In this podcast, Gemma Creagh sits down with three filmmakers whose short films screen at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh. Director Rioghnach Ni Ghrioghair (Break Us), writer Sarah Ingersoll (The Bridge) and producer Marissa Aroy (The Ferry) join us to talk about their films, their roles as director , writer and producer and their individual approaches to the craft of filmmaking.
Break Us
(DIR/WRI: Rioghnach Ni Ghrioghair • PRO: Claire McCabe, 925 Productions • CAST: Gavin Drea, Danielle Galligan, Tristan McConnell)
Irish Talent: New Shorts 7Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland World Premiere Shorts
Sat 13 July | Town Hall Theatre | 11:45
Mark and Sophie plan to rob a post office but as things go awry, they each discover what they’re really made of.
The Bridge
(WRI: Sarah Ingersoll • DIR: Mark Smyth • PRO: Lynn Larkin • CAST: Lochlann O’Mearáin, Peter Coonan, Marie Mullen)
Irish Talent: New Shorts 6, Fiction
Sat 13 July | Town Hall Theatre | 10:00
After the sudden death of his parents a young man must choose between returning to his home village in the west of Ireland to care for his estranged younger brother, and a bright future in Canada.
The Ferry
(PRO: Marissa Aroy, Roisin Kearney, Clodagh Bowyer • DIR/WRI: Niall McKay • CAST: Aoife Duffin, Deirdre Donnelly, Clodagh Bowyer)
Irish Talent: New Shorts 5, Fiction
Fri 12 July | Town Hall Theatre | 11:45
Aoife searches for her birth mother and unveils a past that entangles two other women in town.
Tickets www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/
