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Aisling Walsh is an Irish screenwriter and director who has won several awards for her films and TV work. She is known for her "unflinching honest portrayals of a Catholic Irish society" and her biographical film Maudie (2016) about Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis.
Aisling Walsh is a filmmaker who has made several acclaimed movies and TV shows, such as Maudie, Song for a Raggy Boy, and Wallander. She was born in Dublin in 1958 and studied Fine Art at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology.
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May 11, 2020 · Learn about the career and influences of Dublin-born screenwriter and director Aisling Walsh, who has made films about taboo topics such as the Magdalene Laundries and dementia. Find out how she adapts novels and gives a voice to muffled voices in her work.
Aisling Walsh. Director: Maudie. 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.
Aug 8, 2017 · Walsh made her feature directorial debut in 1988 with Joyriders, which was followed by the true story of violent disciplinary abuse in an Irish Catholic Reformatory and Industrial...
Aisling Walsh is a film and TV director who has won awards for Room at the Top and Maudie. She has also written and created Fingersmith and Miss Austen.
Jun 14, 2017 · Director Aisling Walsh wanted audiences to experience Lewis’ environment as authentically as possible. In an interview with RogerEbert.com she explained how the setting, including a meticulously re-created replica of the Lewis home, was essential in telling the story and how Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke surprised her.
