Film Ireland Podcast

In this podcast Gemma Creagh talks to Ciaran Cassidy, whose film Jihad Jane is in cinemas Friday, 14th February. In March 2010, the arrest on terror charges of a blonde haired, blue-eyed, American woman who called herself ‘Jihad Jane’ made headlines worldwide and was described as the 'new front in the war on terrorism.' The story of Coleen LaRose, a forty six-year-old woman, who had radicalised in rural Pennsylvania led the evening news bulletins. What made the case more surreal and confusing was the arrest of another American woman, Jamie Paulin Ramirez, a Colorado native — this time in Waterford, Ireland. In this podcast, Ciaran talks about his film plus getting into film his first films and learning the process of filmmaking his approach to storytelling and its different genres what draws him to particular stories Jihad Jane how the story unravelled the characters involved positioning the story and maintaining a balance the editing process http://filmireland.net/