Podcasts about Irish Film Institute

If you've ever fancied seeing film classics such as ‘Lawrence of Arabia' & 'Ryan's Daughter' in their full wide-screen glory, The Irish Film Institute is offering you the opportunity to do so. They are holding a 2-month, 16-film celebration of 'The Films of David Lean' this April and May.Dr Ruth Barton is a Professor of Film Studies in Trinity College, and joins Seán to discuss.

If you've ever fancied seeing film classics such as ‘Lawrence of Arabia' & 'Ryan's Daughter' in their full wide-screen glory, The Irish Film Institute is offering you the opportunity to do so. They are holding a 2-month, 16-film celebration of 'The Films of David Lean' this April and May.Dr Ruth Barton is a Professor of Film Studies in Trinity College, and joins Seán to discuss.

Almost 100 years American ornithologist Benjamin Gault came to Kerry and Cork. His purpose was to document birdlife but the films he shot also captured the way people lived in the 1920s just after the War of Independence and Civil War. His footage was forgotten for decades but his visit lived on in folk memory. Micheál Ó Mainnín decided over a decade to find out what happened to Benjamin Gault’s films after he had heard the tales of an American recording films in West Kerry in the 1920s. Jerry spoke to Micheál and to Dr Aoife Granville from Dingle. Aoife and her sister Deirdre were multi-instrumentalists on the soundtrack to the digitised film of Benjamin Gault’s footage. https://ifiarchiveplayer.ie/benjamin-gault/ This has been made possible by the Chicago Academy of Sciences, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, and the Irish Film Institute as well as by some generous benefactors.

Ross Keane, Director and CEO of the Irish Film Institute, discusses the line-up and events organised for the IFI Documentary Festival, which opens in Dublin tonight.

Now in its 7th year, The Dublin Smartphone Film Festival was formed with a simple ethos: expensive equipment shouldn't be a barrier to creativity. Confusing, high-priced film equipment can often pose an additional hurdle for filmmakers starting out. They might have a story to tell but feel they can't afford to tell it. The Dublin Smartphone Film Festival, a festival created for films shot on mobile phones, was designed to be the antithesis of this. We wanted to show filmmakers that it's the story that's paramount and that a simple tool like your mobile phone is an accessible and powerful storytelling device. This freedom for filmmakers is clearly reflected in the latest crop of officially selected films. Taking place on March 30th at the Pearce Street Theatre and the Irish Film Institute, the festival features an exciting mix of shorts. These include a sci-fi film from first-time director George Carter (78), a powerful documentary about women's rights in Iran directed by Saba Ghasemi, and the premiere of the drama 'Now & Then' from multi-award-winning Independent Filmmaker Frank W Kelly. The festival organisers have meticulously curated an exceptional program, emphasising powerful original concepts and innovative utilisation of technology. In an exciting development, this year's festival has partnered with the Irish Film Institute to host a filmmaking workshop. Here, participants get hands-on experience with mobile moviemaking in the historic Irish cinema landmark. Festival Director Robert Fitzhugh commented: "We just could not believe the success of the festival in the past 6 years. We sell out each year before the doors even open. It has been an incredible period of creativity with people utilising the tools they have at their disposal to tell stories. There has never been a more interesting time to explore Smartphone filmmaking. This is what the Dublin Smartphone Film Festival is here to do; to encourage the next generation of filmmakers to create their stories using their phones and to provide them with the widest possible platform to present these stories to a wider audience" The Dublin Smartphone Film Festival will take place on the 30th of March 2024 at The Pearse Centre and Irish Film Institute. Tickets Filmmaking Workshop: Short film Programme: https://bit.ly/49Ei8as Tickets for online events are available on our website https://www.dublinsmartphonefilmfestival.com/. More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm/irish-tech-news If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience. You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.

On this week's episode of Talking History, Patrick Geoghegan traces the highs and lows of The Oscars, the underrated and underwhelming nominations of the past, and the trailblazers for Irish cinematic success.He's joined by Prof Mark Glancy, Professor of Film History, Queen Mary University of London; Dr Conn Holohan, Director of the Centre for Creative Technologies and lecturer in film and media studies at the University of Galway; Prof Ruth Barton, Professor in Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin; and Prof Kevin Rockett, Fellow Emeritus and former Professor in Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin, and former Chairman of the Irish Film Institute.

We are thrilled to be partnering with Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) to bring you a series of podcasts with filmmakers featuring in this year's programme.  DIFF 2024 runs 22nd February – 2nd March. Explore the programme and get tickets here. In this Film Ireland Podcast, DIFF's Silver Screen Critics: Lorna Cady, Mutale Kampuni, Maureen Bushe, and Eileen Murphy discuss two of the films they watched as part of the programme. After a programme of features and shorts, the group discuss two documentaries, Bye Bye Tiberias and Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes's. Bye Bye Tiberias screens on  1st Mar at The Lighthouse Cinema at 11:00 Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes's screens on Fri 1st Mar at the Irish Film Institute at 18:30 https://diff.ie/ https://filmireland.net

In September 2021, The Shaking Bog Festival had the immense pleasure of welcoming renowned poet Michael Longley to the Glencree Valley, County Wicklow. This Christmas offering looks back to the archive and presents the full version of this memorable reading and conversation with Dr Margaret Kelleher. We hope it might be something to sink into and provide solace and hope as the solstice comes in and the new year dawns. Produced by The Shaking Bog in collaboration with Coillte Nature and Mermaid Arts Centre. Written & presented by Catherine Nunes, edited by Bjorn MacGiolla, mixed and recorded by Steve McGrath, with theme music composed by Ray Harmon. Further information: Michael Longley - One of Northern Ireland's foremost contemporary poets, Michael Longley was born on July 27, 1939. He is renowned for the quiet beauty of his compact, meditative lyrics. He is the author of many poetry collections, including Angel Hill (2017); The Stairwell (2015), which received the 2015 International Griffin Poetry Prize; The Ghost Orchid (2012); The Weather in Japan (2000), which won the Irish Times Literature Prize for Poetry, the Hawthornden Prize, and the T.S. Eliot Prize; and Gorse Fires (1991), winner of the Whitbread Poetry Prize. In 2001 Longley was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. “Longley's poems count the phenomena of the natural world with the particular deliberate pleasure of a lover's fingers wandering along the bumpy path of the vertebrae.” – Seamus Heaney Professor Margaret Kelleher MRIA - is Professor and Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin. She is a Board Member of the Museum of Literature Ireland and was academic lead for UCD in the foundation of this landmark public humanities initiative and collaboration with the National Library of Ireland. From October 2023 she will hold the Parnell Fellowship in Irish Studies at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. Margaret is former Chair of the Board of the Irish Film Institute. In Spring 2020 she was Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Glucksman House, New York University, and from September 2022 to May 2023 she was a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library.

