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All members invited to WFT’s Creative Christmas Celebration & a Networking Noël!

By Karla HealionNovember 23, 2016News & Events

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For the latest WFT Podcast, we hosted a dedicated

For the latest WFT Podcast, we hosted a dedicated webinar with the Broadcast Authority of Ireland designed to demystify the application process. During this online discussion, WFT Chair Dr. Susan Liddy and Vice-Chair Jaro Waldeck spoke with the decision-makers from the BAI Sound and Vision scheme about this funding process. BAI Managers, Deborah Molloy Bergin, Philip Cooper and Sara McNamara provided us valuable insight into what makes an application successful.

Listen in full over at WFT.ie.

An audio mix can make or break a film, but what do

An audio mix can make or break a film, but what does it really take to forge a career in sound in this industry? Join us at 6pm on 28th July when Irish Sound Engineer Aoife McHale will be speaking with Academy Award-Winning Sound Engineer Lora Hirschberg. Lora will talk about her career to date and the artistry behind what makes a sound mix great.

Register your place over at WFT.ie

This event has been made possible with the support of Screen Skills Ireland.

Lora Hirschberg

Academy Award-winning Re-Recording Mixer (Inception) Lora Hirschberg has worked on more than 150 feature films and documentaries including Black Widow for Marvel Studio and Welcome to Chechnya for HBO. Lora mixes, supervises, and edits sound and has been nominated for another award in the same category!

Aoife McHale

Aoife graduated as a sound engineer in 2013 and has been working in the sound industry ever since. She has been employed for the past few years in television production as a sound recordist and boom operator. Before that, she spent five years freelancing as a sound editor and foley artist mostly in film.

On Thursday, 22nd July at noon, Women in Film and

On Thursday, 22nd July at noon, Women in Film and Television Ireland and the Writers Guild of Ireland will host a panel at the Galway Film Fleadh examining the intersection of gender and class in the Irish screen industries.

Recent UK research suggests that the majority of the screen workforce come from ‘privileged’ backgrounds. But that’s doesn’t happen here – right? WFT Chair Dr Susan Liddy will host a talk about exactly that.

Carmel Winters

Carmel Winters is an award-winning writer and director for stage and screen.  Her most recent film Float Like A Butterfly won the FIPRESCI international critics’ award at Toronto International Film Festival and her theatre plays have premiered at the Abbey Theatre and beyond

Dave O’Brien

Dave O’Brien is Chancellor’s Fellow in Cultural and Creative Industries, based in the School of History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on cultural policy, urban regeneration, cultural work, public policy, social mobility, and cultural consumption. His most recent book, co-authored with Drs Orian Brook and Mark Taylor, is Culture is bad for you: Inequality in the cultural and creative industries.

Roisin Kearney

Roisin Kearney is a multi-award winning writer/director/producer in film, TV and theatre. After a successful 10 years working nationally and internationally, she took time out with her three children. She returned to film in 2014 and has worked on a number of shorts including The Family Way, No Dogs, The Ferry, RUN, and PADDY. She is associate producer on children’s show Gamer Mode for RTE, and writer for Smashing Times theatre and film company. She is currently in development with comedy drama RIP and feature script Spoke. 

Jordanne Jones

Jordanne played the leading role of Emma in Metal Heart (Treasure Films), Hugh O’Connor’s directorial debut, for which she won the Bingham Ray Best New Talent Award at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2018. She is currently appearing as Lily in Dead Still (Acorn/RTE) and will soon appear in a guest role in The Alienist: Angel of Darkness (Paramount/TNT) due for release later this year.

Find out more or register your spot over at WFT.ie.

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