Sandra Costello marvels at ‘Irish Destiny’ made soon after the events it depicted. The first fiction film dealing with the War of Independence in Ireland, a 35mm print of the film was restored and repatriated from the US by the IFI in the early 1990s.
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Mary McGuckian, whose film ‘A Girl From Mogadishu’ is released in cinemas across Ireland.
Marija Laugalyte reflects on ‘The Castle’, Lina Lužytė’s psychological coming-of-age story which offers rare insights into the lives of economic migrants in Ireland.
In this Film Ireland podcast, Paul Farren talks to Alistair Owen about his book ‘The Art of Screen Adaptation’.
Author and journalist Wayne Byrne will give two lectures on the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise.
The Dublin International Comedy Film Festival kicks off this week with a programme that promises to deliver comic gifts, including films, sketches and web series from Ireland and around the globe.
Bray – A Reminder is a short film written by playwright and songwriter David Doyle, directed by Rita-Marie Lawlor with Justine O’Rourke as the lead Mary-Jane alongside Tommy O’Neill from Fair City. Film Ireland headed to Wicklow’s coast to find out more.
Earlier this year Aoife O’Neill attended the Toronto Irish Film Festival and was kind enough to send us on a review of the second Shorts Programme.
Sandra Costello spent some time in a Cork City pub on Christmas eve, floating over Glengarriff, hanging over the Atlantic in Dursey and dropping into an 18th-century field in West Cork.
With an impressive IMDB roll call behind him and a bright future ahead of him we chat to screenwriter and actor Niall Cassin.
