Name: The Directing Lens Podcast w/ Tomisin Adepeju - EP5 Babak Anvari by Directing Lens Podcast
Duration: 56 min 42 s
Description: The Directing Lens Podcast w/ Tomisin Adepeju - EP5 in conversation with BAFTA winning director, Babak Anvari

In December 2024, we were thrilled to host our Screen Sessions live event, an afternoon of in-depth conversations on craft, career and creativity between talent from the Irish Screen industries - made possible with the support of Screen Ireland and hosted by our partners Griffith College.

We are now delighted to bring you the three live conversations as podcasts beginning with Casting Director Maureen Hughes (The Miracle Club, Small Things Like These, Once, Abigail) in conversation with Actor/Director/Producer Mo O’Connell (SPA Weekend, Girls, Hum, Horseshoe).

Screen Sessions Live: Casting Director Maureen Hughes in Conversation with Actor/Director/Producer Mo O’Connell

Screen Sessions Live: Casting Director Maureen Hughes in Conversation with Mo O’Connell

This week we’re excited to present a conversation with legendary French New Wave filmmaker and critic Luc Moullet and his creative and life partner Antonietta Pizzorno as they discuss the 1976 feature, Anatomy of a Relationship, with FLC programmer Dan Sullivan. This event took place as part of our recently concluded retrospective Luc Moullet: Anarchy in the Alps.

Luc Moullet’s follow-up to the far-out excursions of The Smugglers and A Girl Is a Gun grounds itself in the shared everyday life of a couple. Moullet himself plays a filmmaker who struggles to earn a living practicing his vocation; his professional frustrations are matched by his apparent inability to please his intellectual wife (Christine Hébert), sexually or otherwise. Moullet and Pizzorno (Moullet’s real-life wife and creative partner) set the proceedings in spare, claustrophobic spaces, chronicling quarrels, cringe-inducing episodes, and fleeting moments of tenderness on the way to a comic meditation on filmmaking’s capacity to complicate relationships.


#603 - Luc Moullet and Antonietta Pizzorno on Anatomy of a Relationship

In this Film Ireland podcast, Naemi Victoria talks to Paul Sng, Director of Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough, which had its World Premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on 20th August 2025.

This intimate documentary explores the life, legacy, and creative genius behind groundbreaking novels like 'Trainspotting', 'Crime', and 'Filth'. Narrated by an all-star cast including Liam Neeson, Maxine Peake, Nick Cave, Ruth Negga, and Stephen Graham, the film follows Welsh as he embarks on a profound psychedelic journey, reflecting deeply on his upbringing in Edinburgh, his wild years in London's 1970s counterculture, and the fame that followed his global literary success.

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough will be in UK & Irish cinemas from 26th September

Paul Sng, Director of 'Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough'

Presents: Paul Sng, Director of 'Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough'

In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Producer Peter Kilmartin & Director Ailill Martin, whose film 'The Good Farmer and the Failed Son' won the Netflix Documentary Talent Fund.

This podcast has been made possible with the support of Screen Ireland. 

This story follows Jack, a performance artist, and his father Bryan, as they face an uncertain future for their farm and questions around Jack’s place in it. In the traditional world of farming much is expected of Jack as the family’s only son, however up until this point Jack has never really considered farming an option.

Last December, Netflix announced the six teams of winners of the Netflix Documentary Talent Fund, which included the winning Irish team: filmmakers Ailill Martin and Peter Kilmartin from Dublin & County Roscommon.

Now in its third year, the Netflix Documentary Talent Fund supports emerging filmmakers to nurture their talent through making a short documentary. The six recipients were challenged to respond to the prompt  “you’re never gonna believe this…”.

Each team was supported by Netflix to produce a short documentary between 8-12 minutes long with a budget of £30,000 each.  As part of the process the team participated in a boot camp which provided training from experts at Netflix who coached them and host workshops covering Creative, HR and Production. The initiative provides filmmakers with a personalised experience to best suit their levels of expertise and help them further their careers.

The Netflix Documentary Talent Fund films had their global premiere on the closing night of London’s Raindance Film Festival on 26th June 2025.

Netflix has released the six films on the Still Watching Netflix YouTube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGie8GMlUo3kBKIopdvumVQ

Netflix Documentary Talent Fund Podcast: Producer Peter Kilmartin & Director Ailill Martin of 'The Good Farmer and the Failed Son'

Presents: Producer Peter Kilmartin & Director Ailill Martin on the Netflix Documentary Talent Fund

In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Alan O'Gorman, Writer of 'Christy'.

17-year-old Christy is at a crossroads.  Kicked out of his suburban foster home, he moves in with his estranged older brother Shane and his young family.  As far as Shane is concerned this is a temporary arrangement, but Christy begins to feel at home on Cork's working-class Northside. As he makes friends and begins to let the community in, he also reconnects with his past through his seemingly more corrupting extended family, despite Shane’s efforts to protect him. Shane wants something better for Christy at any cost – even if it means he has to push him away.  As the brothers look to reconcile their turbulent past, their family and the community around them offer hope for Christy’s future.

Christy is in cinemas from 29th August 2025.

https://filmireland.net/

Fundraiser Mentioned : Help Asmaa & her little girls survive in Gaza and rebuild

https://chuffed.org/project/112878-help-asmaa-her-little-girls-survive-in-gaza-and-rebuild-their-destroyed-lives

Read Alan's article for rundale.org
https://www.rundale.org/2025/05/29/human-animals-dehumanisation-and-ireland/

Alan O'Gorman, Writer of 'Christy'

This week we’re excited to present a conversation with M. Night Shyamalan, the subject of our current series Night at the Movies: An M. Night Shyamalan Retrospective, on his 2004 feature The Village. Featuring 2-for-1 double bills that place Shyamalan’s features alongside a film of his own choosing, the series runs through Thursday, September 4th. View remaining screening schedule and secure 🎟️ at filmlinc.org/night

This conversation was moderated by FLC Senior Programmer Tyler WIlson.

