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Interview | The Hole-Healing World Of Actress Norma Sheahan
The award-winning actress Norma Sheahan has become a stalwart face of Irish comedy. Over the past two decades, the Cork lady has found herself in front of the camera on numerous occasions - everything from big screen roles in Intermission…
“How people watch films, who cares? I shoot the same way” | Abel Ferrara on Tommaso
Abel Ferrara is a wild man. After all, this is a filmmaker who began his career directing and starring in The Driller Killer, a film about a troubled artist who begins murdering homeless people with a power tool.
Just as his debut opens…
Interview | Mads Brugger, Director of Lux Prize Finalist Cold Case Hammarskjold
A must for true crime junkies, Scandi documentary and Lux Prize finalist Cold Case Hammarskjold is a dizzying, disturbing odyssey. It sees director and onscreen narrator Mads Brugger travel the world investigating the suspicious death of UN…
Interview | Teona Strugar Mitevska, Director of Lux Prize Winner God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya
Last week, Macedonian film God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya was crowned 2019's Lux Prize winner, an award given out by the European Parliament to help significant European films find an audience beyond their national market. Beating fellow…
Interview with Hasan Khan: VFX Compositor
Favourite Film: Anything from the MCU except Thor: The Dark World, Inception, Interstellar and Zombieland.
Favourite Animation: The Lion King and Tarzan from the 90s, Treasure Planet.
This week, I had the opportunity to chat with…
Interview Exclusive | Mike Andrews, Director of Documentary Short Pigsy
When documentary maker Mike Andrews met artist Ciarán McCoy - also known as Pigsy - for the first time in Nick’s Coffee Shop in Ranelagh in 2017, he figured he’d be there for maybe 30 minutes. They had arranged to meet after Andrews…
Interview | Nigel Mulligan, Writer-Director of Short Film Dust
Writer-director Nigel Mulligan is making quite a stir with his latest short Dust, a dark nightmarish thriller focusing on a young woman and avid gamer named Cassie (Sorcha Fahy). Struggling with mental health issues and a trauma in her…
Interview | Writer-Director Trish McAdam Discusses Her Season at the IFI
One of the first female Irish directors to make movies about women's lives, Trish McAdam's innovative, always contemporary filmography is set to be celebrated with a season at the Irish Film Institute (IFI). As part of this, her latest…
Interview Exclusive | The Makers of Groundbreaking New Doc 28 Jours
Periods are cool. Breaking taboos and celebrating menstruation in a society ostracizing those with a uterus is at the heart of a new documentary released on YouTube. The French project titled 28 jours (28 Days) aims to liberate female…
National Cancer Week | Director Cathal Kenna Discusses New Drama For Molly
Not many films shot in five days get cinema releases. However, Cathal Kenna's For Molly isn't like other movies.
This labour of love made on a shoestring budget, tells the story of young Irish couple Evan (Kieran O'Reilly) and Laura…