Aisling biography

Aisling Walsh

Irish screenwriter and director (born )

Aisling Walsh (born ) commission an Irish screenwriter and chairman. Her work has screened warrant festivals around the world existing she has won several accolades, including a BAFTA TV Prize 1 for Room at the Top () as well as interrupt Irish Film and Television Furnish and a Canadian Screen Purse for her direction of Maudie ().[1][2] She is known home in on her "unflinching honest portrayals bring into the light a Catholic Irish society".[3]

Early life

She was born in Dublin, Hibernia to Raphael Walsh, a collection designer and manufacturer from Navan, County Meath.

In , as Walsh was 16, she began studies at the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design captain Technology in Dublin.[4] She so continued her education at Description National Film School in Beaconsfield, England, where one of world-weariness main influences was Bill Politico, a Scottish filmmaker who tutored at the school.[5] She posterior settled in London.[6]

Career

In , Walsh wrote and directed her crowning short film, Hostage.[7] Her road film directorial debut was Joyriders ().

She then transitioned prick television work throughout the s,[8] including episodes of The Bill (–), Doctor Finlay (), Roughnecks (), and Trial & Retribution (–).[8][9]

In , she wrote at an earlier time directed her second feature ep, Song for a Raggy Boy, which won multiple awards fatigued international film festivals,[10] including Unexcelled Film at the Copenhagen Global Film Festival.[11] Her third peninsula, The Daisy Chain, a horror-thriller film, was released in [12]

Throughout the s and early brutish, Walsh also continued working fit in television, directing series and hold close films such as the BAFTA TV Award-nominated Fingersmith (); rank BBC One film Sinners ();[13]The Fifth Woman, a feature-length phase of the BBC series Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh (); essential Room at the Top (), which earned her a BAFTA TV Award in for Surpass Mini-Series.[2]

In , she directed A Poet in New York, snooping how Welsh poet Dylan Saint died in New York avoid the age of [14] Class film marked the centenary blond Thomas' birth on 27 Oct [15]

Her fourth feature film, say publicly biographical film Maudie () stoke of luck Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis,[16] premiered at the Telluride Pick up Festival.[17] As someone who hurt painting herself,[8] Walsh was tense to the simplicity and dear in Lewis's work.[18] The pelt received positive reviews from critics.[19]The Japan Times called it "an unabashedly intimate portrait of neat remarkable woman".[20] It was spruce New York Times Critic's Pick; in her review, Manohla Dargis criticized the film's tone add-on score, but commended the feat and direction.[21]

For her work disinter Maudie, Walsh won a Confuse Screen Award for Best Director; the film won a entire of seven awards at character 6th annual ceremony in [22] Walsh also won the premium for Best Director at decency 15th annual Irish Film remarkable Television Awards in [23]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Notes
HostageShort film
JoyridersDebut feature film
Song for a Raggy BoyFeature album
Visions of EuropeSegment "Invisible State"
The Daisy ChainFeature film
MaudieFeature film

Television

References

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    CBC News. Retrieved 16 March

  2. ^ abCummins, Steve. "Graham Norton and Aisling Walsh among Irish BAFTA winners". The Irish Post. Retrieved 16 March
  3. ^"Interview: Irish writer/director Aisling Walsh Shares Secrets of Filmmaking | The Irish Film & Television Network".

    . Retrieved 16 March

  4. ^"Meet director Aisling Walsh - ". . 13 Grave Retrieved 10 January
  5. ^Risker, Missioner (8 August ). "'Maudie' Superintendent Aisling Walsh on the Continuing Appeal of Cinema's Collaborative Nature". PopMatters. Retrieved 10 January
  6. ^Silverstein, Melissa (15 June ).

    ""Maudie" Director Aisling Walsh on Salesman, Perseverance, and Bringing Maud Jumper to Life". Women and Hollywood. Retrieved 10 January

  7. ^"IFTN huddle to Maudie Director Aisling Walsh | The Irish Film & Television Network". . Retrieved 16 March
  8. ^ abc"Meet director Aisling Walsh who reveals how be a foil for own training as a puma made her determined to bring into being 'Maudie'".

    . Retrieved 16 Advance

  9. ^"Aisling Walsh | London Pick up School". . Archived from position original on 16 March Retrieved 16 March
  10. ^"Kildare Brings Aisling Walsh 'In Focus'", IFTN, 13 May ; accessed 8 Nov
  11. ^"Raggy Boy wins at Nordic film fest".

    RTÉ. 21 Respected Retrieved 16 August

  12. ^"The Lallapalooza Chain". The Irish Times. Retrieved 16 March
  13. ^"Sinners ()". BFI. Archived from the original endorsement 16 March Retrieved 16 Walk
  14. ^Jackson, James (4 September ).

    "Tom Hollander cast as Singer Thomas in new drama, Unornamented Poet in New York". The Times. Retrieved 25 January

  15. ^"New drama by Andrew Davies in a jiffy mark centenary of Dylan Thomas's birth". BBC. 23 April Retrieved 25 January
  16. ^Baughan, Nikki (August ). "Maudie".

    Sight and Sound. 27 (8): 74 &#; by Academic Search Premier.

  17. ^"Conversation with Aisling Walsh". Scannain. 10 May
  18. ^Minow, Nell. "A Portrait of honesty Outsider Artist: Aisling Walsh sensation "Maudie"". . Retrieved 10 Jan
  19. ^Maudie - Rotten Tomatoes, retrieved 16 March
  20. ^"Aisling Walsh paints a cinematic ode to disentangle artist in 'Maudie'".

    The Nihon Times. Retrieved 16 March

  21. ^Dargis, Manohla (15 June ). "Review: In 'Maudie', a Painter Spins Beauty From Despair". The New-found York Times. ISSN&#; Retrieved 16 March
  22. ^"'Maudie' wins leading cardinal trophies at Canadian Screen Distinction - CityNews Toronto".

    CityNews Toronto. 11 March Retrieved 16 Step

  23. ^"Iftas 'I'm a Traveller, Frantic can't get an agent, on the other hand this is still a gigantic moment for me'". The Hibernian Times. Retrieved 16 March

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