In today's Podcast, we are bringing you the second in a short series of Women in Sport interviews recorded live at the Irish Film Institute at our tenth annual Women in Sport Conference.It was a great morning and we kicked things off after the all-important networking coffee with Nora Stapleton who is responsible at Sport Ireland for the policy that relates to all of the Women in Sport programmes that are inspired, supported and funded through the organisation.Only 48 hours earlier she had launched a revised and updated policy, taking the learning of the last three years and bringing it right up to date.We spoke about the why behind that updating, and the difference the campaigns are making across participation, coaching, leadership and visibility.Our Women in Sport partners are Lidl who have been great champions of Ladies Football at every level over the past six years and long into the future as well.  We joined the live session just as we were playing the original Lidl Ladies Football TV ad on the big screen… Find out more about what we do day in day out at Sportforbusiness.com We publish Twice daily Bulletins and Twice Weekly Podcasts including recent interviews with Ger Mitchell of PTSB, Michelle Davoren of Wilson Hartnell, David McHugh of Wasserman Ireland and many more Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts from and thanks for taking the time to listen in.

In today's Podcast, we are bringing you the first of a short series of Women in Sport interviews recorded live at the Irish Film Institute at our tenth annual Women in Sport Conference.Our Women in Sport partners are Lidl who have been great champions of Ladies Football at every level over the past six years and long into the future as well.It was a great morning and one of the stars was a woman who has been a trailblazer in pressing the case for women being involved as players, administrators, match analysts and as President of the Camogie Association.Liz Howard is a tough cookie and does not suffer fools so it was with a little trepidation that I welcomed her onto the stage but I never need have worried.She had us all in the palm of her hand and I think you'll enjoy her take on Irish sport past, present and future… Find out more about what we do day in day out at Sportforbusiness.com We publish Twice daily Bulletins and Twice Weekly Podcasts including recent interviews with Ger Mitchell of PTSB, Michelle Davoren of Wilson Hartnell, David McHugh of Wasserman Ireland and many more Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts from and thanks for taking the time to listen in.

(Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on Wed 11 Oct '23 as part of the Dublin Festival of History) Listen to History Ireland editor Tommy Graham for a lively and interactive discussion on how the Irish Civil War was depicted on film, both at the time (newsreels) and subsequently (Michael Collins, The Wind that Shakes the Barley and other films), and how this has affected our understanding of the period—with Ciara Chambers, Dennis Condon, Brian Hanley and Kevin Rockett. The Hedge School series of podcasts is produced by History Ireland and the Wordwell Group. For more information or to subscribe, visit historyireland.com This Hedge School is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries 2012–2023 initiative.

John Boorman in a public interview with Myles Dungan for the RTE´ programme Rattlebag at The Irish Film Institute in 2003

Paul Webster hosts this episode with director Alan Gilsenan, one of the most prolific filmmakers working in Ireland, about his fascinating career spanning three decades and an incredibly varied and impressive body of work as well as his latest film, Ghosts of Baggotonia. An evocative film-poem exploring the literary and other ghosts of the bohemian quarter bordering Dublin's Baggot Street during the mid-20th century where there was a radical flourishing of artistic and intellectual activity. A screening of ‘Ghosts of Baggotonia', followed by a Q&A with Alan Gilsenan and poet Seán Hewitt, will be held at the IFI in Dublin on Friday, December 9 and is screening in cinemas around the country.  Alan Gilsenan is an Irish writer, filmmaker and theatre director.   His work includes the cinematic documentaries Ghosts of Baggotonia, The Yellow Bittern, Then Meeting and  Meetings with Ivor, the feature film Unless, based on a novel by Carol Shields and The Meeting, which he wrote and directed and premiered at the 2018 Dublin Film Festival. Gilsenan is a former chairperson of the Irish Film Institute. He also served on the Irish Film Board, and on the board of the International Dance Festival Ireland. Between 2009 and 2014, Gilsenan served on the board of Raidió Teilifís Éireann, where he chaired the Editorial and Creative Output Committee. He is currently on the Board of Fighting Words, a creative writing centre for young people founded by Sean Love & novelist Roddy Doyle. Having made an acclaimed film of Samuel Beckett's TV drama, Eh Joe, Gilsenan came to note with his controversial, award-winning documentary for the U.K.'s Channel 4 The Road to God Knows Where. With producer Martin Mahon, he formed Yellow Asylum Films and made a number of documentaries on challenging aspects of Irish life. These include The Asylum (a four-hour portrait of Portrane Psychiatric Hospital), The Hospice (inside St Francis Hospice), The Home (about old age), I See A Darkness (about suicide in Ireland), and A Time to Die (on euthanasia). Gilsenan's Other work includes. Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay, a drama-documentary with Maria Doyle Kennedy in the title role which premiered at the London Film Festival; God Bless America, a series for ITV in the United Kingdom, six portraits of U.S. cities through the eyes of American authors, including Gore Vidal, Neil Simon, Patricia Cornwell and Garrison Keillor; The Irish Empire, the opening and closing episodes of a five-hour history of Irish emigration; The Green Fields of France, a poetic meditation on the Irish who died fighting in World War I; Maura's Story, the story of a young Irish-American woman who became a Buddhist saint in Japan; Ó Pheann an Phiarsaigh, a film-poem inspired by the creative writings of Patrick Pearse; The Ghost of Roger Casement, a feature documentary. His latest film, Ghosts of Baggotonia, is out this weekend. Watch the trailer below.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyegsZF-t-4 Come to our awesome CHRISTMAS PARTY THIS SAT the 10th December:  Tics: https://linktr.ee/wearefni  FNI Wrapchat is Produced by PBL, Paul Webster and Edited and Mixed by Mark Monks in the heart of Dublin City Centre at the Podcast Studios. https://www.thepodcaststudios.ie/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out Film Network Ireland at https://wearefni.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/filmnetworkireland https://twitter.com/fni_film https://www.instagram.com/filmnetworkireland ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please Support Film Network Ireland by becoming a member at BuyMeACoffee.com/fni ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #WeAreFni Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Webster hosts this episode with director Alan Gilsenan, one of the most prolific filmmakers working in Ireland, about his fascinating career spanning three decades and an incredibly varied and impressive body of work as well as his latest film, Ghosts of Baggotonia. An evocative film-poem exploring the literary and other ghosts of the bohemian quarter bordering Dublin's Baggot Street during the mid-20th century where there was a radical flourishing of artistic and intellectual activity. A screening of ‘Ghosts of Baggotonia', followed by a Q&A with Alan Gilsenan and poet Seán Hewitt, will be held at the IFI in Dublin on Friday, December 9 and is screening in cinemas around the country.  Alan Gilsenan is an Irish writer, filmmaker and theatre director.   His work includes the cinematic documentaries Ghosts of Baggotonia, The Yellow Bittern, Then Meeting and  Meetings with Ivor, the feature film Unless, based on a novel by Carol Shields and The Meeting, which he wrote and directed and premiered at the 2018 Dublin Film Festival. Gilsenan is a former chairperson of the Irish Film Institute. He also served on the Irish Film Board, and on the board of the International Dance Festival Ireland. Between 2009 and 2014, Gilsenan served on the board of Raidió Teilifís Éireann, where he chaired the Editorial and Creative Output Committee. He is currently on the Board of Fighting Words, a creative writing centre for young people founded by Sean Love & novelist Roddy Doyle. Having made an acclaimed film of Samuel Beckett's TV drama, Eh Joe, Gilsenan came to note with his controversial, award-winning documentary for the U.K.'s Channel 4 The Road to God Knows Where. With producer Martin Mahon, he formed Yellow Asylum Films and made a number of documentaries on challenging aspects of Irish life. These include The Asylum (a four-hour portrait of Portrane Psychiatric Hospital), The Hospice (inside St Francis Hospice), The Home (about old age), I See A Darkness (about suicide in Ireland), and A Time to Die (on euthanasia). Gilsenan's Other work includes. Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay, a drama-documentary with Maria Doyle Kennedy in the title role which premiered at the London Film Festival; God Bless America, a series for ITV in the United Kingdom, six portraits of U.S. cities through the eyes of American authors, including Gore Vidal, Neil Simon, Patricia Cornwell and Garrison Keillor; The Irish Empire, the opening and closing episodes of a five-hour history of Irish emigration; The Green Fields of France, a poetic meditation on the Irish who died fighting in World War I; Maura's Story, the story of a young Irish-American woman who became a Buddhist saint in Japan; Ó Pheann an Phiarsaigh, a film-poem inspired by the creative writings of Patrick Pearse; The Ghost of Roger Casement, a feature documentary. His latest film, Ghosts of Baggotonia, is out this weekend. Watch the trailer below.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyegsZF-t-4 Come to our awesome CHRISTMAS PARTY THIS SAT the 10th December:  Tics: https://linktr.ee/wearefni  FNI Wrapchat is Produced by PBL, Paul Webster and Edited and Mixed by Mark Monks in the heart of Dublin City Centre at the Podcast Studios. https://www.thepodcaststudios.ie/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out Film Network Ireland at https://wearefni.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/filmnetworkireland https://twitter.com/fni_film https://www.instagram.com/filmnetworkireland ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please Support Film Network Ireland by becoming a member at BuyMeACoffee.com/fni ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #WeAreFni

