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John Collins spoke to Colin McIvor, whose film Zoo opened this year’s Capital Irish Film Festival in Washington D.C.
The film, which features Ian McElhinney, Amy Huberman, Toby Jones and Penelope Wilton, 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 1st March 2018.
Zoo is released in Irish cinemas on 29th June 2018.
In 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 It Tolls 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…
To 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
Creep 2
Descent into Darkness: My European Nightmare
Offerings
Super Dark Times
Dark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy0b9e40tK8
The Lodgers
Ghostwatch
The 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, beat the living shit out of each other mull over top Fives, and gaze into the future to see what’s in store for 2018.
Contains spoilers…
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The macabre members of Reel Horror Show return to walk with you in 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.
In 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 during the one year Screen Acting Programme in The Factory (now Bow Street) and with the Gaiety School of Acting and the Focus Theatre. She is a member of The Actor’s Studio in Bow Street.
Film credits include the features The Secret Scripture, The Truth Commissioner, How to be Happy, ANTON and Portrait of a Zombie (Winner of the 2013 Underground Film Festival’s Best Independent Feature award). Geraldine’s performance in Portrait of a Zombie led to her being long listed for an IFTA for Best Actress in a leading role in a feature film in 2013.
Geraldine’s TV acting credits include the IFTA winning Red Rock and Cumann na mBan 100 as well as Scup and RTE’s children’s show Spooky Stakeout.
Geraldine’s recent theatre credits include One Day by Dick Walsh, Remember to Breathe (Dublin Fringe 2015), Friendly Fire, Mary Stuart, Beyond Therapy!, Philidelphia Here I come!, and various characters in the longplay improv Spoonfed (Dublin Fringe 2005).
Geraldine’s directing credits include the plays Orphans, The New York Monologues and The Cripple of Inishmaan and the short film Helmets and Thorny Island.
Her writing credits include the tiny play Knowing (which was published and produced by Fishamble’s Tiny Plays for Ireland) and the short films The Crack and Any Given Night (which she co-wrote).
Her film production credits include Enough (selected for screening at the 2015 Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival).
Geraldine is one of the two founding members of Alchemy 8 Productions whose production of Orphans was highlighted as one of the theatre highlights in Dublin for 2015. Geraldine can be seen soon in the new season of Striking Out on Rte and in the upcoming feature films Zoo, Dark lies the island and Black 47.
Currently she can be seen playing Jennifer in the web-series Fix Me by Tom Moran.
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Fix Me web series
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Tomi Reichental and Condemned to Remember director Gerry Gregg
June 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 an epic journey across a Europe in turmoil.
Condemned to Remember screened at the IFI and is currently screening in Dundrum and will screen at the Cork Film Festival on Sun 12th at 6.45pm with a post-screening Q&A with Tomi Reichental and Gerry Gregg.
Eclipse Pictures are organising school screenings across the country. Contact siobhan@eclipsepictures.ie for further information.
In this podcast Sarah Cullen chats to Linda Cullen, co-director of The 34th (with Vanessa Gildea), 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-consuming campaign.
From the KAL (Katherine Zappone & Ann Louise Gilligan) case to a YES vote on 22nd May 2015, this documentary spans a decade culminating in the 34th amendment to the Irish constitution, allowing same sex marriage.
Recorded by Tommy Cullen
The 34th screens at the Light House Cinema on Wednesday, 18th October at 6.30
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Sarah Cullen and Richard Drumm return to aurally go where no pod has gone before bringing 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 Lucky, the punch a white man inducing Detroit, the bravely bleak Wind River, the fingerbanging Kingsman: The Golden Circle and ermmmm mother!
Hear ye! Hear ye!
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Gemma 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.
The festival runs from 27th September – 1st October 2017
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Gemma 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.
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In 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.
Photo: Anthony Woods
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In 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.
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Paul 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.
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Women In Film and Television Ireland recently presented In Conversation with director Aisling Walsh as part of their Masterclass series. They have given us kind permission to podcast the audio of the conversation, which has been edited. We also include WIFT Ireland’s own filming of the event.
Aisling Walsh’s Maudie is currently in Irish cinemas.
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WFT Ireland: In Conversation with director Aisling Walsh (Part 1)
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WFT Ireland: In Conversation with director Aisling Walsh (Part 2)
Women in Film and Television Ireland is a voluntary body run by film and TV professionals of international standing, representing the creative, business and technical divisions of the Irish audiovisual sector. Women in Film and Television Ireland promote greater representation of women on screen and behind the camera. Our aim is to ensure that the Irish film and television industry functions as a meritocratic, sustainable and successful force into the future.
Gemma Creagh chats to Roisín Geraghty, programmer for Gaze LGBT Film Festival about this year’s festival, which runs 3rd – 7th August 2017.
This year’s GAZE programme can be found here
Our 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.
Our 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 – can we trust her? Alien Covenent – celebrating James Franco’s face on fire.
Pod on…
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Gemma 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.
Sanctuary is currently in the following cinemas and will tour regionally nationwide
Eye Galway;
IMC Dun Laoghaire;
IMC Galway;
Irish Film Institute;
Light House;
Movies @ Dundrum
Gemma Creagh had jams with director Laura McGann about her film Revolutions, which introduces the exciting, sometimes brutal, world of women’s roller derby.
Revolutions is screening at the IFI, Dublin
In 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.
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Gemma 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 lead roles and features support from a stellar cast including Ardal O’ Hanlon (After Hours, Fr. Ted), Pat Shortt (The Guard, Garage), Mary Conroy (Ros na Run) and Paul Ronan (Love / Hate).
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?
Mark Sheridan talks to director Conor Armstrong Sanfey about his debut feature, which screens at Filmbase on 21st June 2017.
No Budget Presents a Special Screening of Lift at Filmbase, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.
The proceeds from the event will go towards supporting independent filmmaking in Ireland.
Tickets €5 in advance through eventbrite and €6 at the door.
Paul Farren sat down with Mark O’Connor to talk about his latest film Cardboard Gangsters, which follows the story of a group of lads trying to take over the drug trade in Darndale.
Cardboard Gangsters is released in cinemas 16th June 2017.
Interview: Richard Bolger, producer of ‘Cardboard Gangsters’
A young girl tormented by the tragedies of her past is brought in for questioning by the police over the death of a man, who she claims to be a demon. Detective Beckett realizes this is the same girl he made a broken promise to six years ago that he’d find the monster that raped and murdered her 12 year old sister. The girl warns of a powerful man named Falstaff who will stop at nothing to claim her soul, Falstaff abducts Detective Beckett’s daughter and now this young girl is his only hope and ally in rescuing his daughter from this demonic cult and proving to him that Taryn Barker is the Demon Hunter.
Mark Sheridan talks to director and co-writer Zoe Kavanagh about her film, 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.
Representing 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 now raising the finance for Hong Khaou’s drama Trade.
Alan has been selected for the EFP Producer on the Move programme, representing Ireland at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Each year, the prestigious festival selects 20 promising, up-and-coming producers from throughout Europe to participate in the initiative which connects European producers with potential co-production partners.
After 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.
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Following a screening of Without Name at the IFI, director Lorcan Finnegan took part in a Q&A with fellow director Mark Sheridan to talk about his supernatural eco-horror film.
Thanks to the IFI for kindly sharing this podcast
