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  • #154 | Mick Mahon | Editor
    MICK MAHON is one of Ireland's most respected editors working in Film and TV.
    Mick is joined this week by host Paul Webster. 
    “Mick Mahon has been IFTA-nominated six times, and has edited a host of award winning projects. His work includes The Writing in the Sky (2011), Saving The Titanic (2012) John Sheahan: A Dubliner (2013) & Rough Rider ( 2013). 
    Mick is especially noted for his documentary work and has built up a staggering back catalogue of work. He has long standing collaborations with some of Irelands premier documentary makers including Maurice Sweeney, Garry Keane and Liam McGrath.
    He has recent credits include the feature documentary, The Queen of Ireland.” "Gaza"
    "Khorfakkan" the show "Dunhuang- the edge of the World" and the upcoming rousing documentary "Love Yourself Today" the Damien Dempsey Doc. 
    We're having our biggest online FNI event THIS FRIDAY on the 10th September.
    Our Fni Forum. Featuring Cast of Love/Hate, The Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival 
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    Tics here: https://hopin.com/events/fni-members-forum
    As always our podcast is brought to you by @wildcard_distribution
    @filmequipmentstore and @octovid 
    If you'd like to support the show you can subscribe on Headstuff+ or visit BuyMeACoffee.com/fni and Purchase us a coffee
       
    #WeAreEncouraging #wearecreating #wearesupporting 
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    54 min
  • #153 | Bob Gallagher | Director
    Joining @paulwebsterfilms this week on Ireland's Film Industry Podcast
    FNI Wrapchat is super director Bob Gallagher.
    Bob Gallagher is a director, writer and cinematographer based in Dublin. He has been declared a ‘Good Soldier of Cinema’ by Werner Herzog and has been described by Rough Trade’s Geoff Travis as a filmmaker who ‘can be lyrical, as well as forensically evil’. 
    Bounding through styles and subjects, often in enthusiastic collaboration, his work traverses personal boundaries and teases out emotional soft spots. 
    His visual stories are marked by a polished absurdity and usually an element of the fantastic. With a passion for exploration, Bob’s music video work has found him partaking in shamanic rituals, recreating Caravaggio’s studio, walking 200km across Ireland, consulting a dominatrix, and cutting up a corpse.
    Amongst a prolific output of music videos, and commercial work, Bob has directed three short films to date, marrying striking visuals with deftly observed, character driven narratives. 
    Early in 2017 Bob was invited to Cuba to participate in a 10 day practical workshop with Werner Herzog, resulting in two short documentary films ‘The Impossible Flight of the Stone’ and ‘Salon’. 
    Bob is also a photographer, specialising in 3D images shot on 35mm film . He has exhibited as an artist-in-residence at the Darkroom, and as part of Photo Ireland Festival. He recently completed an artist residency in D-Light Studios Dublin.
    We're having our biggest online FNI event on the 10th September.
    Our Fni Forum. Featuring Cast of Love/Hate, The Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival 
    Tickets just 5euros. Please suppport us in our work.
    Tics here: https://hopin.com/events/fni-members-forum
    As always our podcast is brought to you by @wildcard_distribution
    @filmequipmentstore and @octovid 
    If you'd like to support the show you can subscribe on Headstuff+ or visit BuyMeACoffee.com/fni and Purchase us a coffee
       
    #WeAreEncouraging #wearecreating #wearesupporting 
    #WeAreFni.
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    1 hr 3 min
  • #152 | Jimmy Smallhorne | Actor/Writer/Director
    "Go to New York, make a splash and show these fuckers back here"
    This week's Episode of FNI Wrap Chat is someone who may be very recognisable to the Irish TV audience, from his brilliant turn in Love/Hate as Git Loughran, to his performances in the recent Taken Down and Dead Still. The brilliant writer/actor/director, Jimmy Smallhorne joins the two Paul's @paulbutlerlennox @paulwebsterfilms in the studio. 
