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Podcast: Will Fitzgerald, Galway Film Fleadh Programme Director
In this Film Ireland podcast Gemma Creagh talks to Will Fitzgerald, the Galway Film Fleadh Programme Director ahead of this year’s festival about the challenges the team faced moving the festival...
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Podcast: Director Phil Sheerin and Writer David Turpin of ‘The Winter Lake’
In this Film Ireland podcast director Phil Sheerin and writer David Turpin chat to Gemma Creagh ahead of the premiere of their atmospheric drama The Winter Lake at the Galway Film Fleadh. With nowhere...
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Podcast: Director Daniel Holmes & Producer Matthew Toman of ‘Street Leagues’
In this Film Ireland Podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Director Daniel Holmes & Producer Matthew Toman about their film Street Leagues, which tells the inspiring story of the Irish Homeless Street...
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Podcast: Interview with Peter Mackie Burns, Director of ‘Rialto’
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Peter Mackie Burns, the Director of Rialto, which is released across Irish cinemas on October 2nd and in Dublin Cinemas from October 10th once...
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Podcast: Interview with Producer John Wallace
Podcast: Interview with Producer John Wallace: In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to producer John Wallace, co-founder of Cowtown Pictures with Alan Maher. Earlier this year John was...
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Podcast: Interview with Vivienne Dick, Director of New ‘York Our Time’
Podcast: Interview with Vivienne Dick, Director of New York Our Time. In this Film Ireland podcast recorded earlier this year, Gemma Creagh talks to the internationally-celebrated filmmaker and artist...
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Talking ‘Paddy’ with Filmmaker Roisin Kearney
If you love 1970’s punk-inspired nostalgia, then make sure to pick up a ticket for the Short Films: We are Family programme at the Kerry International Film Festival. Ahead of the Friday screening of...
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Podcast: Interview with Anna Kopecká, Cork Film Festival Director of Programming
Podcast Interview with Anna Kopecká: In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh chats to Anna Kopecká, Director of Programming at the Cork International Film Festival (8 – 15 November 2020). The...
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Podcast: Cork International Film Festival Roundtable
Cork International Film Festival Roundtable: In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to 3 filmmakers, David Prendeville (Sins of a Werewolf), Edwina Casey, (Algorithm) and Maureen O’Connell...
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Podcast: Interview with Mary McGuckian, Writer / Director of ‘A Girl From...
Podcast: Interview with Mary McGuckian, Writer / Director of A Girl From Mogadishu. In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Mary McGuckian, whose film A Girl From Mogadishu is released in...
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Podcast: Treasa O’Brien, Director of ‘Town of Strangers’
In this podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Treasa O’Brien, director of Town of Strangers. A stranger arrives in the town of Gort and announces that auditions will be held in the town hall for a new film....
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Podcast: Pat Collins, Director of ‘Henry Glassie: Field Work’
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Pat Collins about his film Henry Glassie: Field Work, a portrait of the American folklorist. Film Ireland Podcast · Podcast: Pat Collins, Director...
View ArticleReview: Dream Horse
Chomping at the bit for this light hearted comedy, Gemma Creagh goes to the races. Warm, well-paced and a wonderfully satisfying watch, Dream Horse tells the outrageous, true story, about how a group...
View ArticleReview: A Quiet Place Part II
Will this scary sequel be your port of call once cinemas reopen? Gemma Creagh reviews John Krasinski’s tension-filled offering. Over a year after its planned release date, A Quiet Place Part II...
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2021 Galway Film Fleadh Filmmakers’ Roundtable
In this Film Ireland podcast Gemma Creagh talks to filmmakers Annika Cassidy, Diarmuid Donohoe and Kamila Dydyna whose short films are screening at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh (20-25 July). The...
View ArticleReview: Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
It’s time to get funky. Gemma Creagh reviews Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), a powerful documentary about a nearly-forgotten festival. In the summer of 1969, the...
View ArticleReview: Deerskin
A man’s mid-life crisis takes the form of a murderous jacket. Gemma Creagh reviews the surreal comedy, Deerskin. In the opening sequence, the camera lingers on an awkward, middle-aged man, Georges...
View ArticleIrish Film Review: Nowhere Special
Gemma Creagh reviews Nowhere Special, a true story about a terminally-ill father who attempts to find a new home for his young son. Set in Belfast, John (James Norton, Happy Valley, McMafia) is a...
View ArticlePodcast: Interview with Chris Baugh, Writer/Director of ‘Boys From County Hell’
In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Chris Baugh, Writer/Director of Boys From County Hell. Welcome to Six Mile Hill, a sleepy Irish backwater whose only claim to fame is the somewhat...
View ArticleReview: Free Guy
Gemma Creagh presses enter, as she reviews the latest video game-based feature film, Free Guy. In a heightened world of Free Guy, where violent, armed robberies are commonplace, Guy (Ryan Reynolds) is...
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