20TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING
Recently placed at number 38 in The Irish Times’ list of the 50 Best Irish Films ever made…
This special screening will include a Q&A with Writer/Director Maeve Murphy and star Orla Brady. Chaired by James Flynn.
MAEVE MURPHY is an award winning writer and director. Maeve was born in Belfast and is Co-founder of the women’s theatre company Trouble and Strife. She made two short films, AMAZING GRACE for the BFI, starring Aidan Gillan, (London Film Festival, Film 4), and SALVAGE, ( NIS) starring Orla Brady, (Cork Film Festival and broadcast on RTE).
SILENT GRACE her critically acclaimed debut feature starring Orla Brady tells the untold story of the IRA women prisoner’s Hunger Strike and Dirty Protest (Cannes Film Festival, Galway, Taormina, Hamptons and Moscow Film Festival). In 2017, it was re-released with an Irish TV premiere on TV3 and Hulu. Named “Film of the week” in The Sunday Times and “Important film” Irish Times. In May 2020 the Irish Times put it in their 50 Best Irish Films Ever Made.
Her second film BEYOND THE FIRE was an award winning and controversial romance about love in the wake of religious sexual abuse starring Cara Seymour and Scot Williams. The film won Best UK Feature at the London Independent Film Festival. Maeve’s third feature, TAKING STOCK, was a female austerity heist comedy starring Kelly Brook (Raindance Film Festival 2015.) Based on Maeve’s short film SUSHI, (Venice Film Festival 2011), and won 8 International film festival awards.
Maeve’s 2017 short ghost film SIOBHAN is showing in festivals, (Foyle FF, Kerry FF and Sochi Int FF where it won the SIFFA President’s Award). Maeve has recently received an award from Screen Ireland to develop a new screenplay based on her short story “Christmas at the Cross” She has also co-written a screenplay with Victoria Mary Clarke with NIS support via Vico films about the true love story of Shane Mac Gowan and Victoria Mary Clarke.
ORLA BRADY is an award-winning Irish theatre, television, and film actress who was born in Dublin. She began her career with the Balloonatics Theatre Company as a touring performer, later gaining her first minor role in television as a bank clerk in the series Minder in 1993.
Orla has been nominated for several awards from the Irish Film & Television Academy for her work in television, as well as starring in the RTE/BBC co-production A Love Divided where she portrayed Sheila Cloney, for which she won the 1999 Golden Nymph Best Actress Award. She also played one of four main characters in the BBC's drama series Mistresses, Siobhan Dillon, a lawyer who struggled to maintain her relationship with husband Hari while also having an affair with her colleague, Dominic, with whom she later went on to have a child. She has appeared in RTÉ’s Proof, and also starred in a Doctor Who Special for the BBC.
Orla has had roles in films such as Words Upon The Window Pane (1994), The Luzhin Defence (2000), How About You (2007), and 32A (2007). In 2017 Orla starred in The Foreigner alongside Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan, playing Brosnan’s wife. In 2001 Orla received critical acclaim appearing in Maeve Murphy’s award-winning debut feature SILENT GRACE - the untold story of the IRA women prisoner’s Hunger Strike and Dirty Protest
Since moving to California in 2001, Brady has also starred in a number of high profile American TV Series - including Family Law, Nip/Tuck, and Shark - playing the ex-wife of James Woods. In 2020, she was listed as number 43 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
20TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING
Recently placed at number 38 in The Irish Times’ list of the 50 Best Irish Films ever made…
This special screening will include a Q&A with Writer/Director Maeve Murphy and star Orla Brady. Chaired by James Flynn.
MAEVE MURPHY is an award winning writer and director. Maeve was born in Belfast and is Co-founder of the women’s theatre company Trouble and Strife. She made two short films, AMAZING GRACE for the BFI, starring Aidan Gillan, (London Film Festival, Film 4), and SALVAGE, ( NIS) starring Orla Brady, (Cork Film Festival and broadcast on RTE).
SILENT GRACE her critically acclaimed debut feature starring Orla Brady tells the untold story of the IRA women prisoner’s Hunger Strike and Dirty Protest (Cannes Film Festival, Galway, Taormina, Hamptons and Moscow Film Festival). In 2017, it was re-released with an Irish TV premiere on TV3 and Hulu. Named “Film of the week” in The Sunday Times and “Important film” Irish Times. In May 2020 the Irish Times put it in their 50 Best Irish Films Ever Made.
Her second film BEYOND THE FIRE was an award winning and controversial romance about love in the wake of religious sexual abuse starring Cara Seymour and Scot Williams. The film won Best UK Feature at the London Independent Film Festival. Maeve’s third feature, TAKING STOCK, was a female austerity heist comedy starring Kelly Brook (Raindance Film Festival 2015.) Based on Maeve’s short film SUSHI, (Venice Film Festival 2011), and won 8 International film festival awards.
Maeve’s 2017 short ghost film SIOBHAN is showing in festivals, (Foyle FF, Kerry FF and Sochi Int FF where it won the SIFFA President’s Award). Maeve has recently received an award from Screen Ireland to develop a new screenplay based on her short story “Christmas at the Cross” She has also co-written a screenplay with Victoria Mary Clarke with NIS support via Vico films about the true love story of Shane Mac Gowan and Victoria Mary Clarke.
ORLA BRADY is an award-winning Irish theatre, television, and film actress who was born in Dublin. She began her career with the Balloonatics Theatre Company as a touring performer, later gaining her first minor role in television as a bank clerk in the series Minder in 1993.
Orla has been nominated for several awards from the Irish Film & Television Academy for her work in television, as well as starring in the RTE/BBC co-production A Love Divided where she portrayed Sheila Cloney, for which she won the 1999 Golden Nymph Best Actress Award. She also played one of four main characters in the BBC's drama series Mistresses, Siobhan Dillon, a lawyer who struggled to maintain her relationship with husband Hari while also having an affair with her colleague, Dominic, with whom she later went on to have a child. She has appeared in RTÉ’s Proof, and also starred in a Doctor Who Special for the BBC.
Orla has had roles in films such as Words Upon The Window Pane (1994), The Luzhin Defence (2000), How About You (2007), and 32A (2007). In 2017 Orla starred in The Foreigner alongside Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan, playing Brosnan’s wife. In 2001 Orla received critical acclaim appearing in Maeve Murphy’s award-winning debut feature SILENT GRACE - the untold story of the IRA women prisoner’s Hunger Strike and Dirty Protest
Since moving to California in 2001, Brady has also starred in a number of high profile American TV Series - including Family Law, Nip/Tuck, and Shark - playing the ex-wife of James Woods. In 2020, she was listed as number 43 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.