Eamonn McCann joins us for this screening and discussion. We screen a group discussion from 1988 he took part in, after the screening Eamonn will reflect on his experience of it looking back. After Dark was a groundbreaking reinvention of the discussion programme format: live and with no scheduled end time. Broadcast on both Channel 4 and the BBC f…

It is within the realm of what has become commonly known as ‘artist moving image’ that we continue to encounter models for documentary film practice that are for the most part utterly unlike those we have otherwise become accustomed to. This programme curated for Docs Ireland by aemi (www.aemi.ie) – an organisation dedicated to the support and exhi…

Chronicling the extraordinary rise of one of the most colorful and controversial religious movements in American history, Hail Satan? is an inspiring and entertaining new feature documentary from acclaimed director Penny Lane (Nuts!, Our Nixon). The discussion, chaired by BBC journalist William Crawley, was with renowned academic Dr. Andrew Sneddon…

This panel is made up of renowned American documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room, No Stone Unturned), Barry McCaffrey (Journalist, No Stone Unturned), Sean Murray (Unquiet Graves), Kathryn Johnstone (NUJ) and panel moderator Susan McKay (Writer & Journalist). Having been through arrest, questioning, hearings, bail …

The importance of art in social action and activism has long been demonstrated - as a tool to create visibility, encourage conversation and stimulate change. With a focus on the Marriage Equality and Abortion Rights campaigns in ROI and NI, Activists and Filmmakers involved in these campaigns discuss how recent referendum victories in the Republic …

Irish civil rights leader Bernadette McAliskey, former PUP press officer Sophie Long, columnist & editor of ‘Repeal the 8th’ Una Mulally and writer, broadcaster Paul Gosling join moderator, journalist and writer Susan McKay, to consider the state of the place, in our State of the Nation panel. Northern Ireland is in the eye of the political storm; …

Journalist Colm Keena (Irish Times) worked on the Panama Papers, as well as controversies concerning company and personal tax avoidance and evasion. His story about payments to an incumbent Irish Taoiseach in 2006, caused a political crisis and led to landmark Supreme Court judgment in 2009 recognizing the right of journalists to protect their sour…

A very thought provoking and illuminating chat around the issues of Housing Rights, over all of Ireland, after the Docs Ireland screening of PUSH (dir. Fredrik Gertten), in the Mac, Belfast. The panel was chaired by Dr. Agustina Martire (Lecturer in Architecture, School of Natural and Built Environment at Queens University Belfast and vice chair of…