FNI Wrap Chat

This week in our second part, The talent continues to be only massive, We're throwing our spotlight on Some brilliant up and coming filmmakers who are screening at the Still Voices Film Festival. https://stillvoicesfilmfestival.com/

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Joining the Paul's on Part two in the studio and online:

Damien Varley - Life After Life

Damien Varley is a first time Director from Limerick. Damien is a former Irish rugby union player who represented Munster and Captained Ireland. He played as a hooker. Damien retired from rugby in February 2015, due to a foot injury and is now looking to forge a new creative career in his other passion of storytelling. Damien gives a fascinating insight into the parallels between top professional sport and Filmaking and his hopes for the future.

Laura O' Shea - Match

Laura and Tony met in 2015 when they trained together in Bow Street Academy for Screen Acting. Since then, they have been continually acting, writing and/or producing together. Their first production together was a play called ‘Knowing Nathan’. It had a sold-out run-in The Complex Dublin (January 2018) and went on to win the Judge’s Choice Award at Galway Fringe Festival in 2018. Now, the pair have teamed up again to create something for screen. Neither are strangers to making shorts and films - Laura’s debut short film as a filmmaker ‘Hold the Line’ won the award for ‘Best Short Film’ at Belfast Film Festival in 2019 as well as ‘Best Acting’ and ‘Best Editing’ at the 2018 Richard Harris International Film Festival. Tony can be seen Acting in Irish Features Dublin Oldschool and Michael Inside, both currently streaming on Netflix.           

Match is co-directed with Tony Doyle

Cara Holmes - Welcome to A Bright White Limbo

Cara Holmes is a director and film editor based in Ireland. Her work has predominantly been in documentary (both independent and broadcast) as well as working on TV dramas, award winning observational documentary series, experimental film and short films. Cara’s interests lie in feminism, disability rights and LGBT stories, she is interested in making films that uncover interesting truths. Cara's most recent work was the Screen Ireland funded documentary ‘WELCOME TO A BRIGHT WHITE LIMBO’. Combining documentary approach and live dance performance, this visually arresting film dives into the mind and creative process of Oona Doherty’ and her award-winning dance show 'Hope Hunt’. The film is set to premiere at the Cork International Film Festival, 2019. At the moment, Cara is co-directing and editing the documentary ‘TEENAGE AMBASSADORS’, an inspiring story of teenage best friends Natasha and Minahil who grew up in the direct provision centre in Athlone, Ireland. The documentary will be broadcast in November, 2019       

Iseult Howlett - The Grass Ceiling

Iseult Howlett has been crafting stories for screen for almost 20 years. She is a multiple IFTA nominated editor and has cut a number of award-winning documentaries and short films. The Grass Ceiling is Iseult's directorial debut.

Virginia Gilbert  - Day Out.

Virginia Gilbert is an award-winning, BAFTA-nominated writer and director of film, TV and radio. Her screenwriting work has been placed on the BritList and she was named as a 'Star of Tomorrow' by Screen International. She is currently developing numerous original film and TV projects, including the adaptation of her debut novel, Travelling Companion.

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This week, We're throwing our spotlight on Some brilliant up and coming filmmakers who are screening at the Still Voices Film Festival. https://stillvoicesfilmfestival.com/

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Following the success of his previous short film, "Lost Memories" Eamonn Murphy received funding for his latest short film "A Better You" from Screen Ireland. He is currently developing his first feature project with the support of Screen Skills Ireland and Creative Media Europe.           

Michael-David McKernan - Halo.

Michael-David is an Irish actor and filmmaker based in Dublin and London. Since graduating with a First Class Honours in Drama & Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin, he has worked on stage in Ireland and the UK, winning an Irish Times Theatre Award for Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin (Best Ensemble). In 2017 he graduated from Bow Street Film Academy. Screen credits include Red Rock, Quantico and most recently In Orbit opposite Olwen Fouéré.           

Katie McNiece - In Orbit.

