Eva Birthistle’s directorial debut, Kathleen Is Here, opens in Irish cinemas later this month. We caught up with the first-time director and
, opens in Irish cinemas later this month. We caught up with the first-time director and her lead actor, Hazel Doupe, to discuss the project (and try and wrangle some
For director Eva Birthistle, this project has been a labour of love for the past 10 years. A short film titled– also starring Hazel Doupe – was released in 2020, with the full feature coming four years later. As with the prologue, the story once again centres on Kathleen; a young girl fresh out of foster care. After her mother’s passing, she moves back to her childhood home.
Interested in characters or people who are “on the outside looking in”, Eva says that the final draft was loosely inspired by a true story. “I accidentally come across a vlog of a teenage American girl who’s in the foster system, who was putting her story out there in a very sort of candid, honest, raw way and I was really struck by that and why she was doing it.
According to Douple, the juxtaposition of Kathleen’s two worlds was a challenge. “There was one scene that we filmed… It’s where having a glass of wine and she’s talking to somebody who’s not actually there. That was probably one of the toughest things to film, emotionally. To have in the back of my mind the whole time that Kathleen wouldn’t have any of the people around her that were sitting there filming me and guiding me through this experience. She just didn’t have anybody to call on.
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