This is a one-off bonus episode featuring a number of live performances from Luke McManus' new film North Circular. The film is a documentary musical journeying along the North Circular Road in Dublin's North Inner City. Written & directed by Luke McManus, edited by John Murphy, produced by Luke McManus & Elaine Gallagher. Score by Kevin Murphy and Seti The First. North Circular opens on December 2nd in Irish Film Institute, Dublin 2, Light House, Dublin 7, Savoy Cinema, Dublin 1, IMC Dun Laoghaire and Queens Film Theatre Belfast. It opens on Dec 4th at Bertha Dochouse in London, and on Dec 9th in the Gate Multiplex in Cork and Palás Cinema in Galway. Tickets and info from www.northcircular.ie Production and mixing on tracks by Hugh Fox. Boom operated by Dave Harris. NCR picture by Andrew Sheridan. Tracklist John Francis Flynn - Lag Song Annie Hughes - The Blackbird of Sweet Avondale Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin - Dark Horse on the Wind Jerry O'Reilly - Van Diemen's Land Julie Kavanagh - Siúil a Rún Ian Lynch - Banks of the Nile https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

10.11: Kate Ellis, artistic director of Crash Ensemble, talks through their 25th anniversary celebrations, involving a new album, [REACTIONS], an installation, and a couple of shows at the NCH (more info below). Plus we talk about Kate's journey to this point, how a tap on the shoulder as she was walking down Grafton Street changed everything for her. We hear three Crash tracks from [REACTIONS]: One Day, This is the Space Between Your Hand and Mine, and Stone or Rot. New music section 53.29: Moesha - Drag https://youtu.be/FbdfnLpV8aI 58.27: Sarah Buckley - Dream Catching https://sarahbuckleymusic.bandcamp.com/ More information on Crash Ensemble's 25th anniversary celebrations: [REACTIONS] limited edition double album release and film screenings Amidst the onset of the global pandemic, Crash Ensemble commissioned 17 Irish and international composers from a range of musical backgrounds to write new works for duos within the group. Building on existing collaborative partnerships and cultivating and nurturing new relationships, composers were invited to create a musical response to their experiences, the current state and their thoughts for the future. The [REACTIONS] composers are: Amy Rooney, Anna Mieke, Anna Murray, Anselm McDonnell, Bébhinn McDonnell, Bekah Simms, David Fennessy, Deirdre Gribbin, Diamanda Dramm, Éna Brennan, Jonathan Nangle, Rachael Lavelle, Rose Connolly, Seán Ó'Dálaigh, Sebastian Adams, Siobhán Cleary, and Stephen Shannon. Each composer documented their creative process with text and imagery, offering a fly on the wall view of the composers' studio spaces, visual imagery and text journaling during the creative process. The duos were recorded and will now be presented in a limited-edition double album release [REACTIONS], coming November 25th. Audio visual material was combined with these recordings to make an accompanying film by Crash's resident filmmaker, Laura Sheeran, which will be screened at The Irish Film Institute, Wednesday 30th November 2022. Performances at The National Concert Hall The 25th year anniversary programme culminates with two special concerts and a cutting-edge installation at the National Concert Hall (NCH). The first celebratory concert, Crash 25! Charged Disruption, on Saturday 3rd December (The Studio) sees the acclaimed ensemble, with conductor Ryan McAdams, perform Donnacha Dennehy's magnetic, soulful and influential work Grá agas Bás with vocalist Iarla Ó Lionáird. In the second part of the concert Artist in Residence Diamanda La Berge Dramm and writer Neva Elliot present Crashed, drawing on the unique energy of the players of the group, through the use of their voices and instruments. For the second birthday concert, Crash 25! Living Perspectives, on Sunday 4th December (The Studio) the ensemble's programme comprises Australian composer Liza Lim's Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus and Barry O'Halpin's experimental work Wingform, which takes advantage of Crash's unique ability to cover a breadth of musical ground: winding melodies, mechanical rhythms, rapid lines and hypnotic drones. The previous week, from Thursday 24th November to Sunday 27th November, The Studio space in the National Concert Hall hosts Crash 25! Wingform Installation. The installation is the work of video artist and filmmaker Jack Phelan who created a work responding to the visual themes of Irish composer, Barry O'Halpin's Wingform - a four movement work for solo guitar and ensemble. Using a simple set of shapes, materials and layout, the installation aims to evoke the essence of the ensemble. Tickets for Crash 25! Charged Disruption (3rd December) and Crash 25! Living Perspectives (4th December): €18 are available from nch.ie

Patrick O'Neill is Founder and Managing Director of Wildcard, Ireland's leading film distributor working across Theatrical, Video on Demand, and TV in Ireland and the UK. Wildcard projects include The Young Offenders, Bobby Sands: 66 Days, Cardboard Gangsters, Black 47, The Hole in the Ground, Wolfwalkers, and Deadly Cuts. Wildcard regularly manage Irish distribution campaigns on behalf of UK Distributors and Platforms, with clients including Amazon, Altitude, Apple, Netflix, and Vertigo. Patrick's Executive Producer film credits include The Hole in the Ground, Black 47, Extra Ordinary, Redemption of a Rogue, and KATIE, and he is Co-Producer on Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan. Patrick sits on the Board of the Irish Film Institute and the Cork Film Festival, is a member of the WRAP Fund Investment Committee, and the Arts Council Peer Panel. Patrick has over 20 years experience in the film industry across a variety of roles, including seven years as an Executive at Screen Ireland and positions in International sales and film production. Qualifications include an MA in Audio-Visual Management, MSC in Cyberpsychology, and a BA in Business Studies.

