Niall McKay met director Macdara Vallely to talk about his feature, ‘Babygirl’, which screens this weekend as part of Ireland on Sunday, the IFI’s monthly showcase for new Irish film.
When Whackala began a crowd-funding campaign in 2011 to raise money to make City Wild the company set out to produce a short film. Since then City Wild has evolved to become a feature documentary. Steven Galvin caught up with Leticia Agudo, who co-directed the film with Paul McGrath, to find out more about Whackala’s first feature-length documentary, which shines a light on the people who live and work in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. The…
Ireland On Sunday presents the Irish premiere of new Irish short film ‘Tax City’, a dark and gritty journey into the heart of the London homeless community.
This month’s event features Keith and Dave Farrell’s docudrama ‘A Terrible Beauty’ which will screen on Sunday, 21st April 2013 at 1pm.
As Gerard Hurley’s The Pier continues its run in cinemas around the country with a screening on Monday, 19th March at The Phoenix Cinema, Dingle, Co Kerry @ 6pm, Soracha Pelan Ó Treasaigh reports on its recent IFI screening as part of Ireland on Sunday series. The Pier was screened as part of the Irish Film Institute’s Ireland on Sunday season showcasing new Irish film. Gerard Hurley (writer, director, producer and lead actor) was in…
12pm, 11th March 2012 This debut feature from shorts filmmaker, writer and theatre director John McIlduff is a darkly comic road movie that follows Eddie (Nigel O’Neill), a 50-year old ex-accountant, and Liz (Aoife Duffin), his junkie son’s girlfriend, as they travel across Northern Ireland in a bid to pick up a lamb and thus save the son’s neck. En route, they fumble their way through a series of comic, tragic and disturbing adventures. Liz…
IFI Ireland on Sunday presents Gerard Hurley’s look at a returning emigrant in his new film, ‘The Pier’.