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  • #135 | Cathy Dunne | Director
    On this Episode of Fni Wrapchat we focus again on some important up and coming talent screening at this years Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival.
    Remie Michelle Clarke was joined by Cathy Dunne this week to talk about her moving and nostalgic new documentary and the good work she has been doing during the pandemic on Through the pane.
    Cathy is a sensitive storyteller with a keen eye for visuals. She believes in paving positive pathways through film and ad campaigns and that moving images can influence for the good. While her work expands online, TV, and commercial, she has a huge 'grá' for documentary making.
    Her 17-part series ‘Through the Pane’ documented the pandemic in Ireland. The final episode, which featured couple Seán and Caitlín Máirtín, gained over 1 million views in three weeks. The couple (aged 101 and 97 years respectively) met in 1945 and, through their humorous approach to life, inspired and entertained people around the country.
    Her short documentary 'Imprints' is currently travelling the festival circuit and was selected for this year's Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival 2021."
    Wonderful things are clearly in store for Cathy in the near future. In the meantime... check our ot previous  Episode with Peter O’Brien.
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    52 min
  • #134 | Peter O'Brien | Director
    On this week's Ep of Fni Wrapchat;  We're Spotlighting some talented up and coming talent screening at this years Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival.
    Paul Webster is back in the chair chatting to Director Peter O'Brien. 
    Peter O’Brien (POB) is an award winning Irish director specialising in a
    unique and emotive documentary style. Through skateboarding he fostered a love for DIY film and music, making skate videos of himself and his friends. Peter took the opportunity to pursue this passion at third level and attended the National Film School at IADT in Dublin. Here, his graduate documentary film, Rose, a study about his mother and grandmother's relationship after the onset of Alzheimer’s, won awards at the Royal Television Society and screened at festivals across the globe. 
    Following his college success, Peter gained practical experience
    interning at Event Junkies and eventually worked his way up to join the roster of Directors at their sister company Motherland. Today, Peter is represented for commercial work in the UK, US and Ireland building his commercial reel while pursuing his next documentary project.
    His latest Doc "Seven Feet Nine and a Quarter inches" about female Darts in Ireland will screen at this years VMDIFF. 
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    34 min
  • #133 | Paco Torres | Writer/Director
    Joining us from Seville, Spain on this international flavoured Episode of Fni Wrapchat is Spanish (Irish Long time resident) Writer and Director Paco Torres.
    ***Please be patient with the quality of recording as we continue to work remotely***.
    We talk creativity, focus, avoiding distraction, His family and their influence on his work, empathy in artistry and what is success to him. 
    Torres is a commercial and fiction director based in Seville, Spain , but working internationally.  Before he became a full time director, Paco worked as Creative Director in several advertising agencies as McCann Erickson, Cawley Nea, Ad-volution among others.
    Paco has made two feature films, The magic of hope and Saol, shot in 14 hours in Dublin, and several awarded short films as the awarded shorts shot in Ireland The Rattle of Benghazi and Halowin. He was born in Sevilla and raised between Seville, Dublin and Barcelona. Paco has been in Ireland more or less since 1997 till 2016. Torres studied Marketing and advertising in Ireland and Cinematography in Barcelona.
    In 2009 he directed his first feature film "The Magic of hope", aka El vuelo del tren, that was released in cinema in 2011, nominated for Asecan Awards of 2012 and released worldwide in cinema, VOD and streamers as Netflix in 2016.
    In 2015 was released his second feature film Saol, an experimental film about OCD, shot in only 14 hours. During all these years, he has also directed several short films like The Rattle of Benghazi, Halowin and Seventy, which has travelled worldwide at film festivals and won several awards.
    Paco is preparing his first series, "The Tamer" produced by Beta films this year, with co-director Guillermo Navarro (Pan's labyrinth) and he is also attached to the new series from Paul Mousley, The ghoul finder, with co-director Terry McDonough (breaking Bad). Paco is also set to direct a tv show and another series with Beta films Spain.
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    1 hr 11 min
  • #132 | Joe McGucken | Actor/Writer
    On this weeks Fni Wrapchat is an awful sound and funny chap.  
    And an awful hardworking talented Chap 
    JOE MCGUCKEN. 
    Amassing millions of hits across various online platforms,
    Joseph is a uniquely versatile performer who specialises in natural acting. He is predominantly recognized for his online comedy sketches that bring to life relatable characters in everyday scenarios that we can all associate with.
    He has over fifteen years of on-screen performance experience during which he's worked with directors such as Ger Walsh, Jonathan Lambert, Dave Coffey and Conor McMahon.
    Joe has participated in many acting/comedy workshops honing his craft, and has been trained in writing by Roddy Doyle. He has been involved in the film and television industry from a very young age, working with RTÉ and ‘Still Films’ to write and perform in the first season of Sweded TV. He was a participant in the Reel Youth Film Festival and has been involved ever since. He is an acting/writing facilitator for the festival now helping the youths from disadvantaged areas to get involved in TV & Film.
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    1 hr 20 min
  • #131 | Ciaran Foy | Director
    Welcome to the latest episode of Fni Wrapchat.
    Irelands Film and TV communit podcast.
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    We're joined by the Brilliant Ciarán Foy for a chat following on from his online Chat back in November. We talk about working inLA, Pitching, working with Netflix and Amblin entertainment. We yap about His move back to Ireland and we look back at his career and recent work with Netflix on the horror feature film "Eli" and "The Haunting of Bly Manor" which he Directed two excellent Episodes of in 2020.
    Ciarán graduated from IADT, His IFB funded short-short, The Faeries of Blackheath Woods, screened at over 40 festivals worldwide and won nine best short awards at international festivals such as; Melbourne, Cork, and Brest. It was also nominated for an IFTA and a Golden Meliés (European Fantasy Award).
    Ciarán’s feature film debut Citadel, which premiered at SXSW in March 2012, garnered rave reviews from publications like Variety and blogs such as Aintitcool.com and walked away with the coveted Midnighters Audience Award.
