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Antonia Campbell-Hughes is a striking presence on screen and now it seems in the Directors chair with her debut feature "It's in us all" featuring Cosmo Jarvis.

Our Host Georgina McKevitt chatted to her about her close attention to character and her journey from Script to screen.

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Named a Screen Star of Tomorrow and a Shooting Star at the Berlinale, her acting credits include films such as Jane Campion’s BRIGHT STAR, KELLY+VICTOR, 3096DAYS, and most recently Colum Eastwood’s BLACK MEDICINE. TV acting credits include comedy LEAD BALLOON, BBC’s MY MOTHER AND OTHER STRANGERS, and new series DANGEROUS LIAISONS for Playground/Starz.

As a writer/director Antonia has just finished her debut feature IT IS IN US ALL a complex psychological drama starring Cosmo Jarvis and Claes Bang. As well as her own projects she is co-writing dramedy, GOOD GRIEF, with Dolly Wells for Out of Orbit, LUCIA, a biopic of Lucia Joyce, with Alexandra McGuiness, and will direct LYNOTT, a feature inspired by My Boy, the story of Philomena and Phil Lynott, for Shy Punk Productions.

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For today's ppisode, Mia Mullarkey cat up with amazing Nigerian/Irish talent Derek Ugochukwu.

Derek is one to watch and is very much on the rise.  In May 2020, Screen Ireland announced Ugochukwu as one of the successful 15 writers selected from a pool of 195 applicants for its inaugural Spotlight development scheme aimed at fostering new and diverse writing talent. 

In January 2021, Derek was one of the successful 10 writers shortlisted from over 600 entries for the Virgin Media Discovers short film competition in partnership with Screen Ireland. To All My Darlings, a short film written by Ugochukwu was shortlisted for the 2021 BAFTA Student Film Awards. It also won the Audience Award for Best Short at the 2021 Dublin International Film Festival. You're not home, His latest film as a Director, Screened recently at this years Galway Film Fleadh. 

Further work as an actor includes the drama series, Cold Courage based on a book by Finnish author Pekka Hiltunen.

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Our Wrapchat team and FNI staff would like to take a moment to mark the sad passing of the brilliant filmmaker, Tom Collins. A fantastic filmmaker and soul.

Our thoughts are with all his family at this difficult time, especially our colleague and friend Eibh Collins, RIP.

Emer Reynolds is a Director of Film and Documentary and IFTA-winning Film Editor. Emer made her editing feature debut in 1992 with the independent film The Visit and went on to work on films such as The Most Fertile Man in Ireland and The Actors.

Emer is a Grierson-nominated feature documentary director and multi-award winning film editor, is based in Dublin, Ireland. 'Here Was Cuba" her documentary directorial debut, which she co-directed with John Murray, It was screened at festivals worldwide, on More4 and was nominated for a Grierson Award 2014. Her most recent solo-directed, award-winning feature documentary "The Farthest" , featuring the amazing Voyager spacecraft- described as "Awe-inspiring.. chills-inducing" Variety, "Dazzling" The New York Times and " Exactly what the World needs right now" LA Times - having scooped three awards including the Audience Award at its premiere in the Dublin International Film Festival, made its international premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival; enjoyed a very successful release in Ireland, the U.K and the U.S, and is still touring international film festivals. 

Emer has written and directed four short films and directed the RTE 6 part TV drama series 'Trouble in Paradise'. A five-time IFTA winning editor, her feature credits include 'I Went Down', 'The Actors', 'The Eclipse', and 'Patrick's Day', and documentary work includes 'One Million Dubliners', 'We went to War' and 'Broken Tail'.

Joyride (Her Feature Length Drama Debut)  is an upcoming Irish coming-of-age film from a screenplay by Ailbhe Keogan. It had its world premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh on 5 July 2022 and is currently in Cinemas NOW!!!!!! 

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Joining Paul Butler Lennox @paulbutlerlennox on FNI (@filmnetworkireland)

Wrap Chat this time around, all the way from the fertile banks of the Boyne is Frank Kelly and Bill Murphy.

The Boyne Valley International Film Festival Special, 12th & 13th Aug 2022.

Set against the beautiful backdrop of the Boyne Valley, Droichead Arts Centre and film maker Frank W. Kelly are delighted to announce the inaugural Boyne Valley International Film Festival. Taking place 12 & 13 Aug 2022. 

Receive access to the entire weekend programme; film screenings, panel discussion, Q&A's and workshop all for just €15 with this BVIFF 2022 Season Ticket! 

