Now on Netflix, free-diving documentary The Deepest Breath has captured viewers with its high stakes storytelling and emotional turns. Ireland’s own Laura McGann, whose previous feature was the roller derby doc Revolutions, directs the film, which through word-of-mouth has become one of the most sought-out films currently streaming. Graham Day spoke with Laura about the…
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Talking Star Wars Visions with Cartoon Saloon’s Paul Young
The latest volume of the animated anthology series Star Wars Visions is available now on Disney+, providing a collection of animated episodes from studios all over the world. Ireland’s own Cartoon Saloon contributed to the new batch released on May the 4th, with studio co-founder Paul Young directing the episode ‘Screecher’s Reach’, an eery and…
Nora Twomey talks My Father’s Dragon
As part of the Cartoon Saloon dynasty, Nora Twomey has been one of the leading lights in animation over the past decade. Her last film The Breadwinner was a beautiful exploration of a young girl’s life growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan, an Academy Award nominee that continued the Kilkenny animation studio’s stellar reputation.…
Paul Feig talks The School for Good and Evil, genre-hopping and the power of friendship
The School for Good and Evil is coming to Netflix. Directed by Paul Feig and based on a New York Bestselling series, the film deals with good, evil and everything in between. Graham Day sat down and chatted with the director, to find out about all the good and bad elements that brought Feig to…