All posts tagged "Ireland"
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From Kabul to Kilkenny: How Nora Twomey’s Empowering The Breadwinner Utilizes The Universality Of Storytelling
Far away from the sparkly castles and enchanted kingdoms where Disney princesses exist, Parvana, a young Afghan girl living under Taliban rule, defies the cruel...
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School Spirit: Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane’s School Life Teaches Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary
It’s 2017, and as the world grapples with catastrophes, political unrest, and a general sense of despair, hanging on to hope everyday has increasingly become...
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How They Did It: Why Storyboarding was Crucial to Creating the Gothic Big House of The Lodgers
A brief history lesson: After the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland in the 17th century, when Irish land was confiscated from Irish Catholics to pay British Protestant soldiers,...
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Gay, Incidentally: Gay Characters Don’t Need to Hook Up Just Because They’re Gay, Handsome Devil Points Out
There is nothing coy about telling a story about two young men who aren’t straight, where those two men don’t hook up. Nothing coy at...
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Continental Divides: Could a U.S. Film Commission, Like The National Ones in Europe, Ever Add Up?
When surveying the messy U.S. landscape of ever-changing film incentives and the fluctuating health of state film commissions, it’s tempting to look longingly at national...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Taylor Russell on Waves and Why She’s OK With Being an Adult Who Plays High School Students
In director Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Taylor Russell plays the younger sister of Kelvin Harrison Jr., even though she’s five days older than him in real life. In fact,...
Inside the Issue: Directing
Rob Zombie: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Rob Zombie still can’t let go of some of his past off-screen nightmares. “After I finished Halloween II, I was so beat up by the process that I hated...
Inside the Issue: How To
Edward Norton Walks Us Through Every Part of Making Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton is the best possible person to explain each stage of the moviemaking process for his new drama Motherless Brooklyn—he’s the film’s writer, director and lead actor. For...