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IFTA Screen Discussion Series 2020



As part of the 2020 Film & Drama Awards Viewing and Voting season The Irish Film & Television Academy presents IFTA Screen Discssions: a series of online Q&A's, Panels and Discussions.

IFTA Screen Discussions
 
Traditionally, IFTA hosts special Academy Screenings & Discussions in cinemas during the IFTA Viewing season for Irish titles and talent in consideration for awards.  As the cinemas are closed, we are delighted to continue this engagement ONLINE through the Academy’s IFTA Screen Discussions with the filmmakers and talent involved - Directors, Writers, Producers, Acting andCraft talent, during the Awards viewing and voting season throughout June & July. Round One Voting closes July 1st- for Shortlisting of Nominees. 

You are invited to join us online for the following events. 

Please Register Below

 

Be Good or Be Gone

4pm Monday, July 6th LINK HERE TO REGISTER

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for Be Good or Be Gone with Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

Academy Members are invited to participate in a live Q&A with the cast and crew of Be Good or Be Gone as part of IFTA's Screen Discussion Series

Be Good or Be Gone, directed by Cathal Nally,penned by Les Martin (here also serving as a producer and lead actor) and Paul Murphy, is set in the Irish capital over the course of four days and follows the misfortunes of two petty-criminal cousins, Ste (Martin) and Weed (Declan Mills), who receive a temporary release from prison. Ste wishes to make a better life for himself, his partner Dee (Jenny Lee Masterson) and his six-year-old daughter Ellie Mae, whilst Weed – perhaps the most interesting character in the entire movie – feels a weird desire to conquer the world of high fashion, despite his criminal past and his crippling drug addiction.

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance:

Cathal Nally (Director/Producer) , Les Martin (Actor/Producer/Co- writer), Declan Mills (Actor/Producer), Alan Sherlock (Actor) & Joe Conlan (Composer)


This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

Visit the Be Good or Be Gone event page

 

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Rosie

2pm Friday, July 3rd LINK HERE TO REGISTER

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for ROSIE with Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

Academy Members are invited to participate in a live Q&A with the cast and crew of Rosie as part of IFTA's Screen Discussion Series

A woman, her husband and their four children find themselves homeless after their landlord sells their house. Over the next 36 hours, the couple desperately search for a place to live while trying to shield the kids from the reality of the situation.

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance: Paddy Breathnach (Director) Roddy Doyle (Writer) & Sarah Greene (Actor)


This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

Visit the Rosie event page

 

Never Grow Old

3pm Monday, June 29th LINK HERE TO REGISTER

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for Never Grow Old with Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

Debauchery. Greed. Murder. Welcome to Garlow. The once-peaceful frontier town is now a den of vice after vicious outlaw Dutch Albert (John Cusack) and his gang arrived and began gunning down their opposition. Undertaker Patrick Tate (Emile Hirsch) must choose between the blood money he makes burying the murderers' victims and the threats he and his family face in this intense and gritty western.

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Writer/Director Ivan Kavanagh, Producers Jacqueline Kerrin & Dominic Wright and cast Molly McCann, Tim Ahern and Sean Gormley


This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

 

Visit the Never Grow Old event page

 

The New Music

6pm Monday, June 29th LINK HERE TO REGISTER

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for The New Music with Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

After a Parkinson's diagnosis a classically trained pianist embarks on a path of self discovery leading him to a punk band. Their rebellious lifestyle and music provide a distraction to his troubles and a sharp contrast to his old life.

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance: Chiara Viale (Director/Writer) Philip Kidd (co-producer, cinematographer and editor) and Cilléin Mc Evoy (Lead Actor).


This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

Visit the The New Music event page

 

The Breadwinner

3pm Tuesday, June 23rd LINK HERE TO REGISTER

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for The Breadwinnerwith Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

Parvana is an 11-year-old girl who lives under Taliban rule in Afghanistan in 2001. After the wrongful arrest of her father, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy to support her family. Working alongside a friend, she soon discovers a new world of freedom and danger. Drawing strength from the fantastical stories she invents, Parvana embarks on an epic quest to find her father and reunite her family.