Full programme: https://www.droichead.com/show-detail/?id=873636869

Frank studied animation production at Ballyfermot College of Further Education. He began writing screenplays during college and formed a writing partnership with Thomas Kennedy when he graduated in 2000. Together they founded Pale Stone Productions Ltd. They completed their first short, Emily’s Song in 2006. It was screened at 30 international film festivals, broadcast on RTE and Channel 4, won the Crystal Heart Award, UNICEF Award and special Mention at Oberhausen Short Film Fest. Frank went on to make Bill, For Short in 2008, distributed by Network Ireland Television, and Slán agus Beannacht in 2009, both screened at festivals around the world. He began production on 140 the same year, in global documentary that was shot in 23 countries around the world. Completed in January of 2010, it had it’s world premiere at the Newport Beach Film Fest and it’s European Premiere at the IFI in Dublin

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8 Simple Steps to Making Your Short Film (Which we reference on the EP)

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Bill Murphy is an Irish Actor, Voice-over Artist, Singer, Filmmaker and Writer who has worked extensively throughout the world on stage and film in a career spanning over thirty years. Bill's most recent credits include Vikings Valhalla on Netflix, in which he played the character Ödger, and This Nan's Life cinema release as Officer Jonas, playing opposite Catherine Tate and directed by Josie Rourke. Bill has an impressive backlog of Theatre work in Ireland, including the National Theatre of Ireland (Abbey Theatre), most recently on the production of Abbey Calling, Dear Ireland Continues and Country Girls.

From 2015 to 2017, Bill worked on the production Once in Dublin, directed by John Tiffany, playing the character Da at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin and in Seoul in South Korea to huge critical acclaim. At present Bill is working with Justin Long (Dodgeball, Jeepers Creepers, etc) on a film called The Christmas Break (working title) directed by Prarthana Mohan, and has just released his own short film Lily's Theme which will be coming shortly to a film festival near you!

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We'd like to take a moment to mark the sad passing of two members of the Film and TV Community who tragically passed away in the last couple of weeks. Donal Courtney,  a wonderful actor, director and facilitator at the age of 52 and the marvel that was Michelle Forde, writer, producer and artist. Taken too soon after a brave battle with cancer at the young age of 38. Our deepest sympathies to all their loved ones. 

On the show this time around is write/director, Colm Bairèad. Director of the stunninf  “An Cailín Ciúin." Still in cinemas and packing them in around the country. Go see it!

Colm was born in Dublin and raised bilingually through Irish and English. Over the past fifteen years he has directed a number of multi-award-winning short films and many hours of documentary television for RTÉ, TG4 and TV3/Virgin Media. These include the four-part IFTA-nominated series The Joy (TV3), the award-winning feature-length drama documentary The Maamtrasna Murders (TG4), the IFTA award-winning docudrama Cumann na mBan – Women of the Revolution (TG4) and the IFTA-nominated documentary Frank O’Connor - Idir Dhá Shruth. Colm’s 2013 fly-on-the-wall doc series An Ceoldráma (The Musical) was nominated for three IFTA Awards, including Best Director.

In 2012, Colm received a distinction from the Screen Director’s Guild of Ireland for his contribution to Irish-language film-making.

Colm made his narrative feature debut with An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl), an adaptation of Irish author Claire Keegan’s celebrated story, Foster. The film premiered at the 72nd Berlinale where it won the Grand Prix of the International Jury of the Generation Kplus programme. It opened the 2022 Dublin International Film Festival, winning the Audience Award and the Dublin Film Critics’ Circle Award for Best Irish Film. Colm also received an Aer Lingus Discovery Award during the festival. The film scooped 7 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress. Colm was also the recipient of the Screen Ireland-IFTA Rising Star Award. In its opening week of release in Ireland and the UK, the film became the highest-grossing Irish-language film of all time.

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Happy Easter FNI'ers. Thanks for Stopping by!!!!

Joining Paul Butler Lennox on FNI Wrap Chat this time around, from a little while back is a brilliant Film and TV personality and wonderful writer and producer; Mr Alan Keane of Hot Drop Films.

Alan speaks about his lean years, spending time learning the ropes in the states, the importance of Reliance and differing approaches to story and scriptwriting. 

Alan Keane is a writer, story editor and producer working in Live Action and Animation. Alan specialises in working closely with other creatives, be they writers, producers or directors. A professionally trained creative collaborator who knows how to get the best out of creative relationships and leads by doing.

Alan is a graduate of NUIG’s Heuston Film Schools Master’s in Screenwriting program where he was awarded the Pat Sheehan Scholarship to the prestigious UCLA’s professional screenwriting program back in 2005. Since then Alan has worked full time in the industry as a writer and story editor across a slew of different genres, from drama to comedy, live action to animation, helping to create content for kids and grown ups alike. Several of the shows Alan has worked have gone on to win Emmy’s, BAFTA’s and even Royal Television society awards.

http://www.hotdropfilms.com/ for more info...

