Film Ireland Podcast

Gemma Creagh sat down with all-round lovely man M.Night Shyamalan to discuss his latest film, The Visit. The Visit is released in Irish cinemas from 9th September.

Gemma Creagh talks to Judd Apatow about how 'Trainwreck' came together and working with Amy Schumer. Judd also gives some advice for directors and tells us about having a singsong in a Dublin pub.

In this episode of InConversation we speak with Aonghus Og McAnally, actor and Artistic Director of Rise Productions. This conversation was recorded a year ago. Since then Aonghus has toured nationally with a remount of The Games People Play, the second instalment of Rise's 'Dynasty and Destiny Trilogy'. Rise will premiere the final part of that trilogy At the Ford as part of this year's Dublin Theatre Festival.

In the latest episode of the Film Ireland podcast Richard Drumm and Jonathan Victory lure the directors of new Irish film 'Monged' into the basement to talk about their film and their experiences of premiering at this year's Galway Film Fleadh. As well as the latest news, Richard and Jonathan talk about 'Terminator: Genisys', 'Jurassic World', 'Spy', 'Ant-Man', 'Ted 2', 'She's Funny that Way', 'Slow West', 'True Story' and Mark Noonan's debut feature 'You're Ugly Too'. Along the way Jonathan admits to Marvel fatigue while Jonathan demonstrates the interconnectedness of Irish society.

This episode of In Conversation features writer, director and producer Paul Duane. Paul's directing credits include Barbaric Genius, Very Extremely Dangerous and Natan and he was named one of Variety magazine’s Ten Directors to Watch in 2013. In 2008 Paul set up the production company Screenworks with Rob Cawley, which recently produced the successful RTÉ series Amber. Paul also co-produced the documentary In a House That Ceased to Be, the story of Christina Noble, which was released in cinemas earlier this year and screened on RTÉ. The film won the George Morrison Feature Documentary IFTA Award.

In the latest Film Ireland podcast, Richard Drumm and Jonathan Victory are joined by Natasha Waugh, whose short film Food Fight recently recently screened at Cannes. In between chatting about film news and reviews, Natasha talks about setting up her own production company and getting her film into Cannes and bags past security. Along the way, look at Irish horror The Canal and Jonathan and Natasha go head to head over Glassland and catch up on The Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Tribe, Mad Max, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and the box-office phenomenon Kung Fury. Meanwhile, Donnchadh and Ruari are at large having escaped from the basement leaving only a poster of One Million B.C. in their wake. Gardaí are warning the public not to approach the men if seen talking about film in Dublin.

The 15th Irish Film Festival, Boston took place over four days from 19 – 22 March 2015 at the Somerville Theatre, Davis Square. Alexis Sullivan, a student at Boston College, attended the festival and talked to some of the filmmakers who were there presenting their films. In this podcast Alexis talks to Trevor Birney, co-director of INEZ: A Challenging Woman and Vinny McCormack, Inez's husband. INEZ: A Challenging Woman is a 33-minute documentary that explores the life and legacy of the internationally renowned and hugely influential human rights and trade union activist Inez McCormack. INEZ: A Challenging Woman screened at the Irish Film Festival, Boston as part of the New Irish Shorts Program on Sunday, 22nd March 2015.

The 15th Irish Film Festival, Boston took place over four days from 19 – 22 March 2015 at the Somerville Theatre, Davis Square. Alexis Sullivan, a student at Boston College, attended the festival and talked to some of the filmmakers who were there presenting their films. In this podcast Alexis chats to Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, co-producer of 'Mairéad Farrell: Comhrá nár Chríochnaigh', Martina Durac’s film that explores the life and death of one of the IRA’s most iconic female members.

A politically-charged serial killer thriller set in 1953 Soviet Russia, Child 44 chronicles the crisis of conscience for secret police agent Leo Demidov [Tom Hardy], who loses status, power and home when he refuses to denounce his own wife, Raisa [Noomi Rapace], as a traitor. Exiled from Moscow to a grim provincial outpost, Leo and Raisa join forces with General Mikhail Nesterov [Gary Oldman] to track down a serial killer who preys on young boys. Their quest for justice threatens a system-wide cover-up enforced by Leo’s psychopathic rival Vasili [Joel Kinnaman], who insists “There is no crime in Paradise.” The book's author Tom Smith talks about the film as a detective story, the character of General Mikhail Nesterov, the cast, and the process of going from novel to film.

