FNI Wrap Chat

On this weeks Episode is Actor/Musician Steve Wall.

Steve recently finished filming a major role in 'Raised by Wolves', a new series with Ridley Scott at the helm, set to air sometime in 2020 on HBO Max. He has also just wrapped filming on 'The South Westerlies', an Irish comedy-drama with Dublin-based Deadpan Pictures, alongside ZDF Enterprises, TV2 Norway and in association with Screen Ireland. Prior to that, he completed filming The Witcher for Netflix playing the role of 'Boholt' and he can also be seen in the new HBO/Cinemax series 'Warrior' which began it's run in April 2019, in which he plays the bounty hunter Gresham.

He has received rave reviews for his recent portrayal of the legendary jazz musician Chet Baker in 'My Foolish Heart', a film about Chet's final days in Amsterdam in 1988. It received its world premiere in September 2018 at the Dutch International Film Festival. In 'Vikings' he played the scheming Einar in seasons two, three and four. His other credits include: the role of Detective Coleman in the major RTE drama series 'Rebellion' set against the backdrop of Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising. He played the smooth baddie Dominic Fitzroy in the first two episodes of season three of the global crime drama 'Crossing Lines' starring Donald Sutherland. For the BBC he completed 'Silent Witness', aired in January 2015, in which he played a major role. Steve landed a significant, recurring role as Danny Moone in all three series of the Chris O'Dowd comedy 'Moone Boy' for Sky TV and in Sept 2015 he won Best Actor in a Leading Role at the San Diego Horror Film Festival for his role as Peter in the short film 'Ghost Train' (2013). In the summer of 2016 he played the edgy character Liam in the multi-award-winning short 'Gridlock' for which he was nominated best supporting actor in the Irish Underground Cinema festival 2017. The same year also saw the release of Dennis Bartok's hospital horror 'Nails' in which Steve starred alongside Shauna MacDonald (The Descent). He was back on set with 'Ghost Train' director Lee Cronin playing a role in the latter's acclaimed first feature 'The Hole in the Ground' which premiered at Sundance 2019. Steve is also a multi-platinum selling musician, singer and songwriter with legendary Irish bands The Walls and The Stunning.

We have been working hard to develop a shoot and screen festival to raise awareness of homelessness in Ireland in partnership with The Virgin Media Dublin Film Festival, Dublin Business School, Wildcard Distribution and the Headstuff Podcast Network. Information here, THIS WEEKEND. Please share/Attend/donate. WE NEED YOUR HELP.

We will also be podcasting throughout the weekend on site at DBS near Grafton Street. FNI 20/20 vision. Supporting The Peter McFerry Trust.

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We also have our end of year party in Temple Bar on the 19th of December to round off the year. 

Die Hard:Christmas Party Harder. All welcome. 

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On this week's ep of FNI Wrapchat is Irish Film Composer based in Los Angeles Emer Kinsella. 

PBL had a lovely chat with Emer about the differences between large and small scale productions, Living in LA as an Irish person, working to get by and her love of her craft. 

Emer Kinsella is a film composer, classically-trained experimental violinist and songwriter from Dublin, Ireland. Emer is known for her textural and minimal introspective string writing, blended together with ambient electronics and poignant soundscapes. Her credits include the recent short, In Orbit, directed by Katie McNiece,  working with Johnny Klimek on the Netflix show Sense8 and the motion picture Jungle starring Daniel Radcliffe. Emer recently scored the documentary film Faith which screened at the Vancouver and Atlanta LGBT film festivals and the award-winning short film Suburban Jungle which won Best Short film at the San Pedro International Film Festival in 2018. At the heart of her musical voice is the violin, an instrument she has played since the age of two. Emer is from Malahide in Dublin but resides in Los Angeles.

We have been working hard to develop a shoot and screen festival to raise awareness of homelessness in Ireland in partnership with The Virgin Media Dublin Film Festival, Dublin Business School, Wildcard Distribution and the Headstuff Podcast Network. Information here. Please share/Attend/donate. We will also be podcasting throughout the weekend on site at DBS near Grafton Street. FNI 20/20 vision. Supporting The Peter McFerry Trust.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/84400864257

We also have our end of year party in Temple Bar on the 19th of December to round off the year. 

Die Hard:Christmas Party Harder. All welcome. 

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After our adventures on the road at the Cork and Kerry Film festivals recently we're back to the studio this weeks FNI Wrapchat. Coming up NEXT we're chatting to the Vastly experienced, no nonsense and brilliant AD and Director Mike Hayes. Brought to you by Wildcard Distribution, DBS on the Headstuff podcast network.

