Pat Murphy (director)

Pat Murphy (born 1951)[1] is an Irish feminist filmmaker and lecturer, the director of Maeve (1982), Anne Devlin (1984), and Nora (2000).In 1977, hoping to train as a cinematographer, she was the first European to achieve a scholarship year at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, which influenced her decision to become a director.In an article on the BFI website in 2021, writer Trever Johnston stated that' Maeve is a startlingly radical Irish experiment ripe for rediscovery.'The following year saw her write and co-direct the two-part documentary Sean MacBride Remembers, an exploration of the Irish republican politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner.[8] She is preparing a documentary on Muslim weavers and since the release of Nora was reported to have lectured in Singapore for three years and travelled around India for ten.
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