Niall McCloskey reports from Shiny / Powerhouse Showcase in Dublin, a vibrant evening spotlighting some of the most exciting new voices in Irish filmmaking.
When Jaws first surfaced in cinemas, it didn’t just terrify audiences, it changed the face of film forever. The original summer blockbuster, Steven Spielberg’s shark tale embedded itself deep in the cultural imagination. To mark its 50th anniversary, Film Ireland’s Conor Bryce asks his fellow contributors to to wade back into the cinematic waters that first turned blood-red in 1975.
Our friends at The Bloomsday Film Festival have an incredible lineup of events this week, and they’ve kindly given us a few pairs of tickets to give away for one of their exciting screenings: ‘Horrible Creature’ and Q&A with Áine Stapleton.
In this article, Assistant Editor Dev Murray sits down with filmmaker Denis McArdle, who penned short film Koji’s Courage which has just secured funding from the National Talent Academy for Animation. Fresh from winning Best Director at the Naas Film Festival for his latest short, The Light Within, Denis reflects on his career and estimates that the risks we face don’t diminish with experience.
As the powerful documentary Mrs. Robinson screens at festivals around the world, Mick Jordan reflects on how one woman’s unlikely rise to power marked the beginning of a modern Ireland — whether she meant it to or not.
Over a quarter of a century on, Gemma Creagh gives her take on this classic era of film, looking at The Virgin Suicides, American Beauty, Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Blair Witch Project, and The Talented Mr. Ripley.
In this article, Assistant Editor Dev Murray sits down with Ayvianna Snow — a force in indie horror with more than 70 screen credits to her name — to talk haunted taverns, creative instinct, and why she believes horror deserves a seat at the grown-ups’ table.
This April, contributor and filmmaker Mick Jordan got his tickets for TRANS IMAGE/TRANS EXPERIENCE, a festival where nothing is off-limits. This is Ireland’s first festival of trans and non-binary cinema, and was held from 25-27 April 2025 at the Light House Cinema.
Earlier this year at the Dublin International Film Festival, Antidote and Venom hosted a special event to celebrate their shared legacy. On February 25th at The Complex in Smithfield, they marked 20 years of co-existence as sister companies operating in the interconnected worlds of TV commercials and documentary filmmaking. In this report, Adam Matthews explores how these two worlds collide and complement each other.
Dev Murray dives into ‘Jane Finds the Sea Frightening’, with writer/ director Jason Figgis.