Dublin International Film Festival

And my 27-year-old adult child is a, uh, young aspiring film director.

He just-- his short film won the Dublin Film Festival last year and the Tokyo Film Festival.

So they're doing things differently than me, but they're doing things that they like, and I admire that in them.

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Now, Gráinne Humphries from the Dublin International Film Festival is here with us because she's a lifelong Bette Davis fan.

How are you, Gráinne? I'm

very good, thank you.

Sinéad is an Irish actor and producer and she also is the founder of Orian Productions, her own company.

Sinead starred in and produced Swing Bout which had its world premiere at the Dublin International Film Festival in 2024 and it was the first time screening it and it got a standing ovation and something that was really personal to the actors and to Sinead herself that we'll talk about later on and it also made its national television premiere on RTE2 not too long ago just airing in a prime time slot on the eve of Katie Taylor's recent historic Oak Park fight and that was a massive success as well being able to put it on the eve of her fight on the show on prime time TV so fair play to her and all the staff and everyone involved in the movie So I just want to say a massive best of luck as well to a good friend of mine and to a friend of the show.

He's been on here about two years ago, Kevin Crone and the Kingdom Warrior.

He's fighting this Saturday night in the National Stadium in Dublin.

thing for the entire team, because we had promised them that if they, you know, if they worked with us and if they believed in the project, that we would push it as hard as we could.

And we were just very happy with how it sort of, the momentum that it gained.

We premiered at the Dublin International Film Festival.

And because of that, that really was our launch had you know into like other film festivals and into a cinema release a four-week cinema release and then we went on to streaming in Ireland and the UK and then worldwide and then back home literally you know it was sort of it was funny that kind of um serendipity and this energy between like kate taylor coming home and actually like swing belt coming home and it was like a nice sort of a thing for us to kind of go oh my god this is actually really cool um and it was just yeah it was a really kind of a full circle moment for us so yeah very much

Today, folks, we're going to be talking about...

My fiancée, Dronia Humphreys, works for the Dublin International Film Festival, DIFF, and she does all our movie programming at home because I've got terrible taste in films, as most of my friends will tell you.

No way.

So today, in honour of growing up, we're going to talk about movies and money.