Aisling Walsh entered the public stage with her short films (such as Hostage, which was shot while she was studying at the National Film School and which won her awards at the Chicago Film Festival and the Tours Film festival). She successfully made her way in television (with the serial Trial and Retribution, 1997, the homosexual love story Forgive and Forget, 2000, the story of emancipated mothers in the 1960's, Sinners, 2002, and the drama Fingersmith, 2005, nominated for the BAFTA award, among others). The talented director found success off the small-screen with the movie Joyriders (1989) and in particular with the dramatic tale of the fortunes of an idealistic teacher in a boy's reform school set in 1930s Ireland, Song for a Raggy Boy (2002), in which the lead role was played by Aidan Quinn, and which was screened in competition at Karlovy Vary in 2003.
MFF Karlovy Vary
