Yes it’s raining; yes it’s freezing – but that won’t stop us celebrating the fact that this year’s Summer Issue of Film Ireland magazine is out now. As you can tell from the grooviest of covers, this issue is a scorcher. So wrap up warm, bring an umbrella and celebrate the start of an Irish [...]
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The Winter Issue of Film Ireland will be with Filmbase members, subscribers and on the shelves of newsagents across the country next week. Jamie Hannigan talks to Colm Meaney about his role in Parked, Anna Rodgers catches up with legendary documentary filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams), Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy [...]
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Issue 138 of Film Ireland is available now… Fuller than Sam and packed like jam.
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Summer’s here and the time is right for reading Film Ireland in the streets.
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Get a spring in your step with the current Film Ireland Spring Issue out now. Enter the world of Hammer Horror with our exlusive interview with Aidan Gillen about his latest feature ‘Wake Wood’ (in cinemas this Friday), the first Hammer horror film to be shot in Ireland. Say ‘goodbye’ to the departing chief executive of the Irish Film Board Simon Perry in his revealing interview. Find out what our neighbours think of the Irish Film Industry. Learn what the web can do to help filmmakers. Get into the bowels of this year’s Jameson Dublin International Film Festival with this issue’s focus on Ireland’s biggest festival. This and so much more in a bulging issue of Film Ireland.
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Film Ireland’s Winter Issue article in full: Aoife Kelleher talks to Risteard Ó Domhnaill, director of ‘The Pipe’, winner of Best Feature Documentary at this year’s Fleadh.
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Film Ireland’s Winter Issue is out now and packed with essential reading beside the fire over these coming months. Brendan Gleeson and his sons Brian and Domhnall talk exclusively to Film Ireland magazine. This lively issue also spotlights Irish documentaries in the Corona Cork Film Festival 7–14 November including Sé Merry Doyle’s ‘Dreaming the Quiet Man’ about the making of the John Ford classic, and Risteard Ó Domhnaill’s much talked about ‘The Pipe’.
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The ‘Savage’ Autumn issue of Film Ireland is out now. Comedy masters Graham Linehan and Bobby Farrelly are among the stars in the latest issue. Heavyweights of world comedy feature alongside up and coming Irish feature-filmmakers Brendan Muldowney ‘Savage’ and Carmel Winters ‘Snap’ plus the top Irish directors of TV Drama. Other highlights include Raindance founder Elliot Grove, The Joy of Section 481, Sounding Off with Ferdia McAnna, the quotable Pierce Brosnan, Urszula Antoniak on her first feature ‘Nothing Personal’, screenwriter Stephen Walsh ‘Where the Sea is Used To Be’ and director Ian Power.
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NIAMH CREELY talks to director PJ Dillon and producers Alex Jones and John Wallace about their new feature film ‘Rewind’.
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Martina Niland and Carmel Winters talk to NIAMH CREELY about their brilliant new feature ‘Snap’.
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GORDON GAFFNEY misses his turn off the spaghetti junction of Section 481 whilst writing this explanatory article.
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Raindance founder ELLIOT GROVE gives us the low-down on how to meet those challenges with winning strategies.
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SHANE KENNEDY reports from this year’s Give Me Direction comedy screenwriting conference.
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ROSS WHITAKER attends IFTA’s ‘In Conversation With…’ comedy writer extraordinaire Graham Linehan.
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AMANDA SPENCER talks to some directors and sees who’s taking sides in TV versus Film.
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Joe Griffin ponders the future of film criticism and wonders if the role of the film critic has become redundant.
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‘Savage’ director Brendan Muldowney revisits some of his key inspirations with JAMIE HANNIGAN.
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