Irish Film Institute Podcast

In this week's episode, host Frances Wilde introduces Ginette Vicendeau, Professor of Film Studies at King's College London, about the Danielle Darrieux retrospective programme, screening as part of this year's IFI French Film Festival 2021 (November 17 - 28th). In-cinema tickets: https://ifi.ie/frenchfest IFI@Home rentals: https://www.ifihome.ie/page/frenchfest2021/

For this last episode of the current season, host Stephen Boylan chats to Irish Times film critic Donald Clarke and avid awards-watcher David O'Callaghan about this year's Oscar nominations, looking at the front-runners and predicting who will carry away cinema's most prestigious prizes on April 25th. Check out IFI@Home's special Awards Season collection at https://www.ifihome.ie/page/awards-season/.

In this week's episode, host Stephen Boylan chats to director Treasa O'Brien about her new film 'Town of Strangers', now available to pre-order on IFI@Home (www.ifihome.ie). Stephen also chats to Ita O'Brien, movement director and intimacy co-ordinator, about her work on hit projects including Normal People, I May Destroy You, It's A Sin, and Sex Education. 

In advance of this year's IFI Careers events, the IFI Podcast looks back to 2019 and 2020 for two panel discussions with well-known figures in the Irish screen industries. Lenny Abrahamson and Ed Guiney discuss their journey from the Trinity Video Society to Oscar-nominated filmmakers, while Emmy Award-winning director Dearbhla Walsh, producer Rebecca O'Flanagan, and actress-writer-producer Amy Huberman discuss the most important elements in making it in film and TV.

Join host Stephen Boylan as he chats with veteran location manager Eoin Holohan about his career, the challenges of the profession, and his work on films including Yorgos Lanthimos's ‘The Lobster’. Also on this episode, Kilmainham Gaol's Curator of Collections Brian Crowley talks about the many productions that have visited the historic site, including The Italian Job, In the Name of the Father, Michael Collins, and a beloved children’s film from 2017 that used the Gaol's interior as its inspiration...