On this week's Episode of FNI Wrap Chat is one of Ireland's hardest working and most dedicated actors of stage and screen. Ian Lloyd Anderson. Ian is an Actor's Actor, with a great sense of humour, Ian is a brilliant example of grit, talent and determination. From his brilliant turn in Dublin Old School (stage and screen) to his latest film, working with Clare Dunne on Herself, directed by Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia, Iron Lady). PBL and Seán T. Ó Meallaigh had a very Frank chat about all things d...
Oct 14, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 123
In our first FNI Wrapchat Build episode, hosts Ray Mongey and Stephen Fagan speak with Laura Elizabeth of Client Portal, a simple to use project management tool to help you manage all your client projects. Fni Wrapchat Build is mixed by Bedford, Produced by the Headstuff Podcast Network and Sponsored by Film Equipment Hire, Wildcard Distribution and The Octovid Player. Laura Elizabeth Client Portal, Founder - www.client-portal.io Design Academy, Founder - www.designacademy.io Project Pack, Found...
Oct 07, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This week, Reporting for FNI Wrapchat duty is "The Colonel", One of the industry's most likable and respected figures; Tony Kearns. Tony is also a Leeds United Supporter so is in great form at the moment. Tony is a highly experienced, BAFTA nominated, film editor who has worked on music videos for the likes of "Radiohead", "The Prodigy" "Coldplay" and "The Chemical Bros", Numerous TV commercials, short films, feature films including The Lodgers, Cardboard Gangsters and various TV drama recently....
Sep 23, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 122
For this Episode, Paul Webster is joined on co-hosting duty by friend of the show and great actor and creative, Steve Gunn. Thanks for helping out Steve. The lads are joined by a brilliant figure in the independent film scene in Ireland and director of one of the most successful Irish Movies released in 2020, "Broken Law" Gentleman, Paddy Slattery. Paddy Slattery is an award winning writer/director/producer from Offaly. A proud Midlands man; Paddy has had an exceptional route into filmmaking and...
Sep 20, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 121
Fergal Costello. Ep 120. Fergal's Visual Flair, Sense of humour and Directing style has been gathering notice for some time now. He is an award winning Director of Adverts, Music videos, TV and despite his recent success, you'd never guess. His work on the Short Film "Brain in Gear"in 2019 was rewarded in 2020 with a BAFTA award and our very own Sean T, Dropped everything to get the Skinny on the Alter Ego British/Irish Comedy Short. Fergal is from Carlow and began his career as a Director on Ir...
Sep 01, 2020•54 min•Season 1Ep. 120
This week joining our new Awesome host and Filmmaker Mia Mullarkey for a very special chat is Filmmaker Myles O’Reilly. Fni Wrapchat is mixed by Bedford, Produced by the Headstuff Podcast Network and Sponsored by Film Equipment hire and Wildcard Distribution. Myles O’Reilly is a musician, composer and filmmaker from Dublin, Ireland. Since first lifting a camera in 2010, multi tasking O’Reilly has filmed, directed and edited over 100 music video promo’s and 20+ music documentaries of Irish musici...
Aug 25, 2020•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 119
Recently PBL was joined by old pal, Friend of FNI and SuperDUB Stephen Fagan for the show. Fni Wrapchat is mixed by Bedford, Produced by the Headstuff Podcast Network and Sponsored by Film Equipment hire and Wildcard Distribution. Stephen Fagan is a Dublin born Animation Producer, Coach and Managing Director of the new Animation Studio Meala. Stephen started his studies in animation production at Dublin’s Ballyfermot Senior College. After working in various animation and creative roles Stephen d...
Aug 17, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 118
#BONUS EPISODE TIME On this extra episode; Seán T. Ó Meallaigh (Flying solo) went to Galway and Dublin respectively to interview Phillip Doherty, Emma Foley and Tamryn Reinecke of Pale Rebel Productions to chat about their recent success with their debut feature made for just 40,000 and with a bucket of Cavan good will, Redemption of a Rogue Phillip Doherty is a playwright and director. Two-time winner of the RTE PJ O'Connor Radio drama Award, Philip Doherty a native of Cavan Town, holds an MA i...
Aug 14, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 117
This week in our second part, The talent continues to be only massive, We're throwing our spotlight on Some brilliant up and coming filmmakers who are screening at the Still Voices Film Festival. https://stillvoicesfilmfestival.com/ BALLYMAHON, CO. LONGFORD ONLINE - AUGUST 13TH - 16TH 2020 STREAMING NOW Fni Wrapchat is mixed by Bedford, Produced by the Headstuff Podcast Network and Sponsored by Film Equipment hire and Wildcard Distribution. Joining the Paul's on Part two in the studio and online...
Aug 12, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 116
This week joining our BRAND NEW host Mia Mullarkey for a very special chat is the incomparable Kate O'Toole. Talking all things Film, Acting, the O'Toole dynasty, John Huston and the amazing Galway Film Fleadh and her work therein, including this years challenging shift online, which reached five million people. Kate is an Actor, introduced to a creative life at a very early age, parented by the renowned Actors Peter O'Toole and Sian Phillips. Kate has appeared in numerous stage and Film product...