The 15th Irish Film Festival, Boston took place over four days from 19 – 22 March 2015 at the Somerville Theatre, Davis Square. Alexis Sullivan, a student at Boston College, attended the festival and talked to some of the filmmakers who were there presenting their films. In this podcast Alexis chats to Paul Murphy, writer/director of The Weather Report, a short film that stars Edward MacLiam and Marie Ruane as Ted and Maureen Sweeney and centres around a mysterious phone call which questions a routine weather report by Lighthouse Keeper Ted Sweeney. This leads his wife Maureen to question more than just the weather report. The short was shot entirely on location in Blacksod Lighthouse in Belmullet, Co.Mayo. The Weather Report screened at the Irish Film Festival, Boston on Friday, 20th March 2015.

The 15th Irish Film Festival, Boston took place over four days from 19th – 22nd March 2015 at the Somerville Theatre, Davis Square. Alexis Sullivan, a student at Boston College, attended the festival and talked to some of the filmmakers who were there presenting their films. In this podcast Alexis chats to the directer Aoife Kelleher and producer Rachel Lysaght, whose award-winning documentary 'One Million Dubliners' explores life, death and the afterlife through a journey of Glasnevin Cemetery in North Dublin.

The 15th Irish Film Festival, Boston took place over four days from 19th – 22nd March 2015 at the Somerville Theatre, Davis Square. Alexis Sullivan, a student at Boston College, attended the festival and talked to some of the filmmakers who were there presenting their films. In this podcast Alexis chats to Niall Heery the writer/director of Gold, an offbeat comedy about an estranged father who returns to his hometown after an absence of ten years to reconnect with his teenage daughter and ex-wife.

The 15th Irish Film Festival, Boston took place over four days from 19th - 22nd March 2015 at the Somerville Theatre, Davis Square. Alexis Sullivan, a student at Boston College, attended the festival and talked to some of the filmmakers who were there presenting their films. In this first podcast Alexis chats to Festival Director Dawn Morrissey about putting the festival together and the need for an Irish Film Festival in Boston.

This episode of InConversation features Mark Gaster and Brian O'Neill, two of the three co-directors of 'How to be Happy'(along with Michael Rob Costine). The feature film is written by award winning writer/director, Conor Horgan ('One Hundred Mornings'). The development of the script was a collaborative effort between Conor and the students of the Filmbase/Staffordshire University MSc Digital Feature Film Production Course.

This episode of InConversation features Grainne Humphreys, Festival Director of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival since 2007.

Donnchadh and Richard are joined by Jonathan Victory to fantasize about pastries, dream about Jodorowsky and design 'Lost Ruairí' posters. Along the way the lads preview this year's Jameson Dublin Film Festival, chit chat about film news and stuff in the cinema. No one was harmed.

Kevin Hart and Josh Gad were recently in town to promote their film The Wedding Ringer. Gemma Creagh broke into their hotel room to have a quick natter about the film talk and to discuss their beautiful leg dancing and fairy feet.

A Terrible Beauty/Áille an Uafáis screened at the The 93-minute feature docudrama set during the Irish Rebellion of 1916 tells the largely untold story of displaced young men, women and children caught up in a chain of events which would have tragic consequences leaving many innocent people dead. Adam McPartlan talks to producer Dave Farrell and actor Colin Farrell, who plays Frank Shouldice, about the film.

Adam McPartlan spoke to Sinéad O'Brien, whose documentary Blood Fruit screened at the the Capital Irish Film Festival. Blood Fruit tells the story of the Dunnes Stores strikers in 1980’s Dublin. Mary Manning, a 21-year-old Dunnes Stores checkout girl, refused to sell two Outspan grapefruits under direction from her union in support of the anti-apartheid struggle. She and ten other supporters were suspended and a strike ensued. The 11 knew little about apartheid and assumed they’d be back to work before long but the arrival on the picket line of activist Nimrod Sejake changed everything, setting the strikers on a path they could never have expected.

Adam McPartlan spoke to Anne Anderson, the 17th Ambassador of Ireland to the United States, to find out about the huge appetite among the 40 million Diaspora to connect with Ireland through film and how festivals such as the Capitol Irish Film Festival can bring Irish culture to a wider American audience.