Peter McDowell the maker of the documentary Jimmy in Saigon joined Ryan in studio this morning. The films runs as part of The Gaze LGBTQ+ film festival which opened this week and runs until Sunday at the Irish Film Institute.

Ross Keane, Director of the Irish Film Institute, discusses the 2022 IFI Documentary Festival and challenges facing the arts sector.

In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Dónal Foreman about his genre-defying blend of psychodrama and fantasy, The Cry of Granuaile. The Cry of Granuaile is a genre-defying blend of psychodrama and fantasy from Dónal Foreman, award winning director of the The Image You Missed (the IFTA-nominated documentary named by the Irish Times as one of the 50 best Irish films ever made.) Filmed on lush 16mm film and starring Dale Dickey and Judith Roddy, The Cry of Granuaile follows a grieving American filmmaker and her Irish assistant on a tour of the west of Ireland as they research a film about Granuaile (aka Grace O'Malley), the legendary 16th century rebel and pirate queen. The two women develop an uneasy intimacy as they journey towards the remote Clare Island, where boundaries begin to blur between past and present, myth and history, dream and reality. The film opened at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin on Friday, September 2nd at 6:20pm and at the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork on Sunday, September 4th at 4:30pm. Screenings at Galway's Eye Cinema begin on Friday September 9th. Dónal Foreman will be in attendance for a Q&As at each city's first screening. While Foreman tours with the film in Ireland, The Cry of Granuaile will also be playing in Australia as part of the Irish Film Festival with screenings in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Canberra over the next weeks. Tickets: DUBLIN – CORK – GALWAY For more info, visit https://donalforeman.com/thecryofgranuaile/

We joined Muinteoir Emer, Seamus the Dog and a gang of children at the Irish Film Institute to watch a brand new film and paint some pigs.

A new documentary film, which opens at the Irish Film Institute today, tells the extraordinary true life story of a barely believable deception that took place in a Scottish school in the early 1990s. Tom Dunne was joined on the show to discuss the film, which is entitled ‘My Old School', by director Jono McLeod.

A new documentary film, which opens at the Irish Film Institute today, tells the extraordinary true life story of a barely believable deception that took place in a Scottish school in the early 1990s. Tom Dunne was joined on the show to discuss the film, which is entitled ‘My Old School', by director Jono McLeod.

In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to filmmaker Dean Kavanagh about his latest feature, Hole in the Head, a sophisticated and darkly comic exploration of the meeting point of traumatised memory and image technologies. Part-time projectionist and amateur filmmaker, John Kline Jnr, is mute and suffers from missing time. He hires local actors to play his parents in a series of recreated home movies in order to investigate their unsolved disappearance 25 years earlier. Hole in the Head screens at the Irish Film Institute from 12th August 2022 https://filmireland.net/

Mairdhia Ni Mhurchu joins Donie Tarrant to chat about the Irish Film Institute organising a screening of”Saoirse?”  –  The sequel to “Mise Eire”, to celebrate George Morrison's 100th birthday in The National Concert Hall, with a full orchestra playing Sean O Riada's scorestarting 

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. If you'd like to support Wrapchat you can subscribe on Headstuff+ or visit BuyMeACoffee.com/fni and purchase us a coffee or  maybe become a member. If you sign up to FNI membership, you'll be in with a chance for mentorship with some brilliant film and tv professionals for Mentors Phase 2 which is coming soon. (It's going to be our best yet.) Check out who we had on phase 1 on WeAreFni.com/mentors Becoming a member has lots of cool perks. Including cool free tickets to screenings and events for members only!!! For just 5e per month or 50e per year! Sign up today and help your COMMUNITY! FNI Wrap Chat is supported by Film Equipment Store, Wildcard Distribution and Octovid. Produced by Larry McGowan at the Podcast Studios Dublin. WeAreFni.com for all things FNI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. If you'd like to support Wrapchat you can subscribe on Headstuff+ or visit BuyMeACoffee.com/fni and purchase us a coffee or  maybe become a member. If you sign up to FNI membership, you'll be in with a chance for mentorship with some brilliant film and tv professionals for Mentors Phase 2 which is coming soon. (It's going to be our best yet.) Check out who we had on phase 1 on WeAreFni.com/mentors Becoming a member has lots of cool perks. Including cool free tickets to screenings and events for members only!!! For just 5e per month or 50e per year! Sign up today and help your COMMUNITY! FNI Wrap Chat is supported by Film Equipment Store, Wildcard Distribution and Octovid. Produced by Larry McGowan at the Podcast Studios Dublin. WeAreFni.com for all things FNI

11th January 2022 Padraic Colum (8th August 1881—11th January 1972): A 50th Anniversary Celebration of his Life and Work An online keynote lecture by Professor Margaret Kelleher (UCD) “Plutarch Lied”: Padraic Colum's Challenge to Historical Biography” as part of a day-long symposium organised by Dr Pádraic Whyte, School of English, TCD and Dr Keith O'Sullivan School of English, DCU in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub and the DCU Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. BOOK here About Professor Margart Kelleher Margaret Kelleher is Professor and Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin. Her book The Maamtrasna Murders: Language, Life and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (UCD Press, 2018) and awarded the Michael J. Durkan Prize for Books on Language and Culture by the American Conference of Irish Studies in 2019 and shortlisted for the RIA Michel Déon Prize. Other publications include The Feminization of Famine (Duke UP and Cork UP, 1997), The Cambridge History of Irish Literature, 2 vols, edited with Philip O'Leary (2006) and a special issue of the journal Éire-Ireland on the topic of “Ireland and the Contemporary”, edited with Nicholas Wolf (2017). She is Chair of the Irish Film Institute and UCD academic lead for the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI).

