This screening will be followed by a Q&A led by Dr Tony Tracy, Lecturer in Film & Media and Director of Postgraduate Studies at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Galway, with featured filmmakers Chloe Brenan, Eóin Heaney and Olivia Normile. 

Dr Tony Tracy is Lecturer in Film and Media Studies. He joined the University of Galway in 2000 with a brief to establish film studies at undergraduate level and was a co-founder of the Huston School of Film Digital Media in 2003. He has designed and directed established a number of Hustons flagship programmes including the BA with Film Studies and the MA Film Studies and taught a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules including: Classical and Post-Classical Hollywood cinema; Early Silence Cinema, Global Cinemas; Irish Cinema; Film Exhibition and Distribution in Digital Age; Media Audiences. Dr Tracy brings a wide range of interests and experience to his teaching, research and supervision; combining a background in film education and production distribution with scholarship of high quality and impact.

He is co-author of the Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema and since 2014 was founding editor of the annual review of Irish film for the journal Estudios Irlandeses. He has also published about and produced a documentary on the pioneering KALEM film company and the pioneering role of Gene Gauntier as an early female actor,screenwriter and producer. Along with a notable Public – No restrictionation record and regular contributions to a range of festivals and cultural forums, Tony is a frequent contributor to Irish media (notably radio) on a variety of film related themes. From 2005-2015 he was a board member of the Fresh Film Festival and a judge on Irelands Young Filmmaker competition. He works regularly with filmmakers in film development and PR.

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