A proud Kerryman, We're delighted to have Mike on talking about his route into the industry, He discusses the qualities needed to to work on a bigger project and how the differentiate in size, but if your attitude and ethic remain the same, you'll pick up the work.

If you are an aspiring AD this one is not to be missed in particular.

Recent credits include Wonder Women 1984, The Rhythm Section and pretty much a lot of the movies and series that are being produced in this country in recent years.

Mike is also a Director in his own right Co Directing Roisin El Cherif: Half a Life (Short) Roisin El Cherif: Kerosene (Short) and the Shorts Leave and Toy Soldiers

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NB: We've our end of year party in 'The Nook' the brand new bar in the Button Factory which is opening this week, Which will also host the new Lisa Richards Comedy Club. Our Get-Together:

A Die Hard Themed Christmas Party :

Die Hard: Christmas Party Harder takes place on the last Thursday before Christmas and Christmas Jumpers or any Die Hard apparel is encouraged. We'll be having a whole host of people coming from Different Guilds and organisations on the night and giving away as always lots of prizes, there'll also be entertainment on the night and a few surprises also.

Tics: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/81312555041

We also have a very special series of four classes for the Younger performer:

'First Starts in Film &TV' Hosted by Red Rock & Blood Season two's Darragh O'Toole. A PERFECT gift for the young teenage Aspiring Actor Son, Daughter or relative (Ages 13-17)who could do with a stage or screen to express themselves. Right off Grafton Street, Net to the Westbury in Dublin Business school, Balfe Street.

Tics: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/82493513319

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A very special Episode from The Cork Film Festival this week with experienced Producer Pippa Cross, Pippa's body of work is frankly awe inspiring, including producing 'My Left Foot'

More info: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0189248/

Paul Donovan: Producer at Deadpan Pictures. Deadpan have been behind some of your favourite Film and Tv Shows over the last 10 Years.

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Writer/Director Aoife Crehan in her feature Directing Debut ahead of her Irish sold out Premier of 'The Last Right' at the Cork Film Festival.

The Last Right is coming to Irish Cinemas soon.

'A fateful exchange on a flight from New York to Ireland has complicated consequences for Daniel Murphy (Michiel Huisman). He’s left in charge of a corpse, the body of someone he never knew. He is persuaded to take on the challenge of getting an environmentally friendly cardboard coffin from his family home in Clonakilty to Rathlin Island by his autistic younger brother Louis (Samuel Bottomley) and Mary (Niamh Algar), a flighty young mortician with her own agenda. A bold and original road movie caper, The Last Right announces writer-director Aoife Crehan as a thrilling new voice in Irish cinema'

We've an event and Class coming up soon, First things first... PARRRRRTY....

We've our end of year party in 'The Nook' the brand new bar in the Button Factory which is opening this week, Which will also host the new Lisa Richards Comedy Club. Our Get-Together:  

A Die Hard Themed Christmas Party :

Die Hard: Christmas Party Harder takes place on the last Thursday before Christmas and Christmas Jumpers or any Die Hard apparel is encouraged. We'll be having a whole host of people coming from Different Guilds and organisations on the night and giving away as always lots of prizes, there'll also be entertainment on the night and a few surprises also. 

Tics: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/81312555041

We also have a very special series of four classes for the Younger performer:

'First Starts in Film &TV' Hosted by Red Rock & Blood Season two's Darragh O'Toole. A PERFECT gift for the young teenage Aspiring Actor Son, Daughter or relative  (Ages 13-17)who could do with a stage or screen to express themselves. Right off Grafton Street, Net to the Westbury in Dublin Business school, Balfe Street.

Tics: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/82493513319

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On the latest EP of Ireland's Film and Tv Industry Podcast FNI Wrapchat, Brought to you by Wildcard Distribution is Director Stephen Bradley.

Stephen Bradley has just spent a very hectic time in the recent past, promoting his latest film, Noble , as it was released across the world from Los Angeles to Cannes to New Zealand. What he didn't't know at the time, is that during the same period he was also developing a Stage IV cancer that had spread to vital organs. Shooting and Cutting: A Survivor's Guide to Filmmaking and Other Diseases (his brand new book) alternates between the journey of Stephen's life-changing treatment, his renewed sense of purpose in current work projects and war-stories from twenty years of filmmaking. It's available in Easons and all good book stores and available online.

The Hollywood Reporter described 'Noble' it as “a joyful and rousing affirmation of the human spirit which resounds widely,” and it is still among the highest-rated films on Amazon Prime. Nobel was shot in Vietnam and England, starring Deirdre O’Kane (IFTA Best Actress), Brendan Coyle, Liam Cunningham, Ruth Negga and Sarah Greene (IFTA Best Supporting Actress).