jQuery(document).ready(function(){ cab.clickify(); }); Original Podcast with clickable words https://tinyurl.com/yk699eks Highly valuable films from Corca Dhuibhne in the 1920s found. Scannáin fíor-luachmar as Corca Dhuibhne sna 1920í aimsithe. America has found some invaluable films that provide an important insight into life in 1920s Ireland. Ta scannáin fíor-luachmhar a thugann léargas tábhachtach ar an saol in Éirinn sna 1920í aimsithe i Meiriceá. Benjamin T. Benjamin T. The films were made by Gault, a conservationist and naturalist, while in Ireland collecting seabirds, eggs and other animals. Gault, caomhantóir agus nádúraí a dhein na scannáin, le linn do bheith in Éirinn ag bailiú éanlaithe mara, uibheacha and ainmhithe eile. Most of the films are about the Corca Dhuibhne area of Kerry. Baineann formhór na scannán le ceantar Chorca Dhuibhne i gCiarraí. Scenes tamed on 19 35mm rolls include farmers plowing in the parish of An Fheirtéaraigh, turf cutting on the Field, set dancing on the Boulteen, races and a fair day in Dingle, women going to Mass, street vendors, sheep being transported from Inis Mhic Uibhleáin in the naomhóga. I measc na radharcanna atá ceansaithe ar 19 rolla 35mm tá feirmeoirí i mbun curadóireachta i bparóiste an Fheirtéaraigh, baint na móna ar an bhFearann, rince seite ar an mBuailtín, ráiseanna agus lá aonaigh sa Daingean, mná ag dul ar an Aifreann, díoltóirí sráide, caoire á n-iompar ó hInis Mhic Uibhleáin sna naomhóga. The material was discovered by Mícheál Ó Mainnín, a farmer and fisherman from An Fheirtéaraigh's parish. Mícheál Ó Mainnín, feairmeoir agus iascaire ó pharósite an Fheirtéaraigh a d'aimsigh an t-ábhar agus e ag fiosrú scéil a bhí ag a athair críonna fén Meiriceánach a bhí i mbun taifeadta sa cheantar fadó. "My wise father, Mick 'Neilí' Ó Mainnín, said that this American was in the area collecting birds and things. "Dúirt m'athair críonna, Mick 'Neilí' Ó Mainnín go raibh an Meiriceánach so sa cheantar agus e ag bailiú éanlaithe is rudaí. He had no shortage of money and would sell the fishermen for what they brought him. Ní raibh aon easpa airgid air agus dhíolfadh sé na hiascairí as an méid a thugaidís chuige. But my wise father said he also had a camera and took a number of films in the area. " Ach dúirt m'athair críonna go raibh ceamara aige chomh maith agus go dtóg sé scata films sa cheantar." Mannin investigated the story and finally found a collection of Gault films, in the archives of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, among notes and diaries relating to his voyage to Ireland. D'fhiosraigh an Mainníneach an scéal agus d'aimsigh sé cnuasach scannán Gault ar deireadh, i gcoimeád i gcartlann an Chicago Academy of Sciences, agus é i measc nótaí agus dialanna a bhaineann lena thuras go hÉirinn. The Irish Film Institute decided to digitize the material, with the support of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Bheartaigh Inistitiúd Scannán na hÉireann an t-ábhar a dhigitiú, le tacaíocht ón San Francisco Silent Film Festival. The Irish Film Institute says they are invaluable recordings that give a fascinating insight into rural life in the 1920s. Deir Institiúd Scannán na hÉireann gur taifeadtaí fíor-luachmhar iad a thugann léargas iontach ar shaol na tuaithe sna 1920í. Manus McManus said that recordings from this period are very rare and that some of these films are of a high standard. Dúirt Manus McManus gur fíorannamh a mhaireann taifeadtaí ón dtréimhse seo agus go bhfuil na scannáin áirithe seo ar ard-chaighdeán. The Institute intends to make the films available to the public on its website. Tá sé beartaithe ag an Institiúd na scannáin a chur ar fáil don bpobal ar a suíomh idirlín. Benjamin T. Benjamin T. The pictures were taken by Gault in Corca Dhuibhne in the 1920s Gault a thóg na pictiúir i gCorca Dhuibhne sna 1920í

In this episode, Alicia McGivern, Head of Education at the Irish Film Institute, joins Arts in Junior Cycle and The JCT English team as part of the Spinning Stories Out of Light series of podcasts. In our conversation, Alicia discusses why it is so important for young people to study film and film language, and particularly focuses on The Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Waititi, 2016), Wadjda (al-Mansour, 2012) and His and Hers (Wardrop, 2009). For more visit: https://www.artsinjuniorcycle.ie/podcast-episode-alicia-mcgivern https://jct.ie/english/english

In this special episode of I Know That Face, Stephen Porzio chats with Dublin based Italian writer-director Chiara Viale about her film The New Music. Now available on VOD, the coming-of-age drama centres on a classically trained pianist. After being diagnosed with Parkinson's, he embarks on a path of self-discovery which leads him to join a punk band. Chiara tells I Know That Face about the research that went into portraying Young Onset Parkinson's onscreen, what punk means to her, her love of Dublin and how ecstatic she was to screen the film in the Irish Film Institute pre-pandemic. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com (http://headstuffpodcasts.com/?fbclid=IwAR1kkg3pvP_QtWheCkxl3W3xoC2u9FXWyWTQnQ6lmijC8L49OPku7Ry_pVk) for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Where you can watch The New Music (https://www.thenewmusic.ie/watch-the-new-music) . Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Keshco/Filmmakers_Reference_Kit_Volume_2/No_Boundaries_motorik_groove)

Ross Keane, Director of the Irish Film Institute, discusses the challenges facing cinema operators and the wider arts and culture sector.

Pat Collins and Henry Glassie and Face2Face host David Peck talk about Field Work, beauty, non-verbal cues, silence and listening, eliminating prejudice, and why art is always rooted in community. Trailer Synopsis: Following the success of Song of Granite, Irish Director Pat Collins returns with his new documentary feature, Henry Glassie: Field Work, which will have its world premiere at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.Over the last 50 years the celebrated American Folklorist Henry Glassie has been writing in-depth studies of communities and their art. Inspired by the writings and ideas of Glassie – Field Work is an immersive and meditative documentary set among the rituals and rhythms of working artists across Brazil, Turkey, North Carolina and Ireland. Glassie’s subject is folklore but his deep abiding love for the people who create it resonates throughout the film: 'I don’t study people. I stand with people and I study the things they create.'Collins’ achievement with Henry Glassie: Field Work is to bring these makers of art, in wood, fabric, yarn, paint, clay, metal, in song and story to our attention through their work, through the raw materials they shape into art objects and through the undeniable passion they carry in to their work.In this way the work is accorded profound meaning for the societies out of which it is generated an aesthetic value which is transcendent. And under Collins’ ever mindful direction, the process of making something out of raw materials is luminously manifested in sequences which reflect their measured and focused approach. The actual real time process of making works, such as hands, of the physicality of that work, and the close attention the artist is bringing to the work. For more info about the film head here.About Pat and Henry: Since 1999, Pat Collins has made over 30 films. His latest release Song of Granite, funded by the Irish Film Board, BAI, SODEC and Telefilm Canada, received its world premiere at SXSW 2017 and was the Irish nomination for best Foreign Language Oscar 2018. His other credits include Silence, which had its international premiere at London International Film Festival and the 3-part series 1916 (co-director), which aired on networks including the BBC and PBS. In 2012, the Irish Film Institute curated a mid-career retrospective of his work.Henry Glassie is one of the most celebrated folklorists across the world. He has spent the last 50 years making in-depth studies of communities and their art. Henry, College Professor Emeritus at Indiana University Bloomington, has done fieldwork on five continents and written books on the full range of folkloristic interest, from drama, song, and story to craft, art, and architecture. Glassie began teaching in the Folklore Institute at Indiana University in 1970. In 1976, he became the chairman of the Department of Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1988, he returned as a College Professor to Indiana University, where he had appointments in Folklore and Ethnomusicology, American Studies, Central Eurasian Studies, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and India Studies. He retired in 2008.Glassie has served as president of the American Folklore Society, the Vernacular Architecture Forum, and his local historic preservation organization, Bloomington Restorations Incorporated. He is married to fellow folklorist Pravina Shukla, a professor at Indiana University, who is an award-winning teacher and the author of two major books on dress and adornment: The Grace of Four Moons and Costume. Glassie and Shukla co-authored Sacred Art, an ethnographic account of creativity in northeastern Brazil. Glassie has four children and four grandchildren.He published his first scholarly paper, an article on the Appalachian log cabin, in 1963. Since then, he has published over 100 articles and a steady stream of books.Image Copyright: Harvest Films and Pat Collins. Used with permission.F2F Music and Image Copyright: David Peck and Face2Face. Used with permission. For more information about David Peck’s podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here. With thanks to Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