    Jimmy is an Irish filmmaker and actor who wrote, directed and acted in his debut feature film "2by4". The Sundance Selected 1998 notorious Feature.  
    Jimmy recounts in brilliant detail his experiences finding finance and how Harvey Keitel was instrumental in helping it get made. 
    2by4 is a drama about a closeted gay construction worker in New York City and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and received the Festival's Cinematography award for the camera work of Declan Quinn (Leaving Las Vegas, Vanya on 42nd Street, Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love).
    Jimmy grew up in the Ballyfermot suburb of Dublin, Ireland. He emigrated to the United States in 1994, finding work as a construction laborer. While working in construction, Smallhorne helped organize the Irish Bronx Theater.
    In 2020 he appeared in the crime drama series Dead Still. He lives in Carlow with his partner. 
    This is one hell of a podcast. DON'T MISS THIS ONE. Subscribe on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts and  on HeadstuffPodcasts.com.
    With thanks to @wildcard_distribution
    @filmequipmentstore and @octovid
     
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    1 hr 16 min
  • #151 | Garret Daly | Director/Producer
    On this weeks episode in a slight reshuffle Paul Butler Lennox @paulbutlerlennox is joined by  Director, Producer Garret Daly. Garret Daly 
    Garret is a multifaceted and hugely assertive Film, TV and Audio and education professional who's productivity is self evident in his wide range of work across broadcast media over the years. This is testament to his brilliant attitude and determination. 
    His latest film "NOTHING TO DECLARE" screens at the Galway Film Fleadh this week and trust us when we say. It's unbelievably entertaining.
    Keith Byrne (10) and Noel Murray (13) from Darndale had run away before, but evading the authorities in three countries was a first – even for them !
    On August 4th, 1985 they began an incredible adventure that would see the young duo leaving home and eventually ending up in New York!
    His credits include:
     'The Secret Market '(Short Film)
     A Nightingale Falling ' .(Feature)
     'A Grand Experience ' (Feature Documentary) .
     Who ls Dervla Murphy?' (Feature Doc )
     Grassroots of the GAA ' (TV Series) 6 30
     Rental Boys' (Rte Storyland)
     "The Road of Souls" (Short Film Broadcast on RTE2)
     Edge of Europe (Documentary)
     'Hoodwink ' (Short Film Screened dn RTE Network 2 July 2004)
     'Limerick Yau're A Lady (Documentary )
    He has also produced a number of shows across national tv broadcasting and Radio. With Rte and Tv3. 
     Radio Credits include:
     Producer of  the Gerry Ryan Show -
     The John Creedon Show ' Rte Radio O
     The Show Today with Pat Kenny
     The Big Adventure
     'Kerry & The Tramp ' 'A Light From the Grave 'The Greatest Stories Ever Told, Lyric FM 'Soundscapes of Ireland ' (26 Part Series for RTE Lyric FM) 'In My Place' (30 Part Series for Rte Junior) the A-z of Ireland, (26 Part Seizes for RTE Junior)
    His Film Awards include:
     'A Nightingale Falling'
     Jury Prize - Outstanding Achievement in Film Making - Newport Beach Film Festival, Best Feature Film - Sky Road Film Festival, Best Feature Film - Underground Film Festival
    IFTA Nomination 2015 - LeadActress
     New talent Award nomination Galway Film Fleadh 'Who is Dervla Murphy?'
    Best Feature Documentary Waterford Film Festival 2010
    Check out our brilliant new Membership and mentor scheme on WeAreFni.com/mentors
    or perhaps our professional Filmmaking facebook group with over 18,000 members. 
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/filmnetworkireland
    #WeAreBuilding
    #WeAreEncouraging
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    49 min
  • #150 | Rickie O'Neill | Actor/Writer
    This week Folks, Joining @paulbutlerlennox onFni Wrapchat is a multifaceted and exciting talent Rickie O'Neill. @rickieoneill
    During the first months of the Pandemic, Fni established a 5 page screenwriting competition "Gimme 5". Rickies script beat dozens of other entries and received a cash prize and a Arri equipment rental package from our Sponsors over at @filmequipmentstore
    Rickie won Best Short and best First time Director at the Independent Shorts awards for the  Subsequent Film "Sunny Afternoon" in Los Angeles last week and has been selected for seven other international festivals around the World, including Tokyo, Chicago, New York and Toronto.
