Joining Paul Webster in Galway on Fni Wrapchat this time is Sarah Dillon. Sarah is a former Production & Development Executive at Screen Ireland (Irish Film Board) and currently development Manager at Western Region Audiovisual Producers Fund (WRAP Fund). With over ten years experience in the film industry, Sarah was responsible for managing the slate of funded projects with Screen Ireland across feature film, television, animation and documentary. Recent successes include ‘The Young Offende...
Oct 08, 2018•37 min•Season 1Ep. 34
This week on FNI WrapChat is TJ O’Grady-Peyton TJ is an Irish director and Actor who graduated from the London Film School’s graduate program in 2010. Fresh into the professional ad space, he was shortlisted for a Young Directors Award at Cannes in 2013 and 2015, later earning a Webby Award in 2016. He has directed commercials for clients such as BMW, Gatorade, Cadillac, Coke, Nespresso, Asics, Red Bull, Volkswagen, Diesel and Conde Nast, among others. A cinephile from a young age, TJ's love of ...
Sep 28, 2018•36 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Joining us on this FNI Wrapchat on the Headstuff Podcast Network is Writer/Director and beard enthusiast Seán Branigan. Sean sat down for a candid chat with the Pauls to discuss his experiences in Film and Tv, ups and downs in the game, how to mind yourself and how to be your best creative self. Seán Branigan is a Writer, Director, Artist and Director of Storyboard Workshop here in Dublin which offers bespoke Storyboard and preproducton concept packages for advertising and Film and Televison. Se...
Sep 17, 2018•55 min•Season 1Ep. 32
If you have a minute, please take our listener survey, your feedback will help us improve the podcast. Many Thanks. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GGZCCM2 Pierce writes stuff. He also misses the Arcade/Amusements in his hometown of Tramore. We sat down for a quick chat about his work and what Hugo Weaving does be talking about in between takes. Pierce is an Irish screenwriter from Waterford.His first produced feature "STANDBY"was released in 2014. It starred Brian Gleeson and Jessica Pare His se...
Sep 10, 2018•46 min•Season 1Ep. 31
We sat down for an impassioned and rather touching chat about his career, The realities of the Film and Tv Environ, Earning your stripes and kids growing up in modern day Ireland. Gerry Nelson is an award winning Irish documentary filmmaker. Gerry switched to directing following ten years as a highly regarded, award winning, editor. With his first film, the acclaimed study of Lourdes, 'Faith, Hope and Plastic' Gerry quickly gained a reputation for creating imaginative and thoughtful programmes. ...
Sep 03, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 30
If you have a minute, please take our listener survey, your feedback will help us improve the podcast. Many Thanks. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GGZCCM2 Earlier this year, producer Jessie Fisk, established her production company, Feline Films with her creative partner Nathalie Biancheri. They are currently developing their first fiction feature, Wolf, which recently won Best Project at the 2018 Sofia Meeting Co-pro market. Jessie's first narrative feature as lead producer, Song of Granite prem...
Aug 24, 2018•57 min•Season 1Ep. 29
If you have a minute, please take our listener survey, your feedback will help us improve the podcast. Many Thanks. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GGZCCM2 Lee is a Dublin based award winning Writer/Director who works in both Film and Television. Lee's debut Feature "The Hole in the Ground" Starring Seana Kerslake, which was produced by Savage Productions has been officially selected for Sundance in 2019 and will be released soon. Previously in 2014 Lee Directed the Méliès d'Argent award-winning ...
Aug 14, 2018•47 min•Season 1Ep. 28
If you have a minute, please take our listener survey, your feedback will help us improve the podcast. Many Thanks. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GGZCCM2 Mark is a European Film Academy nominated and multi-award winning writer/director based between Dublin and London. An alumnus of the Berlinale Talent Campus and the Toronto Film Festival Talent Lab, his first two short films met with success at Irish and international festivals, winning the Clare Lynch Award at the Cork IFF and an Honourable M...
Jul 30, 2018•51 min•Season 1Ep. 27
If you have a minute, please take our listener survey, your feedback will help us improve the podcast. Many Thanks. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GGZCCM2 This time on FNI WRAPCHAT We have Irish DOP, JJ Rolfe. We chatted all things camera, his role on productions and the importance of team building, loyalty and collaboration as an ethos in Film and TV. JJ shot the new Irish Feature "Dublin Old School" which is currently in Irish Cinemas. GET OUT AND SUPPORT IRISH FILMS. JJ graduated from the Nat...
Jul 10, 2018•54 min•Season 1Ep. 26
If you have a minute, please take our listener survey, your feedback will help us improve the podcast. Many Thanks. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GGZCCM2 Nathan is an Editor whose work you'd know well. From Tv to Documentary to Oscar nominated Feature film. We were delighted to sit down for a chat with Nathan Nugent, about his life in Irish Film and Tv and how he has developed such a fantastic symbiotic working relationship with one of Ireland's great Directors. Previous credits include Room, W...