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Director Nora Twomey and Producer Paul Young 

3pm Tuesday, June 23rd


This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

 

Visit The Breadwinner event page

 

The Hole in the Ground

3pm Wednesday, June 24th LINK HERE TO REGISTER

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for The Hole in the Ground with Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

One night, Sarah's young son disappears into the woods behind their rural home. When he returns, he looks the same, but his behavior grows increasingly disturbing. Sarah begins to believe that the boy who returned may not be her son at all.

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Director Lee Cronin, Writer Stephen Shields, Producer John Keville, & Actors Seána Kerslake & James Quinn Markey

3pm Wednesay, June 24th

This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

Visit the The Dig event page

 

A Good Woman is Hard to Find

3pm Thursday, June 25th LINK HERE TO REGISTER

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for A Good Woman is Hard to Find with Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

A dynamic killer thriller, with its finger firmly on the pulse of stark social commentary and shattering suspense. Recently widowed mother of two Sarah is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr Big, she’s forced into taking drastic action to protect her children

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Actress Sarah Bolger, Director Abner Pastoll and writer Ronan Blaney 

3pm Thursday, June 25th


This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

Visit the A Good Woman is Hard to Find event page

 

Calm with Horses

2pm Friday, June 26th LINK HERE TO REGISTER

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for Calm with Horses with Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

In darkest rural Ireland, ex-boxer Douglas 'Arm' Armstrong has become the feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers family, whilst also trying to be a good father to his autistic five-year-old son, Jack. Torn between these two families, Arm's loyalties are truly tested when he gets his latest orders.

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Actors Niamh Algar and Cosmo Jarvis, Director Nick Rowland, and Screenwriter Joe Murtagh

2pm Friday, June 26th

This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

 

Visit the Calm With Horses event page

 

Previous Events

Float Like a Butterfly

3pm Monday, June 15th LINK HERE TO REGISTER

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for Float Like a Butterfly with Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

From the producers of Once and Sing Street, Float Like a Butterfly is a powerful and timely story of a girl's fight for freedom and belonging. In a gender-reversal of classic film Billy Elliot, 15-year-old Frances has to fight for the right to fight back.

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Director/Writer Carmel Winters and actors Hazel Doupe, Dara Devaney and Johnny Collins

3pm Monday, June 15th

This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

Director: Carmel Winters
Writer: Carmel Winters
Cast: Hazel Doupe, Dara Devaney, Johnny Collins
Produced by: Port Pictures and Samson Films

Visit the Float Like a Butterfly event page

 

The Dig

3pm Tuesday, June 16th LINK HERE TO REGISTER

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for The Dig with Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

After serving fifteen years for murder, Callahan returns home to find Sean, his victim's father searching for the body. Callahan soon realises that the only way to get rid of him is to help him dig.

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Andy & Ryan Tohill, Actors Moe Dunford, Emily Taaffe and Lorcan Cranitch

3pm Tuesday, June 16th

This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

Director: Ryan & Andy Tohill
Writer: Stuart Drennan
Cast: Moe Dunford, Lorcan Cranitch, Emily Taaffe

Visit the The Dig event page

 

Extra Ordinary

3pm Wednesday, June 17th LINK HERE TO REGISTER

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for Extra Ordinary with Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

Rose, a mostly sweet and lonely Irish driving instructor, must use her supernatural talents to save the daughter of Martin (also mostly sweet and lonely) from a washed-up rock star who is using her in a Satanic pact to reignite his fame

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Directors Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman, Actors Maeve Higgins, Terri Chandler and Barry Ward, and producers Katie Holly and Mary McCarthy

3pm Wednesday, June 17th

This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

Directors: Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman
Writesr:  Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman, Damien Fox and Maeve Higgins
Cast: Maeve Higgins, Will Forte,  Terri Chandler and Barry Ward

Visit the Extra Ordinary event page

 

Finky

3pm Thursday, June 18th LINK HERE TO REGISTER

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for Finky with Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

Running away from his tragic past, outcast and broken, Micí Finky is on a psychedelic, high-speed odyssey straight to the bottom of his own personal hell. Hoping to rise like a phoenix from the ashes, Finky must first choose forgiveness…or risk becoming lost in the madness that threatens to engulf him.