After a screening of documentary Wine Calling as part of the Night of Ideas we hosted a panel discussion with award-winning journalist Catherine Cleary, Pamela Walsh of Wicklow Way Wines, and environmental scientist Dr. Cara Augustenborg alongside director Bruno Sauvard . Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 30th of January 2020.

The Dublin premiere of new Irish drama The New Music was followed by a Q&A with director Chiara Viale and Gary Boyle of Young Parkinson's Ireland, hosted by the IFI's Sunniva O'Flynn. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 29th of January 2020.

Screenwriter Jeb Stuart, the man who wrote Die Hard and The Fugitive, visited for a chat about his career to date with host Hugh Farley, Director of the Writers Guild of Ireland. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on January 22nd 2020.

A special screening of German drama The People vs Fritz Bauer was followed by a Q&A with director Lars Kraume moderated by Steven Benedict. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on January 14th 2020.

A screening of Horrible Creature as part of First Fortnight 2020 was followed by a Q&A with director Áine Stapleton and Dr Ciara O Shea, Clinical Psychologist, hosted by Tiina Ylönen. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on January 8th 2020.

A Q&A for new documentary The Cave with Ellie Kisyombe, Dr. Gillian Wylie, and Caelainn Hogan, moderated by Michael Lenehan. In association with the Irish Syria Solidarity Movement. The Cave is at the IFI now https://ifi.ie/the-cave/ Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 7th of December 2019.

A special preview screening of new drama Ordinary Love at the IFI was followed by a Q&A with producer Brian J. Falconer, and directors Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn, hosted by Tara Brady of the Irish Times. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 3rd of December 2019. Ordinary Love screens from Friday December 6th 2019 https://ifi.ie/ordinary-love-2019

A screening of new documentary Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens was followed by a Q&A with Adam Low and Catherine and Marie Heaney, hosted by Prof Margaret Kelleher. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 2nd of December 2019.

This 40th anniversary screening of The Outsider was followed by a Q&A with director Tony Luraschi and Assistant Director Barry Blackmore, hosted by Sunniva O'Flynn of the IFI. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 25th of November 2019.

For our 81st episode, we've a special Podcast coming this week with Cork Film Festival CEO and Producer, Fiona Clark. Fiona started out in arts education before progressing to senior positions in a number of respected UK theatres, Fiona then undertook a successful eight-year tenure commissioning, producing and programming new work for one of Britain's most respected and innovative new writing houses, the Bush Theatre, including West End transfers, national and international touring on all scales, cross art form festival management and collaboration as well as robust management of a building-based arts organisation. A former CEO of Get Connected, the UK's national helpline service for young people Fiona returned to the arts in January 2014 as Head of Development at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin, Fiona then subsequently joined the Cork Film Festival, Ireland's first and largest film Festival in September 2016 and had a chat with us about this years exciting programme of work at the 64th Cork film Festival, which begins today. Catch us at our networking event at the 64th Cork film Fest here: https://www.corkfilmfest.org/event/our-need-for-speed-post-first-take-networking-event/ As always this podcast is brought to you on the Headstuff Podcast Network and is supported by the fantastic @wildcard_distribution If you would like to support our podcast and FNI in general head on over to www.buymeacoffee.com/Fni Following on from our recent Class with Former Head of development at British Screen Stephen Cleary, Our next Class for aspiring Audio Performers 'The Art Of Voiceover' with Roger Gregg takes place in the brand new PODCAST STUDIOS from Headstuff on Sat the 16th of September. https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/73798666799 Listen Back to Roger on EP 39 here: https://www.headstuff.org/fni-wrap-chat/39-roger-gregg-director-actor-writer-voiceover-artist Subscribe for notifications on Spotify, Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts. #WeAreFni Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For our 81st episode, we've a special Podcast coming this week with Cork Film Festival CEO and Producer, Fiona Clark. Fiona started out in arts education before progressing to senior positions in a number of respected UK theatres, Fiona then undertook a successful eight-year tenure commissioning, producing and programming new work for one of Britain’s most respected and innovative new writing houses, the Bush Theatre, including West End transfers, national and international touring on all scales, cross art form festival management and collaboration as well as robust management of a building-based arts organisation. A former CEO of Get Connected, the UK’s national helpline service for young people Fiona returned to the arts in January 2014 as Head of Development at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin, Fiona then subsequently joined the Cork Film Festival, Ireland's first and largest film Festival in September 2016 and had a chat with us about this years exciting programme of work at the 64th Cork film Festival, which begins today. Catch us at our networking event at the 64th Cork film Fest here: https://www.corkfilmfest.org/event/our-need-for-speed-post-first-take-networking-event/ As always this podcast is brought to you on the Headstuff Podcast Network and is supported by the fantastic @wildcard_distribution If you would like to support our podcast and FNI in general head on over to www.buymeacoffee.com/Fni (https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buymeacoffee.com%2FFni%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0ZFadD6_GZy2fbffWLUdXeVaRGzMNJegeDB4sZC5ZrntV7pl-5Z0YPIvw&h=AT2aeZ5EfTNnOzEK0txe6yq-bo-rnIOsJryNozFcd9_-727EVLKzdOKD0KQk-4gKuSI0bzI7hkN7f51ssmDFbZFB35CLdrzL_fS6q5Ufj50n_vsquL11__nJWU12dTj_2DhnuViC68OYhZhU44bKdiRxYZr_B7nv1brEaTaZVUBD) Following on from our recent Class with Former Head of development at British Screen Stephen Cleary, Our next Class for aspiring Audio Performers 'The Art Of Voiceover' with Roger Gregg takes place in the brand new PODCAST STUDIOS from Headstuff on Sat the 16th of September. https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/73798666799 (https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/73798666799?fbclid=IwAR3gdw4V1MqI773H-iN60mp5eURh4IiINsKynSKK2cyH6FFKpwHja-FofdQ) Listen Back to Roger on EP 39 here: https://www.headstuff.org/fni-wrap-chat/39-roger-gregg-director-actor-writer-voiceover-artist (https://www.headstuff.org/fni-wrap-chat/39-roger-gregg-director-actor-writer-voiceover-artist/?fbclid=IwAR2bzSzb0ga228Yu3jWe9nZEZPe1qlISOjX-uHRQIuoDA5VRu_T33hGdEis) Subscribe for notifications on Spotify, Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts. #WeAreFni (https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/wearefni?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG)

Lost Lives Q&A with directors Dermot Lavery and Michael Hewitt and actor Seán McGinley , hosted by Sheila de Courcy. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on October 30th 2019.