Jul 02, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 25
If you have a minute, please take our listener survey, your feedback will help us improve the podcast. Many Thanks. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GGZCCM2 Maurice O’Brien is a documentary filmmaker who produces and directs as well as filming much of his own work. He has made some wonderful documentaries including Hey, Ronnie Reagan which was screened at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival this year. In 2017 he made Pitching Up for the Guardian, it is a charming short doc about how Gaelic footb...
Jun 14, 2018•48 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Sheila Aherne is a producer and researcher with a huge amount of experience working in TV and documentary. She cut her teeth researching on investigative documentaries with the legendary Mary Raftery on programmes like the groundbreaking States of Fear. She talks to us here about what makes a great researcher and her work on Thaddeus O'Sullivan's wonderful documentary, Citizen Lane, Featuring Tom Vaughan Lawlor and written by Mark O'Halloran. If you like what you hear and want to support Film Ne...
Jun 01, 2018•42 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Joining us this week is Bafta award winning Producer/Director Colin McKeown. Colin sat down and chatted to us all things 1980's Super 8 production with your siblings, the differences between Northern Irish production/funding, compared to that of southern and working with the logistics of bigger productions overseas. (on a large boat off the shipyard in Belfast no less) Colin has worked Extensively in the UK and the States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 15, 2018•52 min•Season 1Ep. 22
James’s wonderfully intriguing take on the world represents a new era for youth culture films in Ireland. He has been making films since he was 15, honing his skills with Actors and Film creatives over this time; and resulting in some of the most raw, honest and powerful performances in his work. His music video for The Funeral Suits, has shot him to mainstream acclaim working on some large profile Music videos and Adverts which has James snapped up by Agencies in Ireland, London and Berlin as a...
May 15, 2018•54 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Ken studied filmmaking at the National Film School, IADT. His short films have screened at many of the worlds most prestigious festivals including Sundance and Cannes. He has presented retrospective programmes at the Cork International Film Festival, and at festivals in the UK, Croatia, The Netherlands and in Scandinavia. In 2008, his work received the Grand Prix Award at Sapporo International Film Festival in Japan. HIS & HERS is a creative documentary that combines observation and imaginat...
Apr 21, 2018•52 min•Season 1Ep. 20
http://www.vienna-filmcoach.at IP, Mr.Wischinsky began his career as intern working with Academy Award winner Milos Forman and other refugees from the east at Columbia University, New York in the early 1980's. He also worked as writer and script coach for Federal Austrian Television. For 10 years he was head of Pygmalion Theatre in Vienna. He wrote several award winning plays and toured the world with some of his performances. His rendition of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis was shown more than 600 ...
Apr 13, 2018•37 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Actor, Writer, Comedian and Voice Over Artist for over 20 odd years, Morgan speaks very Candidly about his career, work experiences, ups and downs and that time he met Jack Nicholson. His credits include Nighthawks, The Bailout, The Guarantee, Game of Thrones, Penny Dreadful, The Dutch political Thriller The Fox and a number of Tv Dramas and radio programmes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 03, 2018•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Claire Dix is an award winning writer and director of short films, music videos and also works in documentary TV. Her credits include the Short Take Me Swimming, Featuring Barry Ward and Olwen Fouéré. The Documentary, We Are Moving - Memories of Miss Moriarty, Broken Song, the urban Feature Documentary funded by the Arts Council's Reel Art Scheme, The Short Film Alia, Signatures Short funded by the IFB, the Short, Downpour, Short Short funded by the IFB and the Tv series, Journey of a Joke, Four...
Mar 20, 2018•40 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Eilish managed onto screen for RTÉ include Hardy Bucks, Raw, Fade St, Any Time Now, No Tears (International Emmy for best series or serial), Love Is The Drug (IFTA best series), Fergus' Wedding, Paths to Freedom and Foreign Exchange. And for the BBC, Vicious Circle, Rap at the Door and Mezzone (RTS winner). She devised and managed StoryLand, a unique project when launched that saw 28 original online series produced. Prior to her work in TV, Eilish was an actor’s agent in London and worked in mar...
Mar 12, 2018•34 min•Season 1Ep. 16
...and Wrap Chat is back for a new series in 2018. We're kicking things off with Eibh Collins & Gar O'Brien. Eibh Collins is the shorts co-ordinator for The Galway Film Fleadh, she's also the Festival Manager of Indie Cork and is involved in a whole of host of other film festivals and organisations including Irish Screen America and Irish Film London. Gar recently finished his tenure as the programmer for The Fleadh and left an indelible mark on the festival, bringing some amazing films and ...