    Just today (10th July) his short Sunny Afternoon, was selected for the Irish Film London festival)
    Watch out world.
    Rickie O'Neill is a 30 year old musician/actor/writer/director who for the last 10 years has been touring with legendary Irish band The Saw Doctors as their full time drummer. 
    In 2012 he took up acting and since then has been fortunate enough to travel the world with big productions such as Once The Musical aswell as appear on tv in different shows such as as Red Rock and commercials for well known brands like McDonalds and Rockshore. He was also cast in the staged work in progress adaptation of Breakfast On Pluto which played for 2 nights in the black box theatre during the Galway International Arts Festival 2019.
    Breakfast On Pluto will soon make it's world premier. He is also the main voice over artist for the Electric Ireland GAA minor championships campaign which has been running since 2017. 
    Rickie loves to read and is an avid writer of short stories (one of which has been published in The Galway Review, titled 'Liquor, Guns & Ammo')
    Sunny Afternoon was written by Rickie back in 2015 with a much different ending. A few years later, Rickie revisited the script and changed it drastically.
    Sunny Afternoon is Rickie's directorial debut. 
    He is currently working on a series of mini documentaries and is hoping to release the first edition of this series (Jimmy Bricks) in the autumn of 2021.
    Check out our brilliant new Membership and mentor scheme on WeAreFni.com/mentors
    Why not join us on the 27th of August for our membership forum. We will be joined by some of the wonderful cast of Love/Hate for a retrospective chat on their experiences working on the show. (on what would have been just after what would it have been it's 10th Anniversary in 2020)
    Round table chats, one on one networking and YOUR Irish Film community in one spot.
    Reserve  
    https://hopin.com/events/fni-members-forum 
    #WeAreBuilding
    #WeAreEncouraging
    #WeAreSupporting
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    57 min
  • #149 | Irish Film London SPECIAL "Wildfire" | Director Cathy Brady/Actor Nora Jane Noone
    We've a very very special episode from London (We know right... not in Ireland) this week in association with the brilliant Irish Film London @irishfilmlondon 
    Remie Michelle Clarke @remiemichelle packed up her mics, and was very passionate about charting this personal and professional journey to London to sit down with Director Cathy Brady @bradymiss and Actor Nora Jane Noone @njnoone to chat about one of this years most anticipated Irish releases "Wildfire"
    #SupportingIrishFilm #SupportingWomeninFilm
    An emotional one for all concerned at Fni as we also yet again look to pay tribute to co lead; the late Nika McGuigan. (Check out our January Episode of Wrapchat in tribute to Nika's life and work)
    Remie sat down to chat with the ladies after it's eagerly anticipated screening at BFI (The British Film Institute) last night. @britishfilminstitute
    Cathy Brady is a two-time IFTA-winning director, having won Best Short in 2011 for her first film Small Change and again in 2013 for Morning, which was also selected for the BFI London Film Festival 2012 and won the Short Film Nominee prize for the European Film Awards at Cork Film Festival.
    Nora-Jane Noone is an Irish actress. She rose to prominence for her debut role in The Magdalene Sisters. Her other notable roles were in The Descent and Brooklyn. In 2020, she was listed as number 47 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
    Check out our brilliant new Membership and mentor scheme on WeAreFni.com/mentors 
    Why not join us on the 27th of August for our membership forum. We will be joined by some of the wonderful cast of Love/Hate for a retrospective chat on their experiences working on the show. (on what would have been just after what would it have been it's 10th Anniversary in 2020)
    Round table chats, one on one networking and YOUR Irish Film community in one spot.
