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Nia DaCosta, Prano Bailey-Bond & Aislinn Clarke On Using Genre Films As A Means To “Explore Social Issues” — Storyhouse
The 'Candyman,' 'Censor' and 'The Devil's Doorway' filmmakers talk using genre as a way to explore social issues while attending Dublin's Storyhouse
L-R: Aislinn Clarke, Nia DaCosta, Prano Bailey-Bond at Dublin's Storyhouse.Simon Lazewski All three women have worked across genre in the last few years, with DaCosta directing and co-writing Candyman with Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld, Bailey-Bond’s debut feature Censor premiering at Sundance and Clarke being best known for her horror titles The Devil’s Doorway and Fréwaka. Clarke spoke about The Devil’s Doorway, her 2018 found footage horror film about two priests who are sent by the Vatican to investigate a mysterious event in an Irish home. The director was keen to make a movie that explored the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, Catholic institutions which operated in the 1800s, which housed “fallen women”.
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