Land Without God Q&A with co-director Gerard Mannix Flynn, hosted by Frank McDonald. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 18th of October 2019.

Q&A for new Irish supernatural comedy Extra Ordinary with star Maeve Higgins and directors Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 13th of September 2019. Extra Ordinary is out now: https://ifi.ie/extra-ordinary/

Legendary author George R.R. Martin in conversation with Maura McHugh of Dublin 2019: An Irish WorldCon about Forbidden Planet and the influence such works have had on his own writing and career. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 17th of August 2019

Quentin Tarantino returns with 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' his 9th movie and many are claiming it's his best since 'Pulp Fiction'; find out if that's the case on this week's Screentime. I visit a real-life projectionist who still screens 'actual' film in the Irish Film Institute. Plus Hector picks his favourite movie. There's loads more beside

It's time for the Scannain podcast!This week Darren Mooney joins Ronan Doyle and Roisín Geraghty, both fresh back from the Galway Film Fleadh. The pair talk through what they saw there, including a slate of really exciting short films (Irish and international) and the retrospective of Agnès Varda.The big film news of the week is that Roisín has joined us to discuss the slate at this year's GAZE Film Festival, which will be running over the August Bank Holiday Weekend in both the Lighthouse and the Irish Film Institute. It's a pack slate, with a host of really great material - both new and old. In other news, the Dublin Feminist Film Festival announced their own slate, George R.R. Martin is coming to the Irish Film Institute as part of WorldCon, and independent Irish horror The Perished is premiering at FrightFest later this year. The top ten: Spider-Man: Far From Home Toy Story 4 Yesterday Westlife – The Twenty Tour Live Midsommar Aladdin The Secret Lives of Pets II The Queen's Corgi Rocketman Anna New releases: Agnès by Varda Tell It to the Bees Prisoners of the Moon Gwen Pavarotti The Lion King

It's time for the Scannain podcast!We've got four of a kind this week, as Darren Mooney, Jay Coyle, Grace Duffy, and Ronan Doyle discuss the week in cinema. This week, Jay has watched Experiment in Terror, Booksmart, Metal Heart, and Hotel Monterey. Grace has watched Stoker, Night Moves, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and Spider-Man: Homecoming. Ronan has watched The Front Page, Night and Fog, Ricky, and Lemonade. Jay and Ronan have also both watched the latest installment in the Up series. Darren watched Anima, Shaft, and the entire Toy Story franchise.In film news, it's a packed July at the Irish Film Institute, the Lighthouse has a special screening of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Phantom Islands released on Vimeo on Demand, a list of industry experts announced as speaking at the Galway Film Fleadh, and the casting of Halle Bailey as Ariel in the upcoming live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. The top ten: Toy Story 4 Yesterday Aladdin Men in Black International The Secret Lives of Pets II Rocketman The Queen's Corgi Avengers: Endgame Apollo 11 Child's Play New releases: Vita and Victoria The Queen's Corgi Escape Plan 3 Never Look Away Midsommar Anna Spider-Man: Far From Home

Metal Heart Q&A with director Hugh O’Conor and star Jordanne Jones, hosted by Roe McDermott of Hot Press. Out now at the IFI: https://ifi.ie/metal-heart/ Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 28th of June 2019.

It's time for the Scannain podcast!This week, Darren Mooney, Grace Duffy and Alex Towers from When Irish Eyes Are Watching discuss what we watched, the week in film news, the top ten and the new releases. Grace has recently watched The Bling Ring, Alex has seen I Am Cuba, and Darren has watched the entire Three Colours trilogy.In terms of film news, the Virgin Media International Film Festival is taking five Irish films to the Shanghai International Film Festival, the Irish Film Institute has launched a fundraising initiative to pay for upgrades to its facilities, and a late-breaking Emmy voting scandal is in the news. The top ten: Aladdin The Secret Lives of Pets II X-Men: Dark Phoenix Rocketman Godzilla: King of the Monsters Take That: Greatest Hits Live Detective Pikachu Ma John Wick: Chapter III - Parabellum Avengers: Endgame New releases: Balloon Diego Maradona The Hummingbird Project We the Animals Men in Black International

Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia (Senna, Amy) talks about his new film Diego Maradona with Irish filmmaker Ross Whitaker. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 11th of June 2019

Q&A with director John Butler, hosted by Tara Flynn. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on June 7th 2019.

James Hickey will soon step down from his eight-year stewardship of Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland. In conversation with Hugh Linehan, Arts and Culture Editor of The Irish Times, he will reflect on his tenure – on Screen Ireland’s contribution to the growth of the Irish film industry over the past ten years; the ongoing battle for retention of industry tax incentives; the highlights of his time at the helm and the areas he wasn’t able to develop as he would have hoped; and where he thinks the future focus of Screen Ireland needs to be as a new era dawns. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 30th of May 2019.

Dr Roddy Flynn of DCU and Dr Tony Tracy of NUIG will review the film and television output of 2018, considering the continuing presence of Irish talent on the world stage, discussing fresh new work in film and TV drama, and identifying new trends in feature film production. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on May 30th 2019.

A timely investigation of Irish co-production practice providing an overview of international co-production opportunities for Irish producers; inward production of major TV dramas; extension of Section 481; cultural viability of international co-productions. A range of panellists representing sectoral interest will include Siún Ni Raghallaigh, CEO at Ardmore Studios and Troy Studios; David Collins, Managing Director, Samson Films; Samantha Perahia MBE, Head of Production UK, British Film Commission; Steven Davenport, Inward Production Manager, Screen Ireland; and Fionán Higgins, Senior Supervisor, Windmill Lane. The panel will be chaired by Niall Murphy of Scannáin. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 30th of May 2019. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on May 30th 2019.

Director László Nemes attended the IFI for a Q&A after a special 35mm preview screening of his new film Sunset, hosted by John Maguire of the Sunday Independent. Sunset opens on Friday May 31st https://ifi.ie/sunset/ Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 26th of May 2019.

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.

Irish director Neil Jordan talks about his new film Greta with Donald Clarke of the Irish Times. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on 2nd of May 2019.

