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Margo Harkin

Margo Harkin

Biography

'Margo Harkin is one of Ireland’s most versatile and respected filmmakers – having directed and produced fiction and documentary films for over forty years. Her work includes an invaluable chronicle of Northern Ireland’s recent political history. After graduating in Fine Art from the Ulster College of Art and Design in 1974, Harkin worked as an art teacher and community worker in socially deprived areas of Derry. She joined Field Day Theatre Company in 1980 as an Assistant Stage Manager on Brian Friel’s Translations, before going on to work as a stage designer for the company. In 1984, Harkin co-founded Derry Film & Video Workshop with Anne Crilly and Trisha Ziff delivering critical perspectives that ran counter to the censored narratives then broadcast by British and Irish television. The signal works of this period were Mother Ireland (1988), Anne Crilly’s controversial documentary about feminism and Irish republicanism, and Harkin’s own Hush-A-Bye Baby (1990), a feature drama about teenage pregnancy following the 1983 abortion referendum in Ireland. Harkin established Besom Productions in 1992 making educational films for Channel 4 but her reputation as an astute, local documentarian of injustices was soon forged through a series of highly regarded television documentaries. Her cinema films, the surf documentary Waveriders (2003), by Joel Conroy (which she produced), and Stolen (2023), about the plight of unmarried mothers in Ireland in the 20th century, provided thoroughly researched, compelling accounts of their subjects. Margo Harkin is a member of Aosdána. Her work has won countless awards and is widely taught to third-level film and media students. Spanning over four decades, Harkin’s work has consistently challenged societal narratives, giving voice to the silenced and bearing witness to the social and political upheavals that have shaped the contemporary Irish landscape. The retrospective will span across the IFI’s cinema screens, as well as online via IFI@Home, IFI International and the IFI Archive Player.' From https://ifi.ie/margo-harkin/

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Nothing Compares

Nothing Compares

20227.6 / 10

Muide Éire

Muide Éire

20110.0 / 10

Stolen

Stolen

20230.0 / 10

Hush-a-Bye Baby

Hush-a-Bye Baby

19906.0 / 10

Mother Ireland

Mother Ireland

19880.0 / 10

Bloody Sunday: A Derry Diary

Bloody Sunday: A Derry Diary

20100.0 / 10

Sisters of the Lodge

Sisters of the Lodge

20110.0 / 10

Eamonn McCann: A Long March

Eamonn McCann: A Long March

20180.0 / 10

The Far Side of Revenge

The Far Side of Revenge

20120.0 / 10

NYPD Nude

NYPD Nude

19950.0 / 10

The Hunger Strike

The Hunger Strike

20060.0 / 10

12 Days in July

12 Days in July

19980.0 / 10

Clear the Stage

Clear the Stage

19980.0 / 10

A Plague on Both Your Houses

A Plague on Both Your Houses

19990.0 / 10

Looking for Lundy

Looking for Lundy

20000.0 / 10

You Looking at Me?

You Looking at Me?

20030.0 / 10

Ocras

Ocras

20060.0 / 10

The Return of Colmcille

The Return of Colmcille

20130.0 / 10

Waveriders

Waveriders

20085.8 / 10