Women in Film and TV Podcast

With the Dublin International Film Festival just a few days away, here at WFT, we are excited to celebrate all our members whose work has been selected as part of the festival!

Listen back for a special WFT Ireland panel discussion where WFT Board Member Fiona Kinsella will sit down with some of the talented voices behind this year’s selection for the DIFF Shorts Programme:

Alba Fernandez, DOP: Callus – Screen Ireland Shorts Programme 2

Naomi Sheridan, Writer/Director: Kiki – Virgin Media Discovers Shorts Programme

Martina McGlynn, Director: Wrecker – Screen Ireland Shorts Programme 1

Natalie Britton, Actor/Producer: Two For The Road – Screen Ireland Shorts Programme 2

Hannah Mamalis, Writer/Director/Star: Baby Steps – Dublin On Screen 1

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Listen back to this recording of a very special panel, Producing From Beyond the Pale, brought to you by WFT Ireland and Wexford Screen Writers Academy.

This talk, moderated by Fiona Kinsella features Jess Drumm, David McLoughlin, Jac Kerrin, Colman Farrell, Mark Maher and Tom Dowling as they discuss the scope of the industry at large as well as the opportunities when it comes to production across the regions.

Following on from the success of last year’s Producing From Beyond the Pale panel, WFT Ireland and Wexford Screen Writers Academy have come together once more to host the second iteration of the event. Wexford Screen Writers’ Academy is a Bodecii Film, Screen Wexford and Wexford County Council initiative funded by Creative Ireland and Screen Ireland.

Producing from Beyond the Pale is a WFT Ireland event funded by Screen Stakeholders and Coimisiún na Meán. The event was held in Wexford Arts Centre and streamed online supported by the National Youth Film and Animation Network.

At Catalyst International Film Festival in 2022, WFT held a very special panel discussion where Parents and Carers lobbied for a more family friendly professional landscape. This was an interactive discussion where Raising Films Ireland, the support and advocacy group for parents and carers working in the Irish screen industries, teased out what can be done to create a fairer and more inclusive industry. This panel was moderated by WFT Chair Dr. Susan Liddy and featured Grainne Bennett, Lesley Conroy and Ailish Bracken .

This talk has been made possible with the generous support of the BAI.

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In this WFT Ireland’s Podcast, Board Member and Producer Fiona Kinsella chats with Madison Eastwood, John O’Sullivan and Lorcan Murphy on the A to Z of Insuring your Film. These experts from WFT sponsors Media Insurance and discuss the nuances of media insurance, offering crucial insights on coverage essentials and risk mitigation and help on understanding the complex paperwork involved.

In this inaugural episode from a series of in-depth conversations with international changemakers, WFT Ireland Chair and WIFT International President Dr. Susan Liddy delves into an insightful discussion with Terry Lawler – former Executive Director of WFT New York and a member of the current WIFTI Advisory Board. Through this series, we aim to speak with a range of women who have shaped WIFTI and the media landscape over the last few decades.

With over two decades at the helm of the New York chapter, Terry's leadership has been nothing short of extraordinary. In this podcast episode, Susan and Terry explore many questions. What does it take to navigate the complexities of running one of the largest chapters in one of the biggest cities of a global organisation like WIFTI? What transformations has she witnessed during her dynamic tenure?

A special nod of appreciation goes out to our international colleagues at WIFTI for their unwavering support.

This podcast has been made possible with the support of the Screen Ireland Stakeholders Fund.

To learn more about the work being done at WFT Ireland and to explore the possibility of becoming a member, visit https://wft.ie/

In the second of the Cannes Conversation Series, we look at script development and how the story gets from the page to the screen.

This has been made possible with the support of the Screen Ireland Stakeholder Fund.

At Cannes Film Festival last year, WFT Chair Dr. Susan Liddy caught up with producer Annemiek van der Hell at the Writers’ Lab networking event.

The Writers’ Lab is a wonderful initiative created by Elizabeth Kaiden and Nitza Wilon to support female screenwriters over 40. Susan talks with Annemiek about the development of her feature Breakwater, a co-production between The Netherlands, Ireland, and Belgium.

