Brendan Canty on Directing his first movie 'Christy', his first film documentary 'Gaeltra' and how he learnt his craft

On today's podcast I chatted with my son Brendan Canty as we come to the end of what was an amazing year for him.

The first movie that he co-wrote and directed, 'Christy' hit movie screens around the world winning awards and great acclaim and his first full feature documentary 'Gaeltra' has just premiered at the Cork International Film Festival and scooped the Best New Irish Feature Award.

The future is looking very bright and from the outside looking in, it may look as though he enjoys instant success at every turn, but as we all know nothing happens like that.

On the podcast Brendan chats about these successes, but more importantly he takes us through all the other stepping stone projects that came before these where he learned his craft, from the first school projects, music videos and commercial work.

In any career you can't cheat the learning curve, but you need to seize the opportunities along the way when you can gain all of that lvaluable earning.

He also chats about the perils about working in such an unpredictable industry and how to keep yourself sane in the process!

Enjoy the show...

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