Doing justice to the entire cinematic output of a nation in just one festival program is ‘very challenging,’ Irish Film Festival Australia Festival Director Dr Enda Murray tells ArtsHub.
‘Our aim is to tell contemporary stories from Ireland … I started off with 43 films on a shortlist – there are a lot of films coming out of Ireland at the moment – and I choose the films according to both the quality of the films and how I think they’re going to work for our audience here in Australia.’