I mean when you discover a talent like
Catherine clinch she is an incredible
talent I mean young theater Ronin
Springs to mind when you look at her
work I mean she has that sort of face
that you're just she says nothing and
says everything but with just an
expression and what was it like
nurturing a talent like that
I mean we just feel blessed really that
we we found her you know she was she was
how did you find her it was seven months
of looking wasn't it yeah yeah we did
lots of physical auditions all across
Munster because we're originally looking
down there for a young actor with
monster dialect as the story set in on
Ryan in Canton Waterford you know and
eventually it just came about through
self tape because covert had hit and we
had put a call out for audition tapes to
be sent to us and thankfully she was one
of them you know did you know when you
saw it oh yeah yeah like I watched it
and I was just blown away by that she
was just perfect just from that that
original take and I rang you and I was
like come on we wouldn't be sitting here
only for Catherine pinch like the whole
film rests on her shoulder so she's in
as clear Clara's book even is written
from the girl's point of view and so
it's all through her eyes so the film is
the same you know and that comes across
with you know when you read the reviews
she singled out at the movie in terms of
the reviews now we're getting into
Silly Season now in terms of the the
Academy Awards but the campaign for you
guys Starts Now talk us through what
what news was announced last week
and what happens from here on here
because it's not you know it's not a
done deal what happens now Fiona so
basically if to last on Wednesday just
announced the Irish selection which is
on Colin Kuhn and so now that our film
is going to be submitted to the academy
and the particular category in a
particular category in the best
International Film category and then the
the International Film Committee of the
academy will then watch all the films so
there's you know up to 100 films I think
there was 93 last year from all around
the world all around the world and they
will shortlist 15 films in December in
December on December 21st we'll find out
what 15 films are and then all Academy
like this 9 000 Academy members they
will then opt in to to watch the so the
next step for you guys is that date is
the 21st of December that's where you
know whether you're going forward or it
ends there yeah but in terms of getting
because we always say this when it comes
to the turn of the year and into
December and January we hear about the
big blog posts as our Oscar favorite the
juggernauts that the campaigning starts
very early do you guys have to be on
that now in terms of getting the word
out to those American voters in the
academy yeah yeah absolutely yeah you
know we're on the verge of
um doing a deal with a US distributor
and that'll be key you know yeah yeah
actually just getting the film out there
especially in the states and and getting
the film before Academy members so we'll
we'll work with an award strategist and
a publicist to try and Target all those
Academy voters in order to get them to
to watch our film and you know like they
there's nine over 90 films to watch so
you really have to make a lot of noise
about your film in order to get just
attention yeah but how important will it
be for well for the Irish film industry
but particularly for our NATO for the
movie to to go across the world well
it'd be huge you know I mean even even
if we make the shortlist in December of
15 films that would be the first time
Irish language film has ever done that
wow and the second time that an Irish
film has ever done us uh Viva did us a
few years ago yeah Paddy brownick film
um so yeah I mean it's just I mean it's
it's Vindication of the of the vision
that teacher car in between Ireland to
be a IBA I had
um when they set up the scheme like they
they wanted to create a kind of wave of
Irish language Cinema and they believed
that there was an appetite for it and
that you could produce world-class work
uh you've picked every bucks not as
native Irish speakers you must be
absolutely thrilled with this thing this
is the the the the ultimate aim for
anyone in your position to have your
work literally on the international
stage now it's amazing well listen
congratulations so far we'll keep
everything crossed they're going to be
band Jacks the next time we see them
they're all employees and Reserve now
you're really on the trail now to make
it big it's going to be an amazing few
months
you can still find on Carly and [ __ ] in
select the cinemas across the country go
and see it you won't regret it
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