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  • #56 | Stuart Drennan | Writer/Producer (The Dig)
    Stuart Drennan . 
    Stuart is a Writer, Producer and Director from Monaghan. Not Fermanagh... Stuart has written and directed award winning short films and television dramas, including Hollyoaks, 6 Degrees and Seacht. Stuart has extensive experience working with NI Screen, BBC, Channel 4 and TG4. 
    Stuarts latest work the suspenseful and thrilling feature Film "The Dig" which he has written, has brought him international attention recently as it was selected for TIFF (Toronto Film Festival) and won best Irish Feature at the Galway Film Fleadth in 2018 and is currently on general release in Ireland as of the 26th April. #SupportIrishFilm
    It features Moe Dunford and Lorcan Cranitch and recently received a four **** review in the Irish Times. Go and see. 
    Stuart co runs Wolfhound media in Northern Ireland. Check out their work here. https://www.wolfhoundmedia.co.uk/
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    37 min
  • #55 | Jill Beecher | Production Designer/Art Director/Concept Artist
    HAPPY EASTER. OUR LATEST EP OF WRAPCHAT IS NOW READY TO OPEN AND SCOFF.  
    Hot off the heels of Working on Quentin Tarantino's Once upon a Time in Hollywood, Jill Beecher Joins us this time on Fni Wrapchat.  Check out our previous Podcast with Frank Shouldice. 
    Jill Beecher is a production designer, Concept artist and \storyboard artist working in Hollywood and Ireland. Jill was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1984. Jill is now represented by William Morris Endeavour and is a member of the British and American Art Director Guilds. She also is a visual artist who has exhibited in Europe, America and Australia. Jill has ammased some frankly incredible credits working with the likes of Ridley Scott on Alien Covenant, on the Revenant, Men in Black and on Edward Nortons upcoming Motherless Brooklyn amongst numerous other tv shows including the new Twin Peaks... This is a really good one. You couldn't meet a nicer lady.
    A shining example that hard work, talent and a great attitude paying off. So subscribe to FNI WRAPCHAT to get notifications of our latest chats on iTunes and Spotify and as always on the Headstuff Podcast Network.
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    1 hr
  • #54 | Frank Shouldice | Director (The Man Who Wanted To Fly)
    Frank Shouldice, is an award winning journalist and playwright who has been working with the investigations unit of Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ for many years. Frank makes his feature documentary debut with The Man Who Wanted to Fly, an affectionate character portrait but with a unexpected Hollywood twist. A published author and winner of Prix Europa for his radio documentary work, Frank’s plays have graced stages all over the world.
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    You can find WrapChat on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, The HeadStuff Podcast Network and wherever you get your Podcasts. Be sure to Check out our previous podcast with Ruan Magan, Director of RTE's The Irish Revolution and don’t forget to subscribe and review.
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    1 hr
  • #53 | Ruán Magan | Director (The Irish Revolution)
    Award-winning writer, producer and director, Ruán Magan’s recent credits include The Irish Revolution Narrated by Cillian Murphy,  the critically acclaimed comedy drama series, Wrecking The Rising; 1916 – The Irish Rebellion, the multi-award winning documentary narrated by Liam Neeson, which reached audiences of 40 million worldwide during 2016 and the play, And Spring Shall Come, play exploring WW1 through poetry. He directed The Men Who Built America (Double Emmy-winner), Waterloo’s Warriors, (Gold Prize at World Media Awards 2016) and Angel, (winner Milan International Film Festival 2013) and edited and produced Banaz – A Love Story (Emmy winner and Peabody Award winner 2013). Ruán was honoured to receive an Outstanding Contribution Award from Screen Directors’ Guild of Ireland in 2014.
    He directed and filmed his first documentary in 1996 featuring his brother, the writer, Manchán Magan (Brandon books),the beginning of a long collaboration during which they made over 60 documentaries filmed across the planet, in India, North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and China. Critically acclaimed, many of these documentaries have been transmitted internationally.
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    You can find WrapChat on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, The HeadStuff Podcast Network and wherever you get your Podcasts.  Be sure to Check out our previous podcast with Michael Garland of Grand Pictures and don’t forget to subscribe and review. 
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    53 min
  • #52 | Michael Garland | Producer (Dark Lies The Island)
    Michael broke his teeth as Financial Controller for Palace Productions working on such projects as Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves and The Crying Game, and Michael Caton-Jones' Scandal. In 1995 he produced This is the Sea starring Richard Harris and Gabriel Byrne for Overseas Film Group. He later produced Accelerator which was screened at Cannes and Montreal.
    His company Grand Pictures was established in early 2000 and has produced the award-winning TV series Paths to Freedom and Fergus's Wedding with Michael as producer. Spin the Bottle, produced by Michael and based on the cult hero of Paths to Freedom, was a domestic box office hit, won a number of IFTAs and also won Best Feature at the Boston Irish Film Festival.
    In 2006 Michael produced Puffball and in 2008 he produced The Race, an Irish/German co-production.
    Michael is also developing a slate of projects including I'll Take Care of It by Andrew Meehan and Dark Lies The Island by Kevin Barry, both to be directed by Ian FitzGibbon, and The Dead Spit of Kelly from a story by Flann O'Brien.
    Michael's other work includes, an Irish-German co-production shot in Ireland starring Andy Serkis and Thomas Brodie Sangster entitled Death of a Superhero, Michael also executive produced Titanic – Blood and Steel, a co-production with the Italian company DAP.
    His latest release "Dark Lies the Island" just recently won the audience award for best feature at the 2019 Dingle Film Festival.
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    38 min
  • #51 | Paul Duane/Nick Franco | Director/Producer
    Paul Duane is an Irish-born writer and director of television and film.
    Has directed television programmes including:  Ballykissangel, Casualty, The Royal, Small Potatoes, Footballer's Wives 
