Round 11: PRISMA - Queer Film Festival
Hosted by: Naoise McGuinness
August 25th 2024
Alana Daly Mulligan
Alana Daly Mulligan is a multi-award-winning spoken-word “artivist”, journalist, filmmaker & producer of Déise extraction, based in Cork. Their practice is a powerful exploration of the queer experience in Ireland, with an advocacy for social change and acceptance locally, nationally and internationally. A co-founder of a number of creative initiatives seeking to promote arts, culture and activism, Alana is proud to have worked both on stage and in front of the camera, as well as behind the scenes. Their films have screened at over twenty film festivals across five continents, their writing has been widely published in journals and magazines.
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Hannah Bethan Lane
Hannah Bethan Lane is a Cork based Set Designer for film, television and theatre.
Her Television credits include Production designing and set dressing “De Valera I Meiriceá” (TG4/RTÉ), “Cogadh ar Mhná”, “Eipidéim” (TG4), “74 Days: The Hunger Strike of Terence McSwiney” and “Forgotten: The Widows of the Irish Revolution” (RTÉ). Her most recent work, “Croíthe Radacacha” (TG4) had its premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh 2023 before airing later in the year.
Hannah has also Production designed over two dozen award winning short films and was nominated for ‘Best Set design’ at the Milan Short Film Festival 2023.
Her theatre credit highlights include set designing “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller (The Everyman), “12 Angry Men” by Reginald Rose (Cork Opera House). She was the Assistant set designer for The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (The Everyman) as well as the Associate designer on The Opera House Proms in 2023.
In 2024 she was the Lead Set Designer for the Cork Opera House Proms and the Associate designer for The Summer Revels (Cork Opera House).
Orla Egan
Orla Egan is a Queer Archival Activist. She has been actively involved in the Cork LGBT Community since the 1980s. She established the Cork LGBT Archive to preserve, store, share and display information in relation to the rich history of the LGBT community in Cork. Orla Egan the author of Queer Republic of Cork, Cork’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual andTransgender Communities 1970s-1990s, published by Onstream Publishers in 2016. She also wrote the short play, Leeside Lezzies and is Director of the short LGBT documentary „I’m Here, I’m Home, I’m Happy“ as well as the 2023 documentary "Loafers". Orla Egan developed the Cork LGBT Archive Exhibition which has been on display in a variety of locations inside and outside of Ireland.
