Film-maker Sinéad O’Shea on Fergie Chambers: ‘He offered me enough that I’d never have to work again’

The documentary maker, whose new film is about the unlikely US communist, has become one of Ireland’s most reliable cinematic ...

‘Sometimes it’s not perfect, but it works’: film-maker Charles Burnett on his chronicling of Black working-class life

A restored version of his 1983 film My Brother’s Wedding, set in South Central LA, brings Burnett’s vision to a new audience ...
Harper's Bazaar

“Every image was a victory against the regime”: a Syrian film-maker speaks out

I still remember the day I returned to Syria from Paris. I was seven years old, unable to speak a word of Arabic, curiously peering out the window at the streets. Images and statues of the same man ...
The Economist

Ukrainian film-makers are capturing the realities of war

When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th last year, Alisa Kovalenko was on an overnight train from Kyiv, heading east. She was on her way to film footage of teenagers in a village in Donbas, on ...
The Irish Times

Women film-makers deserve greater recognition in history of Irish movies

Most people have never heard of Flora Kerrigan, even though she was one of Ireland’s most innovative and talented film-makers during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her award-winning animated and ...