    He has also made several short films including LSD 73!, based on an original script by the Irish novelist Patrick McCabe. More recently he co-created the ITV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl based on the well-known blog, Belle de Jour. The Irish production company Screenworks was established by Paul Duane and Rob Cawley in 2008. Their first production, Barbaric Genius, on the life of the London-Irish author John Healy premiered in February 2011.
    Recent films include Very Extremely Dangerous and Natan, about the French producer Bernard Natan. His latest Documentary Film "What Time is Death?" was screened at this years Virgin Media Dublin Film Festival. 
    In December 2013 he was listed by Variety (magazine)
    Nick Franco: Producer 
    Nick set up 1185 films in 2003 and has worked across a range of genres as director and producer. His organizational skills with crews & shoots have been in great demand for people planning difficult jobs in Africa & Eastern Europe, and his understanding of post-production allows him to know better than many producers how to create a sensible & economic workflow from the shoot to the finished DCP. Nick’s attention to detail extends through from initial concept through production, delivery and ROI. Nick believes that everything created must have value.
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    45 min
  • #50 | Heather Grace Mills | Animation Producer
    Heather is an Animation Producer, Line Producer and Lecturer based in the West of Ireland. A graduate of both GMIT (BA Film & TV Production) and NUIG (MA Film Studies: Theory and Practice), she now works as a lecturer in GMIT. She has worked in Animation Production for more than a decade across a range of animation formats including traditional 2D animation, 3D-CGI, stop-motion puppet animation, and sand animation, for both series and feature films. Heather produced, for Telegael, the first stop-motion feature film ever to be made in Ireland, “Captain Morten & The Spider Queen”, a co-production with Estonia (Nukufilm) and Belgium (Grid Animation) featuring an all-star Irish cast including Brendan Gleeson, Pauline McGlynn, Ciarán Hinds, Tommy Tiernan and Jason Byrne.
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    56 min
  • #49 | Ross Killeen | Director/Producer (Motherland)
    Ross Killeen runs two very successful production companies; Event Junkies and Motherland. With Event Junkies, Ross's pitch was simple; a one-stop shop for all their clients' production, shooting and editing needs, with a quick turnaround, creating better content, faster.
    Based on the success of this company, Ross set up Motherland, a collective of directors, producers and editors, producing commercials, films and documentary.
    http://motherland.ie/director/RossKilleen
    Ross’s own work has won a number of awards, from Kinsale Sharks to ICADs and a Vimeo Staff Pick. His latest film, 99 Problems is receiving its premiere at The Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival this weekend.
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    47 min
  • #48 | John Butler | Writer/Director (Papi Chulo)
    On today's FNI WrapChat is the very sound John Butler. 
    John speaks candidly about earning his stripes in the USA, the ups and downs of Film and TV, and how unlocking his potential paved the way to emotional truth in his work.  Touching on his experiences and reminiscing on how two green horn Paddy's convinced Pro Poker players, Cowboys and lowlifes to take part, in search of the perfect Doc. 
    John Butler is an Irish IFTA award-nominated film director, screenwriter and novelist. His work includes the very successful films The Stag (2013) Handsome Devil (2016) Butler also created the IFTA-winning TV sketch show Your Bad Self (2010) and wrote the novel The Tenderloin. 
    His latest Film "Papi Chulo" was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival back in late 2018 and opens up the Virgin Media Dublin Film Festival next week, There's two screenings on Wed, at half six or 9pm. Get your tickets now.  The film, centres on a A lonely Gay TV weatherman that strikes up an unconventional friendship with a middle-aged Latino migrant worker. 
    As always, Be sure to Check out our previous podcasts and don’t forget to subscribe and review. We LOOOOVE your feedback.
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    Writer or producer… Looking to put a team together for Storyland or Focus Shorts this year. This is for you. Come along to our event this Monday. Nearly sold out so book as soon as possible. A great opportunity to meet as many creatives as possible.
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    56 min
  • #47 | Grainne Humphreys | Festival Director (Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival)
    On this Episode Fni WrapChat on the Headstuff Podcast Network is Festival Manager of the Dublin Virgin Media Film Festival Grainne Humphreys.
    Grainne Humphreys has worked in film programming for over twenty years, she started her career working with young audiences with the Junior Dublin Film Festival in 1994. In 1995, she joined the IFI as Education Officer and expanded her role to include programming seasons on Andy Warhol, Agnes Varda and Harold Pinter.
    She was became Assistant Director in 2001 and programmed both the Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Festival and the Dublin French Film Festival from 2002- 2007. Among other project, she co-edited Ireland into Film, a series of publication on a number of key Irish films. She has served as a jury member on a number of international film festivals and has coordinated a number of Irish film seasons at international events. She is a Board Member of the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris and has been Festival Director of the Dublin International Film Festival since 2007.
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    57 min

About FNI Wrap Chat

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Film Network Ireland's Wrap Chat Podcast is the Irish Film Industry Podcast. Hosted and produced by freelancers. Founded by Paul Butler Lennox, Paul Webster and Ray Mongey in 2017, they were joined in 2020 by an exceedingly talented line up of presenters including Mia Mullarkey, Sean T. O Malley and Remie Michelle Clarke and more recently by the indomitable Georgina McKevitt, Mark Monks (who is also our engineer) and Luke Brabazon. In 2025 we welcomed, Johnny Elliott and Joe Griffin on Presenting duties also. It is a show about and for Irish filmmakers of all levels and industry enthusiasts. A library of personal experiences in Irish Film, Animation, Audio and TV. We're also delighted to welcome the wonderful host Keith O'Grady Director to the fold. Thanks also to Rebbeca Sartor and Cian Johnston for their tireless work in production. 

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