Film Ireland’s Cannes correspondent Shannon Cotter chats with Archie Pearch, producer of Cannes smash hit Urchin, which received the prestigious Un Certain Regard Award for Best Actor as well as the FIPRESCI Critics’ Award. Having worked as assistant to screen legend David Heyman for several years, Pearch recently co-founded Devisio Pictures with long-term collaborator Harris Dickinson, steadily making his move as one of the most exciting producers in the current film landscape. Shannon discusses Cannes reactions, last-minute location sourcing, and the importance of showcasing diverse voices.
Cannes correspondent Shannon Cotter looks at Óliver Laxe’s EDM-fuelled road trip movie, ‘Sirât’, which turns out to be one of the festival’s biggest surprises.
Reporting from Cannes, Shannon Cotter watches ‘Left-Handed Girl’ unfurl with quiet force, a luminous, street-level portrait of survival and shame in modern-day Taipei.
Shannon Cotter reports from Cannes, where Mascha Schilinski’s German epic ‘Sound of Falling’ premiered in the Official Selection. Spanning four generations of a single household, this film steers the director into a whole new league.
Cannes critic and correspondent Shannon Cotter looks at Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s Cannes entry ‘Two Prosecutors’, a harrowing, engrossing look at the state of Russia during Stalin’s Great Purge.
Reporting from the sun-drenched French Riviera, our Cannes critic and correspondent Shannon Cotter catches Honey Don’t! on the big screen.
From the sunny French Riviera, our Cannes critic and correspondent Shannon Cotter braves the darkness to give you her take on Amélie Bonnin’s debut film ‘Partir un Jour’ (‘Leave One Day’)
Shannon Cotter hatches her verdict in her review of ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’.
Shannon Cotter looks to dysfunctional siblings in Element Pictures’ drama ‘September Says’.