On this weeks Episode Joining Paul Webster is vastly Experienced Irish producer Edwina Forkin. Edwina Forkin, is one of the most positive and engaging people working in Irish Film and Tv, Edwina is is an Irish Film Producer and the Founder of Zanzibar Films, an independent Production company in Ireland. Zanzibar Films was founded in 1998. They have Produced over 41 award winning film and TV productions. She is also a partner of Nantosuelta Entertainment Films, founded in 2017 - an Irish Producti...
Jun 25, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Our Guest this week is Director Gavin Fitzgerald. Gavin Fitzgerald has a knack making gripping feature documentaries and television shows. He has worked with some of the biggest clients in the business including Universal Pictures, Warner Music & Showtime Television. His recent documentary, Notorious: Conor McGregor (2017), became the highest grossing Irish documentary of all time and was quickly snapped up on Netflix. Gavin, in an amazing twist of fate was head hunted by Liam Gallagher to m...
Jun 13, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Sam Atwell. Episode 61. Sam is an Australian television Writer and previous Actor perhaps best known for his role as Kane Phillips in the soap opera Home and Away. An Aussie living in Ireland, Sam was originally taken by the craft of acting, he pursued this part of his career by working across the mediums of theatre, film and television. This opened his eyes to opportunities in writing, directing and producing. He continues to work in all these areas and develop his own work. Sam also has also t...
Jun 07, 2019•57 min•Season 1Ep. 62
Episode 60 of WrapChat is with the really wonderful Helen Behan. Helen sits down with Paul and discusses her amazing journey from being a well-loved nurse working in Drogheda to starring opposite Stephen Graham as his long lost Sister in Shane Meadows critically acclaimed gripping new Channel 4 TV show, The Virtues. Quite literally a walking example of never giving up on your dreams. How a chance encounter with Shane Meadows in a Bar in Bettystown, changed the course of her life forever, An Incr...
May 30, 2019•54 min•Season 1Ep. 61
On this weeks Episode of FNI Wrapchat is Producer and Manager of Jumper productions Fiona Kinsella. Fiona has over 20 years' experience in film and television production. Fiona's heartfelt passion for film, coupled with her extensive experience in film industry training and development, give her an instinctive ability to bring out the very best in the many talented people with whom she works. As well as the rich array of commercial producing experience, Fiona has also produced quite a number of ...
May 23, 2019•41 min•Season 1Ep. 60
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...
May 13, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 59
This week on FNI WrapChat is MD of Wildcard Distribution Patrick O'Neill. Wildcard Distribution is an Irish film distributor established in early 2013 specialising in new and fresh approaches to distribution. Its breath of work and clients over the last number of years is very impressive. Its slate in recent years include Cardboard gangsters, The Young Offenders, Katie, Black 47, The Hole in the Ground, and the upcoming Extra Ordinary. Their job is to acquire and release films in Irish cinemas a...
May 11, 2019•52 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Stuart Drennan . Stuart is a Writer, Producer and Director from Monaghan. Not Fermanagh... Stuart has written and directed award winning short films and television dramas, including Hollyoaks, 6 Degrees and Seacht. Stuart has extensive experience working with NI Screen, BBC, Channel 4 and TG4. Stuarts latest work the suspenseful and thrilling feature Film "The Dig" which he has written, has brought him international attention recently as it was selected for TIFF (Toronto Film Festival) and won b...
Apr 29, 2019•37 min•Season 1Ep. 57
HAPPY EASTER. OUR LATEST EP OF WRAPCHAT IS NOW READY TO OPEN AND SCOFF. Hot off the heels of Working on Quentin Tarantino's Once upon a Time in Hollywood, Jill Beecher Joins us this time on Fni Wrapchat. Check out our previous Podcast with Frank Shouldice. Jill Beecher is a production designer, Concept artist and \storyboard artist working in Hollywood and Ireland. Jill was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1984. Jill is now represented by William Morris Endeavour and is a member of the British and Ame...
Apr 20, 2019•59 min•Season 1Ep. 56
Frank Shouldice, is an award winning journalist and playwright who has been working with the investigations unit of Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ for many years. Frank makes his feature documentary debut with The Man Who Wanted to Fly, an affectionate character portrait but with a unexpected Hollywood twist. A published author and winner of Prix Europa for his radio documentary work, Frank’s plays have graced stages all over the world. http://wearefni.com/fni-testimonial/ We are trying to d...
