Podcast appearances and mentions of carmel winters

In this look at the CIFF 2024 programme, Elmarie Mawe spoke with Roisin Geraghty who is the Industry Manager & Programme Advisor for CIFF, and with writer and filmmaker Carmel Winters, who shared the very personal story behind her film in this year's festival. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sounds From A Safe Harbour, Enda Walsh tells us more - Bonny Light Horseman with RTÉ Concert Orchestra will be in Ireland this September - The Road to Joe, A new production from Glass Mask Theatre and writer Carmel Winters.

Last year, UK research suggests that the majority of the screen workforce come from ‘privileged' backgrounds. At the Galway Film Fleadh 2021, Women in Film and Television Ireland and the Writers Guild of Ireland hosted a panel examining the intersection of gender and class in the Irish screen industries. This panel was moderated by WFT Chair Dr Susan Liddy, and featured filmmakers Carmel Winters & Roisin Kearney, as well as academic Dave O'Brien and performer Jordanne Jones This event was organised with the support of the BAI. Carmel Winters Carmel Winters is an award-winning writer and director for stage and screen.  Her most recent film Float Like A Butterfly won the FIPRESCI international critics' award at Toronto International Film Festival and her theatre plays have premiered at the Abbey Theatre and beyond Dave O'Brien Dave O'Brien is Chancellor's Fellow in Cultural and Creative Industries, based in the School of History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on cultural policy, urban regeneration, cultural work, public policy, social mobility, and cultural consumption. His most recent book, co-authored with Drs Orian Brook and Mark Taylor, is Culture is bad for you: Inequality in the cultural and creative industries. Roisin Kearney Roisin Kearney is a multi-award winning writer/director/producer in film, TV and theatre. After a successful 10 years working nationally and internationally, she took time out with her three children. She returned to film in 2014 and has worked on a number of shorts including The Family Way, No Dogs, The Ferry, RUN, and PADDY. She is associate producer on children's show Gamer Mode for RTE, and writer for Smashing Times theatre and film company. She is currently in development with comedy drama RIP and feature script Spoke.  Jordanne Jones Jordanne played the leading role of Emma in Metal Heart (Treasure Films), Hugh O'Connor's directorial debut, for which she won the Bingham Ray Best New Talent Award at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2018. She is currently appearing as Lily in Dead Still (Acorn/RTE) and will soon appear in a guest role in The Alienist: Angel of Darkness (Paramount/TNT) due for release later this year. Dr Susan Liddy Dr Susan Liddy is Chair of Women in Film and Television Ireland and a board member of Women in Film and Television International, the Writers Guild of Ireland and Raising Films Ireland.  She is the founder and co-director of Catalyst International Film Festival which prioritizes films and filmmakers from underrepresented groups. Her work includes Women in the Irish Film Industry: Stories and Storytellers and she has recently co-authored a report for the BAI, Auditing Gender and Diversity Change in Irish Media Sectors.

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Q&A for new Irish film Float Like a Butterfly with director Carmel Winters and star Hazel Doupe, hosted by Sheila de Courcy. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 10th of May 2019.