Katie McNeice is a first-time director based in Dublin, Ireland. Her debut film 'In Orbit' is a self-funded project which gleaned 14 nominations and 4 awards on the festival circuit in screenplay form, ever before the film went into production. This includes winning a live pitching competition in St John's Theatre in Covent Garden, London, as part of the London Short Series Film Festival in 2018. McNeice is also the Writer, Producer and Editor on the project and completed additional VFX.       

Mark Smyth is an award winning film director with an honours degree in Film/TV Production. He started working as a TV editor in 2009 and has since gone on to work as a director on productions in Ireland, USA, Canada and the UK . He is a firm believer in collaboration and his interest lies in telling unique stories about the magic of life with compelling characters at the forefront. Marks most recent short film “The Bridge” was funded by RTÉ & The Galway Film Centre has just finished post production. Starring Lochlann O’Mearáin, Peter Coonan & Marie Mullen the film was shot on location in The Burren Co. Clare and is set for festival release in summer 2019.   

Jamie Goldrick is a director and writer based in Dublin. He is a former editor of rabble print magazine in Ireland, his writing has also appeared in publications such as the Sunday Business Post and Adbusters magazine. He has directed and shot music videos in Ireland for Lankum, Lisa O Neill & Shakalak. He has also directed work for Amnesty International Ireland, Bohemian F.C. and Universal Music Ireland. His work with Lisa O Neill featured on The Guardian and his work with Bohemian F.C. has featured in major news publications across the island. He directed and shot a live adaption of Ian Maleney's Novel, Minor Monuments, which had a Nationwide tour in 2019. His last documentary short, The Reek was screened internationally and won best Documentary Short at Kerry Film Festival in 2018. In 2020 he was the recipient of an Emerging Director Award in Ireland for his work with Ana Liffey Drug Project.

Mia Mullarkey is a film director based in Dublin, Ireland. She directed several successful shorts, receiving 40 awards globally, and screening at major international short film festivals such as Palm Springs, Aesthetica, São Paulo, Valladolid, Tehran and Helsinki. In 2018 Mia received the Discovery Award at Dublin International Film Festival for her body of work, and was made the 2018/2019 Filmmaker-in-Residence with Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival.           

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This week joining our BRAND NEW host Mia Mullarkey for a very special chat is the incomparable Kate O'Toole.

Talking all things Film, Acting, the O'Toole dynasty, John Huston and the amazing Galway Film Fleadh and her work therein, including this years challenging shift online, which reached five million people.

Kate is an Actor, introduced to a creative life at a very early age, parented by the renowned Actors Peter O'Toole and Sian Phillips.

Kate has appeared in numerous stage and Film productions in a 2006 West End production of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke at the Apollo Theatre, London, and is cast in Channel 4's Forgiven. She appeared in the first and third season of the Showtime series The Tudors as Lady Salisbury.

Kate was nominated for Best Actress at the Irish Times Theatre Awards for her role as Eleanor in Rough Magic Theatre Company's production of Terry Johnson's Dead Funny. She won Best Actress UK in the Barclays/Arts Council Theatre Awards for her performance as 'B' in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women (Lyric theatre, Belfast).

In 2010 she filmed a remake of Patrice Leconte's classic L'homme du train with Donald Sutherland and U2's Larry Mullen. Her other film credits include The Confusion of Tongues, Hideaways, Possession, Dancing at Lughnasa, Get Well Soon (BBC TV series), Eden, Laughter in the Dark, 32A and John Huston's last film, The Dead, his critically acclaimed adaptation of James Joyce's short story.

Minister for Arts, Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan, appointed her to the Irish Film Board in 2013 (Screen Ireland) . She is chairwoman of Ireland's highly acclaimed film festival, the Galway Film Fleadh.

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With the Brilliant news that Lee Cronin's  "The Hole in the ground" has received a whopping 7 IFTA nominations last week. We're joined by co-writer Stephen Shields  this week for a new ep.

