Trish McAdam (born 17 June 1955) is an Irish screen director. McAdam was born in

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. She got interested in working in film after living in

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and working with both the filmmaker

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and the photographer

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. 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

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* 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 {{Ireland-film-director-stub