    Ciarán next directed the supernatural horror film Sinister 2 for Blumhouse Productions, starring James Ransone and Shannyn Sossamon. The film was written by Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill, and was released on August 21, 2015 by Focus Features' label Gramercy Pictures.
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    58 min
  • #130 | Paul Walker | Writer/Showrunner
    Joining our BRAND new host Remie Michelle Clarke and Seán T. Ó Meallaigh is Writer and Showrunner Paul Walker.
    Paul enjoys working across various media.  He is equally at home writing black comedy, campaigning or state-of-the-nation drama, friendship group stories or site-specific multi-media theatrical experiences.
    Recent work includes: thriller series NORTH SEA CONNECTION for Mopar Media Group, Sweden/Subotica Entertainment, Ireland; THE PROFESSIONALS (fka SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE) for Roadside Attractions, US/Subotica Entertainment, Ireland; and CALL THE MIDWIFE Series 9  for Neal Street Productions/BBC1 (2020) where his episode guest starred the inimitable Phil Daniels.
    As well as developing original television drama, Paul has extensive experience on long-running series. He has had a long and productive association on RED ROCK for Element Pictures/Company Pictures/TV3, Ireland, initially joining the show as Story Producer on Season 1 in 2015 and subsequently Studio Producing Season 2 and taking on Series Producer (Editorial) duties on Season 3.  He was also on writing duties on both Season 2 and Season 3 and was nominated as ‘Best Writer’ in 2016 for his work on the show.  The series won ‘Best Continuing Drama’ at the Irish Film and Television Awards 2015, 2016 and 2017.  Paul has just won the Writers’ Guild of Ireland Zebbie Award 2019 for Best Continuing Drama Script for RED ROCK Episode 187.
    Other work on long-running series includes episode writing on EASTENDERS  Series 18/19 (BBC Studios for BBC1, 2018-19) and Story Producing on on BBC Scotland’s RIVER CITY (2014).
    Authored work for television includes: controversial award-winning two-parter on the STARDUST disco fire which won ‘Best Drama’ at the Irish Film & Television Awards 2007 (Merlin Films for RTE, produced by Norman Siderow, directed by Cierán Donnelly).  Paul co-wrote De Facto Films’ drama series AN BRONNTANAS for TG4, Ireland with director Tom Collins, Joe O’Byrne and Eoin McNamee. This was nominated in the Scripted Drama category of the Irish Film and Television Awards 2015 and was also recut into a theatrical motion picture which had its world premiere at the Galway Film Festival 2014.  It was Ireland’s entry for the Foreign Language category of the 2015 Academy Awards.
    Feature film projects with development funding from the Irish Film Board include: original horror project NORWEGIAN WOOD and fact-inspired period Gothic story developed for director William Roe THE LAST WITCH, both with Danú Media; and Celtic epic THE NAVIGATOR where Paul co-wrote a number of drafts with director David Keane for Black Sheep Productions.
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    53 min
  • #129 | Paudie Baggot | Writer/Director
    On the first Episode of 2021, We look to the future. 
    Paul was joined before Christmas by a very talented up and coming Director from Limerick. A proper grafter and continual student of Film:
    Paudie Baggott. Paudie gives us a very frank account of his experiences working in Film/Tv in a variety of roles and his successful mission to fund his award winning film "Rip to the Rescue" written By Cian McGarrigle. 
    "Paudie is a Writer/Director based in Dublin. A graduate of the National Film at IADT, Paudie worked as an Art Director in Film, Tv and Commercials out of college before returning to his first love - Directing. His debut short Rip to the Rescue!- a scifi comedy, is currently on the festival circuit, and recently won the Best Short Film at the Waterford Film Festival.
    He is currently developing his follow up short Harvester - a dark comedy-horror about a young man whose arm becomes possessed by his dead Dad's. 
    Day to day Paudie co-owns the production company Escape Pod Media with Maggie Ryan, currently developing a slate of comedy shorts with a range of exciting writers and directors."
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    1 hr 1 min
  • Nika McGuigan Tribute. Danika 'Nika' McGuigan (4 January 1986 – 23 July 2019)
    Danika 'Nika' McGuigan (4 January 1986 – 23 July 2019)
    McGuigan was born in 1986, to Barry McGuigan and Sandra McGuigan.
    She is deeply missed by Brothers Shane, Jake and Blane, Mother Sandra and Father Barry.
    **FNI would like to note that this podcast was recorded before Elliot Page made his announcement. The point Wiebke makes in the context of Nika McGuigan's career referring to Elliot's former identity as Ellen Page felt important to include. There was no disrespect intended.
    The daughter of former WBA Featherweight champion Barry McGuigan, Nika, Nika battled childhood leukemia from the ages of 11 to 13. The disease sadly then returned when she was an adult, claiming her life in 2019 at age 33. She was known for her starring role as art student Danielle Mullane in Can't Cope, Won't Cope (2016–2018).
    She appeared in several films and TV shows, including The Secret Scripture, Mammal (2016) alongside Rooney Mara and Jack Reynor.
    Traders, Stay opposit Aiden Quinn Directed Wiebke von Carolsfeld.
    Her last film was Cathy Brady's Wildfire. Which will be released in 2021.
    McGuigan was first diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at age 11 in 1997, but recovered from the illness after two years of treatment. However, she died on 23 July 2019, from a cancer-related illness.
    Remie Michelle Clarke is an Author, Screenwriter and highly regarded Voiceover artist. Remie joins the ongoing team at Wrapchat and we're delighted to welcome Remie as a new co host on the Show.
    http://www.remiemichelleclarke.com/ for more info.
    Joining Remie in tribute to the wonderful light that was Nika
    is Director Imogen Murphy (Dead Still, Can't Cope, Won't Cope)
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002634/
    Wiebke von Carolsfeld is a German/Canadian film director, writer and editor. Originally from Germany.
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0902092/
    Cathal Quinn is one of the most in demand voice coaches in Ireland today – and is currently the Head of Voice and Speech in The Lir Academy, Trinity College Dublin. He was formally Head of Voice and speech at the Gaiety School of Acting where he taught Nika for two years. He is the artistic director of both Mouth on Fire Theatre Company and Guthanna Binne Sioraí.
    We also have also some great snippets of some of Nika's Class mates. 
    If you'd like to make a donation in honour of Nika please visit 
    https://www.clicsargent.org.uk/
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    1 hr 39 min
  • #127 | Kieron J. Walsh | Director (The Racer)
    Ahead of the Irish cinema release this weekend of the highly anticipated cycling movie, The Racer, Paul Webster spoke to the film's director, Kieron J. Walsh.