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Writer & Director: Dathaí Keane, Writer: Diarmuid de Faoite, Cast: Dara Devaney,  Fionnuala Gygax &  Producer: Eileen Seoighe.

3pm Thursday, June 18th

This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

 

Visit the Finky event page

 

Black '47

2pm Friday, June 19th LINK HERE TO REGISTER

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for Black '47 with Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

Set in Ireland during the Great Famine, the drama follows an Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, as he abandons his post to reunite with his family.

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Director: Lance Daly, Producer: Macdara Kelleher and actors James Frecheville and Stephen Rea

2pm Friday, June 19th

This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

 

Visit the Black '47 event page

 

A Bump Along the Way

2pm Friday, June 12th LINK HERE TO REGISTER

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for A Bump Along The Way with Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

Pamela is a boozy 44-year-old single mother whose teenage daughter Allegra disapproves of her care-free lifestyle. Their fragile relationship is further tested when Pamela becomes pregnant after a one-night stand..;

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Bronagh Gallagher, Mary Moulds, director Shelly Love, writer Tess McGowan and producer Louise Gallagher 

2pm Friday, June 12th

This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

Director: Shelly Love
Writer: Tess McGowan

Producer: Louise Gallagher
Cast: Bronagh Gallagher, Lola Petticrew & Mary Moulds.

Visit the A Bump Along the Way event page

 

Cellar Door

3pm Thursday, June 11th LINK HERE TO REGISTER

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for Cellar Door with Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

Racing from young love to tortured loss and back again this story follows Aidie, a fighter inside and out, as she searches for her son while in the grip of the Church. 

With a unique point of view on a familiar trauma, Cellar Door cuts deep into the character’s experience in an exploration of love regained and loss relived.

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Director/Writer Viko Nikci and actors Karen Hassan, Leah McNamara and Mark O'Halloran 

3pm Wednesday, June 10th

This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

Director: Viko Nikco 
Writer: Viko Nikci
Cast: Karen Hassan, Catherine Walker, Mark O'Halloran and Leah McNamara

Visit the Cellar Door event page

 

A Bump Along the Way

2pm Friday, June 12th LINK HERE TO REGISTER

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for A Bump Along The Way with Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

Pamela is a boozy 44-year-old single mother whose teenage daughter Allegra disapproves of her care-free lifestyle. Their fragile relationship is further tested when Pamela becomes pregnant after a one-night stand..;

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Bronagh Gallagher, Mary Moulds, director Shelly Love, writer Tess McGowan and producer Louise Gallagher 

2pm Friday, June 12th

This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

Director: Shelly Love
Writer: Tess McGowan

Producer: Louise Gallagher
Cast: Bronagh Gallagher, Lola Petticrew & Mary Moulds.

Visit the A Bump Along the Way event page

 

Ordinary Love

3pm Tuesday, June 9th LINK HERE TO REGISTER

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for Ordinary Love with Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

Joan (Lesley Manville) and Tom (Liam Neeson) have been married for many years. There is an ease to their relationship which only comes from spending a lifetime together and a depth of love which expresses itself through tenderness and humour in equal part. When Joan is unexpectedly diagnosed with breast cancer, the course of her treatment shines a light on their relationship as they are faced with the challenges that lie ahead. Ordinary Love is a story about love, survival and the epic questions life throws at each and every one of us.

