Ireland - FRONTRUNNER

FRONTRUNNER Meets Irish Playwright Marina Carr

Acclaimed Irish playwright Marina Carr speaks about the role of the playwright and the obstacles the COVID-19 pandemic poses to the heart of theatre.

Genevieve Sanne May 22, 2020

No Story Left Untold: Irish Filmmaker Aisling Walsh

BAFTA-Winning Irish screenwriter/director Aisling Walsh looks back at her career and how lockdown during the pandemic has ignited her creativity, even…

Genevieve Sanne May 11, 2020

FRONTRUNNER Meets Filmmaker Eliza Hittman

Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always is Eliza Hittman’s third feature film, telling the story of a teenage girl forced to travel from rural Pennsylvania…

Csilla Tornallyay April 23, 2020

From Eire to England: An Interview With mother’s tankstation Director Finola Jones

From the outside, a contemporary gallery's main hub in the Irish capital seems unremarkable. The external simplicity belies the internal image that is…

Corazon Miller April 16, 2019

Steve Kenny’s ‘Time Traveller’: An Irish Take on ‘Back To The Future’

We all have dreamed at one time or another about entering another world and making the stories we see in movies and books become real. Who honestly hasn't clicked their heels together three times or had wished they could go through the looking-glass and have a brand new life? In Time Traveller, a boy named Martin who comes from a family of Irish Travellers wants to make a DeLorean (from scratch) in the hopes of making Back to the Future

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John Witiw November 8, 2018