    Kieron is a hugely experienced Irish director who has had a rich and varied career working in Film, TV and Advertising. He is well known as one of the founders of Blinder Films, the Irish company that has brought us some of the coolest projects of the last decade.

    The Racer is a technical marvel, an engrossing portrayal of a fictionalised version the Irish stages of the 1998 Tour De France. This tour was seen as a low point as regards drug cheats in cycling and became known as the Tour du Dopage and the Tour of Shame. The film is completely immersive with its awe-inspiring race sequences and the amazing, pulsing techno soundtrack that drives them along. In this conversation, Kieron details how they managed to pull this off with only 28 days of filming.

    This film was due to premiere at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas but unfortunately, it was pulled because of Covid. This film deserves to be seen on the big screen, go see it and support your local cinema this weekend.

    Screen Daily review: As James Mather’s camera delves into the peloton, flying above and amongst the swarm of riders while they battle for position, it’s also clear that this is also part of the addiction. Close-ups of gritted teeth and sweat-drenched bodies are markers of considerable stress, but they pale in comparison with the sheer elation felt at the podium. That’s underscored by Hannes De Maeyer’s excellent, nuanced score, which mixes frantic beats and gentler Irish strings. And, in the background, there’s often the relentless tick of bicycle spokes which act as an effective metronome for Dom’s narrowing chances of glory.