Mar 03, 2018•38 min•Season 1Ep. 15
It's the last episode of wrap chat of the year. Have a Merry Christmas and Marvelous New Year 2018. We're joined this week by Writer Director Frank Berry. Frank's work includes the fantastic Doc "Ballymun Lullaby" "I used to live here" and his most recent award winning feature "Michael Inside". Enjoy. www.soundcloud.com/fniwrapchat for previous podcasts or find us on Stitcher, Itunes and Podcast Addict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 22, 2017•52 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Tristan Heanue is a well known face on the Irish acting scene, appearing in the likes of Vikings and Cardboard Gangsters. Not one to wait for the phone to ring with acting gigs, in recent years Tristan has written, directed and starred in his own short films. His directorial debut won best first short at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2015. Tristan talks about making the jump from acting to writing and directing and how he uses the landscape of his native Connemara as a character in his films. Learn ...
Dec 14, 2017•34 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Episode 11, Demien Fox. Writer, Actor, Comedian and one Quarter of Dead Cat Bounce. Dead Cat Bounce return to the stage this December to save Rock and Roll. For tickets (of which there are few left for their five night stand in Project) head on over to: https://projectartscentre.ticketsolve.com/shows/873580069 https://deadcatbounce.ie/ Demien is of three writers chosen to participate in the 2017 prestigious Guiding Lights programme led by Academy Award winning industry professionals. Demian Fox ...
Dec 05, 2017•33 min•Season 1Ep. 12
On this episode of Film Network Ireland's Wrap chat is the amazing Actor Nick Dunning. A man for all seasons and a real Actors Actor, Nick is currently threading the boards on the Abbey Stage in the smash hit "Let the right One in" based on the popular film. Nick's credits and body of work is so extensive that we'd be all day listing them off. He's worked with everyone frankly, A shining example of positivity and experience, we got to sit down with him in The Abbey Theatre to talk Film, Tv his c...
Nov 29, 2017•49 min•Season 1Ep. 11
We sat down in Westland Studios for a mug a tae and chat about all things "Hardy Bucks", We discussed how he came to become a performer in Mayo and how a group of West of Ireland small town mates acting the maggot with a camera became one of the biggest Comedy success stories in Irish Film and Tv in the last 10 years. From Youtube sensations to Storyland winners, to a massively successful Feature film and subsequent sequel on the horizon. Where did it all go wrong? Learn more about your ad choic...
Nov 15, 2017•32 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Carl Austin is a screenwriter from South Central, LA. He cut his teeth, writing thrillers with saucy titles like Wild Cactus and Inproper Conduct in the nineties for the direct to video and DVD markets. He then moved to London where he wrote for various Bollywood productions and for the long-running crime drama, The Bill. He finally moved to Ireland where he now works a writer for Fair City while still writing screenplays for the India and US markets. Carl has various international credits to hi...
Nov 08, 2017•40 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Norma Sheahan. "Moone Boy" "The Bailout" "Damo and Ivor" Norma trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2000. In 2000 she won Best Actress at the Evening Herald Irish Theatre Awards for her role in the world premier of Enda Walsh's play Bedbound. She was also nominated in the same year for Best Actress in the Irish Times/ESB Theatre Awards for her role in Enda Walsh's play Bedbound. Norma is in Pretty much in everything. She's great, and having spoke to her for a bit, a warmer...
Nov 01, 2017•25 min•Season 1Ep. 8
We've a very special episode of WrapChat this week from the Kerry Film Festival www.keryfilmfestival.com We're joined by Director Alex Fegan, Director of the wonderful Feature Doc "Older than Ireland" and "The Irish Pub" Andy McDermott Screenwriter and Producer of the Feature "Lies we Tell" Starring Gabriel Byrne and Harvey Keitel and Irish American Producer Maura Kelly. Talking all things Film and giving some pearls of wisdom on their experiences in Ireland and the festival circuit. . This Podc...
Oct 24, 2017•33 min•Season 1Ep. 7
John Connors is an Irish actor, screen writer, documentary film-maker and human rights activist well known due to playing Patrick Ward in the Irish crime drama series "Love/Hate" and his latest film which he co-wrote the hugely successful "Cardboard Gangsters" Directed by Mark O'Connor. Connors was born in 1990 in London, United Kingdom to an Irish traveller family, but moved back to Ireland with his family when he was 11 months old. John took up acting when he was 20 years old on the advice fro...
Oct 20, 2017•38 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Frankie Fenton is an Irish Film and TV Director/Producer specializing in documentary film to do with pressing social matters. His directorial debut is feature documentary It's Not Yet Dark, narrated by Colin Farrell and premiering at the Sundance Film Festival 2017, it is produced by Kennedy Films and Newgrange Pictures. Frankie is also in post production on "The Good Reactor" an environmental feature documentary about controversial ways to solve the coming global energy crisis. It's Not Yet Dar...
Oct 14, 2017•32 min•Season 1Ep. 5