Set in an isolated hamlet bordered by forbidding woods, The Village, M. Night Shyamalan’s 19th-century fable, follows a blind young woman who must decide whether to cross her community’s strict boundaries to save a gravely wounded man. Beneath its period artifice, The Village plays like a post-9/11 analogy refracted through the American Gothic tradition—evoking Brockden Brown, Hawthorne, and Irving alongside Bush-era politics in its portrait of invented monsters, fear-inducing color codes, and the high cost of fabricated innocence, secrecy, and self-containment. The result is a melancholic thriller whose emotional directness is matched by its symbolic precision, with every element working in concert: Roger Deakins’s painterly cinematography, James Newton Howard’s haunting score, and a wholly committed ensemble including Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, and Adrien Brody.



#604 - M. Night Shyamalan on The Village

The Meath Film Festival takes place at the Solstice in Navan on 13-14 September 2025, full details are on the website at Meathfilm.ie

In this Film Ireland podcast, shorts programmer for the festival and Film Ireland contributor Mick Jordan talks to director Steven Benedict about his new film A Lady of Paris, which is screening at the festival.

Steven Benedict
Steven Benedict is a multi-award-winning writer, producer, and director of several short films and co-director of an award-winning feature. Steven lectures part-time at the National Film School of Ireland, where, among other subjects, he teaches in the Masters in Screenwriting program.Steven also curates his own website, www.stevenbenedict.ie, hosting over 400 podcasts and several video essays. In addition, he is a regular contributor to RTE radio’s arts program, Arena.


Meath Film Festival Podcast: Steven Benedict, Director of 'A Lady of Paris'

This week we’re excited to present a conversation from the 13th edition of the recently concluded Scary Movies with Rabbit Trap director Bryn Chainey. Rabbit Trap opens in select theaters this Friday, September 12, courtesy of IFC Films. 

This conversation was moderated by FLC programmer Madeline Whittle.

Joining the likes of Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie among the great troubled marriages of genre cinema, Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen disappear into the roles of Darcy and Daphne Davenport, a sound engineer and his experimental musician wife, freshly decamped from London and taking up residence in an isolated cottage deep in the Welsh countryside in search of creative renewal and acoustic inspiration. When the couple set about exploring their new environs, recording instruments in tow, Darcy stumbles upon a “fairy circle” that emits a strange, unidentifiable frequency; this odd discovery is followed closely by the appearance on their doorstep of an otherworldly child who claims to live nearby and is eager to befriend the Davenports. Soon the child has become a fixture in their household, alternately ingratiating himself and raising suspicions, and exposing unacknowledged rifts and unexamined secrets that threaten to wreak psychological and spiritual havoc in the lives of his makeshift adoptive parents. Bryn Chainey has crafted a sensorially vivid, darkly beguiling debut feature that’s steeped in regional folklore, harnessing the uncanny undercurrents of occult tradition and mythology to illuminate obscure, irreducible mysteries of the human condition that stubbornly resist the flattening certainties of modernity.

#605 - Bryn Chainey on Rabbit Trap

In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Ciarán Kissane, Director of Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO).

This podcast has been made possible with the support of Screen Ireland.

https://www.filmireland.net/essay-in-the-name-of-the-censor/

IFCO & Screen Ireland: Classify an Irish Short Film
As part of this year’s Culture Night, the Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO) and Screen Ireland invite visitors behind the scenes of the world of film classification for a one-of-a-kind experience. Step into IFCO’s intimate onsite cinema and take part in classifying a Screen Ireland short film alongside an official IFCO Film Classifier – a rare opportunity to see exactly how IFCO comes to a decision and why a particular age rating would be applied.
Each screening will be followed by an interactive discussion, where audiences can explore the guidelines and decision-making process that determine whether a film gets a G, PG, 12A, or 15A classification and debate where they would draw the line themselves!
With multiple screenings running between 16:00 – 20:00, there’s something for everyone, including options suitable for younger audiences. Booking is essential – make sure to reserve the screening that’s right for you and your family for this unmissable Culture Night event.

Director of Film Classification Dr Ciarán Kissane

Presents: Director of Film Classification Dr Ciarán Kissane

This week we’re excited to present an archival conversation from the 51st New York Film Festival in 2013 with Only Lovers Left Alive director Jim Jarmusch and lead actress Tilda Swinton. Jim Jarmusch returns to the New York Film Festival this October  with the North American Premiere of our NYFF63 Centerpiece selection Father Mother Sister Brother. NYFF63 single tickets will go on sale this Thursday, September 18! Learn more at filmlinc.org/nyff

This conversation was moderated by Amy Taubin

Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston make a dashing and very literal first couple—centuries-old lovers Eve and Adam—in Jim Jarmusch’s wry, tender take on the vampire genre. When we first meet the pair, he’s making rock music in Detroit while she’s hanging out with an equally ageless Christopher Marlowe (John Hurt) in Tangiers. (Long-distance spells aren’t such a big deal when you’ve been together throughout hundreds of years.) Between sips of untainted hospital-donated blood, they struggle with depression and an ever-changing world, reflect on their favorite humans (Buster Keaton, Albert Einstein, Jack White) and watch time go by, each finding stability in the other.



#606 - Jim Jarmusch and Tilda Swinton on Only Lovers Left Alive

The Directing Lens Podcast w/ Tomisin Adepeju - EP5 in conversation with BAFTA winning director, Babak Anvari

The Directing Lens Podcast w/ Tomisin Adepeju - EP5 Babak Anvari

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