Screen Directors Guild of Ireland

It was a chilly Thursday in December when I joined the set of George Gently, a BBC1 detective drama series set in north-eastern England in 1964. Having landed the sdgi mentoring spot with director Daniel O’Hara, I was looking forward to seeing an experienced crew working a primetime fi lm series, and I certainly wasn’t disappointed....

How do you communicate your vision? My approach to making films is no different to how I approach a tv drama. When I read a script first, a certain image inspired by the story will pop into my head. This could be an image from another film or a photo I’ve taken or a snapshot of some action I have witnessed on the street that represents the project visually or tonally...

Jamie Hannigan talks to cinematographer James Mather (Adam & Paul, Prosperity), proud parent of the new red one Digital Video Camera.

Director Ciarín Scott talks about making her George Morrison biography Waiting for the Light.

When I was asked to write this, I wasn't sure if I should air grievances, pontificate about the hows and whys of cartoons, talk about how narrow the market has become for feature animation in the West or just tell you how I doodle my ideas along the edges of a script to get a sense of the acting and staging. So instead, I thought I'd write about this...

For me, filmmaking is not all about paradigms or plot points or the page on which something dramatic will happen. It's not just about set-up, confrontation and resolution. It's also about tracking the hidden and elusive, those things that are personal to the filmmaker, that have been 'called up' from the spirit of...

When I was a film editor, I felt happy and honoured to ride shotgun for such heroes as Bob Quinn, Alan Gilsenan, Margo Harkin and other greats of Irish film. In the twelve years since I wrote and directed The Boy from Mercury, I have worked as director-for-hire three times and now want to find my way back to being a...

Usually the thing that draws me to a script is character. Maybe it's because I started off as an actor, but my way into a story is the characters. In the case of A Film with Me in It, it was the two main guys. I immediately warmed to them, two firstclass losers with delusions of...