#88 | Paul Duane | Director/Producer/Writer

Happy NEW YEAR from us all at FNI. Here's our first Episode of 2020. and we've a brand new theme thanks to composer Pat O'Connor. Check out Pat's website here: https://www.patrickoconnorcomposer.com/about-1/ Paul Duane RETURNS, our first guest to come on a second time.  Paul Duane is a Director of Film, Tv and a writer. Has directed television programmes including: Ballykissangel, Casualty, The Royal, Small Potatoes and Footballer's Wives He has also made several short films including LSD 73! based on an original script by the Irish novelist Patrick McCabe. More recently he co-created the ITV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl based on the well-known blog, Belle de Jour. The Irish production company Screenworks was established by Paul Duane and Rob Cawley in 2008. Their first production, Barbaric Genius, on the life of the London-Irish author John Healy premiered in February 2011. More films include Very Extremely Dangerous and Natan, about the French producer Bernard Natan. In December 2013 he was listed by Variety magazine as part of their yearly 10 Directors to Watch feature.  His latest film What Time Is Death? described as "his long-gestated study of new activities by the men who used to be KLF"[8] is a documentary charting Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty’s latest project to build a pyramid of hand-fired bricks, each containing the ashes of a dead person, a process dubbed MuMufication (referencing the KLF song Justified & Ancient). What Time Is Death? featured at the 2019 Dublin International Film Festival and screened to a full house in the IFI in 2019. We're also pleased to announce that Paul will be joining our panel this SAT 18th of Jan for our Documentary; Finding the Story Panel and workshop. All details on following link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/84791011197