Stephen wrote and directed his first film reaper in 1995. It was selected for competition at the Venice film festival and the same year he co-produced guiltrip (dir. Gerry Stembridge) which also screened at Venice.

Stephen set up Temple Films with Oscar-nominated producer Ed Guiney and wrote and directed his first feature Sweety Barrett (1998) starring Brendan Gleeson, Liam Cunningham and Andy Serkis. It was selected for world cinema at Toronto film festival and official competition in San Sebastian.

Stephen’s second feature was the comedy-horror Boy Eats Girl (2005), starring Samantha Mumba and David Leon, which was briefly banned and then subsequently distributed worldwide, including by Lionsgate in the USA.

Stephen has also directed three feature-length documentaries, many award-winning television programmes for RTE, TV3 and TG4, and stand-up comedy shows for Universal and EMI.

Stephen is currently developing several screenplays for both television and cinema

Following on from our recent Class with Former Head of development at British Screen Stephen Cleary and The Art of Voiceover with Roger Gregg, We turn our attention to a younger Audience for First Starts in Film and Tv with Darragh O'Toole (Red Rock, Blood Season 2) for more information: 

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For our 81st episode, we've a special Podcast coming this week with Cork Film Festival CEO and Producer, Fiona Clark.

Fiona started out in arts education before progressing to senior positions in a number of respected UK theatres, Fiona then undertook a successful eight-year tenure commissioning, producing and programming new work for one of Britain’s most respected and innovative new writing houses, the Bush Theatre, including West End transfers, national and international touring on all scales, cross art form festival management and collaboration as well as robust management of a building-based arts organisation.

A former CEO of Get Connected, the UK’s national helpline service for young people

Fiona returned to the arts in January 2014 as Head of Development at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin, Fiona then subsequently joined the Cork Film Festival, Ireland's first and largest film Festival in September 2016 and had a chat with us about this years exciting programme of work at the 64th Cork film Festival, which begins today.

Catch us at our networking event at the 64th Cork film Fest here:

https://www.corkfilmfest.org/event/our-need-for-speed-post-first-take-networking-event/

As always this podcast is brought to you on the Headstuff Podcast Network and is supported by the fantastic @wildcard_distribution

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Following on from our recent Class with Former Head of development at British Screen Stephen Cleary, Our next Class for aspiring Audio Performers 'The Art Of Voiceover' with Roger Gregg takes place in the brand new PODCAST STUDIOS from Headstuff on Sat the 16th of September.

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Listen Back to Roger on EP 39 here: https://www.headstuff.org/fni-wrap-chat/39-roger-gregg-director-actor-writer-voiceover-artist

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For this our 80th Episode. We have a special 'Mind yourself' episode.

Featuring Julia Roddy, pre-accredited psychotherapist and filmmaker, Mannie Moolman, from the Film and Tv Charity in London and Fran Keaveney of Screen Skills Ireland.

It is a discussion that looks at the skills and tools we can build on to safeguard our health and wellbeing as filmmakers. And we also look at what people in other countries are doing to support creatives working in the Film and TV industry. 

As always this podcast is brought to you on the Headstuff Podcast Network and is supported by the fantastic @wildcard_distribution

If you would like to support our podcast and FNI in general head on over to www.buymeacoffee.com/Fni

Following on from our recent Class with Former Head of development at British Screen Stephen Cleary, Our next Class for aspiring Audio Performers 'The Art Of Voiceover' with Roger Gregg takes place in the brand new PODCAST STUDIOS from Headstuff on Sat the 16th of September.

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/73798666799

Listen Back to Roger on EP 39 here: https://www.headstuff.org/fni-wrap-chat/39-roger-gregg-director-actor-writer-voiceover-artist/

You can listen on Spotify Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts and wherever you get your Podcast fix.

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On today's episode is American Filmmaker Jonathan Kesselman, a Dublin Based award-winning filmmaker and writer. 

He launched his career writing and directing 'The Hebrew Hammer' in 2003 to international acclaim with its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. It later played a number of international festivals before being picked up for theatrical distribution (Hanukkah 2003) by Strand Releasing in conjunction with Comedy Central and Paramount Home Video. Voted among the top holiday movies by the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Boston Globe and Time Magazine.

Jonathan's second feature film 'Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero' starring Maz Jobrani and John Heard, had its world premiere at the 2014 Austin Film Festival, where it won the Comedy Vanguard award as well as the Audience Award. Jimmy was released theatrically May 13th, 2016, followed by a release on Showtime and Netflix.

