Trish McAdam (born 17 June 1955) is an Irish screen director.
McAdam was born in
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...
. She got interested in working in film after living in
New York City
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and working with both the filmmaker
Vivienne Dick
Vivienne Dick (born 1950) is an Irish feminist experimental and documentary filmmaker. Her early films helped define the No Wave scene. According to ''The Irish Times'', Dick is "one of the most important film-makers Ireland has produced".
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and the photographer
Nan Goldin. Her early films in the 1980s included the short ''Berlin''. Since then she has gone on to direct the feature film ''Snakes and Ladders'' and more recently the film ''Confinement''. McAdam also made the documentary series ''Hoodwinked: Irish Women Since the 1920s''.
Works
* 1985 The Drip (Short)
* 1986 The Big Time (Short)
* 1989 Berlin (Documentary short)
* 1996
Snakes and Ladders
* 1998 Hoodwinked (TV Mini-Series documentary)
* 2002 Flirting with the Light (Documentary)
* 2013 Liu Xiaobo: No Enemies No Hatred (Documentary short)
* 2015 Strangers to Kindness (Documentary short)
* 2015 A Poem to Liu Xia (Documentary short)
* 2019 Confinement (Documentary short)
References and sources
1955 births
Living people
Film people from Dublin (city)
Irish film directors
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