EPISODE, No 58 of FNI Wrapchat is Director Carmel Winters. Carmel was born in Cork and studied Drama and English at Trinity College Dublin. She is an award-winning storyteller, the maker of bold and innovative drama for stage and screen. "Snap", her debut feature as writer/director, was critically acclaimed as ‘engrossing… nervy, audacious filmmaking' (Variety) and ‘a masterclass in storytelling', (HotPress) picking up a host of awards at international A-list festivals, including Critic's Choice, (Karlovy-Vary), Best Film (Montevideo), Best Film and Best Director (Dublin Critic's Circle at the JDIFF) and nominated in the Tribeca Film Festival and the Warsaw International Film Festival in the Best Narrative Feature category.  Her most recent Film work "Float like a Butterfly" is a ten year labour of love, selected to screen at The Toronto International Film Festival last year. Young Hazel Doupe is a revelation and stars as a Traveller who, during the early 1970s, becomes a dedicated boxer. The Film subsequently and won the Fipresci Discovery Prize. A fantastic achievement. Float like a Butterfly is currently in Irish Cinemas. A seasoned playwright, Her most recent play, The Remains of Maisie Duggan, premiered in the Peacock Theatre as part of the 2016 Dublin Theatre Festival. Carmel was appointed Film Artist in Residence (Screenwriter) 2014-15 at University College Cork by UCC and the Arts Council. #WeAreFni Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EPISODE, No 58 of FNI Wrapchat is Director Carmel Winters. Carmel was born in Cork and studied Drama and English at Trinity College Dublin. She is an award-winning storyteller, the maker of bold and innovative drama for stage and screen. "Snap", her debut feature as writer/director, was critically acclaimed as ‘engrossing… nervy, audacious filmmaking’ (Variety) and ‘a masterclass in storytelling’, (HotPress) picking up a host of awards at international A-list festivals, including Critic’s Choice, (Karlovy-Vary), Best Film (Montevideo), Best Film and Best Director (Dublin Critic’s Circle at the JDIFF) and nominated in the Tribeca Film Festival and the Warsaw International Film Festival in the Best Narrative Feature category.  Her most recent Film work "Float like a Butterfly" is a ten year labour of love, selected to screen at The Toronto International Film Festival last year. Young Hazel Doupe is a revelation and stars as a Traveller who, during the early 1970s, becomes a dedicated boxer. The Film subsequently and won the Fipresci Discovery Prize. A fantastic achievement. Float like a Butterfly is currently in Irish Cinemas. A seasoned playwright, Her most recent play, The Remains of Maisie Duggan, premiered in the Peacock Theatre as part of the 2016 Dublin Theatre Festival. Carmel was appointed Film Artist in Residence (Screenwriter) 2014-15 at University College Cork by UCC and the Arts Council. #WeAreFni

Float Like a Butterfly is a powerful and timely story of a girl’s fight for freedom and belonging.  Some people say it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose.  But for Frances losing is not an option – at stake is her own freedom, her mother’s honour and her father’s faith.  In this podcast, Paul Farren talks to Carmel Winters about her film and the art and craft of filmmaking. http://filmireland.net/

Ep: 36 of FNI WrapChat is Rioghnach Ni Ghrioghair With a BA in Film and TV Production and MA in Screenwriting, Rioghnach has straddled both sides of the development table for nearly a decade in the Irish TV and Film Industry. She's worked with Dublin's Blinder Films for two years from 2011 as a development assistant before moving on to FAIR CITY in 2013 to write story lines for RTE's soap opera for a further two years. She contributed to a wealth of stories for the show, including their 25th anniversary plots. She started working for Samson Films (ONCE, THE SEA) in 2015 and their sister company Accomplice Television as their Development Executive and works part time on their extensive slate of film and television projects. Upcoming Samson films she has worked on include Viko Nicki's CELLAR DOOR and Carmel Winters' FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY, both funded by the Screen Ireland. Along with Samson, she continues to work freelance as a script editor and development producer for other companies in Ireland and the UK. She is also a writer/director, her sci-fi short NEON which screened at the Galway Film Fleadh 2017 entitled NEON and was funded by Screen Ireland (Irish Film Board). Rioghnach is currently working on two features, a feature version of NEON and a horror siege thriller, THE HIVE. If you'd like to support FNI head on over to www.buymeacoffee.com/fni #WeAreFNI #MakeANameForYourself You can listen to Fni WrapChat on @thisheadstuff podcast Network, Itunes, Google podcasts and wherever you get your Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Award winning writer Carmel Winters talks with Lisa Farrelly about her latest play The Remains of Maisie Duggan, of new ways of seeing the familiar and staying put in the locked house of creativity. Podcast Editor: Lisa Farrelly / Sound Operator: Ben Delaney

The Wake's Aisling O'Sullivan talks with writer Carmel Winters about interpreting the work of Tom Murphy, keeping it connected and how some actions are beyond forgiveness.