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Stephen Shields is an Irish screenwriter. After winning the RTE STORYLAND 2010 with his web series ZOMBIE BASHERS Stephen went on to write on RTE's flagship comedy show THE REPUBLIC OF TELLY, where he was the longest-serving writer. He was nominated for two Irish writers' guild awards for his work on the show.

He was nominated for two Irish writers' guild awards for his work on the show. Stephen also wrote for many other Irish comedy shows including the highly rated CALLAN'S KICKS, DES BISHOPS: THIS IS IRELAND and created and wrote 32 episodes of RTE's children's show TIM'S TACTICAL TIPS.

Stephen now turns his attention to drama and has numerous features in development with Screen Ireland whilst also developing television drama. Stephen's first produced feature, THE HOLE IN THE GROUND, which he co-wrote with director Lee Cronin for producer John Keville and Savage Productions premieres at Sundance Film Festival and has backing from Screen Ireland, Bankside Films and A24. Vertigo releases in the UK in Spring 2019.

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This week on the next Episode of FNI Wrapchat, Paul Webster chats to a bit of a cult hero director for a lot of Irish creatives, Paddy Breathnach.

Paddy Breathnach started his directing career making natural history documentaries. His first feature, AILSA, won the Award for Best First / Second Film at the San Sebastian Film Festival. His second feature I WENT DOWN (BBC Films) starring Brendan Gleeson, won the New Directors prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival 1997. I WENT DOWN screened at Sundance in 1998 and won the Best Director award at both Thessaloniki and Bogota Film Festivals. He produced SOUTHPAW, a feature documentary that was selected for Sundance in 1999 and got a US and UK theatrical release.

Breathnach went on to direct BLOW DRY, MAN ABOUT DOG, SHROOMS and RED MIST. In 2012 he completed the documentary AN OICHE A GINEADH M'ATHAIR. In 2016 his Spanish language film VIVA was short listed for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His latest film, ROSIE, premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the UK in March 2019.

He’s a board member of The Screen Director’s Guild of Ireland.

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EP 111. Diarmuid Goggins. Director.

We caught up with Diarmuid this week in between car chases and controlled explosions to have a chat about being real, working hard, wanting an actual fistfight in a fake emergency room and general kindness in the industry.

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An Irish IFTA-nominated director for Film and TV Drama, Diarmuid recently completed work on BULLETPROOF Series 2 as Lead Director having previously been Lead Director on SILENT WITNESS. Other recent credits include Lead Director on series 3 of Dublin-set police drama RED ROCK for Element Pictures/TV3/BBC. His early credits include directing on CASUALTY, HOLLYOAKS, and CBBC comedy-dramas DANI'S CASTLE and MILLIE INBETWEEN.

Graduating from The National Film School in 2003, Diarmuid's short film NELL came 3rd in the Best First Short category at the Galway Film Fleadh. He went on to direct factual and dramatic programming for RTÉ and TG4, Ireland's leading broadcasters, before writing and directing his 2010 short drama CAR PARK. That same year, Diarmuid also directed THE LINE, which The Sunday Times described as 'a slickly executed dystopian drama made with the confident swagger of director Goggins. JESUS, MARY AND MATTIE was Diarmuid's next drama, a moving adaptation of Patrick Pearse's short story about a man, Mattie, who after his losing his wife, struggles to find any meaning in his life.

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Brought to you by Film Equipment Store: This week brings us a special podcast. One of our Favorite Actors Michael Smiley.

 

Michael Smiley is a Northern Irish actor. Smiley was born in 1963 in Belfast and grew up in Holywood. He moved to London in his 20s with his wife. He began doing stand-up in 1993, after accepting a bet at an open-mic night. He had worked as a cycle courier (like his character in Spaced) and as an acid house DJ.

He became well known for his role as Tyres O'Flaherty in the sitcom Spaced.

In 2008, he starred in British film Down Terrace in memorable turn and in 2011 he starred in the horror film Kill List both Directed by Ben Wheatley. The latter film received critical acclaim, and earned him the "Best Supporting Actor" Award at the 2011 British Independent Film Awards.

