Screen Ireland is delighted to congratulate the teams behind the winning films of the 2025 Newport Beach Film Festival Awards: 🏆 Audience Award – Best Irish Feature – Báite 🏆 Outstanding Irish Feature – Christy 🏆 Outstanding Animated Short – Retirement Plan #IrishFilm

Listening to Paul is pretty good advice generally but specifically so here. Go see Saipan when it’s out. Advance tickets on sale now.

It’s all kicking off tonight. ⚽ Starting with the Irish Premiere of Saipan tonight, the 70th edition of the Cork International Film Festival takes place from November 6th-16th. Take a look at some Screen Ireland supported films not to miss at the Festival. 👇 🔗 www.screenireland.ie/news/discove...

Screen Ireland was delighted to partner with Eclipse Pictures, @tg4.bsky.social and Danú Media on a special screening of Irish language film Báite in the Light House Cinema, with guest of honour An Uachtarán na hÉireann, Michael D. Higgins.

Wrote about the Cine4 scheme and how its 'risk-taking' attitude has paid off (it's how the Oscar-nominated An Cailín Ciúin was funded) - interviewed Máire Ní Chonláin, Commissioning Editor at TG4, and director Ruán Magan who made Báite under the scheme www.thejournal.ie/how-cine4-wo...

'Sanatorium' airs tonight on BBC Storyville. Having something I cut on the Storyville strand has long been a major ambition/weird obsession of mine. So I'm chuffed about this. It's on tonight at 10 and on iPlayer after. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘If I were to take up hurling now, at 41 years of age, how bad could I possibly be?’

If anyone’s planning to go to the cinema this weekend, make it your business to see Sanatorium. Fingers crossed it will represent us at the Oscars - and honestly, it’s just a truly gorgeous film. And cinematic. I was singing its praises on Arena last week: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

The IFI is doing a Margo Harkin retrospective season all throughout Sept. Margo has long been one of Irelands most important and influential filmmakers & this season is a rare opportunity to see her most vital works. It opens with 'Stolen' this Tuesday which I was honoured to cut a few year back.

After an incredible cinema journey at home and abroad North Circular hits the small screen tonight. RTE ONE 9:35. Don't miss it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn0y...

After an incredible cinema journey at home and abroad North Circular hits the small screen tonight. RTE ONE 9:35. Don't miss it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn0y...

Delighted to be heading back to the Galway International Arts Festival this Saturday for a chat with two heroes of mine - Dr Paul Rouse, the GAA polymath, and @sineadocarroll.bsky.social. All organised by the wonderful Catriona Crowe, limited tickets still available on www.giaf.ie/festival/eve...

Delighted that 2 films I cut won awards at this years Galway Film Fleadh. 'Baite' won the best Irish Language Award and 'Sanatorium' won the award for Best Feature Documentary.

⭐️Winner of Best Irish Feature Documentary: Gar O'Rourke for SANATORIUM ⭐️

⭐️Winner of Best Irish Language Feature Film: BÁITE⭐️

Justine McCarthy: For over 30 years, George Gibney has lived as a free man, without having to face a trial

Yet another terrific piece that finds space for the weird little movie I financially ruined myself by making:

@leahschnelbach.bsky.social has declared: It's an Irish horror summer. Here's 15 Irish horror films that take new and refreshing directions on horror tropes, even if that means holding space for a psychic driving instructor: reactormag.com/15-irish-hor...

Aislinn Clarke’s new film is everything I’ve always wanted in a folk horror. It’s truly terrifying and also looks absolutely stunning. Make sure to see it in a cinema. #fréwaka demands a big screen.

🩸FRÉAMHACHA🩸 🎬I bPictiúrlanna na hÉireann - Inniu 25 Aibreán🍿#horrorfilm #cine4 #frewaka #frewakamovie

“Uncanny nightmare fuel” @variety.com Aislinn Clarke’s Fréwaka (Fréamhacha) is in Irish cinemas now, a dtacaíonn Fís Éireann go bródúil leis. 🐐 💚 🎟️ Book your tickets now: www.wheretowatchireland.com/movie/frewaka #IrishFilm #IrishHorror

#Fréwaka hits Irish cinemas TODAY 🐐🔥🐐 @screenireland.bsky.social @tg4.bsky.social @doublebandfilms.bsky.social @aislinnclarke.bsky.social

Shudder's mystical Irish folk horror Fréwaka weaves an unnerving spell. #Frewaka #Ireland #horrormovies www.pastemagazine.com/movies/horro...

