{"podcast":{"title":"Film Ireland Podcast","slug":"film-ireland-podcast-896003","podcast_index_feed_id":896003,"rss_url":"http://feeds.feedburner.com/FilmIrelandPodcast","website_url":"http://filmireland.net/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/6955465577f9435bdcc8cb82/show-cover.jpg","author":"FilmIreland (hello@filmbase.ie)","episode_count":521,"summary":"Podcast by Film Ireland","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/film-ireland-podcast-896003"},"episode":{"title":"Presents: Director Kathryn Ferguson on her BAFTA/IFTA Nominated Short 'Nostalgie'","slug":"presents-director-kathryn-ferguson-on-her-bafta-ifta-nominated-short-nostalgie","published_at":"2026-02-19T04:10:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/film-ireland-podcast-896003/presents-director-kathryn-ferguson-on-her-bafta-ifta-nominated-short-nostalgie","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/film-ireland-podcast-896003","url":"https://www.filmireland.net/podcast-kathryn-ferguson-on-bafta-ifta-nominated-short-nostalgie","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6955465577f9435bdcc8cb82/e/69968d50f8a4f13cffc542e1/media.mp3","summary":"In our latest podcast, Naemi Victoria chats with director Kathryn Ferguson about her short film Nostalgie, which is nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award, as well as being nominated in the Best Short Film category at the 2026 Irish Film & Television Awards. Nostalgie stars Aidan Gillen and features original songs and a score by Dan Smith, the Grammy-nominated, Brit Award-winning frontman of Bastille. Drew Lord Haig (Gillen), a faded English 1980s pop star, is unexpectedly invited to perform in Northern Ireland, pulling him out of musical retirement and into a moral dilemma tied to the unintended legacy of his work. What begins as an exercise in nostalgia turns into a reckoning when Drew discovers his music has been repurposed in ways that contradict its original intent. The film also stars Jessica Reynolds (Kneecap) and Michael Smiley (Bad Sisters), alongside a predominantly Northern Irish cast. Written by Stacey Gregg and based on a short story by Wendy Erskine, Nostalgie explores the intersection of personal vanity, collective memory, and the political afterlife of pop culture. Read more here: www.filmireland.net/podcast-kathryn-ferguson-on-bafta-ifta-nominated-short-nostalgie Kathryn Ferguson Belfast-born Kathryn is an Emmy-nominated, BIFA and IFTA winning director whose innovative and boundary-pushing documentary work has screened globally. Kathryn studied at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art, and in 2022 was awarded the inaugural BFI & Chanel Award for Creative Audacity.  In 2018, Kathryn's short documentary Taking the Waters premiered at Sheffield Doc Fest, and was long-listed for a BAFTA. Then, in 2021, Kathryn worked with Passion Pictures on the short Space to Be for The Guardian's acclaimed docu…","meta_description":"In our latest podcast, Naemi Victoria chats with director Kathryn Ferguson about her short film Nostalgie, which is nominated for a British Academy of Fil…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2264,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/film-ireland-podcast-896003/episodes/presents-director-kathryn-ferguson-on-her-bafta-ifta-nominated-short-nostalgie/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/film-ireland-podcast-896003/presents-director-kathryn-ferguson-on-her-bafta-ifta-nominated-short-nostalgie.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}