Apr 15, 2019•59 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Award-winning writer, producer and director, Ruán Magan’s recent credits include The Irish Revolution Narrated by Cillian Murphy, the critically acclaimed comedy drama series, Wrecking The Rising; 1916 – The Irish Rebellion, the multi-award winning documentary narrated by Liam Neeson, which reached audiences of 40 million worldwide during 2016 and the play, And Spring Shall Come, play exploring WW1 through poetry. He directed The Men Who Built America (Double Emmy-winner), Waterloo’s Warriors, (...
Apr 02, 2019•53 min•Season 1Ep. 54
Michael broke his teeth as Financial Controller for Palace Productions working on such projects as Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves and The Crying Game, and Michael Caton-Jones' Scandal. In 1995 he produced This is the Sea starring Richard Harris and Gabriel Byrne for Overseas Film Group. He later produced Accelerator which was screened at Cannes and Montreal. His company Grand Pictures was established in early 2000 and has produced the award-winning TV series Paths to Freedom and Fergus's We...
Mar 26, 2019•37 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Paul Duane is an Irish-born writer and director of television and film. Has directed television programmes including: Ballykissangel, Casualty, The Royal, Small Potatoes, Footballer's Wives He has also made several short films including LSD 73!, based on an original script by the Irish novelist Patrick McCabe. More recently he co-created the ITV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl based on the well-known blog, Belle de Jour. The Irish production company Screenworks was established by Paul Duane a...
Mar 06, 2019•45 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Heather is an Animation Producer, Line Producer and Lecturer based in the West of Ireland. A graduate of both GMIT (BA Film & TV Production) and NUIG (MA Film Studies: Theory and Practice), she now works as a lecturer in GMIT. She has worked in Animation Production for more than a decade across a range of animation formats including traditional 2D animation, 3D-CGI, stop-motion puppet animation, and sand animation, for both series and feature films. Heather produced, for Telegael, the first ...
Feb 27, 2019•55 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Ross Killeen runs two very successful production companies; Event Junkies and Motherland. With Event Junkies, Ross's pitch was simple; a one-stop shop for all their clients' production, shooting and editing needs, with a quick turnaround, creating better content, faster. Based on the success of this company, Ross set up Motherland, a collective of directors, producers and editors, producing commercials, films and documentary. http://motherland.ie/director/RossKilleen Ross’s own work has won a nu...
Feb 22, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 50
On today's FNI WrapChat is the very sound John Butler. John speaks candidly about earning his stripes in the USA, the ups and downs of Film and TV, and how unlocking his potential paved the way to emotional truth in his work. Touching on his experiences and reminiscing on how two green horn Paddy's convinced Pro Poker players, Cowboys and lowlifes to take part, in search of the perfect Doc. John Butler is an Irish IFTA award-nominated film director, screenwriter and novelist. His work includes t...
Feb 14, 2019•56 min•Season 1Ep. 49
On this Episode Fni WrapChat on the Headstuff Podcast Network is Festival Manager of the Dublin Virgin Media Film Festival Grainne Humphreys. Grainne Humphreys has worked in film programming for over twenty years, she started her career working with young audiences with the Junior Dublin Film Festival in 1994. In 1995, she joined the IFI as Education Officer and expanded her role to include programming seasons on Andy Warhol, Agnes Varda and Harold Pinter. She was became Assistant Director in 20...
Feb 07, 2019•57 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Viko Nikci is a Director and writer, known for Coming Home (2014), Cellar Door (2018). Viko has been on film sets since his teenage years in New York. This experience lead to the short film Take it Back – which led to over a hundred festival screenings. As a Director, Viko’s feature documentary COMING HOME – premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh, where it won Best Documentary and the Amnesty International Award for Best Human Rights Documentary. His first narrative feature Cellar Door (2018) with ...
Feb 02, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 47
On the very first Episode of FNI Wrapchat of 2019 on the Headstuff Podcast Network is Director and Producer at Failsafe Films Ian Hunt Duffy. Ian’s first love is genre cinema and he strives to make movies that will grip an audience and keep them guessing. Having graduated from The National Film School in Ireland Ian established Failsafe Films in Dublin, producing the IFTA Nominated and Academy Award longlisted ‘Love is a Sting’ in 2015, written by Academy Award winner Benjamin Cleary. Ian’s shor...
Jan 28, 2019•46 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Merry Christmas Folks and Thanks for listening this year. On todays ep:44 of Fni WrapChat is Screenwriter Fergal Rock. An award-winning Irish filmmaker, Fergal Rock graduated from Dublin Institute of Technology with an honors MA in Film (Theory & Production) in 2002. He is best known as the screenwriter of Then Came You (2019), starring Asa Butterfield and Maisie Williams. Fergal is a winner of the BlueCat Screenplay Contest and a semi-finalist of both the American Zoetrope Screenplay Contes...