In 2013, Smiley also starred in the Netflix show Black Mirror as Baxter in “White Bear”. He also had a major role in British crime series Luther from 2010 until 2019.

In 2019, Smiley co-starred with Elijah Wood and Martin Donovan in the film Come to Daddy directed by Ant Timpson. Other Notable credits include the The Lobster, Star Wars Rogue one, Jawbone, Free Fire, and the wonderful “My Name is Emily” by the incredible Simon Fitzmaurice.

Up next Michael will star in Dead Still, a 6-part Irish-Canadian television drama series, which premiered on May 18, 2020 on Acorn TV and May 15, 2020 Citytv. The series is a co-production between Ireland's Deadpan Pictures and Canada's Shaftesbury Films and is written by John Morton, and directed by Imogen Murphy and Craig David Wallace.

Smiley is married to journalist/broadcaster Miranda Sawyer. He also shared a flat with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in the 1990s.

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We're joined today by award-winning filmmaker Barrie Dowdall on FNI Wrapchat, back in the studio for the first time in 12 weeks.

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Hot on the heals on the Packed out Screening at VDiff of his Latest docu-drama, Violet Gibson. Violet Gibson tells the story of the Irish Woman who tried to assassinate Benito Mussolini in 1926, on the cusp of the rise of fascism and the advent of WW2. Using a mixture of historical newsreel footage and shots filmed on-site in Rome, Barrie's documentary proves that if it wasn't true, you couldn't and wouldn't believe it. Incredible stuff.

Barrie specialises in producing, directing and shooting documentaries of historical, human and social interest for broadcasters worldwide. He has worked in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Jordan, Nepal, Zambia, Nigeria, Indonesia, Australia, Venezuela, the United States and throughout Europe, producing work for various broadcasters including RTE, BBC, TG4, PBS, ZDF, The HISTORY CHANNEL, ABC, CHANNEL 9 and FOXTEL.

He also works in the corporate sector and has produced and directed programmes for government departments, community and education projects, local authorities and NGO’s on subjects ranging from coastal erosion to civil engineering, from food aid distribution in Afghanistan to community initiatives with aids victims in sub- Saharan Africa, from responses to the disaffection and early school leaving of young Irish teenagers to family reunification issues affecting new immigrants in Ireland.

Based in Dublin, his companies NED KELLY PICTURES and TELWELL PRODUCTIONS provide a range of services including, project development, production, post-production, and consultancy on developing TV projects for the home and international market.

He lectures and writes about documentary production. A former National Representative of the European Documentary Network (EDN,) regular Jury Member of the IFTA Awards, member of the Irish Film Institute Council (IFI) and former Board Member of the Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Festival, Dublin.

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On this EP of FNI WrapChat is Director Daniel O'Hara.

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Daniel O’Hara is a director from Dublin, based in Edinburgh. He has directed television projects for a wide range of international broadcasters and content providers, including Netflix, BBC, Sky, RTÉ and TG4, on shows including Harlan Coben’s The Stranger, Brassic, Doctor Who and Being Human.

His short films, Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom and Fluent Dysphasia, won a combined total of 25 awards at international film festivals.

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We talk obstacles to Women in Film, Shooting THAT scene in Normal People and Kate's love for documentaries. 

Kate received the Golden Frog for Best Cinematography on a Docudrama ‘I Dolours’ at Camerimage 2018. In the same year she was nominated for an Emmy for her work on ‘The Farthest’. The Hollywood Reporter listed McCullough as top 10 to watch in Irish Film Industry 2017. More recently she was nominated for the IMAGO award 2019 for her work on ‘The Farthest’. Upon completing her studies at The National Film School, Lodz, Poland, McCullough shot the Irish box office hit  ‘His and Hers’. This film went on to win the ‘World Cinematography Award in Documentary’, Sundance 2010. 

 More recently Kate's Credits include Can't Cope Won't Cope, The Tv Drama Blood, Arracht and the wildly popular Normal People for BBC/RTE. 

Kate is a member of the Irish Society of Cinematographers.

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