- (left to right) Brian O'Malley (Crossing Salween), Brendan McCarthy (Wake Wood), Thomas Hefferon (The Pool), Carmel Winters (Snap), moderator Barry Dignam
- yes, that's me in the front row...
The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival kicked off on Thursday and will last until next Sunday.
I attended a packed forum for screenwriters sponsored by the festival. This panel featured four Irish working screenwriters and offered them an opportunity to share their stories of how they navigated the Irish film industry to get their films produced and distributed...
The Irish film industry is quite small and is in a state of transition right now due to the economic climate and the overall desire to move away from the more traditional "Irish" stories in an effort to make more modern and compelling films that will appeal to a broader audience.
The difficult question for the Irish film industry is that by doing this will they lose their cultural uniqueness, their identity, their Irishness...?
