Aisling Walsh

About Aisling Walsh

Who is it?: Director, Writer
Birth Year: 1958
Birth Place:  Dublin, Ireland, Ireland

Aisling Walsh

Aisling Walsh was born on 1958 in  Dublin, Ireland, Ireland, is Director, Writer. Aisling Walsh studied Fine Art at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology. There was no film course there at that time but there was a film appreciation society that she joined and through this she developed an interest in filmmaking and started making her own short movies. The year following her graduation she worked in a shop to get the money together to go to the National Film School in Beaconsfield. As Ashling felt there was no real film industry in Ireland then, she continued to live in and work in England. She had a number of projects financed there and also got regular work in television.Ashling has previously made two quite controversial films Joyriders and Sinners. Song for a Raggy Boy is based on the true story by Patrick Galvin and is set in the late 1930s. The film centres around a lay teacher (Aidan Quinn) who joins an Irish Reformatory school and doesn't like what he sees. He has to find the courage to stand up and fight against the tough regime.
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1914

In 2014, she directed A Poet in New York, which explores how Welsh poet Dylan Thomas died in New York at the age of 39. The film was made to mark the centenary of Thomas' birth on 27 October 1914.

1968

Aisling Walsh (born 1968) is an Irish Screenwriter and Director. Her work has screened at festivals around the world and she has won several accolades, including a BAFTA Award for Room at the Top (2012) and a [[Canadian Screen Award and an Irish Academy Award for Maudie (2016). She is known for her "unflinching honest portrayals of a Catholic Irish society".

1985

In 1985, Walsh wrote and directed her first short film, titled Hostage. She followed this up with her first feature film, Joyriders (1989), before transitioning into television work throughout the 1990s. Her television work in this period includes episodes of The Bill (1991–1994), Doctor Finlay (1993), Roughnecks (1995), and Trial & Retribution (1997–2002). She also directed several television films, including the BBC One film Sinners.

2003

In 2003, Walsh wrote and directed her second feature film Song for a Raggy Boy]], which won multiple awards at international film festivals, including the Best Film award at the Copenhagen International Film Festival. Her third feature film, The Daisy Chain, a horror-thriller film, was released in 2008. Throughout the 2000s and early 2010s, Walsh also continued to work in television, directing series and television films, such as the BAFTA TV Award-nominated Fingersmith (2005), The Fifth Woman, a feature-length episode of the BBC series Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh (2010), and Room at the Top (2012), the latter of which earned her a BAFTA TV Award in 2013 for Best Mini-Series.

2016

Her fourth feature film, the biographical film Maudie (2016), about Canadian folk Artist Maud Lewis, premiered at the Telluride Film Festival. Walsh stated that, as someone who has studied painting herself, she was drawn to the simplicity and beauty in Lewis's work. Upon release, the film received positive reviews from critics. A critic writing for The Japan Times called the film "an unabashedly intimate portrait of a remarkable woman". The film was also a New York Times Critic's Pick; in her review, Manohla Dargis criticized the film's tone and score, but commended the performances and direction.

2018

For her work on Maudie, Walsh won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Director; the film won a total of seven awards at the 6th annual ceremony in 2018. She also won the award for Best Director at the 15th annual Irish Film and Television Awards in 2018.

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