Jul 28, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 115
With the Brilliant news that Lee Cronin's "The Hole in the ground" has received a whopping 7 IFTA nominations last week. We're joined by co-writer Stephen Shields this week for a new ep. Check out our chat previously with Lee here: shorturl.at/elmEZ Stephen Shields is an Irish screenwriter. After winning the RTE STORYLAND 2010 with his web series ZOMBIE BASHERS Stephen went on to write on RTE's flagship comedy show THE REPUBLIC OF TELLY, where he was the longest-serving writer. He was nominated ...
Jul 22, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 114
This week on the next Episode of FNI Wrapchat, Paul Webster chats to a bit of a cult hero director for a lot of Irish creatives, Paddy Breathnach. Paddy Breathnach started his directing career making natural history documentaries. His first feature, AILSA, won the Award for Best First / Second Film at the San Sebastian Film Festival. His second feature I WENT DOWN (BBC Films) starring Brendan Gleeson, won the New Directors prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival 1997. I WENT DOWN screened at Su...
Jul 17, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 113
EP 111. Diarmuid Goggins. Director. We caught up with Diarmuid this week in between car chases and controlled explosions to have a chat about being real, working hard, wanting an actual fistfight in a fake emergency room and general kindness in the industry. Wrapchat is brought to you by Film Equipment Store and mixed by BEDFORD. Seán T. Ó Meallaigh joins PBL today as our new co-host. An Irish IFTA-nominated director for Film and TV Drama, Diarmuid recently completed work on BULLETPROOF Series 2...
Jul 13, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 112
Brought to you by Film Equipment Store: This week brings us a special podcast. One of our Favorite Actors Michael Smiley. Michael Smiley is a Northern Irish actor. Smiley was born in 1963 in Belfast and grew up in Holywood. He moved to London in his 20s with his wife. He began doing stand-up in 1993, after accepting a bet at an open-mic night. He had worked as a cycle courier (like his character in Spaced) and as an acid house DJ. He became well known for his role as Tyres O'Flaherty in the sitc...
Jul 06, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 111
We're joined today by award-winning filmmaker Barrie Dowdall on FNI Wrapchat, back in the studio for the first time in 12 weeks. Brought to you by Film Equipment Store and mixed by Bedford. Hot on the heals on the Packed out Screening at VDiff of his Latest docu-drama, Violet Gibson. Violet Gibson tells the story of the Irish Woman who tried to assassinate Benito Mussolini in 1926, on the cusp of the rise of fascism and the advent of WW2. Using a mixture of historical newsreel footage and shots ...
Jun 30, 2020•53 min•Season 1Ep. 110
On this EP of FNI WrapChat is Director Daniel O'Hara. Fni WrapChat is brought to you by Film Equiptment Store and is produced on the Headstuff Podcast network, an Mixed by Bedford. Daniel O’Hara is a director from Dublin, based in Edinburgh. He has directed television projects for a wide range of international broadcasters and content providers, including Netflix, BBC, Sky, RTÉ and TG4, on shows including Harlan Coben’s The Stranger, Brassic, Doctor Who and Being Human. His short films, Yu Ming ...
Jun 18, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 109
We talk obstacles to Women in Film, Shooting THAT scene in Normal People and Kate's love for documentaries. Kate received the Golden Frog for Best Cinematography on a Docudrama ‘I Dolours’ at Camerimage 2018. In the same year she was nominated for an Emmy for her work on ‘The Farthest’. The Hollywood Reporter listed McCullough as top 10 to watch in Irish Film Industry 2017. More recently she was nominated for the IMAGO award 2019 for her work on ‘The Farthest’. Upon completing her studies at The...
Jun 14, 2020•56 min•Season 1Ep. 108
Born in Dublin and raised in Meath, Cathal has travelled the world working on a variety of projects including news, documentaries and film and television. Cathal's older brother (a press photographer for local newspapers), piqued Cathal's interest in the trade in their homemade photography dark room: a garden shed in County Meath. After having studied Drama in Trinity College Dublin, Cathal began working for news channels and shooting documentaries. In the subsequent years, Cathal worked on a nu...
Jun 01, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 107
On this Episode of FNI Wrapchat is IFTA and Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Award winning Actor Aisling Franciosi. Aisling most recently appeared in the leading role of Clare in The Nightingale, opposite Sam Claflin and directed by Jennifer Kent (The Babadook,) She will next be seen opposite Mark Ruffalo in I Know This Much Is True , a brand new TV drama for HBO, which this week broadcast in Ireland. Aisling first appeared on screen as Katie in THE FALL for BBC in 2013 and then as Ph...