Dec 24, 2018•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Nuala O'Connor is an Emmy award Winning Irish Director and works closely with Writer Diarmaid Ferriter with whom she collaborated with on her first documentary feature, Keepers of the Flame. Keepers of the Flame is playing at the IFI this week. #SupportIrishFilmmaking Keepers of the Flame tells the universal story of generations dealing with the consequences of war and civil war; of what is remembered and what is forgotten. Keepers of the Flame delves into the archives of the Irish Military Serv...
Dec 17, 2018•34 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Coming up on the FORTY SECOND ep of Fni Wrapchat is the Amazing O'Flanagan Sisters. Mary-Kate and Rachel. Rachel is a story consultant who works across the business and arts industries. She works with teams and individuals in Ireland, the UK and Germany to develop visual storytelling and audience engagement. She has worked on a wide range of television and film productions ensuring that scripts communicate the writer’s vision, connect with audiences and achieve commercial, as well as artistic, s...
Dec 14, 2018•58 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Luke Morgan is an Irish director and writer. He is a founder of both “the Theatre Room Galway” and the filmmaking collective “Project Spatula”. His short films have screened at a variety of festivals, including the Galway Film Fleadh (2015), The Cork Film Festival (2016), Richard Harris International Film Festival (2014, 2016), the Polish International Film Festival (2016) and the Short Film Corner at Cannes Film Festival (both 2015 and 2016). As a writer, he has sold two feature-length screenpl...
Dec 05, 2018•54 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Tim Wardle is a BAFTA-nominated documentary director, and Executive Producer at award-winning production company Raw. As Director, his films include Three Identical Strangers, a feature documentary for CNN Films which up to date has grossed over 12 million in the USA alone. The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling. An extraordinary documentary, 4 stars – The Guardian Incredible – The Hollywood Reporter A Shocking...
Nov 28, 2018•39 min•Season 1Ep. 41
On this Stars and Stripes ep of Fni Wrapchat is Roger Gregg. Roger Gregg is a playwright, musician, Actor and voiceover artist from Ohio in the good old Us of A. But he's one of us as he's been living here since the 1980s . He has written plays for Dublin Youth Theatre, the Gaiety School of Acting, TEAM Theatre Company, and Graffiti Theatre Company. In 1998, he founded Crazy Dog Audio Theatre, whose productions have twice won the American Mark Time Award for Best Audio Science Fiction Production...
Nov 24, 2018•53 min•Season 1Ep. 40
http://www.feargalward.com/ Feargal Ward is an Irish filmmaker based in Berlin and Dublin. His award-winning work has been screened, exhibited and broadcast worldwide. He also collaborates with other filmmakers and artists on projects of shared interest. His latest feature Documentary, The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid is in selected Irish Cinemas now. It centres around Farmer Thomas Reid who lives a solitary life in Ireland. Suspicious of intrusion, Thomas does not welcome the State agents who c...
Nov 15, 2018•37 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Episode 37 of FNI WrapChat is Writer/Director Kate Dolan Kate graduated with an Honours Degree in Film & Television Production from the National Film School, IADT in 2012. There, she majored in Directing and minored in Editing. She has worked in many facets of filmmaking including Art Dept, Production and also worked as a Broadcast Producer in TBWA Dublin for almost 2 years after graduating. In 2014, she attended Berlinale Talents to develop her short Little Doll at the Short Film Script Sta...
Nov 10, 2018•48 min•Season 1Ep. 38
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 ann...
Nov 02, 2018•50 min•Season 1Ep. 37
This time on FNI WrapChat, We're coming to you from the Kingdom of Kerry, at the Kerry Film Festival. We were invited to come and interview a couple of filmmakers, run a networking event and we also made a bit of a vlog with Filmmaker Luis Diaz. @luiscameraman which you can view here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3eFOVIcNZ0&t=48s Vincent Lambe's latest work is the short Film "Detainment" which picked up best Irish short at this years KFF. Detainment is a short film based on the transcript...
Oct 24, 2018•36 min•Season 1Ep. 36
On Episode 34 of Fni WrapChat is Gary Cooke. This one is a really funny one which had us in stitches. Gary Cooke is an Irish Actor, satirist, writer and facilitator who is one of the stars, on screen, of Aprés Match, and, on stage, I, Keano and MacBecks. Gary has also been involved in many other successful comedy shows such as Gift Grub, Irish Pictorial Weekly, Bridget and Eamon, The Eleventh Hour and The Centre. You can find WrapChat on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, The HeadStuff Podcast Network and...
Oct 15, 2018•49 min•Season 1Ep. 35
