Fni Wrap Chat

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, (Gold Prize at World Media Awards 2016) and Angel, (winner Milan International Film Festival 2013) and edited and produced Banaz – A Love Story (Emmy winner and Peabody Award winner 2013). Ruán was honoured to receive an Outstanding Contribution Award from Screen Directors’ Guild of Ireland in 2014. He directed and filmed his first documentary in 1996 featuring his brother, the writer, Manchán Magan (Brandon books),the beginning of a long collaboration during which they made over 60 documentaries filmed across the pl

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 Wedding with Michael as producer. Spin the Bottle, produced by Michael and based on the cult hero of Paths to Freedom, was a domestic box office hit, won a number of IFTAs and also won Best Feature at the Boston Irish Film Festival. In 2006 Michael produced Puffball and in 2008 he produced The Race, an Irish/German co-production. Michael is also developing a slate of projects including I'll Take Care of It by Andrew Meehan and Dark Lies The Island by Kevin Barry, both to be directed by Ian FitzGibbon, and The Dead

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 and Rob Cawley in 2008. Their first production, Barbaric Genius, on the life of the London-Irish author John Healy premiered in February 2011. Recent films include Very Extremely Dangerous and Natan, about the French producer Bernard Natan. His latest Documentary Film "What Time is Death?" was screened at this years Virgin Media Dublin Film Festival.  In December 2013 he was listed by Variety (magazine) Nick Franco: Producer  Nick set up 1185 films in 2003 and has worked across a range of genres as directo

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 stop-motion feature film ever to be made in Ireland, “Captain Morten & The Spider Queen”, a co-production with Estonia (Nukufilm) and Belgium (Grid Animation) featuring an all-star Irish cast including Brendan Gleeson, Pauline McGlynn, Ciarán Hinds, Tommy Tiernan and Jason Byrne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 number of awards, from Kinsale Sharks to ICADs and a Vimeo Staff Pick. His latest film, 99 Problems is receiving its premiere at The Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival this weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 the very successful films The Stag (2013) Handsome Devil (2016) Butler also created the IFTA-winning TV sketch show Your Bad Self (2010) and wrote the novel The Tenderloin.  His latest Film "Papi Chulo" was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival back in late 2018 and opens up the Virgin Media Dublin Film Festival next week, There's two screenings on Wed, at half six or 9pm. Get your tickets now.  The film, centres on a A lonely Gay TV weatherman that strikes up an unconventional friendship with a m

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 2001 and programmed both the Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Festival and the Dublin French Film Festival from 2002- 2007. Among other project, she co-edited Ireland into Film, a series of publication on a number of key Irish films. She has served as a jury member on a number of international film festivals and has coordinated a number of Irish film seasons at international events. She is a Board Member of the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris and has been Festival Director of the Dublin International Film Festiva

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 Samson Films was screened at the Galway film Feadth and subsequently won best Irish First Feature in 2018. Its in Irish Cinemas now. Check out the trailer here and #SupportIrishfilm  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk1vYUmPRkI&t=14s Be sure to Check out our previous podcasts and don’t forget to subscribe and review. We LOOOOVE your feedback. #WeareFni #MakeANameForYourself If you want to support FNI in our non Subsidised work head on over to www.buymeacoffee.com/fni Learn more about your ad choices

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 short film ‘Gridlock’ has won 48 awards to date, including Best Director at the Savannah International Film Festival, Best International Short Film at DC Shorts, and a Young Director Award (YDA) in Cannes. Ian has also been nominated for this years Virgin Media Dublin Film Festival Discovery Award 2019. In 2018, Ian took part in the prestigious Berlinale Talents in Germany as a director, being the only Irish filmmaker chosen amongst 250 candidates from 81 countries. Since then, Ian has successfully received funding fro

