WFT is delighted to host this discussion between WIFT Sweden Board Member Theo Lindberg and Irish Actor Jack Murphy!
Date: 19th March, 2024
Time: 2:30pm
You can register your place here.
This talk has been made possible with the support of Screen Ireland’s Stakeholder Fund.
About Theo Lindberg
Theo Lindberg is the first trans person to be a board member of WIFT Sweden. He started an international network for trans/non-binary people called Trans & Nonbinary Film Network. Theo also organised and launched a campaign called 10% for 50/50, where WIFT in collaboration with Chimney started an initiative to give film productions with representation (in front of the camera and behind it) a discount at companies working with film productions. Additionally, Theo has volunteered at the Sundance Film Festival several years during his time at SFSU. He has worked in the film industry since his graduation from film school in 2003. He is also a parent, cat owner, space nerd, and his love affair with films started with the purchase of a VHS-machine in the 80s.
About Jack Murphy
Jack Shaun Murphy became the first trans character / actor in an Irish soap opera in history, Fair City in 2017. Coming from an acting background, then 8-year-old Jack starred in Brendan O’Carroll’s film The Mammy (1998) as a stand-in, working alongside Angelica Huston and Tom Jones. In 2020, Jack played a lead role in Patricia Kelly and Anna Czarska’s Short Film Cost You Nothing as a trans man with an unsupportive mother. The film was screened globally and Jack won the ‘Honourable Mention Award’ at the Waterford Film Festival. Jack has been a voluntary member of St. John Ambulance since he was 17. Now at 33, he is a Qualified Emergency First Responder, doing duties in the Aviva, RDS, Croke Park, and other locations around Dublin.
