Alex Ritman Ireland’s film and TV scene may be booming with both local projects and big Hollywood productions, but much of this is being supported by a groundswell of rising Irish talent working behind the camera.
From writers working on hit shows such as “Bad Sisters,” to costume designers on Universal’s latest monster horror to a director working on her first feature for one of Ireland’s most beloved — and successful — animation studios, Variety picks out 10 creatives to look out for.
Rising genre talent Clarke saw her debut feature “The Devil’s Doorway” — a found-footage horror that tapped into the very-real controversies around Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries — snapped up by IFC, which released the film in 2019.
A lecturer in Creative Writing and Film at Queen’s University in Belfast, Clarke is currently in post-production on “Fréwake,” about a troubled palliative care nurse and billed as the first ever Irish-language horror, while she also has projects in development at Paramount and StudioCanal.
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