So terribly sad to hear this awful news. I was honoured to work with Martha on ‘Stolen’ just two years ago. She was a wonderful producer and a lovely person. My sympathies to all her family and friends.

Every evil has it's roots...🐐 Catch our preview of FREWAKA next Wednesday 23rd, followed by a Q&A from with @claremonnelly.bsky.social, Bríd Ní Neachtain and @aislinnclarke.bsky.social hosted by @whosaisha.bsky.social 🎤 Book now 🎟👉 ifi.ie/film/frewaka/

Only a fortnight to go until our preview of the haunting Irish language folk horror FRÉWAKA! 🐐🔥 Join us on Wednesday 23rd, for our Q&A screeing with @claremonnelly.bsky.social , Bríd Ní Neachtain and @aislinnclarke.bsky.social hosted by @whosaisha.bsky.social 🎤 Book now 🎟👉 ifi.ie/film/frewaka/

My favourite in the main CPH:DOX competition: Sanatorium is a witty, elegantly composed account of a run down Soviet era health spa in Ukraine. www.screendaily.com/reviews/sana...

It's world premiere day for 'Sanatorium' at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. I'm immensely proud to have cut this film for director Gar O'Rourke and I cant wait for audiences to see it www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUiG...

Every evil has its roots. 🐐 Fréwaka (Fréamhacha), the new folk horror from writer-director Aislinn Clarke, is coming to Irish cinemas on April 25th, proudly supported by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland. #IrishFilm #IrishHorror

This is a really lovely film that airs on BBC4 tonight. Catch it if you can.

Sorry to hear this news today. I’m a big admirer of her work. A dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.

Sunday Reading. My wonderful wife @moiswriting.bsky.social has just had this personal essay published about as she says Nollaig na mBan, the birth stories we share, and the ones we don’t.

Matewan by John Sayles is on Prime and utterly brilliant.

I’ve been up the walls getting a cut ready. Totally missed the news cycle and internet discourse over the past past few days. This was probably a good thing.

THE STING (1973) is now the oldest American narrative film on Netflix — one of only 5 released before 1980 on the largest subscription streaming service in the U.S. #Streaming #FilmSky

If you didnt get a chance to see it in Cinemas, An An Cailín Ciúin / The Quiet Girl has its tv premiere tonight on TG4 at 8.

it's Arthur McBride time youtu.be/cBGkhPx529g?...

Delighted to have Passing It On: Ballymun Kickhams back on the RTE Player. It's a project that I both directed and produced, working very closely with editor, Jamie Fitzpatrick, and many people from the club. It is available to stream now. Check it out if you can! #documentary #gaa #ballymunkickhams

I feel sound effect library’s don’t cater to the Irish editor enough. I don’t want ‘light rain’ or ‘medium rain in distance’. I want ‘mean rain’, ‘miserable rain’, ‘ara grand bit of rain’, ‘soft rain’, ‘sharp pointy rain’, ‘Galway rain’, ‘when I was your age I’d to walk barefoot into school rain’.

Delighted to see Nick Emerson nominated here for his incredible work on conclave. I’m pretty certain this also marks four years in a row this little island of ours has had an editor nominated for our industry’s highest award. That is a remarkable run.

I made a video for Ellen O'Meara's Song For Palestine, released today on Bandcamp. All proceeds are going to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), providing essential aid to those in need. All info in the YouTube link below. Shares welcome x #SongForPalestine www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUCD...

I’m at that stage of an edit where avid’s X,Y axis is not a mystery to me. It never lasts.

Get the Kimberley's in: An Cailín Ciúin has it's TV premiere on @tg4.bsky.social, Christmas Day at 8pm.

I stuck on ‘Educating Rita’ without knowing it was shot in Ireland. It’s good craic seeing Dublin in the 80s.

Traveled the length of the country to vote.

Hi folks, thanks to everyone who has gotten in touch with me so far since we released the series on Friday, the response (especially to episode 2) has been amazing. I hope you’ll add it to your playlist for the week ahead & make your own mind up (1/2) @ciarancassidy.bsky.social

Print run no. 2 landing in the next few days 🙌 Would love to get this back in the bestseller lists when we have stock again. Sorry to post a lot about this, but it’s self-published by a charity, there’s no publishing industry 💪 behind it, and it’s for a cause close to my heart 🤓 🦻

This was great. Can’t wait for the later eps. Brilliant stuff as expected from @younghorgan.bsky.social and @ciarancassidy.bsky.social.

Heeeyyyyy Bluesky film folk - #Fréwaka 🐐 plays Foyle Film Festival this evening in its all important Derry debut 🔥🔥🔥