    Kieron J. Walsh
    In 2005, Kieron set up Bl!nder Ltd, a commercials production company and in 2006 he founded Bl!nder Films to develop and produce Irish drama and documentary for a domestic and international audience. For Bl!nder Films, Kieron directed The Savage Eye, Series 1 & 2, a comedy sketch show for RTÉ starring David McSavage.  The show was nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Entertainment Series and for won a Celtic Media Award in 2012 for Best Entertainment Series. It continues to be one of the most successful comedy shows on Irish domestic TV. With his business partner Katie Holly, Kieron has also produced two features: Sensation directed by Tom Hall and Come on Eileen – both films have been screened globally at film festivals; Sensation had a cinema, DVD and VOD release and Come on Eileen was released on DVD in late 2011.
    Kieron recently finished Vexed, a television series for BBC and completed his latest feature film Jump, a Hotshot/Bl!nder Films production, starring Nichola Burley and Martin McCann. This saw him return once again to the Toronto International Film Festival where Jump had its International Premiere, and later to Palm Springs International Film Festival where it picked up the Bridging The Borders award. Jump was released in 2013.

    THIS DECEMBER CINEMA IS BACKKKK!!!
    Irish audiences can look forward to an eclectic mix of fresh Irish film highlights for December and beyond including Cartoon Saloon’s critically acclaimed Wolfwalkers, Phil Lynott documentary Songs For While I’m Away, Sundance debut Herself from Mamma Mia director Phyllida Lloyd and Arracht, Ireland’s official Irish-language entry for next year’s Academy Awards. Please give these films your support.

    Join us on the 21st of December for FNI meets. A free online event.
    To round off the year we're chatting to arguably Ireland's best Director Lenny Abrahamson. We'll chat all things Normal People, Room and his early work, Adam & Paul and his journey from Advertising to Features.
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    There's also a whole back catalogue of over 100 Episodes of  Wrapchat with some incredibly kind and gracious people. So why not check us out. Fni Wrapchat on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google podcasts of course on the Headstuff Podcast Network.

    Sponsored by Wildcard Distribution, Octovid and Film Equipment Store and mixed by Stephen Bedford.
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    1 hr 2 min
  • #126 | Amy De Bhrún | Actor/Writer
    This week's Episode of FNI Wrap Chat is with one of our favourite actors, writers and creators,  Amy De Bhrún. A shining example of artistic integrity and downright hard work. This is a podcast that young creative professionals should not miss.
    Amy moved to London at the age of nineteen, to pursue her actor training. She works consistently between the UK and Ireland. Amy plays the recurring role of Steph Corbett in LINE OF DUTY (BBC). Other notable roles that have been aired this year include ‘Jarl Hrolf’ in VIKINGS, ‘Pline’ in KRYPTON and ‘Meadhbh’ in THE OUTPOST. She was recently seen as Adele in CORONATION STREET (ITV) and the latest JASON BOURNE movie, alongside Matt Damon, Alicia Vikander and Tommy Lee Jones. This was a real high point to get to work alongside such fantastic Oscar winning actors and acclaimed director Paul Greengrass.
    Notable TV/Film credits include: THE CURED, END OF SENTENCE, THE CROWN AND THE DRAGON, THE SOUTH BANK SHOW (ITV), CASUALTY (BBC), THE STAG, JIMI -ALL IS BY MY SIDE, PENNY DREADFUL and BRIDGET & EAMON (RTE), award winning short film GRIDLOCK and music videos for KODALINE (All I Want).
    An accomplished writer – her short film AFTER received the Filmbase Funding Award and went into production January 2014, in which Amy played the female lead role. She was nominated for Best Writing and Best Performance at the Kinsale Shark Awards 2016. Most recently, she has been nominated for the Rising Star ‘Discovery’ Award at the Audi Dublin International Film Festival 2017
    Her One-Woman Theatre shows (of which there are six) have been performed across Ireland, London, Los Angeles and New York City to critical acclaim. Her latest show“I SEE YOU”, inspired by the life of forgotten Irish trailblazer Lady Mary Heath, premiered in Dublin in May 2018 with a national tour in 2019. It garnered huge press interest – including the front page of The Sunday Independent, Ryan Tubridy show, The Today Show with Maura and Daithí (RTE) and The Elaine Show (Virgin Media One).
    As if Amy didn't have enough to be doing, She only went and launched her own Awesome Show 
    "The Year of the Selfie" interviews some brilliant professional people who balance a creative and professional life. Check out Amy's podcast here:
    https://podcasts.apple.com/.../year-of-the.../id1515953510
    There's also a whole back catalogue of over 100 Episodes of  Wrapchat with some incredibly kind and gracious people. So why not check us out. Fni Wrapchat on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google podcasts of course on the Headstuff Podcast Network.
    Sponsored by Wildcard Distribution, Octovid and Film Equipment Store and mixed by Stephen Bedford.
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    49 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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