    Reserve your ticket while you can.  🎟 👇
    https://hopin.com/events/fni-members-forum
    #WeAreBuilding
    #WeAreEncouraging
    #WeAreSupporting
    #WeAreFni #YouAreFni
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    49 min
  • #148 | Garry Keane | Director/Producer (GAZA)
    Welcome to episode 148 of Ireland's Audio-Visual industry podcast, FNI Wrap Chat. Paul Webster is joined by award-winning filmmaker and producer, Garry Keane who spent five years making the extraordinary and moving documentary, Gaza. 
    If you would like to support the people affected by the violence in Gaza, Garry recommends contributing to the "Amjaad" Charity. Please check out their page here: gofund.me/8e3ce115
    "Amjaad" Charity has been working in Gaza for 7 years. They provide assistance and aid to over 2000 families every year –  providing transportation to access medical care, as well as giving food, medicine and clothes to poor families who need them. The number of families they provide for doubles during the month of Ramadan and disasters. 
    Amjaad does not receive ANY money whatsoever from any official funding source.
    Garry Keane is an award-winning director/producer based in Ireland. He has been making high-end television documentaries for European and American broadcasters for over 20 years. Since 2012, Keane’s documentaries have been nominated for 11 Irish Film and Television Academy Awards; of these, his films have won four, including two in the “Best Director TV” category in 2013 and 2018.
    Check out our last previous episode with Producer of "Songs while I'm away"  Alan Maher now. A wonderful feature Doc on Phil Lynott which DERSERVES to be seen on the biggest screen possible. 
    Join our membership programme on www.WeAreFni.com/mentors for lots of upcoming perks to events and online content.
    We also have our members forum coming up with some very special guests we'll be announcing soon.
    Check that out here: 
    https://hopin.com/events/fni-members-forum
    Join us at our biggest online event yet. Tickets just 5 euros. (Free for Buy Me A Coffee yearlyMembers)
    Discussion rooms. ONE ON ONE networking.
    So excited by this one.
    By the Members! For the Members!
    #WeAreFni #YouAreFni #wearebuilding #wearesupporting
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    1 hr 1 min
  • #147 | Alan Maher | Producer
    This next gentleman has over 60 producing credits on IMDB. He has had a hand in some of the most interesting Irish films and documentaries of the last 20 years.  A real good guy good of Irish Film. Producer and Co-Managing Director of Cowtown Pictures Mr Alan Maher.
    FNI Wrapchat is sponsored by Wildcard, Octovid and Film Equipment Store.
    Alan's latest release is the eagerly, Oh soooo very eagerly anticipated, feature documentary 'Songs for While I'm away' the Phil Lynott story.
    Directed by Emer Reynolds.
    Alan Maher’s previous feature film SONG OF GRANITE premiered at SXSW Film Festival to critical acclaim in March 2017 and went on to screen at Karlovy Vary and Galway, where it won the Best Cinematography Award. It was released theatrically in Winter 2017 by Thunderbird Releasing and Wildcard Distribution in the UK, Ireland and Canada, and by Oscilloscope in the US. SONG OF GRANITE was Ireland's Official Entry for the Foreign Language category of the 2018 Academy Awards and was nominated for three IFTA Awards.
    Other past projects include; Tom Burke’s feature documentary LOSING ALASKA, which premiered at IDFA in 2018 and was released theatrically by Breakout Pictures in November 2019; Maya Zinshtein’s FOREVER PURE (2016), which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival in 2016 and was sold internationally by Dogwoof; Claire Dix’s WE ARE MOVING: MEMORIES OF MISS MORIARTY which premiered at Audi Dublin International Film Festival in 2016; Anthony Wonke’s BEING AP (2015), which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival in 2015, was distributed theatrically by eOne in the UK and sold internationally by HanWay; and Daisy Asquith’s AFTER THE DANCE, which screened on BBC4 in March 2015.
