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10 Rising Irish Stars Behind the Camera
The new generation of directors, writers and heads of department helping fuel Ireland's booming film and TV sector.
A lecturer in Creative Writing and Film at Queen’s University in Belfast, Clarke is currently in post-production on “Fréwake,” about a troubled palliative care nurse and billed as the first ever Irish-language horror, while she also has projects in development at Paramount and StudioCanal. The well-received thriller, starring Cosmo Jarvis and Claes Bang (and Campbell-Hughes in a supporting role) won the extraordinary cinematic vision prize at SXSW, and was later nominated for two British Independent Film Awards. Having cut her teeth writing for hit Irish comedy series “The Young Offenders,” Cogan recently worked on arguably the biggest TV show to come out of the country, “Bad Sisters.” The Cork native was in the writers room and wrote on both the first season of Apple’s BAFTA-winning dark comedy and its upcoming second outing, while also co-writing and exec-producing ITV’s four-part “Holding,” based on the novel by chat show icon Graham Norton, and seeing her script “Fled” — a darkly comic drama involving a pregnant girl and a nun in 1990s Ireland — top the 2019 Brit List.
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