Jonathan has written for: Fox, Paramount, Nickelodeon, Disney, Sony, Blue Sky Animation, MTV, Comedy Central studios, and WWE (yes, it's fake). Jonathan also works as a commercial director with such clients as Nintendo, Renault, Red Mango, Irish Rail, American Media Inc., and Mr. Olympia. Ironically, Jonathan taught 'Writing Comedy for Film and Television' at Yale University while concurrently acting as the humor columnist for the alternative goth-porn site Suicide Girls.

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ON this very special ep of Fni Wrapchat all the way from Co. Kerry is The winners/guests from The Kerry Film Festival 2019. Well done everyone on their Awards and mentions and a wonderful time was had by all.

With Eibh Collins Head Programmer- Shaun O'Connor, Director

Katie McNeice, Director. Elaine Kennedy, Director,

Paul Cahill, Writer. Tristan Heanue, Director

And the winners were...

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT - The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Bailey

BEST STUDENT SHORT - Starry Night by Emma Smith

BEST IRISH SHORT

Winner - A White Horse by Shaun O Connor 

Special mention for Ciúnas, for its subtle and nuanced directing.

BEST KERRY SHORT, - The Space Between Us by Elaine Kennedy

BEST ANIMATION - Mind My Mind by Floor Adams

BEST DOCUMENTARY -

Heyday - The Mic Christopher Story by Alan Leonard

BEST FEATURE FILM - Kilimanjaro Mama by Malcolm WilIis

BEST SCREENPLAY

Two Bed Terrace by Cathriona Slammon

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/73142275515 (Gender/ Power)

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/72992092313 (It's ALLLLLIVE!!!) Horror Genre Screenwriting workshop (Believe us its great Fun) This SAT... (Snap up a ticket while you can.

and finally.... Our Bi-Annual Networking party/event also called "It's Alive"

Takes place This Sunday @ 8:30pm in the wild Duck, Dublin City.

There's Prizes on the night, Visualizations and a lot of fun in General.

Make up artists come for free, with the Proviso they make up their guest.

If you purchase any tickets for the Screenwriting Classes above, You also get free entry on Sunday to our networking event.  

Otherwise BOOK HERE: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/73602740779

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On today's episode is former head of development at British Screen, Stephen Cleary, Brought to you by Wildcard Distribution.

Stephen Cleary has been a film and television professional for over twenty years, working in Europe, North America and Australasia, with occasional forays into Asia. He has worked as a feature producer, television producer/director, educator and screenwriter. He has developed many feature films from inception to production, and many have won international festival prizes. In recent years he developed the Venice Golden Lion winning feature Sweet Country from conception to production, and was lead consultant on the Emmy Award winning feature documentary What Happened Miss Simone?

Stephen was Head of Development at the UK’s national film Agency, British Screen, for five years and has developed over 60 produced feature films including Before the Rain (Milcho Manchevski, Academy Award nominee for best foreign film, winner Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival), Rob Roy (Michael Caton-Jones), Butterfly Kiss (Michael Winterbottom), Love and Death on Long Island (Richard Kwietniowski) and Photographing Fairies (Nick Willing). His most recently developed films include Cast Me If You Can (Atsushi Ogata), The Hunter (Daniel Nettheim) and Buddha’s Little Finger (Tony Pemberton), which he co-wrote. He was also the co-screenwriter of the feature, Alexandria, in 2002.

With the South Australian Film Corporation, Stephen co-conceived and ran Filmlab, a program designed to develop a base of local production companies. The initiative resulted in five low budget locally generated features, all of which secured domestic distribution. Two premiered at the Sundance film festival, one at the Berlin film festival, one at SXSW. Three of the features secured a US theatrical release. Filmlab filmmakers won best international director at Sundance 2014, the Crystal Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and other international awards.

From 2016 to 2017 he ran a TV drama series development initiative for Canal Plus Europe, developing series from conception to final bible and pilot episodes with selected writers and producers from across Europe. And from 2015 to 2017 he was senior consultant of the Danish Film Institute and Nordic Film Fund’s Polar Bear initiative, developing TV drama series with TV professionals from Scandinavia.

Previously he ran Arista, Europe’s largest private story development agency for 11 years, providing a range of short and long training courses in all aspects of film and TV writing and development. Arista was designated a “Centre of Excellence” by the European Commission.

Currently he is adjunct professor at the film school of the Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne, lecturing and running seminars for students four weeks a year. He is a regular lecturer at the Danish Film School, the National Film School of the UK and AFTRS. All on aspects of story development. He is also a story consultant and occasional screenwriter.

If you'd like to attend Stephens Power, Gender and New Story Structures workshop which begins on the 23rd Oct,you can book a ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/73142275515

And if horror is your tang... It's ALIIIIIIIVE begins on the 26th October for 2 days.

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