    Prior to setting up his own company, Alan Maher was a Senior Executive/Executive Producer at Screen Ireland (formerly the Irish Film Board) for six years and was responsible for more than fifty feature films and documentaries including GOOD VIBRATIONS, GRABBERS, LAST HIJACK, KNUCKLE, MEA MAXIMA CULPA, THE SUMMIT, KELLY + VICTOR, DREAMS OF A LIFE, HIS & HERS and WAKE WOOD.
    Alan also developed and co-produced the award-winning horror film CITADEL, directed by Ciarán Foy.
    Alan was selected by European Film Promotion as Ireland’s Producer on the Move at Cannes 2017 and was named as one of the Hollywood Reporter’s ’10 Irish Talents to Watch’ in October 2017.
    Before joining Screen Ireland, Alan was Head of Development at Element Pictures from 2002 until 2005.
    WE HAVE TWO EXCITING THINGS HAPPENING SOON. YOU CAN JOIN OUR MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMME WEAREFNI.COM/MENTORS AND GET CLOSER TO THE INDUSTRY
    This will provide you with all sorts of perks over the coming months.
    If you sign up for membership you will receive a complimentary ticket to our member's forum on the 27th of July. (We will have some exciting guests on the Night on hopin)
    Alternatively, book a once-off ticket of 5 euros to take part.
    Trust us. The speed networking function/ section at the end of the evening alone is worth it.
    https://hopin.com/events/fni-members-forum
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    1 hr 16 min
  • #146 | Tim O'Donovan| Sound Engineer/VO Artist
    As the sun splits the trees (thank God) Joining @remiemichelle on this weeks Episode is Tim O’Donovan. @mrtimodonovan
    Tim is a sound editor, dubbing mixer, vastly experienced voice actor and musician from Dublin.
    He has extensive experience in audio post, from BBC and National Geographic documentaries to animation series for Nickelodeon and Disney. One of the high points of his animation audio career has been working with childhood heroes Zig and Zag on their animated series for CBeebies. Tim engineered, voice directed and mixed all 26 episodes for the alien brothers.
    Tim has also voiced countless tv, online and radio spots from Aer Lingus to The National Lottery, and was previously the station voice of Today FM for five years. 
    O’Donovan started his professional audio journey recording and performing his own brand of electronic pop as Neosupervital, with a number of his tunes being licensed for TV series such as Pure Mule and Raw. He also toured the world with Irish band Bell X1 as their session and occasional studio drummer, playing on their Blue Lights On The Runway album.
    Why not consider joining our Fni Membership. Where you can chat one on one with some of our vastly experienced Film and TV professional mentors and join us IN PERSON for free at our Autumn networking! . 
    Visit WeAreFni.com/mentors 
    Get closer to your peers at our biggest networking event ever on hopin on Tuesday the 27th of July. Its pretty awesome.
    BOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE!
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    1 hr 8 min
  • #145 | Martina Durac | Director/Producer
    On this Episode of Fni Wrapchat is Director and Producer Martina Durac.
    But... First some FNI RELATED NEWS.
    We're bringing you closer to Filmmakers than ever before. With our membership programme on www.WeAreFni.com/mentors.
    One on one, online chats, and a free networking event for members in the Autumn of this year. 
    Sooooooooo excited. #WeAreFni #YouAreFni 
    Martina Durac is an award-winning director and producer of documentary and factual programming. With Julian Behal, one of Ireland’s leading photographers, she set up Phoenix Films to develop a range of projects in different genres. Recent documentary work includes Death of a Son – The Killing of Michael Dwyer (for RTÉ). Their most recent project was a four-part documentary series exploring a year in the life of the Burren and its people which won the best television series at An tOireachtas Media Awards 2020. The company is currently in pre-production with a documentary on the songwriter and artist, Percy French.
    Fni Wrapchat is sponsored by Wildcard Distribution, Octovid.com and Film Equipment Store.
    Check out our previous Episode #144 with Actor Jason Barry (Titanic/Love Hate)
    Support WRAPCHAT and Fni on BuyMeACoffee.com/fni 
    Thank you to our sponsors Wildcard Distribution, Octovid.com and the team at Film Equipment Store.
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    41 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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