A Londoner with Irish roots, Portia A. Buckley's latest short film recently qualified for consideration for the Oscars.
A Londoner with Irish roots, Portia A. Buckley is a writer/director who shoots primarily on film. In 2015, she co-founded independent production company Afternoon Pictures with Michael Lindley in the hopes of bringing original stories of life in contemporary Britain and Ireland to the big screen. Her latest project – a short film entitled Clodagh – recently qualified for consideration for the Oscars and is currently on a festival run around Ireland and the UK..
which I’ve bought countless times as I keep on giving it to people as a gift, mostly so that they can read it and then we can talk about it!everything, whether I know it at the time or not! The framing, composition and lighting of my short filmwas massively influenced by the Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam that I saw just before we started shooting.
the Mark Rothko retrospective at the Tate Modern in London. I went on a first date with a guy there over a decade ago. I was doing an Art History degree at the time and he clearly didn’t know who Rothko was but bravely blagged his way around the whole gallery, trying to impress me. It worked – we got married, had a kid together, and have been working, writing and making films together ever since.the dance. It is what the whole film hinges on.
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