Máirín de Búrca has been a tireless social justice activist for women's rights, housing, prisoner rights, anti-apartheid, and many other issues throughout her life. She has, at times, been a committed member of Sinn Féin and, as a founder of the Women’s Liberation Movement, played a key role in that organisation's infamous Contraceptive Train. Máirín was also a prime mover in a legal case which secured for women the right to sit on juries, has been jailed for her anti-Vietnam War activities and fined for attacking Richard Nixon’s car during his 1970 Irish visit. Now, the octogenarian is the subject of a new documentary by filmmaker Cathal Black. A Loner's Instinct traces Máirín's life, taking us from her childhood in Chicago, to her membership of Sinn Féin, to her role as a founder of the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement. On today's podcast she talks to Kathy Sheridan about her extraordinary life. A Loner's Instinct will screen at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin April 8th 2019 at 18:30, followed by a Q&A.

Margaret Kelleher is Professor and Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin. She is Chair of the Board of the Irish Film Institute (since 2014) and UCD academic lead on the Museum of Irish Literature (MoLI), a collaboration between UCD and the National Library of Ireland to open a new literary museum at Newman House in early 2019. From 2009 to 2016 she was Chairperson of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. She has been visiting scholar at University of São Paulo, Boston College, Peking University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Concordia University Montreal, St John's College, Cambridge and University of Virginia. VistaTalks host Priscillia Charles discusses The Maamtrasna Murders: Language, Life and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland with Professor Kelleher.

Kenneth Branagh interviewed on the opening night of his new film All is True, which is directed and stars in. Hosted by Donald Clarke of the Irish Times. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 8th of February 2019.

***THIS Q&A CONTAINS SPOILERS*** Q&A for documentary Three Identical Strangers with director Tim Wardle and editor Michael Harte, hosted by filmmaker Tadhg O'Sullivan. Opening at the IFI on November 30th 2018 https://ifi.ie/three-identical-strangers/ Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 26th of November 2018.

Irish director Rebecca Daly talks about her new film Good Favour with Roe McDermott of Hot Press. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 9th of November 2018.

Director Mike Leigh talks about his new film Peterloo with Dr Harry Browne. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 7th of November 2018. https://ifi.ie/peterloo/

World renowned author and film scholar Sir Christopher Frayling visited the IFI to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with an animated lecture on the most influential monster in modern literature. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 28th of October 2018.

Horror legend Mick Garris talks with Derek O'Connor about his incredible career which has included working with Stephen King and Steven Spielberg, creating the Masters of Horror TV series, director Critters 2 and Sleepwalkers and a whole lot more besides. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 26th of October 2018.

Oscar-nominated Irish director Lenny Abrahamson talks with broadcaster Sinead Gleeson about his new film The Little Stranger. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on September 21st 2018.

Irish director Lance Daly talks about his new film Black 47, the first ever to be set during the Irish Famine of the mid 1800s. Out at the IFI now https://ifi.ie/black-47/ Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 5th of September 2018.

Filmmaker Mark Cousins takes part in a Q&A about his latest film The Eyes of Orson Welles, hosted by Donald Clarke of The Irish Times. https://ifi.ie/the-eyes-of-orson-welles/ Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on August 22nd 2018

The Image You Missed director Donal Foreman chats about his new film, the follow up to Out of Here. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on August 10th 2018

A panel discussion after a special screening of The Last September about the use of the Irish big house in cinema. With James Fennell (Burtown House), Fionnuala Ardee (Killruddery House) and location manager Colm Nolan (Love and Friendship, Penny Dreadful) hosted by Zoe Coleman from the Irish Georgian Society. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on July 4th 2018.

Oscar-winning director Kevin MacDonald talks about his new documentary Whitney with Newstalk's Tom Dunne. The film opens at the IFI on July 6th 2018 - https://ifi.ie/whitney/ Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on July 3rd 2018.

A panel discussion after a screening of A Woman's Place moderated by Eamonn Mallie with artist Noel Murphy, director Declan McGrath, Minister Katherine Zappone TD, and Frances Fitzgerald TD. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on June 25th 2018.

A Q&A with director/producer Linda Cullen, Minister Katherine Zappone and Gráinne Healy, co-founder and chair of Marriage Equality and co-director of Yes Equality. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on July 1st 2018.

On June 22nd, the man Hillary Clinton blames for her 2016 presidential election defeat to Donald Trump, the former FBI director James Comey, was in Dublin to promote his book A Higher Loyalty. Coincidentally, less than a kilometre away, Clinton was also in town to receive an honorary degree from Trinity College. Comey was interviewed by Hugh Linehan at a live event at the Irish Film Institute in Temple Bar. They spoke about his book, the election and his interactions with Donald Trump before he was sensationally fired by the US president, as detailed in A Higher Loyalty. You can hear that interview in this podcast, with thanks to the IFI.

A Q&A with All the Wild Horses director Ivo Marloh and jockey Donie Fahy, hosted by Hilary White. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on Friday June 8th 2018.

Neil Gaiman talks with author John Connolly at the IFI as part of the International Literature Festival Dublin. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on May 25th 2018.

Q&A for new Irish drama The Delinquent Season with writer/director Mark O'Rowe, hosted by Paul Whitington of the Irish Independent. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on April 27th 2018.

Making the Grade director Ken Wardrop stopped by for a Q&A hosted by filmmaker Ross Whitaker. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on April 13th 2018.

Join us for a special Q&A for the release of new Irish film Michael Inside with writer/director Frank Berry and star Dafhyd Flynn, hosted by Lance Daly. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on April 6th 2018.

East Asia Film Festival special guest Mark Lee Ping-Bing talks to Tara Brady about the 2000 film In the Mood for Love, which he shot for Wong Kar-Wai. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on April 6th 2018.

East Asia Film Festival special guest Mark Lee Ping-Bing talks about his work after a screening of Tian Zhuangzhuang’s Springtime in a Small Town with host John Maguire of the Sunday Business Post. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on April 6th 2018.

The one and only Mr Groovy Bruce Campbell came to the IFI for a special event where he read from his new book Hail to the Chin and took part in a fan Q&A. Here's the full audio from the night. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on March 15th 2018.

Writer, director actress and musician Agnès Jaoui talks about her career with Irish filmmaker Rebecca Daly during the IFI French Film Festival 2017. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on November 18th 2017.

Acclaimed director Andrey Zvyagintsev takes part in a Q&A for his new film Loveless together with producer Alexander Rodnyansky, hosted by Paul Whittington. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on January 28th 2018.

Samantha Power talks to Hugh Linehan of the Irish Times. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on January 19th 2018.

This episode of InConversation features Sunniva O'Flynn, Head of Irish Film Programming at the Irish Film Institute, who gives us a fascinating insight into the history of the IFI, film as an educational tool and the preservation of Irish film.

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Recorded at the IFI Dublin 14/4/2012 Leading names of the Irish Film Industry join a panel discussion on Animation in Ireland chaired by Ballyfermot College Programme Leader in Animation Gareth Lee. As part of the Irish Animation Day in the Irish Film Institute (IFI). Speakers include Steve Woods, Emma Scott (IFB), Nora Twomey and Dan Spencer (Pegbar). Hear more Podcasts at http://www.sdgi.ie/