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 Contest and Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Competition. He has written, and directed three short films. Be sure to Check out our previous podcasts and don’t forget to subscribe and review. We LOOOOVE your feedback. #WeareFni #MakeANameForYourself If you want to support FNI in our non Subsidised work head on over to www.buymeacoffee.com/fni Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Service Pensions and what emerges is a truly personal retelling of a brutal and divisive period in the birth of a nation and the devastating legacy it left in its wake, for the individuals who took part and their families who suffered long after the fighting ended. More than 85,000 applied for the Irish Military Service Pension. Just over 18,000 received any payment. Keepers of the Flame examines the Irish journey in search of a collective courage to remember and acknowledge the deeds of the past, recognise the wro

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, success. Rachel works with her sister and colleague Mary Kate as A Dramatic Improvement and they have designed and delivered training workshops in visual storytelling for the Irish Writers Centre; Film Base; Screen Training Ireland and the advertising industry via IAPI. In 2014/2015 they were lead tutors and writing mentors at Y Labordy an initiative funded by S4C, Film Wales Literature Wales and the Royal Theatre of Wales Rachel and Mary Kate design and deliver workshops exploring the applications of storytell

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 screenplays to production companies. His debut poetry collection “Honest Walls” was published in 2016. He was one of the storyliners for Ros na Rún’s 21st season finale (TG4). He co runs Project Spatula with his Brother Jake. This year the collective made their first feature - Sooner or Later, which has premiered at The Galway Film Fleadh and went on to screen at The Cork Film Festival. Jake Morgan is an emerging composer and conductor from Galway who specialises in creating original music and audio for film, theatre, and

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, Emotional, Must-See Nature vs. Nurture Documentary – Collider Knockout documentary – Vulture Check out the trailer below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-OF0OaK3o0 It is released in Ireland this weekend. Other credits include One Killer Punch (Channel 4), a documentary exploring the far-reaching repercussions of a single act of violence; and Lifers (Channel 4), an observational study of murderers at Europe's largest prison for life-sentenced prisoners. Tim has also worked as head of development for a number o

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, in 1999 and in 2000. He has created music and soundscapes for many companies including Barabbas, The Company and Graffiti Theatre Company. Roger has written for Rte on a number of productions and is frankly the coolest Yank you will ever meet. You can find WrapChat on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, The HeadStuff Podcast Network and wherever you get your Podcasts. Be sure to Check out our previous podcast with Ferargal Ward and don’t forget to subscribe and review. #WeareFni #MakeANameForYourself If you want to su

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 come to forcibly purchase his home and lands. He vows to resist. If you'd like to support FNI head on over to www.buymeacoffee.com/fni #WeAreFNI #MakeANameForYourself You can listen to Fni WrapChat on @thisheadstuff podcast Network, Itunes, Google podcasts and wherever you get your Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Station. The film depicts the first same-sex crush of a young girl. The short premiered as part of Generation Kplus at Berlinale 2016. In 2016 Kate was chosen to take part in the Guiding Lights, the UK's leading mentoring scheme for filmmakers. Kate's follow up Genre Short Film "Catcalls" was produced with the support of Screen Ireland in 2017. Kate is currently developing her first feature film. If you'd like to support FNI head on over to www.buymeacoffee.com/fni #WeAreFNI #MakeANameForYourself You can listen to

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 anniversary plots. She started working for Samson Films (ONCE, THE SEA) in 2015 and their sister company Accomplice Television as their Development Executive and works part time on their extensive slate of film and television projects. Upcoming Samson films she has worked on include Viko Nicki's CELLAR DOOR and Carmel Winters' FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY, both funded by the Screen Ireland. Along with Samson, she continues to work freelance as a script editor and development producer for other companies in Ireland a

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 transcripts of the interviews of John Venables and Robert Thompson after the tragic murder of toddler James Bulger in 1993. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eKZTtJGsi8 Vincent is an award-winning director, writer and producer from Ireland. He is a graduate of the National Film School of Ireland and has worked with a wide range of companies and broadcasters. He is a double winner of the Young Director Award at the Cannes Lions and has won awards at several International film festivals including the Krakow Film Fe

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 wherever you get your Podcasts. Be sure to Check out our previous podcasts with Sarah Dillon and TJ O'Grady Peyton and don't forget to subscribe and review. #WeareFni #MakeANameForYourself If you want to support FNI in our non Subsidised work head on over to www.buymeacoffee.com/fni Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices