpatrick (associate producer) talk about Atlantic, crowdfunding, and working with Brendan Gleeson. And enjoy some fine Boston pizza. http://filmireland.net/
Author / Assoc Producer Rónán Mac Con Iomaire 'Rocky Ros Muc' at Irish Film Festival, Boston 2017
May 05, 2017 15:43 - 2 minutes - 2.27 MBCarrie Drzik talks to Author / Assoc Producer Rónán Mac Con Iomaire about 'Rocky Ros Muc', which tells the story of Galway boxer Seán Ó Mainnín who left the Irish-speaking village of Ros Muc in Galway, for Boston, in the 1970s. http://filmireland.net/
Interview with Duncan Campbell
May 04, 2017 16:35 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBFollowing his first major exhibition in Dublin at IMMA in 2014, IMMA presents a new film work by Irish-born artist Duncan Campbell. Entitled The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy this is the artist’s first film based in the Republic of Ireland and his first new work since winning the Turner Prize in 2014; when he was the first Irish born artist to do so. Originating from research undertaken in the IFI Irish Film Archive, Campbell’s new film commission takes as a starting point a 1960’s UCLA anthro...
Writer/Co-Director Sarah Dempsey, 'Hand in Hand' at Irish Film Festival, Boston 2017
May 03, 2017 15:13 - 10 minutes - 9.79 MBCarrie Drzik talks to writer/co-director Sarah Dempsey about her film 'Hand in Hand', a short documentary that sits down gay and lesbian couples as they openly discuss topics ranging from coming out to childbirth. This intimate documentary offers a window into what it is to be in a same-sex relationship in Ireland. http://filmireland.net/
Reel Horrorshow: Episode 7
May 02, 2017 21:12 - 1 hour - 74.1 MBOur horror hosts return to your nightmares in the latest episode of Reel Horrorshow. Flesheaters Conor McMahon, Conor Dowling and Mark Sheridan delve into the dark to discuss the latest delicacies they've dined upon... http://filmireland.net/
Natasha Waugh, writer/director of Terminal @ Irish Film Festival, Boston 2017
April 28, 2017 14:50 - 8 minutes - 7.7 MBCarrie Drzik talks to director Natasha Waugh at the Irish Film Festival, Boston about her short film about the decisions women make in the face of overwhelming personal circumstance. A girl and a woman meet at an airport departure gate. Just before they board a plane to Manchester, we witness a private exchange as they share the different reasons that brought them to this moment, and the traumatic journey that awaits them. http://filmireland.net/
Actor Dominic MacHale, The Young Offenders @ Irish Film Festival Boston
April 26, 2017 14:29 - 7 minutes - 6.58 MBCarrie Drzik talks to Dominic MacHale, who plays the bike-thief-obsessed Sergeant Healy in The Young Offenders, which won Best Feature at the festival. http://filmireland.net/
Podcast: Liam Gavin, 'A Dark Song'
April 07, 2017 13:04 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBPaul Farren caught up with director Liam Gavin to chat about his character-driven horror A Dark Song, which follows Sophia, a young woman who insists on renting an old house in the remote countryside so that she can hire an occultist named Solomon. She needs him to perform an ancient invocation ritual, the Abramelin, to summon up Sophia’s Guardian Angel so her wish can be granted. She wishes to talk to her murdered child, a desire that consumes her. The ritual is an extremely arduous one. Th...