Following this, recorded at a live webinar, Scripteditor Gaia Meucci-Astley talks about her career, the industry, and how she works with writers to get their scripts to the best version possible.

Utilising her unique background as a film programmer, Gaia shares her tips and tricks in working with your story and characters, to unlock the magic of storytelling.

You can contact Gaia about working on your project at

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Ahead of the Dublin International Comedy Film Festival WFT Member Margaret Kane-Rowe, hosts a wonderful panel bringing together the creative and talented women whose work is screening at the festival. Rebecca Hickey (The Performance Review), Aisha Bolaji (The End of the World Tour), Alexandra Eftos (Good Fortune), and Croí Burrowes (Kiss Kiss Fang Fang) will be talking about their funny films and careers to date.

This webinar is funded by the Screen Ireland Stakeholder Funding.

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In this very special WFT Ireland podcast WFT Member and composer Emer Landers talks with fellow composer, the inspiring Eímear Noone about her wonderful new documentary score for SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS.

Discussing everything music-related, from the taste to the technical, these two talented women reveal real insight into the art form.

This podcast has been made possible with the support of Screen

Ireland's Stakeholder fund.

SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS - In Cinemas Now

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Listen back to this very special masterclass in lighting with WFT

Vice-Chair and Board Member Jaro Waldeck, as she's in conversation

with RTÉ Lighting Director Aoife Brown. In this focused discussion,

they give critical and technical insight into all things lighting and

cinematography and cover the art of visual storytelling in multicamera

TV.

This podcast has been released with the support of Screen Ireland's

Stakeholder Fund.

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About Aoife Brown

Aoife has over 25 years in television production operations at RTÉ.

For the past number of years the majority of her work has been as

Lighting Director on ‘Fair City’, Ireland’s longest running drama

serial. In 2018, Fair City began shooting in HD. As Lighting Director,

she was involved in the technical planning of the project. Her

responsibility was also to ensure that all set lighting met the

requirements for HD filming and designed set lighting for a new diner

set. In 2014, Aoife was the Lighting Director for RTĖ’s first full HD

studio production which was studio coverage and analysis of the FIFA

World Cup.

In 2017, Women in Film and Television Ireland hosted a DOP Masterclass at Brooks Hotel. This live event featured insight into the craft of cinematography from two leading DOPs, Kate McCullough (The Farthest, The Queen of Ireland, His & Hers) and Frida Wendel (Striking Out, Ego).

McCullough has recently been listed in Screen International’s “Stars of Tomorrow 2020”. She received the Golden Frog for Best Cinematography on a Docudrama ‘I Dolours’ at Camerimage 2018. In the same year she was nominated for an Emmy for her work on ‘The Farthest’. The Hollywood Reporter listed McCullough as top 10 to watch in Irish Film Industry 2017. More recently she was nominated for the IMAGO award 2019 for her work on ‘The Farthest’. Upon completing her studies at The National Film School, Lodz, Poland, McCullough shot the Irish box office hit ‘His and Hers’. This film went on to win the ‘World Cinematography Award in Documentary’, Sundance 2010. McCullough is a member of the Irish Society of Cinematographers and Illuminatrix.

Frida Wendel is a Swedish DOP who has a background in still photography and studied cinematography at Dramatiska Instituet between 2004 and 2008. She has since then made a number of popular commercials and promos for companies such as IKEA, Vero Moda and Burger King. She puts a lot of effort on visual storytelling and she is known for her work on EGO (2014), Akta manniskor (2014), Glada halsningar fran Missangertrask (2015) and more recently in Ireland on Blinder Films Striking Out, starring Amy Huberman and Neil Morrissey and directed by Lisa James Larsson for RTE. She is currently shooting Series Two. She is a member of The Swedish Society of Cinematographers FSF.

This masterclass was chaired by award-winning cinematographer Michael Lavelle (Cardboard Gangsters, Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope, Patrick’s Day).