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Directors Lisa Barros D'Sa & Glenn Leyburn, writer Owen McCafferty and Actress Lesley Manville

3pm Tuesday, June 9th

This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

Directors: Lisa Barros D'Sa & Glenn Leyburn

Writer: Owen McCafferty
Cast: Liam Neeson, Lesley Manville, David Wilmot

Visit the Ordinary Love event page

 

The Last Right

3pm Wednesday, June 10th LINK HERE TO REGISTER

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for The Last Right with Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

A fateful exchange on a flight has consequences for Daniel Murphy. He's left in charge of a corpse of someone he never knew. He is persuaded to take on the challenge of getting a coffin from his family home in Clonakilty to Rathlin Island.

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Director/Writer Aoife Crehan. Actresses Niamh Algar and Eleanor O'Brien, and Producer Paul Donavan from Deadpan Pictures.

3pm Wednesday, June 10th

This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

Director: Aoife Crehan
Writer: Aoife Crehan
Cast: Michiel Huisman, Niamh Algar, Samuel Bottomley,  Colm Meaney, Cian Boylan, Brian Cox

Visit the The Last Right event page

 



3pm Friday, May 29th LINK HERE TO REGISTER

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for We Ourselves with Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

Writer/Director Paul Mercier is one of Ireland's most intriguing and insightful writers and playwrights, whose work is known for its gritty poetic realism and examination of ordinary, contemporary Irish life - with Fintan O'Toole commending Mercier for his "inclusive dramatic vision".

In this film 'We Ourselves', Mercier brings his incredible writing skill on a journey through the minds and hearts of a group of idealists and careerists as they take their separate paths in life.

We Ourselves is an unconventional film dealing with the lives of a group of seven friends over a period of more than two decades. With rich and textured individual performances delivered in consecutive monologues, the film weaves an intimate drama about nationhood, identity, love and loss, as the belief of close friendships, give way to loneliness and a state of exile. 

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Paul Mercier, Anne Gately, Catherine Walker, Gavin Drea, Seana Kerslake, Paul Reid and Caitríona Ennis will take part in an online discussion.

3pm Friday, May 29th

This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

Writer/Director: Paul Mercier 
Producer: Anne Gately
Cast: Caitríona Ennis, Gavin Drea, Seána Kerslake, Paul Reid, Catherine Walker, Aidan Gillen, Declan Conlon 

Visit the We Ourselves event page

 

Arracht 

3pm Wednesday, June 3rd Link here to register

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for Arracht with Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

Arracht tells the story of Colmán Sharkey, a fisherman, a father, a husband, living on the wild shores of Connemara in 1845 as The Great Hunger descends. As land taxes rise and crops rot Colmán confronts his Landlord, the night ends in deadly violence and Colmán is forced to go on the run, hunted for crimes he did not commit. As the years pass in solitude, Colmán returns to the mainland and encounters a young girl, Kitty and a life-saving friendship develops.

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Director Tom Sullivan and Actor Dónall Ó Héalai will take part in an online discussion.

3pm Wednesday, June 3rd

This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

Writer/Director: Tom Sullivan
Cast: Dónall Ó Héalai, Saise Ní Chuinn, Dara Devaney

Visit the Arracht event page

 

 

 

 

Rialto

2pm Friday, June 5th Link here to register

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) is delighted to present this special  ONLINE discussion for Rialto with Cast & Filmmakers in attendance, as part of the Irish Academy awards viewing season.

At 46, Dubliner Colm has a comfortable life: a managerial job in the city’s docks, two healthy teenage children, and a kind, loyal wife in Claire. After the death of his father, Colm’s emotional life cracks open. Unable to confide in Claire, Colm finds himself drawn to Jay, a young 19-year old who quickly becomes his only solace from the pressures he feels.

Cast & Filmmakers in attendance

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Mark O'Halloran and Peter Mackie Burns will take part in the online discussion.

2pm Friday, June 5th

This will be an online Zoom Event - You will be sent the Zoom Access Link by email

Writer/Director: Peter Mackie Burns
Writer: Mark O'Halloran
Cast: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Tom Glynn-Carney, Monica Dolan

Visit the Rialto event page