May 25, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 106
Ross Whitaker is a vastly successful documentary filmmaker. He has developed, produced and directed a number of successful independent documentaries including Katie, Unbreakable: The Mark Pollack Story, Between Land and Sea and most recently The Boys in Green for RTE. Ross is also former commissioning editor of Film Ireland and former festival programmer of Stranger Than Fiction at the IFI, he is well versed in the language of film and an active participant on the Irish film scene. His first fea...
May 15, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 105
On this special episode of FNI Wrapchat is Irish Oscar-nominated director Lenny Abrahamson. Sponsored by our friends at Film Equipment Store, Wildcard Distribution, brought to you as always by the Headstuff Podcast Network. Mixed by Stephen Bedford and FNI Wrapchat theme tune by Pat 'Connor. Lenny is from Dublin and is an internationally renowned film and Television Director and Screenwriter. He is known for directing such acclaimed independent films as Adam & Paul (2004), Garage (2007), Wha...
May 05, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 104
On this weeks Fni Wrapchat is Screenwriter of Calm With Horses Joe Murtagh. This episode is brought to you by Film Equipment Store on the Headstuff Podcast Network. Calm With Horses is distributed by Element Distribution and is currently available to rent on various streaming platforms including Volta, iTunes, BFI Player etc. Joe Murtagh is a London born Irish writer. He comes from a family of carpenters and labourers, though it's been said that Joe himself "couldn't hammer a nail straight", and...
Apr 28, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 103
With over 30 years of experience in all aspects of media including journalism, public relations, scriptwriting, and programme-making, Hugh Farley has worked for RTÉ, BBC, Channel Four, ITV, NHK (Japan), and SV3 (Sweden) amongst others. A Fulbright scholar, he was the first Irish citizen to be accepted by New York University’s filmmaking programme in 1985. His documentary work includes; We Shall Overcome which won the Best Documentary Award at the 1998 Celtic Film Festival. In recent years, he ha...
Apr 23, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 102
EPISODE 💯, WOW! Where does the time go? This ep is a look back on some of our favourites over the last two years. A retrospective of tips and experiences from people working in film and television not only in Ireland but all over the world. Thanks for listening, especially at this very peculiar time in all our lives. We really wanted to do a live show to mark this event, but it wasn't to be. FNI will, however, be hosting a live event when we get the all-clear to bring our community together to ...
Apr 15, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 101
On this weeks episode (99) of FNI Wrapchat, Paul Webster is joined by Director Maurice Sweeney For the last ten years, Maurice has been regarded as one of Ireland’s leading documentary filmmakers. In more recent years he has also begun to focus on fiction. His Doc Trial of the Century, a historical drama series for Treasure Films was a critical hit for, Loose Horse and TV3. Other work includes drama documentary series Barbarians Rising for the History Channel and October Films. Having worked on ...
Apr 06, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 100
Firstly BIG SHOUT OUT AND MASSIVE RESPECT to our doctors, nurses and everyone in the emergency services in Ireland. You're a credit to our country. #STAYSAFE #STAYINDOORS ** Billy mentions his standup shows in Galway in April these have obviously been cancelled until further notice. On this episode (98) of FNI Wrapchat is Director and Producer Billy McGrath. Billy was a major pioneering figure in the development of Irish music (manager, promoter and PR) and comedy (performer, writer and promoter...
Mar 28, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 99
On this weeks Ep of FNI Wrapchat (which we recorded a couple of weeks ago), is a Distributor with a vast amount of experience over a number of years. Derry O'Brien of Network Ireland Television. Start stockpiling episodes of Wrapchat this crazy season. Derry O'Brien has over 40 years’ experience in international services in the music, TV and film industries and with the Irish Trade Board. Derry was responsible for the inauguration of the Ireland on Screen joint marketing initiative between the r...
Mar 20, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 98
Nick Rowland is an award-winning directing graduate of the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in the UK. Even before graduating, his work as a director had already earned him a Royal Television Society Award for DANCING IN THE ASHES, and he has since been nominated for a BAFTA for SLAP. His recent TV credits include HARD SUN (BBC1), RIPPER STREET (BBC) and CUFFS (BBC2). His first Feature CALM WITH HORSES (starring Barry Keoghan, Niamh Algar and Cosmo Jarvis) premiered at TIFF 2019 and ga...
Mar 11, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 97
On this week's Ep of FNI Wrapchat from the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival is Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy. As a Directing Duo, Desperate Optimists are Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, they are multi-faceted creatives rooted in theatre, performance art and mixed media. Hailing from Finglas in Dublin, Ireland they have lived and worked in the UK since 1987. For over ten years desperate optimists have been making works for a variety of media and contexts including film, video, d...
Mar 04, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 96
On the First of our Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival 2020 Specials of FNI Wrapchat is Director Matthew Toman and Director Daniel J. Holmes. Daniel J. Holmes is Self Shooter, Writer and Director. Who has been based in Ireland for a number of years. Daniel comes from The Windy City of Chicago in the United States (He ain't no blow in..., Dan has worked on a number of Productions with Bankhouse Productions in various roles. His credits include Street Leagues, The Feature "Dive" "Stat...
Feb 27, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 95
