Name: Chris Walley

Position: Actor

1. What inspired you to get into working with the film industry?

I’ve always wanted to be an actor for as long as I can remember, I know a lot of people say that but it’s really true (I did want to be a pro footballer for brief time at age 10). […]

Name: Alex Murphy
Position: Actor

1. What inspired you to get into working with the film industry?

I’ve always had a love for acting, but up until last year I only had experience in theatre. You can’t really plan ahead in terms of what project you will be working on next, so I guess I just landed […]

Name: Jonathan Hughes
Position: Production co-ordinator / Script supervisor / Make up – The Young Offenders (2016)

What inspired you to get into working with the film industry?

When I was 15, my parents pretty much had decided already that I was going to be an accountant. One day, I was sitting in an economics class […]

Name & Job title: Tony McFadden, Producer/Cinematographer, ‘Animation, Inc.’

Q1) What inspired you to get into working with the film industry?

1. Growing up I was always fond of art whether it was writing stories, drawing pictures or recording fake radio shows on stereos that I would find in dumpsters. After I […]

Name: Emma Fagan
Company: Fingal Film Festival www.fingalfilmfest.com
Position: PR and Marketing ( Volunteer)

Ive had a passion for film for as long as I can remember but my love for movies and in particular my love for more diverse and offbeat cinema owes a huge debt to my parents and in particular my late Dad. […]

Questions & Answers.

Name: Sharon Cronin
Job title: Producer

What inspired you to go work in the Film Industry in Ireland?
I grew up in the countryside and there weren’t very many people my age around, so I just watched a
lot of films and I guess I fell in love with film. After that I never even considered […]

Questions & Answers.

Name: Jennifer Shortall
Job title: Director of Poison Pen

What inspired you to go work in the Film Industry in Ireland?
I love telling stories and entertaining people. I particularly love finding interesting
new ways to tell a story and films offer so many possibilities to do that.

What has been your career path to date?
As a […]

Questions & Answers.

Name: Lorna Fitzsimons
Job title: Director

What inspired you to go work in the Film Industry in Ireland?
Working in film for me is a compulsion, I am compelled to tell stories through pictures.
I’m not quite sure why I’m here but I am and I love it.

What has been your career path to date?
After school […]

Questions & Answers.

NAME: Steven Benedict
JOB TITLE: On POISON PEN, I am one of the three directors.

WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO GO WORK IN THE FILM INDUSTRY IN IRELAND?
When I was eight years old, I saw Steven Spielberg’s Close
Encounters of the Third Kind. I thought that what I was seeing was
happening live somewhere else in the […]

Questions & Answers.

Name: Áine Coady
Job title: Producer/Production of Poison Pen

What inspired you to go work in the Film Industry in Ireland?
Films and filmmaking are something I’ve always been interested in. After University and a
stint in retail management, I both fell into, and fell in love with the production side of
filmmaking. There was no defining […]