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Host Mia Mullarkey welcomed the indefatigable Irish Writer/Director Donal Foreman on to the show during a pitstop back home after his recent VDIFF screening for his latest film “The Cry of Granuaile”

Donal Foreman is an Irish filmmaker living in New York City. He has been making films since he was 11 years of age. Since then, he has written, directed and edited over fifty short films, and in 2013 he completed his first feature film Out of Here.

The film was theatrically released at the Irish Film Institute in 2014, receiving 4-star reviews from major newspapers including the Irish Times More recently he has been nominated for the Rising Star award at the Irish Film & TV Awards a couple of years ago, and awarded the Discovery Award from the Dublin Film Critics Circle. He’s an alumnus of the Irish National Film School and the Berlinale Talent Campus, and, since 2011, a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective. His latest Film Screened at the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival “The Cry of Granuaile”

Visit https://donalforeman.com/ to rent or buy his first two features and to see some of his back catalogue.

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We are delighted to speak with the multi-talented Stacey Gregg, writer/director of the Andrea Riseborough led "HERE BEFORE" a brilliantly made psychological thriller from Northern Irish. Currently in cinemas. 

Stacey is from Belfast and is a writer and director for stage and screen. Her plays include Scorch (Outburst Queer Arts Festival, Belfast, 2015; Edinburgh Fringe, 2016); Shibboleth (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2015); Override (Watford Palace Theatre, 2013); Lagan (Ovalhouse Theatre London, 2011); Perve (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2011; BBC Radio Drama Award 2012) and When Cows Go Boom (Abbey Theatre, Dublin 2008).

She co-created an interactive web installation for CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities).

Television work includes The Letter for the King (Netflix), The Innocents (Netflix), Your Ma’s a Hard Brexit (The Guardian/ Headlong), Riviera (Archery Pictures / Sky), Spoof or Die (Channel Four) and The Frankenstein Chronicles (Rainmark).

 Here Before (2021), The Innocents (2018) and Ballywalter (2022.) She recently directed a block on the forthcoming HBO series, The Baby. 

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After a little break. We're bacccccck!

On our first pod of 2022,  one for the animation professionals. A special episode with Paul Ó Muiris. Paul Butler Lennox sat down for a chat with one of the most interesting and productive creatives out there.

Paul Ó Muiris is an Irish artist and filmmaker. In his early career, Paul worked as an illustrator,  sculptor, and storyboard artist. With the Oscar-nominated Cartoon Saloon animation studio in  Ireland, he has directed projects for Disney, RTE, and Amazon Studios, as well as doing extensive work on projects in development and leading the compositing department on various commercial,  TV, and feature development projects. He also wrote and directed the multi-award winning short film The Ledge End of Phil (from accounting) which garnered an IFTA nomination. 

Internationally he's served as Development Consultant on the hit Netflix feature film Klaus.  Worked on Marvel's What if..? series for Disney Plus in Sydney. He has also supervised on TV series in  France and is in development on a new project with French studio Gao Shan Pictures.  

He is currently the compositing supervisor on the upcoming Cartoon Saloon feature film My Father's Dragon for Netflix.

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On this episode, we're very lucky to be joined by internationally renowned Actor Ewen Bremner. @PaulButlerLennox had a chat with Ewen about Creating Characters, Growing up at the Seaside in Portabello, Scotland in the 70s, Youth Theatre and the connection and commonalities in brilliant people he's worked with.

As well as his work on the Bluefish project. 

Ewen can be seen most recently playing Alan McGee who found Oasis in "Creation Stories" on the Sky Store and on download. 

Ewen Bremner has worked with many of the most celebrated names in world cinema. He has created and performed countless unique characters for directors such as Danny Boyle, Bong Joon-Ho, Mike Leigh, Ridley Scott, Frank Oz, Woody Allen, Kelly Reichardt, David Mackenzie, Patty Jenkins, Mike Newell, Gus Van Sant and Harmony Korine Most recently, Ewen has played Alan McGee of Creation records in the feature film Creation Stories. Alan McGee signed Oasis and is synonymous with 90s rock culture.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Ewen has spent more than three decades working extensively in film, theatre and television. Originally the initial performer of the Trainspotting narrative on stage and unforgettable as Spud in Trainspotting and Sequel in 2017. T2 Trainspotting.

Ewen is also an experienced educator and has taught alongside Clark Midddleton at Torn Page’s Apt929 in NYC and is currently completing producer and director duties on Clark Middleton’s BLUEFISH film, shooting remotely throughout the pandemic with 36 actors from 16 different countries.

We were also very lucky to work with Ewen on a series of classes with FNI.

"Character and Self" ran over two weekends in Dec 2021 and was supported by Screen Skills Ireland, Louth Co Council, Kildare County Council, Roscommon Arts and Cavan Arts.  

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